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With 170 million records sold worldwide, [1] he is among the best-selling music artists in history. Drake has achieved thirteen number-one albums on the Billboard 200. [2] Billboard (Drake and Billboard are both part of UMG) hailed him as the "Artist of the 2010s Decade" [3] and the 16th Greatest Artist of all time. [2]
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.
The list is based on total certified album units sold in the US and includes streaming figures. Artists from multiple different genres — pop, country, instrumental jazz, rap, metal — have ...
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. To appear on the list, the figure must have been published by a reliable source and the album must have sold at least 20 million copies and certified at least 10 million units (the equivalent of a diamond ...
The album became the top selling debut album for any artist in 2010 and had the highest sales week for any debut album in the 2010s [72] and featured Lil Wayne, Kanye West, [73] and Jay Z. [74] Drake began his Away from Home Tour on September 20, 2010, in Miami, Florida, performing at 78 shows over four different legs. [75]
With 170 million records sold worldwide, [1] he is among the best-selling music artists in history. Drake has achieved thirteen number-one hits on the Billboard Hot 100 . [ 2 ] Billboard hailed him as the "Artist of the 2010s Decade" [ 3 ] and the 16th Greatest Artist of all time. [ 2 ]
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 ...