Chart Listings: The World's 100 Best Selling Artists according to Radio 2 - Page 3

Yndda

yeah this makes 0 sense

Dark XXX

Empress Rihanna up there with all the legends and icons

SaneBeyhannaStan

This list is weird there are people missing that have sold well so idk if I believe it. Especially with no verified sources for WW sales being acknowledged.

lonnie

Rihanna

Top 10 at just 28 years of age

Tylerbv

Cher

Timber

Mess, this is what Bey gets for being cheap and not updating her certifications for ages. This is extremely innacurare.

Travis Bickle

Eltun is not even close to Madonna

I guess he's british, so biased.

Celine is behind Maria?

This things are well known.

Touchdown

Mariah

Rayaine

Taylor coming for that top 10 with TS6

chiliam

Taylor might end up in the top 5 when its all done.

So happy that we are wwitnessing a legend in the making.

But some people seem so weird like Kanye West and Bruno being so high.

skyandground

Makes no sense.

sadnews

this is such a awful list.

IVY

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Originally posted by chiliam

Taylor might end up in the top 5 when its all done.

So happy that we are wwitnessing a legend in the making.

But some people seem so weird like Kanye West and Bruno being so high.

Bruno has over 30 million album sales equivalent WW (15m pure sales), his digital tracks sales (Not counting streams) have surpassed 100m WW, in the US alone he has sold 60m digital tracks. You keep underestimating him when he has done so much better than some of the pop Divas have achieved with their first two albums.

J a y

Obviously there's some discrepancies but oh well.

Elton John was the most commercially successful act of the 80s having amassed 70 entries on the Hot 100. One third of his total income - just over 20 worldwide hits - came from that decade. It's not even considered his peak. Likewise with Prince and Billy Joel who make up the three top acts of the 80s. People just remember Michael, Madonna, Mariah and assume otherwise, which isn't surprising considering this is a pop forum that has little interest in the rock era.

Pedro

Britney would never be below some of those acts.

Timber

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Originally posted by Pedro

Britney would never be below some of those acts.

Everyone knows Justin Bieber and Lil Wayne have sold more than Britney Spears. It's common knowledge.

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Jk

You've got to be a grade A idiot to be a regular on this forum and not realize how stupidly inaccurate this list is.

Timber

This looks like the Wikipedia list. Beyoncé has sold 75m records according to that.

Soda Pop Queen

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Originally posted by Lein

So basically the wikipedia lists

Pretty much. Some of these acts don't even have updated sales/certifications.

Tutankhamun

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Originally posted by J a y

Obviously there's some discrepancies but oh well.

Elton John was the most commercially successful act of the 80s having amassed 70 entries on the Hot 100. One third of his total income - just over 20 worldwide hits - came from that decade. It's not even considered his peak. Likewise with Prince and Billy Joel who make up the three top acts of the 80s. People just remember Michael, Madonna, Mariah and assume otherwise, which isn't surprising considering this is a pop forum that has little interest in the rock era.

nnnnn wtf is this lie? He only had four Top 5 hits and didn't even have a 2X Platinum album in the 80's, while MJ and Madonna were snatching 5XP, 7XP and Diamond records here and there.

MrPeanut

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Originally posted by Tutankhamun

nnnnn wtf is this lie? He only had four Top 5 hits and didn't even have a 2X Platinum album in the 80's, while MJ and Madonna were snatching 5XP, 7XP and Diamond records here and there.

MJDangerous has him selling 179m albums overall (compared to ~196m for Madonna). He has 40 albums listed as selling at least 1m copies (20 of which are over 3m copies + 11 of which are over 5m copies).

Best-Sellers:

1. Greatest Hits (Vol. 1) - 22.4m
2. Goodbye Yellow Brook Road - 13.0m
3. Love Songs - 11.1m
4. The Very Best Of - 10.9m
5. Greatest Hits (Vol. 2) - 7.1m
6. Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirty Cowboy - 6.5m
7. Greatest Hits (1970-2002) - 6.4m
8. Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player - 6.1m
9. The One - 6.1m
10. Sleeping With The Past - 6.0m
11. Honky Château - 5.5m
12. Caribou - 4.1m
13. Too Low For Zero - 3.9m
14. Duets - 3.8m
15. Made In England - 3.8m
16. A Single Man - 3.3m
17. Live In Australia - 3.3m
18. Madman Across The Water - 3.2m
19. The Big Picture - 3.2m
20. Breaking Hearts - 3.0m

I can see why some would contest his ranking above Madonna, but there is no disputing he is one of the Top 5 best-selling solo acts of all time or sure.