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List of best-selling music artists: Encyclopedia - List of best selling music artists in US

This is the list of best selling music artists in the United States only as of September 2005. It's based on certifications of album sales by the RIAA. A "US studio album" is defined here as an album: where the majority of tracks were recorded in a studio with at least one previously unreleased track (otherwise it's considered a compilation) released in the United States at some point in time Top Artists Totals are derived from cumulative album sales totals (U.S. only) Artist-Certified Units (in Millions) ...

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List of best-selling music artists: Encyclopedia - List of best-selling music artists
This is a list of the best selling musical acts globally. Equal weight is given to album and single sales, as well as paid downloads. The artists are grouped by approximate sales figures, rather than ranked on a numerical scale. This is because global sales figures are hard to come by, with poor or no records available for many countries. Estimates are thus often made by fan sites, record labels and the addition of figures from various different sources. List of best-selling music artists - World's biggest seller< ...

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List of best-selling music artists: Encyclopedia II - List of best-selling music artists - World's biggest seller

The actual biggest selling musician in the world will probably never be known. Records of sales in many countries, particularly in the developing world, are poor and date back less than 20 years. ABBA, The Beatles, Michael Jackson, and Elvis Presley are all regularly cited as being the top seller. Record companies for The Beatles [1] and Elvis Presley[2] both claim that they have sold over one billion records, statistics that are supported by both the RIAA [3] and The Guinness Book Of World Records [4] [5] and numerous other sources. ...

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List of best-selling music artists: Encyclopedia - Christmas music

A Christmas song is a song which is normally sung during the time period leading up to, and sometimes shortly past, Christmas day, and usually has lyrical content addressing the holiday, the winter season, or both. These songs recognizably fall into several different groupings, depending on both the content and age of the songs. Songs which are traditional, even some without a specific religious context, are often called Christmas carols. Songs with religious reference are also called Christmas hymns. For example, the Christian ...

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List of best-selling music artists: Encyclopedia - Bill Haley

Bill Haley (July 6, 1925 – February 9, 1981) was one of the first American rock and roll musicians, and is credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the mid-1950s with his hit song "Rock Around the Clock". Haley was born William John Clifton Haley (some sources append "Junior" to his name, but his eldest son states that this is erroneous) in Highland Park, Michigan and was raised in Pennsylvania. In 1946, Haley joined his first professional group, a country band called the "Down Homers", after which he se ...

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List of best-selling music artists: Encyclopedia - Andy Lau

Andy Lau Tak-Wah (Traditional: 劉德華; Simplified: 刘德华; Hanyu Pinyin: Liú Déhuá; Jyutping: Lau4 Dak1 Waa4) (born September 27, 1961 in Hong Kong as 劉福榮) is a Hong Kong popstar and a movie actor. The first lead role that made his initial popularity was the TVB series Hunting in 1982. In the same year, Andy started in his first movie in Boat People. Later in 1983, his role as Yang Guo in wuxia TV ...

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List of best-selling music artists: Encyclopedia - Bananarama

Bananarama is a British girl group that found worldwide fame with their melodic pop songs. The group was founded in London in 1981 by friends Siobhan Fahey, Keren Woodward, and Sarah Dallin (Woodward and Dallin were friends since age 13). In 1988 they got into the Guinness Book of World Records as the United Kingdom's best selling girl group ever (but currently best selling girl group ever is British group Spice Girls). In the same year (1988) Siobhan Fahey left the group after marrying Eurythmics' Dave S ...

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List of best-selling music artists: Encyclopedia - ABBA

ABBA (1972–1983) was a Swedish pop music group. They remain the most successful Swedish music act and were one of the most popular groups in the world. The group dominated charts worldwide during the mid-to-late 1970s and early 1980s, selling many hit singles and albums. Estimates of ABBA's total worldwide sales vary from 100 to 500 million (there seems to be no reliable source for this information) which could make them the second most successful band of all time after The Beatles. They were the first act from the European mainland ...

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List of best-selling music artists: Encyclopedia II - Backstreet Boys - SoundScan Era

The Backstreet Boys are among the top-selling artists in the SoundScan era. They have sold over 40 million albums in the U.S. alone and 87 million worldwide. Their self titled debut album Backstreet Boys which was released in 1997, sold over 14 million copies in the U.S. setting a record for the most successful debut album in U.S. history. In 1999 they set a record of most albums sold in its debut week with Millennium. In 2000, the group set another record being the first artist to have two albums sell more than a million recor ...

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List of best-selling music artists: Encyclopedia II - Chet Atkins - Biography

Atkins was born in Luttrell, Tennessee, and grew up with his mother and siblings after the divorce of his parents. He started out on the fiddle, but traded his stepfather a rifle for a guitar when he was nine. Forced to relocate to Georgia to live with his father due to a near-fatal asthma attack, Atkins was a sensitive youth who made music his obsession. He became an accomplished guitarist while he was in high school. Atkins was self-taught, and later on in life gave himself (along with Tommy Emmanuel, Jerry Reed and John Knowles) the honor ...

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List of best-selling music artists: Encyclopedia II - Backstreet Boys - History

Lou Pearlman, an aviation entrepreneur based in Florida, was inspired by the success of the New Kids on the Block in the 1980s to create his own clean-cut boy bands. After a series of auditions in 1992 and 1993, he recruited Nick Carter (at 12, the band's youngest member), Howie Dorough, 19, Alexander James McLean, 14 and, following the departure of two members - Sam Licata and Charles Edwards - Kevin Richardson came aboard in March 1993, who was 20. The group took its final shape on April 19, 1993, when Brian Littrell - cousin of Richardson ...

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List of best-selling music artists: Encyclopedia II - Christmas music - List of Christmas songs

Christmas music - General Christmas songs. The following songs are well known for being performed by more than one different artists: "Blue Christmas" – Introduced by Ernest Tubb in 1949, though most famously recorded by Elvis Presley. "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)" (1946) (composed by Mel Torme and first performed by Nat King Cole) "The First Noel" "Frosty the Snowman" (1950) – popularized by Gene Autry. Countless artists have recorded it in ...

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List of best-selling music artists: Encyclopedia II - George Strait - Biography

Strait was born in Poteet, Texas and grew up in Pearsall, Texas. His father, John Strait, was a junior high school mathematics teacher. The Straits would often leave Pearsall on the weekends and the summers to work at the family's 2,000 acre (8 km²) cattle ranch outside Big Wells, Texas. When he was in fourth grade, Strait's parents divorced. His mother left the family taking his sister with her while he and his brother remained with his father. He began playing with a rock band in high school, but his preference turned to country music. Strait counts country singers Merle Haggard, George Jones, Bob Wills and Han ...

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George Strait, George Strait - Biography, George Strait - Discography, George Strait - Singles, George Strait - Selected Awards, George Strait - Resources

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List of best-selling music artists: Encyclopedia II - André Rieu - Johann Strauss Orchestra

The orchestra began in 1987 with twelve members but now performs with over forty and up to fifty musicians. At the same time that the orchestra first toured Europe, there emerged a renewed interest in waltz music. This revival was mostly in the Netherlands and was ignited by their recording of the "Second Waltz" from Shostakovich's Jazz Suites. As a result, Rieu became known as "the King of Waltz." Rieu and the "Johann Strauss Orchestra" have performed throughout Europe, in North America, and Japan. They have won a number of awards in ...

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List of best-selling music artists: Encyclopedia II - Nelly - Grammy Award History

Career Stats Career Wins: 3 Wins Career Nominations: 11 Album of the Year Nellyville Nominated 2003 Record of the Year "Dilemma" f/ Kelly Rowland Nominated 2003 Best Male Rap Solo Performance "Hot In Herre" WON 2003 Best Rap Solo Performance "Ride Wit Me" Nominated 2002 "Country Grammar" Nominated 2001 Best Rap Performance By a Duo or Group "Shake Ya Tailfeather" w/ Murphy Lee, Ann ...

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Nelly, Nelly - Grammy Award History, Nelly - Discography, Nelly - Studio albums, Nelly - Singles

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List of best-selling music artists: Encyclopedia II - Nelly - Grammy Award history

Career stats Career wins: 3 Career nominations: 11 Album of the Year Nellyville Nominated 2003 Record of the Year "Dilemma" f/ Kelly Rowland Nominated 2003 Best Male Rap Solo Performance "Hot In Herre" WON 2003 Best Rap Solo Performance "Ride Wit Me" Nominated 2002 "Country Grammar" Nominated 2001 Best Rap Performance By a Duo or Group "Shake Ya Tailfeather" w/ Mu ...

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Nelly, Nelly - Grammy Award history, Nelly - Discography, Nelly - Studio albums, Nelly - Singles

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List of best-selling music artists: Encyclopedia II - Johnny Hallyday - Albums

His albums include: Ma vérité (2005) À La Vie, À La Mort (2003) 100% Johnny - Concert a la Tour Eiffel (2000) Sang pour Sang (1999) Ce Que Je Sais (1998) Allume le Feu - Stade de France 98 (1998) Lorada Tour (1996) Destination Vegas (1996) Lorada (1995) Rough Town (1995) 31 Compilation Albums in 1993 Parc des Princes (1993) Bercy (1992) Ça Ne Change Pas Un Homme (1991) Dans La Chaleur De Bercy (1990) ...

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Johnny Hallyday, Johnny Hallyday - Albums, Johnny Hallyday - Films, Johnny Hallyday - External link

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List of best-selling music artists: Encyclopedia II - The Fugees - History

The trio released their first LP, Blunted on Reality, after a long period of performing, but the album failed to live up the expectations of fans who attended their concerts. Despite the relative failure of their first album, The Score became one of the biggest hits of 1996 . The Fugees were known for their unusual choice of covers and sampling sources on both albums; The Score, for example, included covers of "No Woman No Cry" (Bob Marley & the Wailers) and "Killing Me Softly (With His Song)" (Roberta Flack), which ...

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The Fugees, The Fugees - History, The Fugees - Reunion, The Fugees - Discography, The Fugees - Albums, The Fugees - Singles

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List of best-selling music artists: Encyclopedia II - The Ventures - History

Initially calling themselves "The Versatones", they played small clubs and beer bars in the Northwest. In 1959 they recorded and released two vocal tunes, "The Real McCoy" and "Cookies and Coke", but neither record charted. They met and recruited Nokie Edwards as bass player, and recorded "Walk Don't Run" with Bogle on lead, Wilson on rhythm, Edwards on bass, and Skip Moore on drums. They approached several record companies, none of whom showed any interest in signing them. With support from Don Wilson's mother, Josie, they started their own record company, "Blue Horizon Records" They self-produced the 45 RPM single of "Wal ...

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The Ventures, The Ventures - History, The Ventures - Discography

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List of best-selling music artists: Encyclopedia II - Blondie band - Discography

Blondie band - Albums. Blondie band - Singles. ...

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Blondie band, Blondie band - Band members, Blondie band - Discography, Blondie band - Albums, Blondie band - Singles

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