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The following list of best-selling music artists includes musical artists from the 20th century to the present with claims of 75 million or more record sales worldwide. The sales figures are calculated based on the formula detailed below.
Girl groups have been popular at least since the heyday of the Boswell Sisters beginning in the 1930s, but the term "girl group" also denotes the wave of American female pop singing groups who flourished in the late 1950s and early 1960s between the decline of early rock and roll and the British Invasion, many of whom were influenced by doo-wop ...
This article lists the winners and nominees for the Billboard Music Award for Top Female Artist. This award has been given since 1990. Taylor Swift is the all-time winner with six and is also the most nominated artist with eleven. There are only five women who won the award more than once: Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Alicia Keys, Adele, and Mariah ...
This list does not include persons who frequently share lead vocal duties with other members of a given music group (e.g. John Lennon of the Beatles) or who are principally the public face or spokesperson of the music group (e.g. Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy). The musician's name appears behind a bullet, and the corresponding musical group ...
The Spice Girls have the best-selling album by a girl group with Spice, while Mariah Carey has the best-selling Christmas album by a female artist with Merry Christmas. Whitney Houston' Whitney Houston remains the biggest-selling debut album of all time by a female artist. Britney Spears' …Baby One More Time is the best-selling debut album by ...
Female touring industry have been generally dominated by pop stars such as Madonna, P!nk, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift —who have had their names among the all-time highest-grossing live music artists and have also tours among the highest-grossing concert tours in history— as well Tina Turner from the rock scene, Spice Girls and Blackpink among ...
7.4 million [50] Barbra Streisand: United States 1963–present Pop / rock / dance / showtunes / standards 7.097 million Avril Lavigne: Canada 2002–present Pop / rock 6.885 million [51] Kate Bush: United Kingdom 1975–present Art pop / progressive pop / experimental pop / art rock: 6.61 million [52] Sugababes: United Kingdom 1998–present ...
Madonna is the first woman in music to earn $100 million for a year (2009) and has become the highest-paid female musician a record 11 times. Taylor Swift remains the female musician with the highest annual earnings ever with $185 million in 2019, breaking previous record set by herself in 2016 with $170 million. [10] [11]