Rihanna beats Justin Beiber in battle for Facebook fans

(AFP PHOTO / Robyn Beck)

Over the course of the last seven days, pop stars Rihanna and Justin Beiber have been neck and neck in their fan growth on Facebook. However, on Friday, April 1, Rihanna just edged out Justin Beiber by finishing in ninth place to Justin's tenth in this week's chart of Facebook's biggest risers.

Despite Beiber's popularity with tweens around the world, the Canadian boy wonder is not the most liked artist on Facebook. According to data from Famecount.com, in terms of total fans Bieber charts in seventh position, three places behind Rihanna, five places behind Lady Gaga and six places behind the most liked person ever, living or dead, on Facebook - rapper Eminem.

The top rising pages on Facebook over the week ending Friday, April 1 according to Famecount.com* are:

		Fans today	Fans this week
1.	Badoo Facebook app	106,576	681,066
2.	Cok Güzel Hareketler Bunlar BKM TV|Turkey	-2,488	649, 691
3.	CityVille Facebook app	73,754	535,638
4.	Snaptu Facebook app	76,708	535,408
5.	Tea Party Patriots Political|US	NA	535,088
6.	Dove Health and Beauty| UK	9,638	481,418
7.	Burberry Fashion|UK	60,376	478,565
8.	Texas Hold'em Poker Facebook app	28,365	354,720
9.	Rihanna Musician|Barbados	41,850	324, 666
10.	Justin Bieber Musician|Canada	43,805	317,730

* Data from famecount.com, the YouTube, Twitter and Facebook Statistics service.
Famecount measures the amounts of "likes," "fans" and "followers," providing statistics regarding the celebrity, brand, political and popular culture preferences of Facebook, YouTube and Twitter users.