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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".
Clockwise from top left: Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston and Madonna.Four of the artists who have had the largest recording contracts up to one point. [a]The following is a list of the largest music deals in history signed by artists, including recording contracts and multi-rights agreements with over $50 million, as well catalog acquisitions with a reported sum of over $150 ...
[15] [b] From 1900 to 1910, over one hundred songs sold more than a million copies. [5] Various "hit songs" sold as many as two or three million copies in print. [11] [17] With the advent of the radio broadcasting, sheet music sales of popular songs decreased and print figures failed to make a significant recovery after the World War II (1940s ...
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 Wu-Tang Clan created the most valuable music recording in history -- and the story behind it is as outrageous as its price tag. The Staten Island, N.Y., rap group spent six years secretly...
Swern notes that he may have between six and seven million titles in total, but no definitive count has been made. [5] Bob Altshuler (1923–2007): [6] 250,000 items, donated to the Library of Congress, largest private collection of jazz and blues. [7] [8] Keith Skues (born 1939): 250,000 items, mostly vinyl records kept at his home. [9]
“I felt not only that it was important, but that I had an obligation to be a part of it,” says composer Terence Blanchard about writing the score for National Geographic’s “Genius: MLK / X ...
The following is an attempt to list some of the most valuable records. Data is sourced from Record Collector , eBay , Popsike, the Jerry Osborne Record Price Guides, and other sources. Wu-Tang Clan 's Once Upon a Time in Shaolin CD (of which only one copy was produced) was sold through Paddle8 on November 24, 2015, for $2,000,000, according to ...