Tabloids love to write articles about most popular name for newborn kids in each country. And in countries with non-negligible Muslim minorities that name is often Muhammad (or some variation of it), because Muslims names have higher peak.
So there might be 50 times as much kids with non-Muslim names, but they have roughly even spread between names and don't show up in that statistic.
Then people freak out they are taken over by imigrants :)
Statistics are such a big part of information these days (eg covid), and the poor intuitions people have about statistics are getting to be impactful.
> It is thought to be the most popular name in the world, being given to an estimated 150 million men and boys.
One of my teammates recently gave birth to a boy, she talked a little about figuring out whether to name the kid Mohammed or not, with the major downside being that yeah, it's insanely common, especially among her nationality.
What's even the upside?
When people name their kids things like John or Mohammed, I just think of this comic: https://webcomicname.com/post/617835911135330304
Actually it seems to have started as Yohanan, Yo coming from Yahweh (god in Hebrew), and hanan (gracious).
I'm finding that even major movie studios have a hard time generating buzz and leveraging their assets to get a prominent spot in media. There are a lot of movies with A-list actors that are falling completely under the radar on release, only to show up on Netflix months later. It takes everything a studio or record label can do to push a release into the mainstream consciousness now, because we all have so many different ways we're ingesting culture now.
In your example, if the number one song is classical and made up 0.1% of listening time, would you conclude that classical music is not popular?
It's like saying water isn't a popular drink because only 0.1% of people buy water in the form of 20 fl oz Dasani bottles.