New - Top 30 Facebook Fan Pages - January 2010 here
Facebook Fan Pages have been around for approximately 18 months and they have been growing in popularity. In May 2008 I created a list of the largest Facebook Fan Pages and found that Barack Obama was the most popular Fan Page on Facebook with approaching 900,000 fans.
For the one year anniversary of Facebook Fan Pages (Nov 2008) I created a new list of the Top 50 Facebook Fan Pages and found that only Barack Obama and Michael Phelps had more than 1 million fans.
After the recent announcement of Facebook vanity URLs, and the possibility for personalised Facebook Fan Page addresses, I thought it would be interesting to create a new list of the most popular Facebook Fan Pages.
Facebook Fan Pages have been around for approximately 18 months and they have been growing in popularity. In May 2008 I created a list of the largest Facebook Fan Pages and found that Barack Obama was the most popular Fan Page on Facebook with approaching 900,000 fans.
For the one year anniversary of Facebook Fan Pages (Nov 2008) I created a new list of the Top 50 Facebook Fan Pages and found that only Barack Obama and Michael Phelps had more than 1 million fans.
After the recent announcement of Facebook vanity URLs, and the possibility for personalised Facebook Fan Page addresses, I thought it would be interesting to create a new list of the most popular Facebook Fan Pages.
Here are the top 30 Facebook Fan Pages by number of fans (including URL):
| Rank | Facebook Fan Page Name | Number of Facebook Fans | Facebook Fan Page URL |
| 1 | Barack Obama | 6,403,120 | www.facebook.com/barackobama |
| 2 | Vin Diesel | 4,896,507 | http://www.facebook.com/VinDiesel |
| 3 | I Love Sleep | 4,513,144 | http://www.facebook.com/pages/I-SLEEP/73330003836 |
| 4 | Pizza | 4,438,396 | http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pizza/44258313195 |
| 5 | I need a vacation!!! | 4,411,673 | http://www.facebook.com/pages/I-need-a-vacation/72161599412 |
| 6 | Dr. House | 4,272,060 | http://www.facebook.com/DrHouse |
| 7 | Facebook | 3,656,863 | http://www.facebook.com/facebook |
| 8 | Will Smith | 3,482,480 | http://www.facebook.com/WillSmith |
| 9 | Coca-Cola | 3,469,069 | http://www.facebook.com/coca-cola |
| 10 | Adam Sandler | 3,267,567 | http://www.facebook.com/Sandler |
| 11 | Nutella | 3,209,214 | http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nutella/24932281961 |
| 12 | The Beach | 3,202,312 | http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Beach/71457650100 |
| 13 | Lady Gaga | 3,186,934 | http://www.facebook.com/ladygaga |
| 14 | Pizza | 3,174,780 | http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pizza/27041826093 |
| 15 | Starbucks Coffee Company | 3,121,797 | http://www.facebook.com/Starbucks |
| 16 | South Park | 2,822,345 | http://www.facebook.com/southpark |
| 17 | The Beach | 2,786,970 | http://www.facebook.com/beachgoer |
| 18 | Pringles | 2,768,967 | http://www.facebook.com/Pringles |
| 19 | sleeping | 2,729,107 | http://www.facebook.com/pages/sleeping/140262580443 |
| 20 | Pizza | 2,700,071 | http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pizza/38052678801 |
| 21 | Jackie Chan | 2,692,278 | http://www.facebook.com/jackie |
| 22 | Rihanna | 2,632,457 | http://www.facebook.com/rihanna |
| 23 | Kinder Surprise | 2,628,692 | http://www.facebook.com/pages/kinder-surprise/21437643411 |
| 24 | Linkin Park | 2,587,919 | http://www.facebook.com/linkinPark |
| 25 | YouTube | 2,586,665 | http://www.facebook.com/youtube |
| 26 | Summer! | 2,565,983 | http://www.facebook.com/pages/Summer/61006568944 |
| 27 | Flipping the pillow over to get to the cold side | 2,564,729 | http://www.facebook.com/PillowFlipper |
| 28 | Twilight | 2,543,088 | http://www.facebook.com/TwilightMovie |
| 29 | I hate stupid people | 2,520,504 | http://www.facebook.com/pages/Baku-Azerbaijan/I-hate-stupid-people/50283271871 |
| 30 | Live Messenger | 2,504,068 | http://www.facebook.com/LiveMessenger |
Top 30 Facebook Fan Pages by number of fans (figures taken from Facebook)
Facebook Fan Pages are clearly growing in popularity and since their redesign they are (arguably) becoming more relevant / useful for Facebook users (though there are obviously some random pages in this list!)
At the same time a Facebook Fan Page can be a useful global brand platform (not only does it bring users closer, but it allows marketers to maintain a dialogue with people who have publicly expressed an interest in their brand.) It is therefore surprising to see that a number of Facebook Fan Pages have not claimed a Facebook vanity URL for their Facebook Fan Page.
Also I was not expecting Vin Diesel to be second to Barack Obama, were you?!
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At the same time a Facebook Fan Page can be a useful global brand platform (not only does it bring users closer, but it allows marketers to maintain a dialogue with people who have publicly expressed an interest in their brand.) It is therefore surprising to see that a number of Facebook Fan Pages have not claimed a Facebook vanity URL for their Facebook Fan Page.
Also I was not expecting Vin Diesel to be second to Barack Obama, were you?!
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21 Comments:
Surely Vin Diesel doesn't come 2nd to anyone?!
That's one for the 'Vin Diesel Random Fact Generator'.
As a politician Obama has 'Supporters' rather than 'Fans', so Vin Diesel is actually the person with the most 'Fans' on Facebook!
I suppose this page is on top now!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/RIP-Michael-Jackson-We-Miss-You/132749984408?ref=mf
It has over 800.000 fans and growing with approximately 200 fans PER SECOND!
The page was created only hours after The King's sudden death. And within the last 40 hours it has broken all the records... Nothing new when we speak of the greatest Michael Jackson!
The page is a tribute to his music that has inspired generations and the aim is to build a "Statue of The King of Pop" on the internet.
So join... invite your facebook friends and show your support!
R.I.P Michael Jackson... Legends Never Die!
where do yo get these stats??
There's a simple and constantly updated way to get at this list:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/?browse
Cheers,
Eric
What use do the Facebook Pages really have? Even if a page has a lot of fans, what results can you expect to get out of that? My understanding is that a user becomes a fan but never goes back to that fan page again.
Thanks in advance for your insight on this.
The most interesting things with Fan Pages:
- Publisher can keep adding information / applications etc to keep fans coming back
- Publisher can message 'All Fans' so even if people aren't naturally returning you can prompt them to or push out messaging / coupons / special offers etc
- Facebook Fan Page becomes your 'global face' in front of 250m people - no need for microsites etc, can build where the people are and run things from inside Facebook
- Ad targeting - Facebook ad platform now allows the targeting of ad messages based on which pages users are a fan of
There are lots of different ways of creating engagement around Fan Pages but I think these are the most interesting USPs - unless anyone else disagrees with me?
Hi Nick,
Thanks for your reply. I guess my question is, do these theoretical use cases really work? I have a few Facebook Apps and group pages and it just seems like Facebook users don't respond to notifications anymore, and it also seems as if once they join a group, they never really go back to the group page.
For example I have over 50 notifications sitting in a tiny 2sq cm box on the bottom right of my facebook page. Clearly this is not placed in a position for users to ever really click on it or notice it. I also see groups with thousands of users, and the last activity on the group page in many cases seems to be several months ago. So it seems like users become fans or join groups but never really engage in those pages again. And sending notifications seem almost worthless.
Am I wrong in thinking this?
http://www.facebook.com/michaeljackson?ref=s
It says 10,266,086 fans
Can you tell me what is the largest Croatian fan page? THX
I think that Michael Jacskon has the largest number fans over 10 mil!!!!!!1
Latest figures show that Michael Jackson is indeed the largest Fan Page with 10.3m fans. Barack Obama second with 6.9m 'supporters' and Vin Diesel third with 6.85m fans.
Unfortunately Facebook do not split these statistics out by country so I can't tell what the biggest fan page is in Croatia or any other country, the only figures available are global totals.
MICHAEL JACKSON HAS OVER 10 MILLION FANSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!?!?!?!
michael jackson 10+ millions of fan...
http://www.squidoo.com/everythingaboutgolf
you missed Roger Federer with nearly 3,253,173 fans
This list was correct at time of writing - June 2009. I published a new list in Jan this year, Michael Jackson was at number one, but Roger Federer was outside the top 30 (at that point.)
Full list of Facebook top 30 Fan Pages Jan 2010 is here.
dude, "Texas Hold 'em Poker" has like over 11 million fans im pre sure thats the most i've seen
this is the largest group people
http://www.facebook.com/michaeljackson?ref=search&sid=1046535296.3032557274..1
10,964,504 fans
lol time to update!!!! twilight and mj r on there
farmville has 22 million..
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