2022 was yet another challenging year and while largely a personal hellscape for yours truly (there were sadly no reviews for a reason), this one-man operation of a website did manage to hit some unexpected highs in the past calendar year.
Among them was smashing the record for most viewed story in a day, most page views in one day and the most viewed story ever this past August. And then in November, thanks to a story winding up on the front page of Reddit, the record for most page views in a day was smashed yet again.
The #1 and #2 stories represent those achievements respectively if you were curious.
Theprp.com’s Top 25 Most Viewed Stories Of 2022:
- #25. Dance Gavin Dance’s Tilian Pearson Responds To Recent Allegations Of Sexual Misconduct & More
- #24. Korn’s Band Assistant Discusses Running The Teleprompter For Jonathan Davis At Live Shows
- #23. Five Finger Death Punch’s Ivan Moody Announces He Will Retire From Heavy Metal After The Band’s Next Album
- #22. Lamb Of God, Underoath, Attack Attack!, We Came As Romans And More Got Roasted By Wendy’s Today
- #21. Tool, Etc. Frontman Maynard James Keenan Explains What He Looks For In Opening Acts For The Band’s Tours
- #20. Watch Staind’s Aaron Lewis Perform New Song “I Ain’t Made In China”
- #19. 311 Vocalist Doug “SA” Martinez Appears To Have Publicly Condemned The Band’s Drummer Chad Sexton Over His Controversial Conspiracy Theory Beliefs (Updated)
- #18. Korn’s Fieldy Issues New Update On His Life, Explains His ‘Bad Habits’
- #17. Tool Have Reduced The Price Of Their “Fear Inoculum” Deluxe Vinyl Set Following Online Criticism
- #16. Watch Korn Sing The Backstreet Boys’ “I Want It That Way”
- #15. Trevor Strnad Of The Black Dahlia Murder Has Passed Away
- #14. Six Feet Under’s Chris Barnes Says The Abbott Brothers Would Be Rolling Over In Their Graves About 2023 Pantera Reunion
- #13. System Of A Down, Korn, Deftones, Incubus, Etc. Expected To Play 2023 Nü-Metal Festival ‘Sick New World’
- #12. Five Dates Added To Def Leppard, Mötley Crüe, Poison, Etc. Tour, New Opening Act Announced
- #11. Maynard James Keenan Admits To Stealing Ideas From Nine Inch Nails’ “The Fragile” For A Perfect Circle: “I’m Stealing From His Stolen Goods”
- #10. Couple Engage In Oral Sex In The Middle Of The Crowd During Autopsy’s 2022 ‘Maryland Deathfest’ Set
- #09. The Full Lineup For The 2023 ‘Sick New World’ Festival Has Been Announced (Updated)
- #08. Tool, Etc. Frontman Maynard James Keenan On The Negative Impact Of Social Media: “It’s Very Comfortable From Your Living Room To Run Your Mouth”
- #07. System Of A Down’s Serj Tankian Comments On His Current Health Issues And His Lack Of Interest In Full-Scale Touring
- #06. Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine: “I Think The Real Talent In Metallica Has Always Been Around The Guitar – Everybody Makes Fun Of The Drums”
- #05. Avenged Sevenfold’s M. Shadows Weighs In On Ticketmaster Pricing Controversy: “If You Think Ticketmaster Sets The Price Of Tickets… You’re Wrong”
- #04. Edsel Dope Once Again Addresses Static-X Rumors: “The Last Thing That I’m Ever Interested In Seeing Is Edsel Dope Being The Vocalist Of Static-X”
- #03. Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine Says He Used To “Laugh” At The Nü-Metal Bands He Was “Forced” To Tour With In The 90s
- #02. Elon Musk Calls Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor A “Crybaby” For Deleting His Twitter
- #01. Watch Mudvayne’s Chad Gray Angrily Retaliate After Audience Member Soaks Him During Live Show
The wrap-up for the top stories during the final week of 2022 can be found below as well:
The Ten Most-Viewed Stories On Theprp.com For The Week Ending On January 01st, 2023:
- #10. The Lucid (Fear Factory, Ex-Megadeth, Etc.) Debut “Mumps”
- #09. Hollywood Undead, Attila, Carnifex, Cane Hill, Etc. Added To 2023 ‘Bamboozle Festival’
- #08. Powerman 5000 To Embark On “Tonight The Stars Revolt!” 21st Anniversary Tour In Australia
- #07. Haste The Day Teasing Upcoming Announcement
- #06. Trivium, All That Remains, DragonForce, Etc. Members Among The 69 Musicians Featured In The Fifth Annual ‘Biggest Shred Collab In The World’ Song
- #05. God Forbid Share Pro-Shot “Chains Of Humanity” Live Performance From Their First Show In Nine Years
- #04. What Were Your Favorite Albums Of 2022?
- #03. Foo Fighters Look To The Future: “We Know That We’re Going To Be A Different Band Going Forward”
- #02. Deathcore ‘Boy Band’ The Big Six Share Tease Of A New Original Song
- #01. Edsel Dope: “There Should Never Be Another Singer Of Static-X That’s A Person”
