London-based social media metrics company, Famecount, yesterday 23 June 2010, unveiled a brand new music chart, ranking the world's leading and fastest growing music stars based on their social media popularity. Lady Gaga is currently the most popular musician online with a following of 8.9 million Facebook fans, 4.6 million Twitter followers, and 307 410YouTube subscribers. The new music charts are launched on the back of the measurement company's most recent study, which ranked the top global consumer brands based on their social media popularity.
Lady Gaga's combined fan base across Facebook, Twitter and YouTube makes her not only the world's most popular music star, but also the most followed global social media entity across any genre, including consumer brands. The 24 yr old has seen her online popularity surge in recent weeks, and overtook Barack Obama as the world's most popular social media figure at the end of June.
The latest queen of pop is followed by Britney Spears - currently the world's top Twitterer with over 5.2 million followers. Taylor Swift is ranked third, followed by the only non-living musician to make it into the top 10, Michael Jackson, thanks in large part to being the world's most popular musician on Facebook with over 13.2 million fans.
*Formula based on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube fan data. Only Stars present on more than one network included. Index is relative to most popular worldwide social media entity, Lady Gaga, who carries a Famecount ranking of 100%.
Lady Gaga has also seen the fastest growth in social media popularity this month, adding 1.5 million Facebook fans, 483 130 Twitter followers and 19 213 YouTube subscribers. Although Canadian YouTube sensation, Justin Beiber, is running almost neck and neck in popularity growth. Other stars in the Top 10 growth chart this month include Eminem - whose seventh album Recovery has just been launched - and Shakira, who recently performed at the World Cup opening ceremony and whose World Cup song has already achieved more than 30 million YouTube views.
*Formula based on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube fan growth. Only Stars present on more than one network included. Index is relative to fastest growing social media entity.
Announcing the new Social music charts, Daniel Dearlove, Famecount founder said "With so many music fans now online, traditional unit sales or radio airplay based music charts become less and less relevant. We hope our charts give a true sense of the stars we follow, and the daily, weekly and monthly trends"
Famecount.com is an independent web application that uses API data from Twitter, Youtube and Facebook Connect to track, and help people connect with, the most popular stars of the web. Famecount organises social media stars by country and category to help you identify the leaders on each network, and also produces a composite Famecount index based on relative popularity across all networks. The service can be accessed freely at: www.famecount.com.
