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Data arrives several weeks after LAPD confirmed the case was an \u201cinvestigation into murder\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\n\tGoogle<\/a> has released its list of trending 2025<\/a> topics \u2014 including its roundup of musicians. At the front of the list was D4vd, the singer at the center of controversy after the body of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez was discovered inside his Tesla over the summer.<\/p>\n \n\tThe revelation of search data comes several weeks after Los Angeles Police Det. Joshua Byers characterized the case as an \u201cinvestigation into murder<\/a>\u201d as he requested a court order preventing the release of Rivas\u2019 autopsy findings. Byers argued public release of details surrounding Rivas\u2019 death could jeopardize the homicide investigation and had to be protected, the LA\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0reported<\/a> at the time.<\/p>\n \n\tA week prior, sources told\u00a0NBC News\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0ABC7<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0D4vd<\/a>\u00a0is considered a suspect\u00a0<\/a>in the death of Rivas. The singer was out of state on tour when his dented 2023 Tesla Model Y was towed from the Bird Streets neighborhood of the Hollywood Hills on Sept. 5. The tow yard called police, saying the impounded vehicle was \u201cemanating a foul odor and attracting flies,\u201d according to a search warrant affidavit obtained by\u00a0Rolling Stone<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tAs for the Google Search data revealed Monday, the \u201ctrending\u201d distinction means that searches for D4vd had a high spike in traffic over a sustained period in 2025, compared to 2024. D4vd was also among the top five trending people overall on Google all year.<\/p>\n \n\tOn the list of musicians, after D4vd, girl group Katseye \u2014 which went viral <\/a>for \u201cGnarly\u201d and \u201cGabriela\u201d this year \u2014 came in second place. Bad Bunny, Spotify\u2019s most-streamed star <\/a>of the year, came in third, followed by Sombr in fourth, Doechii in fifth, and Jonas Brothers in sixth place.<\/p>\n