Facebook's biggest risers (monthly recap): Blackberry and PlayStation top January charts

(Research In Motion Limited)

Throughout the month of January, the three brands with the biggest increase in fans were smartphone manufacturers Blackberry, soft drink company Coca-Cola and games console makers PlayStation. PlayStation's rival Xbox also made the charts in seventh position. Converse was the only clothing brand to chart and Pizza Hut the only restaurant to make the top ten.

The top rising brands* on Facebook over the month of January according to Famecount.com** are:

		Fans today	Fans this week	Fans this month
1	BlackBerry Technology | Canada	14,071	163,682	844,636
2	PlayStation Technology | Japan	13,491	220,754	807,767
3	Coca-Cola Food and Drink | United States	14,041	182,231	719,502
4	Converse Fashion | United States	5,564	201,800	634,263
5	Sprite Food and Drink | United States	1,659	131,572	633,645
6	Disneyland Attraction | United States	6,208	122,036	574,289
7	Xbox Technology | United States	10,250	139,127	537,126
8	Pizza Hut Restaurant | United States	8,189	105,220	466,296
9	Ferrero Rocher Food and Drink | Italy	6,843	78,184	459,968
10	Red Bull Food and Drink | Austria	6,768	105,512	444,321

*In this case, the term "brands" excludes media brands (e.g. Facebook or Harry Potter) and brands that have risen for anomalous reasons (e.g. pages/fanbases merging).

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