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Slipknot (band) saw 1.7x more Wikipedia readers than usual

Slipknot (band) drew 5,920 views on 2026-08-08, 1.7x more than the usual 3,560 a day over the previous 60 days.

Daily Wikipedia pageviews for Slipknot (band)025K50K75K100K88,07125 Jun17 Jul8 Aug
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Daily Wikipedia pageviews for Slipknot (band)
DateViews
2026-08-085,920
2026-08-076,404
2026-08-068,136
2026-08-0511,059
2026-08-0418,368
2026-08-0317,007
2026-08-0226,653
2026-08-0188,071
2026-07-313,881
2026-07-304,126
2026-07-295,976
2026-07-283,925
2026-07-273,678
2026-07-263,823
2026-07-253,431
2026-07-243,724
2026-07-233,837
2026-07-223,918
2026-07-213,528
2026-07-203,871
2026-07-193,901
2026-07-184,384
2026-07-174,654
2026-07-164,416
2026-07-153,586
2026-07-143,535
2026-07-133,749
2026-07-123,682
2026-07-114,319
2026-07-104,861
2026-07-096,473
2026-07-0811,131
2026-07-079,665
2026-07-062,758
2026-07-052,868
2026-07-042,832
2026-07-032,943
2026-07-022,925
2026-07-012,884
2026-06-302,830
2026-06-293,153
2026-06-282,887
2026-06-272,806
2026-06-263,093
2026-06-253,041
Views that day
5,920
Versus normal
1.7x
Typical day
3,560

What this article is

Slipknot is an American heavy metal band formed in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1995 by percussionist Shawn Crahan, vocalist Anders Colsefni and bassist Paul Gray. After several lineup changes in its early years, the band settled on nine members from 1999 until Gray's death in 2010: Crahan, Gray, Joey Jordison, Craig Jones, Mick Thomson, Corey Taylor, Sid Wilson, Chris Fehn, and Jim Root. Slipknot is well known for its attention-grabbing image, aggressive style of music, and energetic and chaotic live shows.

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Rose at the same time

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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.

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