50 largest Facebook Fan Pages - statistics at the first anniversary of the launch of Facebook Fan Pages

New - Top 30 Facebook Fan Pages - January 2010 here

I wrote about the launch of Facebook Fan Pages and in the year since launch they have grown enormously. There have been some interesting stories as Fan Page usage has developed - Michael Phelps gaining a million fans in a few days, Red Box Blue streaming a live gig through their fan page, Barack Obama moving his campaign focus from Facebook Groups ('One Million For Obama' etc) to the Barack Obama Fan Page which is now by far the biggest and the BBC tracking down the founder of the Chris Moyles page and working with them to produce something better.

I analysed the largest Facebook Fan Pages in May and it is interesting to see how much Fan Pages have grown in popularity since then. In May no Fan Page had more than a million fans and Barack Obama was the only person with more than 500,000 Facebook Fans. The 5 most popular Fan Pages after Barack Obama's Fan Page are now all different and it is interesting to see the extent to the list of the largest Fan Pages is dominated by the entertainment category - with music and film Fan Pages prevalent.

Here is the latest list of the largest Facebook Fan Pages:

Facebook Fan Page	Number of fans
Barack Obama	2,197,833
Michael Phelps	1,625,018
Batman: The Dark Knight	921,322
Facebook	834,624
Coldplay	797,558
Windows Live Messenger	757,932
Adam Sandler	750,262
YouTube	729,349
Apple Students	699,099
Linkin Park	686,898
Chris Brown	681,740
Lil Wayne	652,021
Homer J Simpson	621,558
W. Smith	616,275
Red Hot Chilli Peppers	613,095
Mr. Bean	607,021
Scrubs	603,944
South Park	598,516
Kinder Surprise	591,481
John McCain	586,102
The Stig	585,600
House	582,249
Pink Floyd	578,659
Scrat	569,722
Victoria's Secret PINK	569,576
Justin Timberlake	561,837
Jonas Brothers	542,397
The Chris Moyles Show	541,808
Metallica	540,913
adidas Originals	540,592
*Heath Ledger*	535,536
OREO Cookies	535,501
Donkey	524,191
Chocolate	523,342
Daft Punk	522,451
Shrek's Donkey	521,709
Rihanna	519,672
Top Gear	516,700
Sex and the City: The Movie	501,942
Avril Lavigne	500,305
Dormir 5 minutos Mas	500,185
Sid	473,648
Radiohead	465,714
Where's Wally?	458,007
Red Flavour Pringles	457,673
FERRERO ROCHER	453,018
You Tube	452,856
Dormir	452,649
Queen	448,170
Evanescence	441,037

NB. there are also a number of duplicates both within this list (YouTube and You Tube, Donkey and Shrek's Donkey) and outside of this list (there is another page for Pringles, other pages for Apple etc.)

Whilst it is difficult to work out just how many Facebook Fan Pages there are, the top 50 Facebook Fan Pages combined have over 30 million fans. Assuming there is a long tail in play, then it is clear that Facebook Fan Pages have been embraced by the Facebook community and will continue to grow (though it will be interesting to see what happens to the Obama / McCain pages after Nov 4th!)

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