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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.
American rapper Jay-Z is the wealthiest music artist in the world, with Forbes estimating his net worth at US$2.5 billion in 2024.. The following is a list of music artists with the highest recorded net worth (also known as wealthiest musicians or richest musicians), based on calculations by reputable publications such as Forbes and The Sunday Times Rich List.
This list of guitarists includes notable musicians, known principally for their guitar playing, for whom there is an article in Wikipedia. Those who are known mainly as bass guitarists are listed separately at List of bass guitarists .
Artists from multiple different genres — pop, country, instrumental jazz, rap, metal — have earned their spots on this list. Keep scrolling to see the 50 best-selling music artists of all time ...
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.
Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin playing double-necked guitar onstage in 1973. Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin, The Yardbirds, The Firm) Clive Painter (Broken Dog, The 99 Call, Tram, The Real Tuesday Weld) Brad Paisley; Orianthi Panagaris; Joe Pass; Les Paul; Michal Pavlíček; Axel Rudi Pell; Tony Peluso (The Carpenters) Carl Perkins; Luther Perkins ...
Bacon, Tony; Day, Paul (1998), The Fender Book: A complete history of Fender electric guitars (2nd ed.), Balafon Books, ISBN 0-87930-554-1. Burrows, Terry (1998), The Complete Encyclopedia of the Guitar: The definitive guide to the world's most popular instrument, Schirmer Books, ISBN 0-02-865027-1.
Jeff Beck, one of the most innovative and influential guitar gods of the 1960s’ British Invasion and the No. 5 entry on Rolling Stone’s ranking of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time, has ...