Talk:List of best-selling music artists

ABBA Sells

Im new here in Wikipedia and I did not know how to ask for this so I created a new talk.

Ive seen that you´ve set ABBA sells for 250 millions where in Spanish same topic is set for more than 370 millions. I have some references, speacially from Rock and Roll Hall of fame, saying that Abba has sold more than 380 millions copies and been the second best-selling music group of all the time.

Billboard mentions ABBA has sold more than 400 millions worldwide.

Take a look.

References:

- http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/508315/unreleased-abba-song-finally-hitting-stores - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2522435/Abbas-mega-wealthy-singers-ask-fans-200-fund-forthcoming-official-photo-book.html - http://m.ibtimes.co.uk/money-abba-resort-crowd-sourcing-raise-funds-529726 - http://rockhall.com/inductees/abba/bio/ - http://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jan/02/abba-reunion-agnetha - http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11154998 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/d87e52c5-bb8d-4da8-b941-9f4928627dc8 - http://www.today.com/id/23673187#.UrfbVPTuKCh — Preceding unsigned comment added by Luisrogo01 (talk • contribs) 06:52, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

James Taylor

 James Taylor has sold over a 100 million albums.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.101.71.20 (talk) 05:33, 24 December 2013 (UTC) 

http://www.ironmaiden.com/the-band.html

"33 years on, and with over 80 million album sales, "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Maiden

"Considered one of the most successful heavy metal bands in history, Iron Maiden have sold over 85 million records worldwide"

Someone needs to put iron maiden on this list. As sales are probably even higher than this. Up the Irons! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.255.206.74 (talk) 23:03, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

KATY PERRY UPDATE

I'm sure if you added the new certifications from her new LP Prism and single Roar you'll put her in this list I won't post any pages you are the experts

thx

77.44.232.141 (talk) 22:19, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

Beyonce

When I checked the sources of Beyonce's certified sales, most of them say "retrieved in 2011". Could you update that? Since RIAA named Beyonce as the most certified artist of 2000s decade, I think she will have the claimed 118 000 000 records sold supported by certified sales. Thank you in advance. BeKay77 (talk) 09:48, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

The main sources may have been retreived months earlier, but all certified sales are constantly updated. Beyonce's latest certifications are all included in the total of each market. See this file for what's included in Beyonce's certified sales.--Harout72 (talk) 16:44, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

Beyonce's new album

With the success of beyonce's new record, billboards have said she has sold 1.3 million copies in the US alone! Worldwide sales are thought to be at 1.8/2 million, can this be accounted for in her sales? I.e. Changing from 75 to 77 million? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.11.73.47 (talk) 08:12, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

SHakira

Shakira has sold more than 125 million copies worldwide. Her name must be included. Mewrising (talk) 06:54, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

Mariah Carey

Harout Carey's single All I want for Christmas is you sales grew to fourteen million here's another claim [1] by means that her total sales claim should me included with those over 250 million! fidelovkurt 11:30, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Carey's available certified sales are still below 130 million units. That doesn't suggest that the 250 million claimed figures by some news services is correct. As for the single "All I Want for Christmas Is You", I don't see how that single could have sold 14 million with the following certified sales:

• U.S.: 2.1 million certified units
• U.K.: 400,000 units
• Australia: 140,000 units
• Japan: 1 million physical units, 1 million digital (R format), 250,000 digital units (Full R format)
• Italy 50,000 units
• Spain 25,000 units

That's total of 4,965,000 units. I'm sure it needs to be re-certified in the U.S., but still the total wouldn't come to 14 million. That is also inflated.--Harout72 (talk) 16:42, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Eminem's claim to 220 million

Eminem needs to be moved from 100 million to 220 million — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sterling2828 (talk • contribs) 20:09, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Eminem is the best-selling artist of the 2000s (decade) on the US Nielsen SoundScan,[228] and the estimated sale of over 220 million records worldwide,[6][7] 6.^ Jump up to: a b "Top 10 Hip-hop Best Sellers of All Times". 7.^ Jump up to: a b "Saturday Night Football Goes "Berzerk" with Eminem". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sterling2828 (talk • contribs) 20:13, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Economical strongest anglosax coutries' best-selling music artists

it cannot be an indicator of the best groups or artists...this number must be adjusted by country's: 1) population, 2) purchasing power, 3) number of language's native speakers.