The top branded Facebook fan page, Facebook’s own page, now has 40 million fans.  Elsewhere in the Top 10, however, the caffeine buzz on the Starbucks page wore off a little this month, as the social media darling fell two spots from #4 to #6...

“Stability” was largely the word of the month for the very largest branded Facebook fan pages, at least compared to last month’s rankings. The only change in the Top 10 was Converse growing 11% to leapfrog Skittles, which grew at a more typical (for this...

19 of the Top 50 branded Facebook Fan Pages of 2010 were not on the Top 50 list from 2009, just one indicator of how much movement we saw over the past year. And the biggest mover in our list, MTV, saw growth of 1,040%, moving from 1.1 million fans to 13.1 million fans in just 12 months. The pages that stayed on the list grew, on average, 377% in 2010. That's impressive growth.

In a strong month for fan growth (average growth of the top 50 was 22.19% in October), we've had a change in the top 5 branded Facebook fan pages since September, with YouTube edging out Starbucks for the #2 spot on the list. Converse All Stars broke into the top 10 and MTV continued its strong run, growing over 47% in the month of October alone.
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