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A 1959 button badge for members of the Lonnie Lee fan club. A fan club is an organized group of fans, generally of a celebrity. Most fan clubs are run by fans who devote considerable time and resources to support them. There are also "official" fan clubs that are run by someone associated with the person or organization the club is centered on.
The International Club Crosby (ICC) was founded in 1936 in the United States and, is, in effect, the “Bing Crosby Fan Club.” As such it is the World's longest-running fan club, and is duly recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records. It has some 500 active supporters in major countries around the globe.
A supporters' group or supporters' club is an independent fan club or campaign group in sport, mostly association football. Supporters' groups in continental Europe are generally known as ultras , which derives from the Latin word ultrā, [ 1 ] meaning beyond in English, with the implication that their enthusiasm is 'beyond' the normal.
Though fan groups have existed for as long as musicians have elicited screams from their adoring audiences, the social media era has elevated the statuses of these groups and given them more power.
Once enough users added themselves to a group, Meetup would send the group members an email, asking them to vote on one of three sponsoring venues for the group to meet at. [16] [17] Within a few months of Meetup launching, 56,000 users had joined the site. [8] [13] In 2003 Meetup won the "Community Websites and Mobile Site" Webby Award. [18]
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In Spain, the official fan club is Divina Madonna founded in 1987 according to El País, [33] and is the oldest fan club of an artist in Spain. [52] According to Colombian website Shock , the club served as a reference for Madonna's fan clubs for both Spain and the Americas, as well for other artists fan clubs in the region. [ 52 ]
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