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The following list of best-selling music artists includes musical artists from the 20th ... yet during the time of the ... Hip-hop / R&B / pop [165] 556.8 million ...
The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time" is a special issue published by Rolling Stone in two parts in 2004 and 2005, and later updated in 2011. [1] The list presented was compiled based on input from musicians, writers, and industry figures and is focused on the rock & roll era.
American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is the most-streamed artist in Spotify's history. Canadian rapper Drake is the most-streamed male artist in Spotify's history. South Korean boy band BTS is the most-streamed group in Spotify's history. [1] The following list contains the most-streamed artists on the audio streaming platform Spotify.
Otis Redding was one of the greatest soul singers of all time, and if his life hadn’t been cut short in a plane crash (at the age of 26, in 1967), he might still be wowing audiences today.
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.
American music magazine Billboard had previously named the greatest pop star of every year since 1981, with essay tributes for each artist. In 2024, to mark the end of the first quarter of the 21st century, Billboard decided to make a list of the artists who have defined popular culture, music and stardom, and been the "most important and most impactful" over the past 25 years.
Taylor Swift is the highest-grossing live music artist of all time, collecting $3 billion according to Pollstar. The Rolling Stones are the highest-grossing live music group of all time, collecting over $2.9 billion according to Billboard Boxscore. U2, Coldplay, and Elton John also passed two-billion mark in concert revenue.
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".