Best Selling Artists Ever.

[Chris]

I love statistics, so here's a list over the best selling artists in music history.

Artists That Have Sold 250 million Records Or More

- ABBA
- Alla Pugacheva
- The Beatles
- Bing Crosby
- Chubby Checker
- Cliff Richard
- Elton John
- Elvis Presley
- Frank Sinatra
- Julio Iglesias
- Led Zeppelin
- Madonna
- Michael Jackson
- Nana Mouskouri
- Queen
- Tino Rossi

Artists That Have Sold 100 Million Records Or More

- AC/DC
- Aerosmith
- Gene Autry
- Charles Aznavour
- The Beach Boys
- The Bee Gees
- Black Sabbath
- Bon Jovi
- David Bowie
- Garth Brooks
- Mariah Carey
- The Carpenters
- Chicago
- Phil Collins
- Perry Como
- Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Deep Purple
- Neil Diamond
- Celine Dion
- Fats Domino
- Eagles
- Fleetwood Mac
- Genesis
- Johnny Hallyday
- Whitney Houston
- The Jacksons
- Joni James
- Billy Joel
- Frankie Laine
- Vicky Leandros
- Brenda Lee
- Mireille Mathieu
- Johnny Mathis
- Modern Talking
- Ricky Nelson
- Patti Page
- Dolly Parton
- Luciano Pavarotti
- Pink Floyd
- A. R. Rahman
- Prince
- Lionel Richie
- Kenny Rogers
- Rolling Stones
- The Royal Canadians
- Rod Stewart
- Barbra Streisand
- Donna Summer
- U2
- Dionne Warwick
- Wei Wei
- Barry White
- The Who
- Stevie Wonder

[StarChild]

Where's Jimmy Buffett? He's sold way over 250 million records =(

[Chris]

Where's Jimmy Buffett? He's sold way over 250 million records =(

Oh, I doubt that. Since he wasn't on the list, I doubt he's sold that amount.

Only a handful of artists have sold over 250 million records.

[DeathKnight]

Where's MetallicA? I'm sure I heard they've sold 90+

And there's AC/DC! love 'em to DEATH

[StarChild]

Where's Jimmy Buffett? He's sold way over 250 million records =(

Oh, I doubt that. Since he wasn't on the list, I doubt he's sold that amount.

Only a handful of artists have sold over 250 million records.

*sad face* that makes me sad...

oh well I'm over it

[Zell's Fists of Fury]

Where's Jimmy Buffett? He's sold way over 250 million records =(

Actually no. He RECORDED 250 million records. He only sold about 36 of them.

[StarChild]

Where's Jimmy Buffett? He's sold way over 250 million records =(

Actually no. He MADE 250 million records. He only sold about 36 of them.

and my dad owns those 36 ^__^

[Chris]

There's actually a third list, but it is WAY TOO BIG to post:

Artists That Have Sold 50 Million Records Or More

- Metallica

Metellica is on that list.

The world's best-selling music artists cannot be listed officially, as there is no organization that has recorded global music sales in the manner that the RIAA does in the United States. This page lists those artists who have made claims to be among the top sellers. Within their sales brackets, artists are listed in alphabetical order, rather than by number of records sold. Equal weight is given to album and single sales, as well as paid downloads. Sources are typically fan sites, record labels, newspaper articles or manual addition of figures from various official sources. This means that these figures should be considered claims, not facts.

[Kirobaito]

I think John Denver is at 60 million or so, James Taylor at 35. I do take pride in that JD's Greatest Hits was only the third album ever to sell 10 million copies. He also was the best-selling artist of 1975. Unfortunately, folk artists have never sold too well for whatever reason. Ah, well.

[Crushed Hope]

I think John Denver is at 60 million or so, James Taylor at 35. I do take pride in that JD's Greatest Hits was only the third album ever to sell 10 million copies. He also was the best-selling artist of 1975. Unfortunately, folk artists have never sold too well for whatever reason. Ah, well.

Folk artists don't sell well because it is not "popular music" same with classical. It is populist ... but not popular, and for that I do not understand why it sells so very little.

[Breine]

Are the artists posted in random order becaue it would be interesting to know the best selling artist in the world is... and somehow I doubt it is ABBA.

[charliepanayi]

And all this tells you is that popularity and musical quality are by no means correlated...

[Chris]

Are the artists posted in random order becaue it would be interesting to know the best selling artist in the world is... and somehow I doubt it is ABBA.

The artists are listed alphabetically.

[Clouded Sky]

Awww, no Grace Jones.

Good.

[Chris]

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