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During the 1980s the chart was based collectively on each single's weekly physical sales figures and airplay on American radio stations. George Michael was the only artist to achieve two year-end Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles in the 1980s. He achieved this with his songs "Faith" and "Careless Whisper".
Artist Country Period active Release-year of first charted record Genre Total certified units (from available markets) [b] Claimed sales The Beatles: United Kingdom 1960–1970 [11] 1962 [11] Rock / pop [11]
The Bee Gees scored the most number-one hits (9 songs) and had the longest cumulative run atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart (27 weeks) during the 1970s. Rod Stewart remained at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 17 weeks during the 1970s. Elton John amassed the second-most number-one hits on the Hot 100 chart during the 1970s (6 songs). #
1960s–1970s d: 2 162 Garth Brooks: US 1980s–2020s [7] 3 146.5 Elvis Presley: US 1950s–1970s † 4 120 Eagles: US 1970s–2020s [8] 5 112.5 Led Zeppelin: UK 1960s–1980s d: 6 89 Michael Jackson: US 1970s–2000s † 7 86 Billy Joel: US 1970s–2020s [9] 8 83 AC/DC: Australia 1970s–2020s [10] 9 80 Elton John: UK 1960s–2020s [11] 10 75 ...
Swift is also the only artist to have the annual top-selling album in three separate decades (2000s, 2010s and 2020s). [1] This is a list of the best-selling albums by year in the United States, published by American music magazine Billboard since 1956 as year-end rankings of album sales.
Three Dog Night had a heyday between 1969 and 1974, achieving more top 10 hits and record and concert ticket sales than any other artist. In 1970, the funk rock hitmakers scored their first #1 ...
Artist(s) 1 "Call Me" Blondie: 2 "Another Brick in the Wall, Part II" Pink Floyd: 3 "Magic" Olivia Newton-John: 4 "Rock with You" Michael Jackson: 5 "Do That to Me One More Time" Captain & Tennille: 6 "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" Queen: 7 "Coming Up" Paul McCartney: 8 "Funkytown" Lipps Inc. 9 "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me" Billy Joel: 10 ...
Tapes of The Jimi Hendrix Experience's 1968 Woburn Music Festival performance sold for £48,050 at Christie's. [16] The Beatles - "Love Me Do" (EMI) one-sided acetate, the only unedited version with count-in - estimated at $50,000–$100,000. [17] Omega sold David Bowie's first demo tape (with The Konrads) for £39,360 in 2018 (Record Collector ...