Instagram and its users gave Selena Gomez a bonus 26th birthday gift yesterday: a brand new record on the platform—and the bragging rights of saying she topped Beyoncé. Gomez beat Bey’s record for being the fastest user to get a million likes on a photo, fans noticed. She accomplished the feat within 13 minutes of publishing a gallery of pics from her Italian-themed yacht birthday party.
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The photo is now at 7.9 million likes and counting. Gomez is the most followed person on the platform, at 139 million followers, so it’s all a testament to her clout.
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Bey likely held the record with her pregnancy or twin reveal photos, both of which got a staggering amount of likes in a short period of time. The twin reveal photo, as Billboard pointed out, obtained 7.8 million likes within 12 hours:
While the pregnancy reveal one had 6.4 million likes in only a couple hours:
Gomez had two birthday parties over the weekend: her yacht party on Sunday and a surprise celebration backstage at the Imagine Dragons concert she attended on Saturday.
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