Eminem tops Lady Gaga in Facebook friends

According to Famecount.com, social media statistics service, the rapper has just knocked Lady Gaga from her top spot – as most popular living person on the site – after a long battle. He has 28, 977,000+ ” likes,” and she’s not far behind. Less than 1 million fans have separated the two stars for more than two months.

Gaga took the crown from Barack Obama on June 25. But she could not hold off Eminem , who has been recruiting 546,000 new fans each week. That number is more than the population of Luxembourg, notes Famecount. Only one person has more Facebook friends than Eminem – the late Michael Jackson, who has more than 29 million “likes.”

But Eminem’s popularity is not carrying over to Twitter. Lady Gaga is way ahead of him there. She’s got 8.4 million followers. Eminem has a mere 3 million or so.