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The Beatles – The Beatles (the "White Album") (Parlophone UK album, 1968) – Ringo Starr 's personal copy (No. 0000001) was sold for $790,000 in December 2015, according to Rolling Stone. This is the highest price ever paid for an album that has been commercially released. The Quarrymen – "That'll Be the Day"/"In Spite of All the Danger ...
Michael Jackson 's Thriller, estimated to have sold 70 million copies worldwide, is the best-selling album ever. [4][5][6] Jackson also currently has the highest number of albums on the list with five, Celine Dion has four, while the Beatles, Madonna and Whitney Houston each have three. Groupings are based on different sales benchmarks, the ...
This is a list of record-breaking historical expensive album covers or CD packaging. Elvis Presley (1956) – reportedly was the most expensive album cover ever up to that point. [74] Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) – The cover, costing £25,000, was reportedly the most expensive cover design up to this time. [75][i] Most covers ...
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".
American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is the first and only artist to have eight of their albums become best-selling records of their respective years. She accomplished it with Fearless (2009), 1989 (2014), Reputation (2017), Lover (2019), Folklore (2020), Midnights (2022), 1989 (Taylor's Version) (2023). American acts Mariah Carey, Whitney ...
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...
List of best-selling music artists. 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 tables are listed with each artist's claimed sales figure (s) and ...
The Eras Tour by Taylor Swift is the highest-grossing tour of all time, as per Pollstar and Forbes estimates. The following is a list of concert tours that have generated the most gross income. The data and rankings come largely from reports by trade publications Billboard and Pollstar. Billboard, which launched the boxscore ranking in 1975 ...