The 20 most popular bands on Facebook: Rihanna, Coldplay, Lil Wayne…
Are labels and managers doing a good job of building communities around their artists on Facebook? Well, none make the ten most popular fan pages on the social network.
In order, they are: Barack Obama, Coca-Cola, Homer J Simpson, Nutella, Pizza, Mr Bean, Michael Phelps, Facebook, Windows Live Messenger, and Kinder Surprise. This is according to a chart compiled by AllFacebook.
I’ve dug out the 20 most popular music artist fan pages from the chart though, and they are (with number of fans):
1. Rihanna (1.52 million)
2. Coldplay (1.49 million)
3. Lil Wayne (1.34 million)
4. Linkin Park (1.33 million)
5. Chris Brown (1.3 million)
6. Metallica (1.22 million)
7. Pink Floyd (1.16 million)
8. Bob Marley (1.13 million)
9. Red Hot Chili Peppers (1.12 million)
10. Justin Timberlake (1.05 million)
11. AC/DC (997,000)
12. Daft Punk (912,000)
13. Beyonce (906,000)
14. Queen (900,000)
15. Evanescence (873,000)
16. Jonas Brothers (843,000)
17. Radiohead (793,000)
18. Kanye West (792,000)
19. Katy Perry (791,000)
20. Akon (753,000)
It’s a good resource, anyway. Props to Mashable for spotting it.
Tags: chris brown, coldplay, facebook, lil wayne, linkin park, music strategy, rihanna
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July 4th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
All of them are terrible cept for AC/DC, Metallica and Red Hot Chilli Peppers.