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The figures of total certified units within the tables below are based on certified units of albums, singles (including digital downloads) and videos. Markets' order within the tables is based on Retail Value: each market generates respectively, the largest market at the top and smallest at the bottom. [9] [10]
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 ...
The rise of the LP as a form – as an artistic entity, as they used to say – has complicated how we perceive and remember what was once the most evanescent of the arts. The album may prove a '70s totem – briefer configurations were making a comeback by decade's end. But for the '70s it will remain the basic musical unit.
The scene has many record collectors and DJs who pay large sums of money for rare songs from the 1960s/'70s/'80s/'90s that are original copies. In America, DJ Kool Herc, [12] Grandmaster Flash and Africa Bambaataa [13] played 70s rare groove records. James Brown, Jimmy Castor Bunch, and Incredible Bongo Band [14] were on their
The Beatles released 18 of the best-selling songs of the 1960s. A single is a type of music release defined by the British Official Charts Company (OCC) as having no more than four tracks and not lasting longer than 25 minutes. On 31 May 2010, a retrospective record chart was broadcast on BBC Radio 2 that listed the 60 biggest-selling singles in the United Kingdom during the 1960s. The ...
20 All-Time Greatest Hits! is a compilation album by James Brown containing 20 of his most famous recordings. Released by Polydor in 1991 as a single-disc alternative to the Star Time box set, it features songs from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. 16 of the songs from the album had previously topped the US R&B charts.
These are the number-one albums in the United States per Billboard magazine during the year 1960. From May 5, 1959, until August 1963, separate charts existed for albums in mono and stereo formats. During 1960, those charts were named Mono Action Albums and Stereo Action Albums.
Like Parton, whom he would record with in the 1980s and thereafter, Rogers enjoyed a long series of successful songs that charted on both the Hot Country Singles and Billboard Hot 100 charts; the first of the lot was "Lucille," a No. 1 country and No. 5 pop hit.