Best Selling Music Artists 1969 - 2019
 

I didn't really know where to put this, so if someone knows a better spot, by all means move it. It's a lot of fun to watch.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3w8I8boc_I

great idea.

who is louis funis ..????

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJQP7kiw5Fk

That was cool.
Man, The Eagles Greatest Hits albums sold like CRAZY for a while there.

I didn't realize how much Eminem dominated the early 00's. Then you see Lil Wayne and Jay Z follow that and Rihanna's like "scuze me mother fckers, comin through". lol

And freaking Garth Brooks in the 90s. Dude's ahead of Elvis Presley as the biggest selling solo artist in the USA with ~150 MILLION!! albums.

Anyone care to guess with artist/band that showed up in that list never had a #1 album their entire career?

Who the **** was buying all those Celine Dion albums?

Based on this video, popular music never recovered from the mid-80s, completely self-immolated in the mid-90s, turned into a game of hot potato between 15ish mediocre artists in the mid-oughts, and stayed there.

Did you notice the way the numbers for all the artists skyrocketed in the last decade? Drake was murdering Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley.

^ i want to apologize for this on behalf of all puerto ricans. We sorry world. :(

What else have you contributed besides baseball players?

Shocked at how dominant Rihanna was for a while.

Interesting discussion: you can pause the video at any time to create a set of 10 artists. What are the best and worst sets of 10 you can create within the video

Uhh Great boxers, ricky martin, the frickin pina colada!

I dont get those elton john spikes, was he really that popular?

Re-mastered Greatest Hits CDs from classic artists who were huge on vinyl made up a very large amount of sales for a while.
Eagles, Queen, Elton John, Beatles, etc.

John's Greatest Hits has sold 17 million copies!
Eagles are 40+ million!!!

Ahh ok.

Seeing that 80s battle between madonna and mj brought back memories. Seeing nirvana in the 90s too but then i saw guns n roses surpassing them and i got mad.

And how was Elvis so consistently relevant? Did people really care that much when he was fat in Vegas?

Thats cus Elvis was dope af boi

**** sports, **** Ricky Martin, and **** your boozy mom drinks.

Well, there's this.
https://s.hdnux.com/photos/64/36/11/.../3/920x920.jpg

Another artist that benefited from re-issues on CD. Dude had billions of songs to choose from and the estate was very good at packaging them in sentimental packages.

You say CD's but at least according to the video he was switching top spot with the Beatles and Led Zeppelin well into the 70s and took forever to fall off the list.

Same. She flew by beyonce

Maybe it was that titanic song. I remember that song playing everywhere

CDs make up a large portion of his total numbers.
Anyway, between 1968-1977 the guy was still big and selling consistently.
Then the planet earth stopped spinning the day he died. When it started up again the sales went nuts.

Yeah but she stayed on the chart like a wart for years. She's 250 million albums. How is that possible? White middle class husbands need to start keeping a tighter leash on their women folk.

Hell, didn't Elvis have a number one (not just a hit, but a number ****ing one!) long after he was dead? How can you rate such popularity? Can't think of anyone else who managed that. There probably were a few, but this one sticks out in history to me.

It was a #1 hits compilation. The Beatles hit #1 decades after disbanding with the same type of package.

No I'm talking about a number one single. "Way Down"?
And the Beatles may have been disbanded but they weren't dead.

:yikes:

I always look at the middle of the pack ...and man the bee gees went strong for a long time ….. ??? went out then came right back ..??? weird

Bee Gees were massive the second half of the 60s but got overshadowed when AOR radio took over.

And then disco.........