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Stats: Best-selling female artists of Soundscan era
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Updated Taylor's numbers, according to the latest Ask Billboard article.
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If only the other list hadn't expired now that Taylor is making significant gains 
She should finish as top 8, at least, for females
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Go Faith Hill! Country Queens represent!!!
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Taylor 
& At only 24 years old
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Originally posted by Istan4R
Did Brit just pass Reba?
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In 2009 
Keep in mind Nielsen Soundscan started tracking in 1991, so Reba has 15 albums not fully tracked.
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Added 1989's second week sales to Taylor's total. I'm a bit late, sorry.
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Added 1989's 3rd week to Taylor's total and her catalog sales throughout the past 2 weeks.
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Updated the sales of Taylor, Norah, Alicia, Pink, Beyonce, Carrie and Kelly.
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Taylor Swift all-set to pass Dixie Chicks and snatch that #7 spot when 1989 is done
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I noticed Cher's on this list, but not the overall acts one. The 22.4m total is way too high, anyhow- her two biggest sellers in the SS era are believe and Very Best Of- between the two of them, that's around 6 million or so. The rest would not add up to 16 million- I had a report for her a few years back, will have to find it. And it's not like Sonny & Cher albums have shifted lots of units since 1991.
A side note- SoundScan's list would not include a few soundtracks for the credited acts (for instance, Evita , The Bodyguard, The Preacher's Wife- but I see they are rightfully included in the Madonna and Whitney Houston tallies). Really, the only soundtracks that should count toward an act's total are ones that the RIAA and Billboard (in articles, historical lists, etc.) credit to the acts.
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It's not that Blige, 43, doesn't have the kind of résumé that gets you to the White House: 24.5 million records sold in the United States (among female R&B singers, only Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston have moved more in the Nielsen SoundScan era), eight platinum albums (four of them, bookended by 1997's Share My World and 2007's Growing Pains, hitting No. 1 on the Billboard 200), arenas filled around the world.
From the latest Billboard magazine - Nov 29th 2014
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Quote:
Originally posted by The411
It's not that Blige, 43, doesn't have the kind of résumé that gets you to the White House: 24.5 million records sold in the United States (among female R&B singers, only Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston have moved more in the Nielsen SoundScan era), eight platinum albums (four of them, bookended by 1997's Share My World and 2007's Growing Pains, hitting No. 1 on the Billboard 200), arenas filled around the world.
From the latest Billboard magazine - Nov 29th 2014
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records not albums
some must be singles
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Quote:
Originally posted by The411
It's not that Blige, 43, doesn't have the kind of résumé that gets you to the White House: 24.5 million records sold in the United States (among female R&B singers, only Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston have moved more in the Nielsen SoundScan era), eight platinum albums (four of them, bookended by 1997's Share My World and 2007's Growing Pains, hitting No. 1 on the Billboard 200), arenas filled around the world.
From the latest Billboard magazine - Nov 29th 2014
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mary is probably way past 20m tho
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Originally posted by Ash12345
records not albums
some must be singles
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It's meant to be albums not records, the writer made a mistake.
I'll even show you the proof if i need to.
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Quote:
Originally posted by The411
It's meant to be albums not records, the writer made a mistake.
I'll even show you the proof if i need to.
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Show me, and it it's convincing, I'll add her.
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Avril barely holding on  gurl just release a GH and a Let Go sized smash album after it!
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Originally posted by boodytay
Show me, and it it's convincing, I'll add her.
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This was in Dec 09 and her total was at 21.8.
Two of her albums released after this issue have since sold 1.6 collectively, that would bring her total to about 23.5. then add the Christmas album and some of the back catalog that has been selling and it'll easily bring it to 24.5.
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I see Bey has passed Britney. Probably a while ago too. 
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