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Your support makes all the difference.The game CityVille, from FarmVille creators Zynga, takes the top spot on this week's chart of Facebook's biggest risers, attracting over 722,000 fans in seven days. Despite Eminem's much buzzed Super Bowl commercials for Pepsi Co. Lipton Brisk Ice Tea and Chrysler cars, the rap artist drops down one place into seventh position; Spanish football team Real Madrid re-enters the charts in fifth position and musician Katy Perry makes her debut in tenth place.
The top rising pages on Facebook over the week ending Friday, February 11 according to Famecount.com* are:
| Fans today | Fans this week | ||
| 1 | CityVille Game | United States | 104,132 | 722,097 |
| 2 | Texas Hold'em Poker Game | United States | 94,156 | 686,363 |
| 3 | Rihanna Musician | Barbados | 82,725 | 682,721 |
| 4 | Shakira Musician | Colombia | 79,816 | 645,334 |
| 5 | Real Madrid C.F. Sports Team | Spain | 191,970 | 639,455 |
| 6 | Justin Bieber Musician | Canada | 74,552 | 609,064 |
| 7 | Eminem Musician | United States | 64,533 | 519,021 |
| 8 | Avril Lavigne Musician | Canada | 56,600 | 467,631 |
| 9 | Harry Potter Film | United States | 56,887 | 456,897 |
| 10 | Katy Perry Musician | United States | 51,097 | 434,843 |
* 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.
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