Following a cull of spammers said to make up 8.7% of Facebook profiles, some of the social network's most popular artist pages have seen a sufficient drop in ‘Likes’.

That's according to statistics from Pagedata which found that Rihanna lost 28,275 Facebook likes while Lady Gaga, who boasts 53 million Facebook Likes, lost 34,326.

Other popular artists to have lost out include Shakira, who had 26,406 fake Facebook Likes removed, Justin Bieber, who had 27,859 fake Facebook likes removed and ...