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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.
Taylor Swift is the highest-grossing live music artist of all time, collecting $3 billion according to Pollstar. The Rolling Stones are the highest-grossing live music group of all time, collecting over $2.9 billion according to Billboard Boxscore. U2, Coldplay, and Elton John also passed two-billion mark in concert revenue.
The best-selling musicians of all time include Taylor Swift, Tim McGraw, and Whitney Houston. RIAA ranked the best-selling musicians of all time based on total album units sold in the US.
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.
Pages in category "Lists of best-selling music artists" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
With an audience of over 184,000 people on April 21, 1990, McCartney's record was broken by Norwegian synth-pop band a-ha with 198,000 paying audience during Rock in Rio on the 26 January 1991, then a-ha record was broken by a Japanese rock band, Glay, which held a concert with an audience of 200,000 people on July 31, 1999, in Chiba, Japan ...
Arguably the biggest rock band of the '70s, the Eagles' two albums from that era—"Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975)" and "Hotel California"—are among the bestselling records of all time ...
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 ...