I continue to play catch up on my look back at 2025. Usually I have these things up in early January. I guess I need to plan a bit better next year.

I went back and checked out the stats from 2025 and made a list of the ten most popular blogs viewed last year. I’ll present them in just a moment. I’ve seen a few other bloggers who have looked at their stats and felt like they may be skewed a bit. They were also bombarded with visits from robots from China.

Other blogs had well over a million views from these Chinese bots. This humble little blog almost did the same. Despite those stats, I believe that the 10 most viewed blogs are truly represented. Many of them have been in my previous year’s Top 10 lists.

The numbers in parenthesis represents a rounded number of views. Here are the Top 10, should you want to revisit:

10. Making Spirits Bright (3100)

From 2022, the blog talks about getting ready for Christmas. It is fun to see the kids so young in these photos. It is also a bit sad, because this was the year that my sister-in-law, Grace, passed away.

9. Share Your Nostalgia Round 3 Wrap Up (3300)

This year I thought I’d host a few topics based on nostalgia. One of those was about your favorite cartoon or cartoon character. There were a lot of fantastic picks by the guest bloggers who participated. This blog was my wrap up to the topic.

8. Share Your Nostalgia Round 3 – Max (3400)

Max from the Power Pop blog has written more than one guest blog for me. He took part in the Share Your Nostalgia feature and picked one of my favorite characters – Underdog

7. The Music of My Life – 1985 (3500)

Another feature that wrapped up earlier in the year was The Music of My Life. I featured my favorite songs from every year that I’ve been alive. Only 1985 made it into the top 10. ’85 was a good year for music, but I’m surprised that some of the other years didn’t show up first.

6. Some Favorite TV Episodes (3800)

This blog was from 2019. It was part of a blog-a-thon that I keep meaning to participate in, but haven’t recently. I’ll have to keep an eye out for it when it is announced. This one features The Honeymooners, The Twilight Zone, and WKRP in Cincinnati.

5. Guest Blogger: Beatles Covered Songs (Max Part 2) (4500)

Max from the Power Pop blog gets a second entry in the top ten. Max is a Beatles fan like me and this is his second Beatles write up featured on my site.

4. Fatherly Observations (5040)

Written just 19 days after my daughter was born and a couple weeks before Covid shut down the world. For those who don’t know, there are 13 years between my second oldest son and my daughter. I find this humorous to look back on now.

3. Why No, I Haven’t Seen That (5090)

This is a rant from 2019. This blog may have been pushed up the list by those Chinese Bots. It is about how I used to have to watch popular shows for my radio gig, but no longer have to now. It also talks about a lot of the “hyped up” shows that I don’t watch.

2. List: Top 50 Overplayed/Hated Songs (8700)

This is simply a list. It is a list of songs that people felt were overplayed or songs they hate. The fact that it is this high on the list tells me how passionate and opinionated people are about music.

1. My Top 20 Favorite Christmas Characters (26,000)

This blog goes all the way back to 2018 when I had just started blogging here. It is the one blog that has shown up in the year end Top 10 every year since it posted. It is a very biased list I put together after thinking about all of the Christmas specials I watched growing up. I’ve never felt the need to update it, because I still feel the same.

I did consider a year or so ago writing a list of Christmas movie characters. You know, Clark Griswold, Ralphie Parker, and real people. Perhaps I will do that next year.

Thanks for all your views and comments throughout the year.