Rihanna now holds one other file, because the singer and make-up mogul surpassed Katy Perry this week to grow to be Twitter’s most {followed} girl. In line with SocialBlade, Rihanna sits at 108,278,326 to Perry’s 108,261,949 when this was written, giving her a few 20,000 lead now. General, RiRi has the fourth-highest follower depend on the social platform, behind (sigh) the corporate’s proprietor Elon Musk, Barack Obama, and Justin Bieber. Rihanna wants a couple of million extra followers to cross Bieber and grow to be the most-followed musician on the platform, as Bieber at present sits at 113,156,831 followers.
By way of different musicians that spherical out the highest ten of Twitter’s most {followed}, Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande comply with shut behind at No. 7 and No. 10.
This comes on the heels of an already huge 12 months for Rihanna, between enjoying the Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present only a few months in the past and saying she’s having a second child with ASAP Rocky. She additionally carried out her music “Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Perpetually‘s soundtrack on the Oscars, the place it was additionally nominated for an award.
She was additionally the one feminine musician to make this 12 months’s Forbes Billionaire Checklist, along with her web value estimated at $1.4 billion, via her music, partnerships, and her Fenty Magnificence empire. (Jay-Z and Jimmy Buffett had been the one different two performers on the rating.)
Whereas followers are in all probability nonetheless ready for brand new music, Rihanna’s return, each time it occurs, now has a possibility to be main contemplating her continuously rising following.
