Rihanna and Chris Brown both made moves on Billboard's Social 50 chart this week after releasing two new collaborations, with Chris Brown being featured on a remix of Rihanna's "Birthday Cake" and Rihanna appearing on a remix of Brown's "Turn Up The Music." Rihanna rises 4-3 on the tally, while Brown flies 10-5.
The Social 50 chart ranks the most popular artists on YouTube, Vevo, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and iLike, using a formula that blends weekly additions of friends/fans/followers along with weekly artist page views and weekly song plays.
After rumors surrounding the two artists had been furiously circulating over the past few weeks, on Feb. 20 the public saw its first evidence of contact between Chris Brown and Rihanna as Brown tweeted "HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROBYN," to which the singer, born Robyn Fenty replied, "Thanks!"
The most-viewed "Birthday Cake" remix on YouTube has garnered over 4 million views and elicited over 11,000 comments. All of the buzz generated a week-over-week gain of 427,000 Twitter followers for Rihanna (in the week ending Feb. 27) and a gain of 483,000 Facebook fans. Overall, she earned a 19% increase in her overall follower base.
Chris Brown, meanwhile, snared a 28% increase in Facebook fans and a 23% jump in views to his official YouTube channel as well as a 23% climb in Twitter followers.
I R SO ANGRY. SHE GONNA GET BACKLASHED SO MUCH FOR DOIN BITFDAY CAK3 REMIX.. Nooo. OMG?!! I hope she doesn't go back with him, have a breakdown and is forced to resort to doing rock cocaine and meth
I R SO ANGRY. SHE GONNA GET BACKLASHED SO MUCH FOR DOIN BITFDAY CAK3 REMIX.. Nooo. OMG?!! I hope she doesn't go back with him, have a breakdown and is forced to resort to doing rock cocaine and meth
