I think I’d build that upon and already existing plugin that does the counting for me. I have made quite good experience with Post Views Counter as it also lets you use it in WP_Query. But WP-PostViews looks promising as well. Choose one.
Next I’d query posts by view count from a WordPress cron event that runs monthly. And I’d simply save/add the results in an Options API option as array like $data[INTEGER_YEAR][INTEGER_MONTH][INTEGER_POST_ID][INTEGER_VIEW_COUNT]. And pull that off whenever I need it for displaying the high score in a widget or where ever.
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