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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 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".
Besides material for her albums, Swift has recorded songs for film soundtracks including her first number-one Canadian single "Today Was a Fairytale" for Valentine's Day (2010), [9] the Billboard Hot 100 top-30 entries "Safe & Sound" featuring the Civil Wars and "Eyes Open" for The Hunger Games (2012), [18] and the international top-five single ...
This list compiles the best-selling singles in the United States, based on reported sales figures. Some of the singles have been certified by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). In music, a single is a song considered commercially viable enough by the artist and record company to be released separately from an album , usually ...
Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13, 1989, in West Reading, Pennsylvania. [1] She is named after the singer-songwriter James Taylor. [2] [3] Her father, Scott Kingsley Swift, was a stockbroker for Merrill Lynch, and her mother, Andrea Gardner Swift (née Finlay), worked as a mutual fund marketing executive. [4]
This is a list of the best-selling albums by year in the United States, published by American music magazine Billboard since 1956 as year-end rankings of album sales. Until 1991, the Billboard album chart was based on a survey of representative retail outlets that determined a ranking, not a tally of actual sales.
Top 10 highest-grossing live music artists of the 2010s [36] Rank Artists Nationality Nominal gross 1 U2: Ireland $1.018 billion 2 Taylor Swift: United States $910.2 million 3 The Rolling Stones: United Kingdom $907.6 million 4 Ed Sheeran: United Kingdom $848.3 million 5 Coldplay: United Kingdom Unrevealed 6 Bruce Springsteen: United States
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organised by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in December 2024 ) and then linked below. 2025