Pop star Katy Perry takes the top spot among the stars of social media for the year to date.
In a ranking taking into account stars' buzz and followers across 12 social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Sina, Perry came out on top. She earned 24.7 million Facebook likes, 27 million Twitter followers, 9.5 million Instagram followers and 3 billion YouTube views.
Perry's on a hot streak: She was named next year's Super Bowl headliner, earned the year's most-watched music video on YouTube ("Dark Horse") and was 2014's most-streamed female artist on Spotify.
The top 10 social media stars of the year, according to Starcount:
1. Katy Perry
2. PewDiePie
3. Taylor Swift
4. Shakira
5; Justin Bieber
6. Cristiano Ronaldo
7. One Direction
8. Pitbull
9. Eminem
10. Miley Cyrus
Starcount.com, the social media leaderboard, tracks data across 12 global social networks to provide an aggregated measure of social media popularity for stars and brands. For more on Starcount's data go to playlist.starcount.com/starscore.
Perry's on a hot streak: She was named next year's Super Bowl headliner, earned the year's most-watched music video on YouTube ("Dark Horse") and was 2014's most-streamed female artist on Spotify.
What about Kim? Bigger than PewdiePIe? Even I'm skeptical. 
