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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.
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, Bruce Springsteen and Elton John also passed two-billion mark in concert revenue.
The highest-paid musicians [1] [2] [3] in the world have been reported annually by Forbes since at least 1987. For measurement, the magazine used pretax earnings —before deducting fees for agents , managers or lawyers . [ 4 ]
After winning American Idol Season 7 in May 2008, Cook worked with A-list alternative artists on his self-titled debut album, which came out in November that year. Both the album and his first ...
The Idol winner has also traveled across the world doing missionary work, going to places like Thailand, Mozambique and South Africa. Season 9 (2010): Lee DeWyze
After 20 seasons of wild auditions, intense elimination rounds and jaw-dropping finales, American Idol has crowned a new winner. So, to honor the latest...
Some of the highest-grossing tours had extensive schedules spanning multiple years. Among the top 20 tours of all time, Elton John 's Farewell Yellow Brick Road is the longest-running tour with a total of 330 shows in five different calendar years , while Beyoncé 's Renaissance World Tour is the shortest one with 56 shows in a single year.
Winning Season 11 of “American Idol” was only the beginning for Phillip Phillips. After being crowned the show’s winner, his debut album, “The World From This Side of the Moon,” went ...