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21-06-2012, 20:57
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Does anyone have a list for the most successful female artists of all time?
I can't really find any information on this and I'd really like to know...
I can probably name most of the top ten though: Madonna, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Britney Spears, Barbara Streissand... |
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21-06-2012, 21:03
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By what criteria?
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21-06-2012, 21:11
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Oh yeah sorry - I meant by actual record sales, based on that alone.
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21-06-2012, 21:13
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In America or the us.........
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21-06-2012, 21:16
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Shania Twain has the best selling album ever by a female artist.
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21-06-2012, 21:19
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._music_artists
there is a list of all the biggest selling. You can probably work out the females just from looking at that |
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21-06-2012, 21:19
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But overall it would obviously be Madonna.
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21-06-2012, 21:29
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1.Madonna - 300 million records sold
2.Mariah Carey - 200 million records sold 3.Celine Dion - 200 million records sold 5.Whitney Houston - 170 million records sold 6. Barbra Streisand -140 million records sold 7.Britney Spears - 100 million records sold 8.Janet Jackson - 100 million records sold 9. Cher - 100 million records sold 10.Olivia Newton-John - 100 million records sold 11.Tina Turner - 100 million records sold 12 Dolly Parton - 100 million records sold 13.Gloria Estefan - 90 million records sold 14.Rihanna - 85 million records sold 15.Shania Twain - 75 million records sold 16.Beyoncé - 75 million records sold 17.Enya - 70 million records sold 18.Andrea Bocelli - 70 million records sold 19. Shakira - 70 million records sold 20.Lady Gaga - 64 million records sold 21.Alanis Morissette - 60 million records sold 22.Kylie Minogue - 60 million records sold 23.Reba McEntire - 55 million records sold 24. Roxette - 55 million records sold 25.Taylor Swift - 52 million records sold 26.Christina Aguilera - 50 million records sold 27.Jennifer Lopez - 50 million records sold 28.Ayumi Hamasaki - 50 million records sold 29.Mary J. Blige- 50 million records sold 30.Hikaru Utada- 50 million records sold 31.Anne Murray- 50 million records sold 32.Cyndi Lauper - 50 million records sold Sales are of Singles, not albums |
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21-06-2012, 21:33
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21-06-2012, 21:36
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No Gaga has sold 64 million Singles worldwide, and 23 albums. Therefore these figures are Single sales, not albums
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21-06-2012, 21:43
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18) Andrea Bocelli is a man
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21-06-2012, 21:43
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Do you really think Dolly Parton has sold 100m singles? Or Barbra Streisand a 140 million? |
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21-06-2012, 21:45
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 Surely she must have sold more than 23 albums? |
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21-06-2012, 21:56
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23 million *TYPO*
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21-06-2012, 22:24
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What that list really does show, which we all knew anyway, is if you really crack the States you don't actually need anywhere else.
How many average Brits would know who Reba McEntire was if she punched them in the face tommorrow? Not many I bet, but there she is on that list with 55m records sold while many a worldwide name are nowhere to be seen. |
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21-06-2012, 23:41
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No, Britney has sold around 64 million albums in the USA, as far as I remember. Far from 100, but still a lot.
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21-06-2012, 23:55
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Kylie's sales are over 70 million now worldwide. |
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21-06-2012, 23:58
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It has Kylie on it! |
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22-06-2012, 08:51
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Sony actually confirmed that Britney was only just short of selling 200 million records of albums and singles combined. I can't remember where as it was in some promo event for her Criminal single release in Poland last year and I can't find the link.
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22-06-2012, 09:19
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Sales are albums, singles compilations etc. there is also certified sales which can be confirmed sales to be accurate. The other figure is sales which the claimed by the record company which primarily may be true but due to some countries not having accurate recording of sales or other world markets which don't certify sales on the open market. Also we're comments re Gaga and Britney sales often what is shipped is misleadingly reported as sales so all artists have overinflated figures. i.e. Madonna is recorded as having 300 million other information suggests that figure is 350-375 million. But this is based on shipping. Also Beatles Elvis etc. a lot of the information is approximation as they didn't accurately record at the time and figures were rounded up by the record industry.
That is my understanding of how it works. |
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