Rihanna Is The Most Talked-About Musician On Facebook

Robbie Daw | December 9, 2011 9:49 am

Cranking out new music year after year has its advantages — mainly, it keeps an artist in the public eye. Take, for instance, Rihanna, who has topped a Facebook poll on the most talked-about music artists of 2011. (Guess its no wonder, then, why her latest album is titled Talk That Talk?) Rihanna landed atop the Facebook ranking based, according to Entertainmentwise, on “her number of ‘likes’, how fast her profile is going, and her prominence in the media”. For the record, RiRi currently stands at 47.7 million Facebook likes.

Currently, Rihanna’s collaboration with Calvin Harris, “We Found Love”, is the top single on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart for a sixth week, while her album Talk That Talk is at #7 in its second week on the Top 200.

Placing just behind Rihanna is late reggae icon Bob Marley, while Goodbye Lullaby songstress Avril Lavigne comes in at #3.

Side note: truthfully, given the amount of relentless promotion Lady Gaga has poured into Born This Way over the past year, we’d have expected her to rank higher than #7 on this list!

Facebook’s list of the 10 most talked-about musicians:

1. Rihanna 2. Bob Marley 3. Avril Lavigne 4. David Guetta 5. Enrique Iglesias 6. Usher 7. Lady GaGa 8. Metallica 9. Green Day 10. Black Eyed Peas