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List of most expensive albums. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) ' s billboard for its 50th anniversary. An early example of an expensive album. The following is a list of the most expensive albums made with a recorded sum of over $1 million, sorted by the most money spent in promotional campaigns and album covers.
The Beatles – The Beatles (the "White Album") (Parlophone UK album, 1968) – Ringo Starr 's personal copy (No. 0000001) was sold for $790,000 in December 2015, according to Rolling Stone. This is the highest price ever paid for an album that has been commercially released. The Quarrymen – "That'll Be the Day"/"In Spite of All the Danger ...
Billboard. 200 number-one albums of 1960. These are the number-one albums in the United States per Billboard magazine during the year 1960. From May 5, 1959, until August 1963, separate charts existed for albums in mono and stereo formats. During 1960, those charts were named Mono Action Albums and Stereo Action Albums.
Clockwise from top left: Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston and Madonna.Four of the artists who have had the largest recording contracts up to one point. [a]The following is a list of the largest music deals in history signed by artists, including recording contracts and multi-rights agreements with over $50 million, as well catalog acquisitions with a reported sum of over $150 ...
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 ...
Madonna remains as the world's best-selling woman in music. American singer-songwriter Madonna, throughout her career, spanning five decades, has obtained a remarkable series of statistical achievements during the album era, setting and breaking several world records with her participation in entrepreneurial activities, of acting and her performance in the musical scene for her videos, singles ...
American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is the first and only artist to have eight of their albums become best-selling records of their respective years. She accomplished it with Fearless (2009), 1989 (2014), Reputation (2017), Lover (2019), Folklore (2020), Midnights (2022), 1989 (Taylor's Version) (2023). American acts Mariah Carey, Whitney ...
An album is defined by the Official Charts Company (OCC) as being a type of music release that features more than four tracks and lasts longer than 25 minutes; [1] during the 1960s, sales of albums in the United Kingdom were compiled by several different magazines, including New Musical Express (NME), Record Retailer, Melody Maker, Disc and Record Mirror.