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The claimed sales figure and the total of certified units (for each country) within the provided sources include sales of albums, singles, compilation-albums, music videos as well as downloads of singles and full-length albums. Sales figures, such as those from SoundScan, which are sometimes published by Billboard magazine, have not been ...
Following the inclusion of streaming into record charts in the mid-2010s, record sales are also referred to as traditional sales or pure sales. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Although an accurate worldwide sales figure is hard to determine, it is widely acknowledged that the Beatles have sold more records than any other artist in history.
Groupings are based on different benchmarks; the highest being for at least 20 million units, and the lowest being for multi-disc albums certified at least 10 times platinum and single-disc albums that have been certified at least 10 times platinum but with sales figures lower than 10,000,000. Albums are listed in order of units certified, or ...
The magazine also ranked it at number 180 on the list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. [10] Now! was one of the first four rock albums purchased by future music critic Robert Christgau. [11] For Paul Gambaccini's 1978 book Critic's Choice: Top 200 Albums, he included it in his top-10 albums submission at number nine. [12]
Timeline of the highest-selling album record Year record set Artist Album Record-setting sales (millions) Total sales (millions) Ref(s) 1945 Various Artists Oklahoma! (78 rpm album) 0.5 1.0 [218] [219] After 1946 Al Jolson: The Jolson Story: 1 [220] 1956 Various Artists Oklahoma! (LP album) 1.75 2.5 [221] 1956/1957 Various Artists My Fair Lady: 2 5
Now! 20: November 1991. The great fun with the Now! series lies in its Mad-Professor-style mashing together of genres. That point was never more gleefully made than on the 1991 two-CD Now!20.
List of the best-selling albums in the United States since 1991, showing title, release year, artist, and sales figure Album Release year Artist(s) Pure sales figures Ref. Metallica: 1991 Metallica: 17,300,000 [1] Come On Over: 1997 Shania Twain: 15,730,000 [2] Jagged Little Pill: 1995 Alanis Morissette: 15,200,000 [3] 1: 2000 The Beatles ...
In 1961, 19-year-old Robert Allen Zimmerman dropped out of college in his native Minnesota, made a pilgrimage to New York City to meet his folk music idol Woody Guthrie, and decided to become, in ...