Google unveils 2022’s top trending entertainment searches

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Johnny Depp’s defamation lawsuit in opposition to ex-wife Amber Heard, the Oscars slap heard across the globe and the magical sounds of of “Encanto” dominated Google’s top trending search entertainment classes of 2022.

Depp was the top trending actor searched this yr because the high-profile lawsuit unfolded from April to June. He was additionally the top trending search of any particular person total. Heard was third most-searched trending subject on the celeb checklist and total particular person checklist.

Will Smith was the No. 2 top trending actor following his slap of Chris Rock on the Oscars in March after Rock made a joke about Smith’s spouse, Jada Pinkett Smith. Rock was fourth on the checklist and Pinkett Smith was seventh.

Meanwhile, the film and track checklist was dominated by Disney’s “Encanto,” regardless of its November 2021 launch date.

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It was the top trending film search this yr, and its hit “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” was probably the most trending track searched. “Surface Pressure” off the soundtrack got here in second and “What Else Can I Do” clinched the tenth spot on the track checklist.

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People had different issues in thoughts to seek for in 2022, together with Adam Levine (No. 1 on the artist and band checklist) and HBO’s “Euphoria” (which topped the TV present checklist).

Nostalgia was additionally a giant theme of trending search classes; Kate Bush was the seventh on the artist and band checklist, and her 1985 hit “Running Up That Hill (Deal With God)” made it sixth on the track checklist after it received a “whole new lease of life” within the fourth season of “Stranger Things.”

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Google’s knowledge was taken from Jan. 1 by means of Nov. 27. The firm defines trending gadgets as “searches that had a high spike in traffic over a sustained period in 2022 as compared to 2021.”

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Here top 10 trending search phrases of entertainment classes:

Google’s top trending actor searches of 2022

1. Johnny Depp

2. Will Smith

3. Amber Heard

4. Chris Rock

5. Julia Fox

6. Joseph Quinn

7. Jada Pinkett Smith

8. Ezra Miller

9. Miles Teller

10. Ashley Judd

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Google’s top trending artist and band searches of 2022

1. Adam Levine

2. Mary J. Blige

3. Lil Tjay

4. Kendrick Lamar

5. Migos

6. Tommy Lee

7. Kate Bush

8. Ricky Martin

9. Young Thug

10. Foo Fighters

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Google’s top trending film searches of 2022

1. “Encanto”

2. “Thor: Love and Thunder”

3. “Top Gun: Maverick”

4. “The Batman”

5. “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

6. “Black Adam”

7. “Jurassic World Dominion”

8. “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”

9. “Morbius”

10. “Turning Red”

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Google’s top trending TV present searches of 2022

1. “Euphoria”

2. “Stranger Things”

3. “The Watcher”

4. “Inventing Anna”

5. “House of the Dragon”

6. “Moon Knight”

7. “Yellowstone”

8. “The Summer I Turned Pretty”

9. “Obi-Wan Kenobi”

10. “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law”

Google’s top trending track searches of 2022

1. “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” – “Encanto”

2. “Surface Pressure” – “Encanto”

3. “Jiggle Jiggle” – Duke & Jones and Louis Theroux

4. “Unholy” – Sam Smith and Kim Petras

5. “As It Was” – Harry Styles

6. “Running Up That Hill” – Kate Bush

7. “Glimpse of Us” – Joji

8. “About Damn Time” – Lizzo

9. “Anti-Hero” ≠ Taylor Swift

10. “What Else Can I Do” – Encanto

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This article initially appeared on USA TODAY: Google’s top trending actor, film, track and TV present searches of 2022