2026-07-29 · This surge ran for 22 days and has since subsided.
Glen Hansard is drawing 1,537x more Wikipedia traffic than normal
Glen Hansard drew 657,637 views on 2026-07-29, 1,537x more than the usual 428 a day over the previous 60 days.
Glen Hansard
Irish musician (1970–2026)
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| Date | Views |
|---|---|
| 2026-07-29 | 657,637 |
| 2026-07-28 | 346 |
| 2026-07-27 | 340 |
| 2026-07-26 | 438 |
| 2026-07-25 | 375 |
| 2026-07-24 | 332 |
| 2026-07-23 | 298 |
| 2026-07-22 | 311 |
| 2026-07-21 | 309 |
| 2026-07-20 | 296 |
| 2026-07-19 | 385 |
| 2026-07-18 | 416 |
| 2026-07-17 | 538 |
| 2026-07-16 | 376 |
| 2026-07-15 | 332 |
| 2026-07-14 | 361 |
| 2026-07-13 | 413 |
| 2026-07-12 | 435 |
| 2026-07-11 | 486 |
| 2026-07-10 | 446 |
| 2026-07-09 | 457 |
| 2026-07-08 | 409 |
| 2026-07-07 | 415 |
| 2026-07-06 | 479 |
| 2026-07-05 | 493 |
| 2026-07-04 | 587 |
| 2026-07-03 | 690 |
| 2026-07-02 | 825 |
| 2026-07-01 | 477 |
| 2026-06-30 | 683 |
| 2026-06-29 | 1,540 |
| 2026-06-28 | 547 |
| 2026-06-27 | 610 |
| 2026-06-26 | 689 |
| 2026-06-25 | 649 |
| 2026-06-24 | 831 |
| 2026-06-23 | 1,681 |
| 2026-06-22 | 2,071 |
| 2026-06-21 | 383 |
| 2026-06-20 | 372 |
| 2026-06-19 | 353 |
| 2026-06-18 | 361 |
| 2026-06-17 | 339 |
| 2026-06-16 | 327 |
| 2026-06-15 | 357 |
What this article is
Glen James Hansard was an Irish singer-songwriter and actor. From Ballymun in northern Dublin, he busked from his teens. In 1990, he co-founded the Irish rock band the Frames, which he fronted. The band released six studio albums, four of which reached the top ten of the Irish Albums Chart. Hansard was also a member of the folk rock duo the Swell Season, founded in 2005, which released three albums. In 2012, he released his debut solo album, Rhythm and Repose. His second album, Didn't He Ramble (2015), was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Folk Album.
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Where editors were working
Wikipedia editors made 160 edits to this article on 2026-07-29, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.
- Personal life
- Career
- Death
- Death and tributes
- Early life and career
- 2007–2018: Collaborations, solo work, TV and film work
What changed that day
The article grew by 12,869 characters that day. The largest single addition was 5,509 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-07-29 in Wikipedia's own diff view — that is where the reason for a surge is usually visible, written and sourced by the editors who were following the story.
Rose at the same time
2 other articles that this one is connected to surged alongside it. What they have in common is left to you — the pageview record shows that attention moved together, not why.
How this was measured
Views are Wikimedia's own pageview counts for en.wikipedia, filtered to agent=user so automated traffic is excluded. The baseline is the median of the previous 60 days, which is used instead of the mean so that an earlier surge cannot flatten a later one. The multiple is the day's views divided by that median.