I Will Always Love You is drawing 117x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

"I Will Always Love You" is a song written and originally recorded in 1973 by American singer-songwriter Dolly Parton. Written as a farewell to her business partner and mentor Porter Wagoner, expressing Parton's gratitude and also her decision to pursue a solo career, the country single was released in 1974. The song was a commercial success for Parton, twice reaching the top spot of the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart: first in June 1974, then again in October 1982, with a re-recording for The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas soundtrack.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 5 edits to this article on 2026-08-25, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Other versions
• Whitney Houston version

What changed that day

The article lost 14 characters on balance that day. The largest single addition was 9 characters to Other versions. See everything that changed on 2026-08-25 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.

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.