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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.
Platinum record for Michael Jackson's Thriller (1982), the best-selling album of all time. This is a list of the world's best-selling albums of recorded music in physical mediums, such as vinyl, audio cassettes or compact discs.
The best-selling musicians of all time include Taylor Swift, Tim McGraw, and Whitney Houston. RIAA ranked the best-selling musicians of all time based on total album units sold in the US.
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.
Taylor Swift, whose upcoming Eras tour crashed Ticketmaster, is now among the top 25 biggest music artists ever.
The 15 biggest-selling girl group albums in South Korea: Blackpink's The Album (2020) and Born Pink (2022) each broke the record for the best-selling girl group album of all time in South Korea. Released
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".
Arguably the biggest rock band of the '70s, the Eagles' two albums from that era—"Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975)" and "Hotel California"—are among the bestselling records of all time ...