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The following list of best-selling music artistsincludes musical artists from the 20th century to the present with claims of 75 million or more record salesworldwide. The sales figures are calculated based on the formula detailed below. The tables are listed with each artist's claimed sales figure(s) and their total independently certified ...
Drake — 47.5 million units. Drake is one of the best-selling artists of the 21st century. Prince Williams/Wireimage/Getty Images. 30. Shania Twain — 48 million units. Twain is the only female ...
Platinum record for Michael Jackson 's Thriller (1982), the best-selling album of all time. 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 ...
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".
List of artists with the top 50 highest-certified digital singles as of September 17, 2024 [65] [66] Rank Units (millions) Name Nat. Active 1 244 Drake: Canada 2000s–2020s [25] 2 183 Rihanna: Barbados 2000s–2020s [56] 3 167 Eminem: US 1990s–2020s [16] 4 160.5 Kanye West: US 2000s–2020s [52] 5 137.5 Taylor Swift: US 2000s–2020s [14] 6 ...
The Rolling Stones are the highest-grossing live music act of all time, collecting over $2.6 billion according to Billboard Boxscore. The band is followed by U2 and Elton John, who both also passed two-billion mark in concert revenue. The concert industry is very male-dominated, [1] and only four women have grossed more than $1 billion (as of ...
Taylor Swift, whose upcoming Eras tour crashed Ticketmaster, is now among the top 25 biggest music artists ever.
Altogether Twain is ranked as the 10th best-selling artist of the Nielsen SoundScan era. [22] Billboard listed her as the 13th Greatest Music Video Female Solo Artist of all time (42nd overall). [7] According to Billboard Boxscore, she is the highest-grossing female country touring artist with $421.1 million gross from her concert tours. [23]