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likester rank
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0
friends
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12.9 M
everyone
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0.761
likester rank
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0
friends
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45.1 M
everyone
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0.750
likester rank
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0
friends
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13.9 M
everyone
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Mariah Carey
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Musician/band
Pop/R&B: Mariah Carey is the best-selling female artist of all time with more than 200 million albums sold to date and eighteen Billboard #1...
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0.744
likester rank
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0
friends
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11 M
everyone
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0.743
likester rank
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0
friends
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21.5 M
everyone
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Slash
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Musician/band
Rock & Fn Roll:
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0.737
likester rank
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0
friends
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10.3 M
everyone
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Nicki Minaj
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Public figure
For Booking Information contact: CAA Mark Cheatham 212-277-9000 mcoffice@caa.com
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0.731
likester rank
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0
friends
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30.2 M
everyone
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Nutella
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Food/beverages
Welcome to the Official International Nutella® Spread Facebook page. Here you can share and enjoy all the initiatives promoted by Nutella®,...
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0.725
likester rank
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0
friends
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17.4 M
everyone
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Taylor Swift
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Musician/band
Country: Hi, Im Taylor. I love the number 13. I was born in December on a Christmas tree farm. I like imagining what life was like hundreds ...
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0.723
likester rank
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0
friends
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43 M
everyone
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Rihanna
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Musician/band
Pop / R&B / Reggae: Talk That Talk
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0.714
likester rank
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0
friends
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70.8 M
everyone
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Oreo
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Food/beverages
As the world’s favorite cookie, Oreo has been a part of memorable family moments for nearly 100 years.
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0.710
likester rank
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0
friends
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33.4 M
everyone
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Katy Perry
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Musician/band
Pop-Rock: When Katy Perry was a fourth grader, her teacher asked the class to make a “vision board” — a collage of images cut out from magaz...
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0.708
likester rank
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0
friends
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53.6 M
everyone
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David Guetta
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Musician/band
Electro / House: With 2009’s multi-platinum One Love, two-time-Grammy-winning artist/producer/DJ David Guetta cemented his status as a genre...
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0.704
likester rank
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0
friends
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42.2 M
everyone
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