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This list of songs or music-related items is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. ( October 2021 ) This is a list of notable bands/musicians from England, UK .
This list documents Britain's best-selling music artists alphabetically as well as by record sales. This page lists those artists who have had claims of over one million or more records in sales. The list is divided into numerous record-sales brackets within each of which, artists are listed in alphabetical order, rather than by number of records sold. The artists on the list are supported by ...
Published by The Official Charts Company in June 2012 to coincide with both the 60th anniversary of the UK Official Singles Chart and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.At the time of publication, there were twelve artists with more than ten million UK singles sales with Paul McCartney the only artist to achieve this both as part of a group and as a solo artist.
The UK singles chart is a weekly record chart which for most of its history was based on single sales from Sunday to Saturday in the United Kingdom. [1] The chart was founded in 1952 by Percy Dickins of New Musical Express (NME), who telephoned 20 record stores to ask what their top 10 highest-selling singles were.
The following is a list of the best-selling female music artists in the United Kingdom, based solely on sales units published by reliable music industry-related organizations, including the British Phonographic Industry, the Official Charts Company, Music Week and Record Mirror.
The city is often cited as the birthplace of classic rock and the popular music industry. Several genres of rock and pop originated in London throughout the 1960s to the 1990s including British blues, psychedelia, mod, prog, glam, hard rock, punk rock, New Romantic and Britpop. [ 1 ]
[2] [3] Since 2014, it has incorporated music streaming service data, with music video views counted towards the chart from 2018. [4] [5] From 10 July 2015, the chart has been based on a Friday to Thursday week. [6] This list shows the thirty-nine artists with the most top-ten singles on the UK singles chart.
Of the UK's 40 best-selling albums, more than half are by British artists, [1] with the remaining albums being by artists from the United States, Canada, Sweden, Jamaica and Ireland. [6] Six acts feature on the chart with more than one album, with Michael Jackson being the only artist to feature three times.