Ian Watkins (Lostprophets singer)

Welsh musician and child sex offender (1977–2025)

On October 12, 2025, the most-viewed article on Wikipedia was Diane Keaton, with 2,882,444 views. It and #2, Ed Gein, were both WikiPop's picks in the past 30 days, and we don't repeat an article that soon. So WikiPop's pick is #3, Ian Watkins (Lostprophets singer), with 936,085 views.

Ian David Karslake Watkins was a Welsh singer, songwriter, and convicted child sex offender. He was the lead singer and frontman of the rock band Lostprophets from 1997 to 2012. Watkins founded Lostprophets with Lee Gaze in 1997, having previously been in a band called Fleshbind with him. Lostprophets released five studio albums, four of which made the top 10 of the UK Albums Chart, including Liberation Transmission which went to number 1 in 2006.

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