Rihanna Tops Lady Gaga As Most Popular Woman On Facebook

Facebook has a new queen: According to famecount.com, a social media statistics service, Rihanna passed Lady Gaga in total fans sometime around 12 P.M. EST on Thursday, July 14th.

With roughly 40,516,728 fans as of this writing, Rihanna's new accolade brings her one placement closer to the Facebook fan champ, hip-hop artist Eminem, whose page has been 'liked' an impressive 43,225,888 times. For some perspective, Rihanna had just over 5,000 Facebook fans one year ago.

She's come this far, will Rihanna make it all the way to the top? Apparently, not without a fight. In response to the news, Lady Gaga fans took to the Twittersphere, demanding that people, "unlike Rihanna on Facebook".

Last week, Rihanna became the 13th person in history to attain 6 million Twitter followers. For comparison, Lady Gaga is approaching 12 million Twitter followers.

Check out Fame Count and All Facebook Stats to stay up to date on the latest fan rankings, and tell us in the comments below whether you think Rihanna can hold off Lady Gaga and achieve ultimate social network stardom.

Comments

[pegasus8595]

03:37 PM on 07/25/2011

Lady Gaga will win out eventually. Rihanna doesn't have to originality, vocal talent, or daring to be more famous than Gaga. Mother Monster is constantly keeping peoples' attention.
But the "un-liking" Rihanna thing is childish. Lady Gaga teaches respect and acceptance, peace and love. Un-liking Rihanna on Facebook is immature and vindictive, two things that Lady Gaga is trying to remove from society.
Seriously, my fellow Monsters...if I can respect other artists, you can too!

[PrestonHymas]

03:22 AM on 07/16/2011

I think we should put Rihanna fans and Lady Gaga fans in a pit and have them fight to the death. The winners take on the Bieber freaks.

[Slickone]

04:29 PM on 07/15/2011

This is news why?

[lachihuahua]

01:16 PM on 07/15/2011

Apparently, there are an awful lot of people with too much time on their hands. (nn)

[Copeword]

11:24 AM on 07/15/2011

Congrats to Rihanna, I guess. Gaga might top her again though.

[nicko68]

10:13 AM on 07/15/2011

is that Ronald McDonald?

[Bigrcube]

11:15 AM on 07/15/2011

No, it's Lady Gaga AND Rihanna in a RED Lucille Ball wig trying to be a gawdy Oprah.

[quacktastic]

10:03 AM on 07/15/2011

Reba?! oh wait...ok nevermind

[quedog]

09:46 AM on 07/15/2011

after she does playboy her facebook stats will soar to the limits
she will tp gaga and p-diddy
and her music will still suck
yodel on darling

[misanthropicnihilist]

09:40 AM on 07/15/2011

In other news: Children starving in Africa

[Celtic Hawk]

09:12 AM on 07/15/2011

Wow...what an "achievement."

[saysaycollins]

09:04 AM on 07/15/2011

geez for GAGA being all for peace and togethernes(you get my gist) her followers sure to do seem like the mean kids in high school

[MBT1981]

09:43 AM on 07/15/2011

so true. When is celebrity idol worship going to end?

[Jared Drury]

09:01 AM on 07/15/2011

Weather either has talent or not is a non issue (IMO they do). They make feel good music, and I think that it has value. Sure singer songwriters are great too, but do you really want to crank Iris Dimint while heading to the beach with the windows down? I think and analyze enough at work, some times mindless dance/pop is the answer to mood and attitude improvement.

[anti politricks]

08:48 AM on 07/15/2011

so we have more than 40-80 million people with entirely too much time on their hands and no taste in music.

awesome newsworthiness :)

[digital]

08:40 AM on 07/15/2011

I like musicians who actually PLAY instruments and WRITE their own songs.

Not mass-produced and manufactured by media companies.

Am I the only one?

[kbroadfoot]

08:48 AM on 07/15/2011

You are not the only one...

[papagroove]

07:54 AM on 07/15/2011

Really. The feeble minded pop-culture world is raging over a Madonna copycat vs a porn star with a microphone.

You should all be embarrassed for taking part...