World Cup and ‘Toy Story’ Appear in This Week’s Facebook’s Top 20 Pages

World Cup football (soccer) and Pixar’s “Toy Story 3” intermingled with a bunch of entertainment-related regulars on our list this week of Top 20 Facebook Pages. We compile the list with our PageData tool, which counts the number of fans added daily and monthly to Pages.

Top Gainers This Week

Name Fans Gain Gain, %
1. Family Guy 9,156,984 +478,107 +5.51
2. Google Chrome 1,566,474 +396,119 +33.85
3. Cristiano Ronaldo 4,794,412 +358,774 +8.09
4. Michael Jackson 13,035,580 +337,130 +2.65
5. Lady Gaga 8,753,886 +334,578 +3.97
6. House 7,196,038 +328,096 +4.78
7. Disney Pixar 1,787,676 +306,504 +20.69
8. Lil Wayne 5,541,474 +272,465 +5.17
9. Toy Story 1,245,758 +262,901 +26.75
10. Justin Bieber 5,227,078 +261,631 +5.27
11. Sports on Facebook 1,752,061 +259,926 +17.42
12. Megan Fox 7,401,537 +257,178 +3.60
13. Starbucks 7,943,771 +249,117 +3.24
14. Vin Diesel 8,777,318 +244,545 +2.87
15. Dr. House 6,338,906 +240,635 +3.95
16. Facebook 9,990,860 +232,024 +2.38
17. South Park 6,042,772 +215,632 +3.70
18. Drake 2,301,908 +214,612 +10.28
19. Texas Hold’em Poker 19,697,927 +211,403 +1.08
20. redbox 985,635 +211,227 +27.2

In first place this week was the television show “Family Guy,” which added 478,000 fans to pass 9.1 million fans; the Page has promoted its nomination for some awards as well as a game on the show’s web site based on the characters. Google Chrome’s Facebook Page followed, gaining 385,000 of its 396,000 new fans on a single day, Wednesday, in what seems to be some sort of official Page consolidation; the Page didn’t appear to have much recent activity.

The FIFA World Cup, which started in South Africa on June 11 and runs through July 11, had some affect on the list this week. Portugal’s rock star player Cristiano Ronaldo came in at number 3 on the list, adding 359,000 fans to inch his way to 5 million fans with 4.7 million currently. His Page experienced a jump of 127,400 fans on Wednesday, a day after a draw match against the Ivory Coast. The Sports on Facebook Page took eleventh place this week, growing 260,000 users to 1.7 million. This growth was also due to the World Cup, as Facebook launched a leaderboard app for users last month.

Toy Story” was also a force on this week’s list; the third installment of the Pixar franchise premiered on Friday and the company had been promoting the film via ticket sales directly on Facebook. Consequently Disney Pixar’s Page took the number 7 spot, adding 306,500 fans to total 1.7 million and the “Toy Story” Page added 263,000 fan to take ninth place with a total of 1.2 million fans.

Musicians, as per usual, made up a good portion of the list, although not as much as in recent weeks.

Michael Jackson came in fourth place, adding 337,000 fans to pass 13 million. Lady Gaga followed in fifth place, adding 334,600 fans to a total of 8.7 million with steady growth, the usual tabloid presence and tour-related activity. Lil Wayne added 272,500 fans to reach 5.5 million; as he’s currently incarcerated he has a friend updating his Facebook Page for him. Justin Bieber came in tenth, adding 261,600 fans to reach an audience of 5.2 million; as usual he’s promoting a new single and video. Finally, Drake took the number 18 spot, adding 214,600 to reach 2.3 million; he recently released a single on iTunes.

The medical drama “House” took sixth place, adding 328,000 fans to 7.1 million with steady growth, the promotion of a DVD set and special “appisodes” for iPhone users. The corresponding character’s Page, Dr. House, came in at number 15, adding 240,600 fans to grow to 6.3 million; this Page hasn’t had activity for some time.

The rest of the list was a mixed bag of Pages.

Megan Fox took the number 12 spot; she’s got a new movie coming out, “Jonah Hex,” and has been promoting it on her Page, adding 257,200 fans to reach 7.4 million. Starbucks followed, adding 249,000 fans to come in just under 8 million fans. Vin Diesel added 244,500 fans to his 8.7 million and took the number 14 spot. Facebook’s Page added 232,000 fans to almost break 10 million at number 16.

Closing out the list were “South Park” at number 17, adding 215,600 fans to pass 6 million fans. Zynga’s Texas Hold’em Poker came in at number 19, adding 211,400 fans to 19.6 million and redbox closed out the list at number 20, adding 211,200 fans to 985,600 on the heels of a free movie rental promotion last week.

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One Response to “World Cup and ‘Toy Story’ Appear in This Week’s Facebook’s Top 20 Pages”

  1. Cup World says:

    For world cup, this should not be a surprise, being the biggest sport in the world practically. Add to this the many exciting and unexpected winners in the world cup matches.

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