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IndexCulture & MediaNo. 20 rising

Raymond Reddington

Fictional character from The Blacklist

15×
vs its own baseline
18×
year on year
+9.1%
per month, last 90 days
83
confidence / 100
0k 3k 7k 10k where it used to sit Sep 24 Feb 25 Jun 25 Nov 25 Apr 26 Sep 26
Attention share · views per billion sitewide, weekly 104 weeks to 2 Sep 2026 Normalised, deseasonalised — sitewide swings removed

Why we think this is real

Six tests · all shown, pass or fail

The floor moved, not just the peak

Its quietest recent week still sits 997% above the old baseline. A news spike leaves the floor where it was.

10.97×

Not one event

Share of the last four months of extra attention that landed in its busiest seven days. High means a single story, not a trend.

26%

Not the calendar

How much of this topic's shape repeats every year. The annual cycle is estimated per topic and divided out before anything is measured.

26%

Human traffic

Bot and scraper traffic is flat across the week. Anything with implausibly low day-to-day variation, or with no weekday/weekend pattern at all, is dropped before it reaches this page.

1.02× weekend

Enough history to judge

Long enough to separate this year's move from last year's level.

1153 days

Confirmed somewhere else

No second source yet. Common for consumer and culture topics, which do not show up in developer data.

0 of 4 sources

What it is

Wikipedia

Raymond Reddington is a fictional character and the central figure in the American television series The Blacklist, which aired on NBC from 2013 to 2023. Portrayed by James Spader, Reddington is a former US Naval Intelligence officer who became a high-profile criminal and later an FBI confidential…

Excerpt from Raymond Reddington on Wikipedia, by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Trimmed for length.

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