By Liam Sellick

Rihanna has recently topped Lady GaGa to become the most popular female on Facebook, according to famecount.com. Both stars have about 40.5 million fans and continues to pull ahead with her fan base on Facebook growing by 100,000 per day. Only Eminem, who is on 43 million fans, now stands above the RnB singer. This achievement marks a spectacular time for Rihanna, seeing her social media fame increase following the release of her fifth album ‘Loud’ last year. In February, the singer has become the fourth artist in history to achieve 1 billion YouTube views. She is also the third most viewed female star on the network with almost 1.4 billion views, having overtaken Eminem in May. Recently, the singer became the 13^th person in history to achieve 6 million Twitter followers.

On an aggregated basis, according to Famecount’s rankings, she is the third biggest social media, just behind Lady GaGa and Justin Bieber.

Eminem is currently 3 million ahead on Facebook, but Rihanna is growing faster on the network and remains the fastest growing star on YouTube. Her controversial video for ‘Man Down’’ which has racked up 40 million views.

Top Stars on Facebook
Total Fans

1 Eminem
Musician, Hip-hop | United States 43,185,384
2 Rihanna
Musician, RnB | Barbados 40,504,336
3 Lady Gaga
Musician, Pop | United States 40,503,920
4 Michael Jackson
Musician, Pop | United States 37,965,676
5 Shakira
Musician, Pop | Colombia 36,829,688
6 Justin Bieber
Musician, Pop | Canada 32,920,874
7 Linkin Park
Musician, Rock | United States 32,251,334
8 Katy Perry
Musician, Pop | United States 31,793,144
9 Cristiano Ronaldo
Athlete, Soccer | Portugal 30,881,627
10 Lil Wayne
Musician, Hip-hop | United States 28,896,821

Rihanna claims sixth UK number one with We Found Love

Rihanna shot straight to the top of the charts with her new single We Found Love featuring Calvin Harris this weekend, beating Maroon 5 and Christina Aguilera’s Moves Like Jagger into second place.

The song, which features Scottish DJ Calvin Harris, sold 87,000 copies and saw off its rivals, despite only being released on Wednesday.

We Found Love is the Barbadian’s sixth number one, following previous chart-toppers Umbrella, Take A Bow, Only Girl (In The World), Run This Town and What’s My Name?

Rihanna, who is currently on tour in the UK, recently caused a storm in Northern Ireland after being asked by a farmer to cover up while filming a video clip in his field. Alan Graham said he did not “believe young ladies should have to take their clothes off to entertain”.