Rihanna

Rihanna is now officially the most popular woman on Facebook, with almost 40.7 million fans on her official page. No other woman has more fans than her on Facebook, while Lady Gaga comes #2 with 40.6 million fans. Rihanna's popularity keeps growing internationally, while her latest album "Loud" is still on the Best-Selling albums charts all over the World.

Earlier this year, Rihanna was named "The Most Popular International Star In The Middle East" by "Stars Cafe", the first monthly online magazine in the Middle East. The magazine included this category for the first time in its sixth annual awards this year, and Rihanna beat out the other 4 nominees for the award: Beyonce, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, and Shakira.

In the same night of announcing the results, Rihanna tetweeted the news on her personal "Twitter" page, sharing the news with her fans. On the next day, hundreds of web-sites were talking about the topic!