Most Read Stories of all Time on Medium
Here are the most-read stories of all time on Medium.
It is midnight and I am sitting with my laptop and snacks thinking what should I write. I was thinking of writing about some top writers but then I thought why not just share some top-notch stories with you and let you decide which story is the best story of the Medium?
Best Story on Medium
I am not gonna guess or share my opinion about the best story of the medium. I am going to list some great stories of great writers and let you decide what you like the most.
Note: I am using medium own stats and Explore Topics feature to gather this data.
Here are the most-read stories on Medium under different Topics:
1. Life
Topic Followers= 3.8M
Total Stories using this tag= 987k
Most most-read story of this tag is:
“A Supercomputer Analyzed Covid-19 — and an Interesting New Theory Has Emerged”
The story was written by Thomas Smith back in Sept 1, 2020.
Thomas has 46k followers and the story got 50k claps.
2. Self Improvement
Topic Followers= 5.8M
Total Stories using this tag= 741k
Most-read story of this tag is:
“How To Wake Up at 5 A.M. Every Day”
This story was written by Bryan Ye on Oct 3, 2019.
Bryan has 15.3k followers and the story got 95k claps.
3. Productivity
Topic Followers= 4.2M
Total Stories using this tag= 348k
Most-read story of this tag is:
“Laziness Does Not Exist”
This story was written by Devon Price.
Devon has 60k followers and the story got over 300k claps.
4. Health
Topic Followers= 4.4M
Total Stories using this tag= 724k
Most-read story of this tag is:
“Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance”
This story was written by Tomas Pueyo back on March 20, 2020.
Tomas has 51k followers and the story got 106k claps.
5. Marketing
Topic Followers= 1.91M
Total Stories using this tag= 479k
Most-read story of this tag is:
“O que diabos aconteceu com a GERAÇÃO Y?!”
https://medium.com/o-novo-mercado/o-que-diabos-aconteceu-com-geração-y-73cd16ccc5c9
This story was written by Ícaro de Carvalho back in Feb 16, 2016.
Ícaro has over 12k followers and the story was clapped 16k times.
6. Relationships
Topic Followers= 4.2M
Total Stories using this tag= 477k
Most-read story of this tag is:
“Reflections From a Token Black Friend”
This story was written by Ramesh A Nagarajah back in June 2020.
Ramesh A Nagarajah got just 3.2k followers but the story got over 40k followers.
7. Mindfulness
Topic Followers= 2.1M
Total Stories using this tag= 197k
Most-read story of this tag is:
“Travel Is No Cure for the Mind”
This story was written back in March 2018 by More To That.
This channel has over 40k followers and this story got 272k claps.
8. Leadership
Topic Followers= 2.6M
Total Stories using this tag= 265k
Most-read story of this tag is:
“We Don’t Know How to Warn You Any Harder. America is Dying.”
This story was written by one of my favorite writers on Medium
Umair Haque in August 2020.
Umair has over 228k followers on Medium and this story got 24k claps so far.
9. Education
Topic Followers= 2.8M
Total Stories using this tag= 542k
Most-read story of this tag is:
“Stop Making Everything Perfect For Your Kid”
This story was written by Susan.Speer in 2016.
Susan is the first female writer on this list and she has just over 9k followers but managed to get 22k claps on his story written on an educational topic.
10. Programming
Topic Followers= 6.7M
Total Stories using this tag= 401k
Most-read story of this tag is:
“How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016”
This story was written by Jose Aguinaga on October 03, 2016.
He has over 10k followers and the story got 55k claps.
11. Mental Health
Topic Followers= 4.4M
Total Stories using this tag= 493k
Most-read story of this tag is:
“My name is Wil Wheaton. I Live With Chronic Depression and Generalized Anxiety. I Am Not Ashamed.”
This story was written by Wil Wheaton on June 02, 2018.
Wil Wheaton has over 143k followers and the story got over 258k claps.
12. Business
Topic Followers= 5.2M
Total Stories using this tag= 707k
Most-read story of this tag is:
“How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind — from a Magician and Google Design Ethicist”
This story was written by Tristan Harris on May 16, 2016.
Tristan got 26k followers and the story got 160k claps.
13. Writing
Topic Followers= 4.9M
Total Stories using this tag= 729k
Most-read story of this tag is:
“‘Describe Yourself Like a Male Author Would’ Is the Most Savage Twitter Thread in Ages”
The story was written back in April 2018 by Electric Literature.
The channel got 24k followers and the story also got the same number of claps.
14. Technology
Topic Followers= 9.5M
Total Stories using this tag= 954k
The last entry on the list is the most popular one. Technology is currently the most-followed topic on Medium with just under 10 million followers. Many great writers like Ignacio de Gregorio, Will Lockett, Admiral Cloudberg, Sufyan Maan, M.Eng, and Devansh write under this topic frequently but none of them has this honor to own the most read story on medium under the most followed Topic.
Most-read story on this topic is:
“I’ll never bring my phone on an international flight again. Neither should you.”
This story was written back in 2017 by Quincy Larson.
Quincy has 156k Medium followers so far and surprisingly this story only got 11.8 claps so far but still, it is the most-read story on Medium under the most followed tag.
The 2nd most-read story of this tag has over 156k claps and the 6th one on the list got over 303k claps. It means that you cannot assume the number of reads just by seeing the number of claps. Even a story with 303k claps has fewer readers than a story with 11.8k claps.
I have listed 13 topics of different Niches. For example, I only took Life and skipped life lessons, I took Business and did not consider money, income, entrepreneurship, etc.
These are some most-read and some of the most clapped stories on medium. I do not have any personal favorite out of them so I leave it to you to tell me in the comment box which one is the most amazing and which one has you already read.
I am waiting for your response.
