Tuesday, July 19th, 2011 at 12:10 pm , filed under Breaking News by Lee Matthew
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Rihanna had struck Lady Gaga’s massive Facebook following to become the new ‘Queen of Facebook’.
Lady Gaga may be the top-selling, highest-earning and well-known woman in popular music today, but Rihanna has more “Likes” on the social networking site.
RiRi claim the throne as the platform’s top ranking female celebrity, having just passed Lady Gaga in number of Facebook fans 40,523,918 – 40,514,982. The achievement earns Rihanna the voluntary title of “Queen of Facebook” from social media statistical tracker Fame Count.
Rihanna may be the most well-liked female on Faceboook, but as far as famous recording artists in general go, Rihanna still trails “King” Eminem, who rules with a whopping 43,232,641 Likes by Facebook fans.
And, when it comes to the other social media giants, Twitter, Gaga wins with a record 11,632,837 to RiRi’s meager 6,099,406 followers.
Of course, Lady Gaga has close to five million fans on Twitter account, so Rihanna can not lay claim to being the queen of all social media just yet.
Shakira is the diva with the third most Facebook followers. Rihanna, Lady Gaga, and Shakira hold the No. 5, 6, and 8 spots overall.
Three well-known men make in the top 10 rankings:
1. Eminem (No. 3, 43,367,713 likes)
2. Michael Jackson (No. 7, 38,069,882)
3. Justin Bieber (No. 10, 33,035,903)
However, Rihanna is currently in the hub of her 2011 North American summer tour in support of her newest studio installment “Loud”. While, she is traveling from one big city to another the Bajan top-singer took time to meet and greet her fans in every of her tour stops.
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