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Over his career Slim Dusty recorded 80 plus original Aussie 'trucking' songs and his six standalone trucking albums achieved sales well in excess of half a million copies. [1] In March 2007, a 3-disc Slim Dusty compilation titled Pubs, Trucks & Plains was released which peaked at number 20 onto ARIA Charts and was certified gold. This single ...
Timeline of the highest-selling album record Year record set Artist Album Record-setting sales (millions) Total sales (millions) Ref(s) 1945 Various Artists Oklahoma! (78 rpm album) 0.5 1.0 [217] [218] After 1946 Al Jolson: The Jolson Story: 1 [219] 1956 Various Artists Oklahoma! (LP album) 1.75 2.5 [220] 1956/1957 Various Artists My Fair Lady: 2 5
Theoretically, if one song were streamed 1.5 billion times on YouTube, the single would receive Diamond and the whole album could be certified Platinum, [7] thus creating a combined total of 11 million certified units without any sales. Kanye West's album The Life of Pablo achieved Platinum without selling a single copy and was only available ...
Groupings are based on different benchmarks; the highest being for at least 20 million units, and the lowest being for multi-disc albums certified at least 10 times platinum and single-disc albums that have been certified at least 10 times platinum but with sales figures lower than 10,000,000. Albums are listed in order of units certified, or ...
The song, recognized as "the best-selling single of all time", was released before the pop/rock singles-chart era and "was listed as the world's best-selling single in the first-ever Guinness Book of Records (published in 1955) and—remarkably—still retains the title more than 50 years later".
Top Album Sales is a music chart published by Billboard magazine documenting the best-selling albums on a weekly basis in the United States. Up until December 2014, this had been documented by the Billboard 200 chart, but that chart was altered to factor in music streaming by accounting for album-equivalent units in its tallies to document the effect of the rise of music streaming outlet such ...
The evolution of technology continues to influence trucking music. Just as truck drivers in the 1970s and 1980s no longer had to rely on AM radio or pre-recorded 8-track tapes to listen to the music they wanted to hear, today the portable computer, wireless Wi-Fi, and satellite radio allows independent singer-songwriters, such as Dale Watson ...
(By the time Simpson handed him four truck songs, however, Woods had stopped recording.) Simpson began writing songs with Owens in 1962, including the Top Ten hit "Gonna Have Love". In 1965, Capitol Records producer Ken Nelson was looking for someone to record some songs about trucking. His first choice was Haggard, who wasn't interested, but ...