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Top 10 highest-grossing live music artists in North America of the 2000s [30] Rank Artists Nationality Nominal gross Tickets sold 1 Dave Matthews Band: United States $529.1 million 11.6 million 2 Celine Dion: Canada $522.2 million 4 million 3 Kenny Chesney: United States $455.6 million 8.6 million 4 Bruce Springsteen: United States $444.3 million
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.
[a] Since 2012, Spotify has published a yearly list of its most-streamed artists, which has been topped by Drake and Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny a record three times, with Bad Bunny being the only artist to do so in consecutive years (2020–2022). Swift is the only female artist to have topped the list (2023–2024).
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.
Artists who hit number one prior to the start of the Hot 100 are included here. A song that topped multiple pre-Hot 100 charts is counted only once towards the artist's total. The ° symbol indicates that all or part of an artist's total includes number-ones occurring on any of the pre-Hot 100 chart(s) listed above (January 1, 1955 through July ...
In 2021, Billboard revised the rankings again upon the ascendance of "Blinding Lights" to the top spot on the list. [5] Shown below are the top 10 songs and top 10 artists over the 63-year period of the Hot 100, through November 2021. Also shown are the artists placing the most songs on the overall "all-time" top 100 song list.
Billboard named Olivia Rodrigo the top Hot 100 artist of 2021, [2] the youngest female artist to achieve this honor, and the first female artist since Katy Perry in 2014. [1] Rodrigo placed four songs on the list, all in the top 40; the highest ranked of them, " Good 4 U ", placed at number five.