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Your support makes all the difference.Over the course of the last seven days, pop stars Rihanna and Justin Beiber have been neck and neck in their fan growth on Facebook. However, on Friday, April 1, Rihanna just edged out Justin Beiber by finishing in ninth place to Justin's tenth in this week's chart of Facebook's biggest risers.
Despite Beiber's popularity with tweens around the world, the Canadian boy wonder is not the most liked artist on Facebook. According to data from Famecount.com, in terms of total fans Bieber charts in seventh position, three places behind Rihanna, five places behind Lady Gaga and six places behind the most liked person ever, living or dead, on Facebook - rapper Eminem.
The top rising pages on Facebook over the week ending Friday, April 1 according to Famecount.com* are:
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| Fans today | Fans this week |
| 1. | Badoo | 106,576 | 681,066 |
| 2. | Cok Güzel Hareketler Bunlar BKM | -2,488 | 649, 691 |
| 3. | CityVille | 73,754 | 535,638 |
| 4. | Snaptu | 76,708 | 535,408 |
| 5. | Tea Party Patriots | NA | 535,088 |
| 6. | Dove | 9,638 | 481,418 |
| 7. | Burberry | 60,376 | 478,565 |
| 8. | Texas Hold'em Poker | 28,365 | 354,720 |
| 9. | Rihanna | 41,850 | 324, 666 |
| 10. | Justin Bieber | 43,805 | 317,730 |
* 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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