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Stats: Global Top-Selling Artists Of The Decade
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Global Top-Selling Artists Of The Decade
Adele
19 ~5M (~2M last decade)
21 28M
=33M
Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift 1M (5M last decade)
Fearless ~2.5M (6.5M last decade)
Speak Now 6M
Red 6.5M
1989 7.5M
=23.5M
Lady Gaga
The Fame (Monster) 8.5M (6M last decade)
The Fame Monster EP 1.1M (0.7M last decade)
The Remix 1M
Born This Way 6.3M
ARTPOP 2M
Cheek To Cheek 1M
=19.9M
One Direction
Up All Night 5.5M
Take Me Home 5.6M
Midnight Memories 4.4M
Four 2.8M
=19.3M
Michael Bublé
Crazy Love 4.2M (3.3M last decade)
Christmas 9M
To Be Loved 2.3M
=15.5M
Eminem
Recovery 7.8M
The Marshall Mathers LP2 4.2M
The Eminem Show + Relapse + The Marshall Mathers LP + Curtain Call ~3.5M
=15.5M
Rihanna
Rated R 2M (1.2M last decade)
LOUD 6M
Talk That Talk 3.8M
Unapologetic 3.6M
=15.4M
Justin Bieber
My World EP + My World 2.0 + My Worlds 7.5M
Under The Mistletoe 2M
Believe 2.5M
Other releases ~3M
=15M
Bruno Mars
Doo Wops & Hooligans 7M
Unorthodox Jukebox 6.5M
=13.5M
Mumford & Sons
Sigh No More 6.5M
Babel 5.5M
Wildermind 0.95M
=12.95M
Katy Perry
One Of The Boys 1M (3M last decade)
Teenage Dream + The Complete Confection 6.5M
PRISM 3.6M
=11.1M
Susan Boyle
I Dreamed A Dream 4M (6M last decade)
The Gift 4M
Someone To Watch Over Me 1.2M
Standing Ovation: The Greatest Songs From The Stage 0.5M
Home For Christmas 0.4M
Hope 0.2M
=10.3M
Ed Sheeran
+ 4M
X 6M
=10M
P!nk
Greatest Hits So Far 3.5M
The Truth About Love 6M
=9.5M
Coldplay
Mylo Xyloto 5.5M
Ghost Stories 3.3M
=8.8M
Beyoncé
4 3M
BEYONCÉ 3.8M
More EP 0.1M
=6.9M
Lana Del Rey
Born To Die + Paradise Edition 5M
Paradise EP 0.6M
Ultraviolence 1.2M
=6.8M
The Black Eyed Peas
The E.N.D ~3.5M (4.6M last decade)
The Beginning 3M
=6.5M
Michael Jackson, The Beatles, Lady Antebellum, Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Drake also sold enough to make the list but I didn't includethem as they're local/dead
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Gaga
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Michael Jackson has sold ~17 million albums WW this decade (almost 6 million in the US).
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Avril Lavigne:
• Goodbye Lullaby 1,700,000 (Mediatraffic: 1,650,000)
• Avril Lavigne 750,000 (Mediatraffic: 700,000)
Total: 2,450,000
(Don't have an estimation for sales from her first three albums)
Lana Del Rey:
• Born to Die (The Paradise Edition) + Paradise 6,000,000
• Ultraviolence 1,400,000
Total: 7,400,000
Iggy Azalea:
• The New Classic + Reclassified 820,000
Rita Ora:
• ORA: 400,000
Lady Gaga:
• The Fame & The Fame Monster 9,600,000
• The Remixes 1,000,000
• Born This Way 7,000,000
• ARTPOP 2,000,000
• Cheek to Cheek 1,000,000
Total: 20,600,000
Britney Spears:
• Femme Fatale 1,900,000
• B In The Mix: The Remixes, Vol II 100,000
• Britney Jean 650,000
Total: 2,650,000
(Don't know the estimations for releases before this decade)
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Quote:
Originally posted by OffTheWall
Michael Jackson has sold ~17 million albums WW this decade (almost 6 million in the US).
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Wow
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Quote:
Originally posted by Black Umbrella
Avril Lavigne:
Goodbye Lullaby: 1,700,000 (Mediatraffic: 1,650,000)
Avril Lavigne: 750,000 (Mediatraffic: 700,000)
Total: 2,450,000
(Don't have an estimation for sales from her first three albums)
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Let Go: +17,000,000
Under My Skin: +10,000,000
The Best Damn Thing: 7,000,000 shipments (+6,500,000)
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GAGA!
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Quote:
Originally posted by Candace
Where is Britney?
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Did you really think she would make the list?
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Susan Boyle, impressive
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You forgot Taylor's self-titled album....
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Quote:
Originally posted by boodytay
You forgot Taylor's self-titled album....
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10 - 318,000
'11 - 200,000
'12 - 161,000
'13 -100,000
'14 - 72,000
851k in the US alone
probably a million worldwide
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Did bieber's other releases really sell 4m
breakdown?
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Quote:
Originally posted by Black Umbrella
Avril Lavigne:
• Goodbye Lullaby 1,700,000 (Mediatraffic: 1,650,000)
• Avril Lavigne 750,000 (Mediatraffic: 700,000)
Total: 2,450,000
(Don't have an estimation for sales from her first three albums)
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Queen of selling albums while being completly irrelevant Ha power is bigger than herself If she worked harder she would sell so much
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Recovery has sold more than 7.5m. MMLP2 was at 4.3m according to mediatraffic so it's at 4.5m minimum.
Also TES, MMLP and Curtain Calls have sold +700k only in US
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Yes Bruno, hopefully with his 3rd album he can hit 20m WW.
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Oh wait nvm the parentheses are in addition to what they've sold
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Quote:
Originally posted by Ash12345
10 - 318,000
'11 - 200,000
'12 - 161,000
'13 -100,000
'14 - 72,000
851k in the US alone
probably a million worldwide
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Quote:
Originally posted by Ash12345
Did bieber's other releases really sell 4m
breakdown?
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Just US:
955,000 - NEVER SAY NEVER - THE REMIXES - Justin Bieber
858,000 - MY WORLDS ACOUSTIC - Justin Bieber
404,000 - BELIEVE ACOUSTIC - Justin Bieber
Add WW sales, + Journals, I think 4M is about right?
Quote:
Originally posted by Lein
Recovery has sold more than 7.5m. MMLP2 was at 4.3m according to mediatraffic so it's at 4.5m minimum.
Also TES, MMLP and Curtain Calls have sold +700k only in US
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Combined right?
I'll add 1.5M because Relapse sold a few hunderd thousand copies in 2010 as well + WW sales
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Daddy Luke:
I'll Stay Me: >100k (500k last decade)
Doin' My Thing: ~500k (500k last decade)
Tailgates & Tanlines - 2.5M
Crash My Party - 2.7M
EPs & compilations - 1.5M
Total: 7.3M
Not that great, but he's still selling and in his prime for album sales. His next album, which comes out on August 7th, should go 2x Platinum!
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Quote:
Originally posted by slobro
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Combined right?
I'll add 1.5M because Relapse sold a few hunderd thousand copies in 2010 as well + WW sales
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Nope, it's a bit more than that
According to the year-end 2014 the best sellers of this decade in US are [X]
1. Taylor Swift - 15.8m
2. Adele - 12.9m
3. Eminem - 10.3m
Specifically as the week 20 of 2015: [X]
- 4,671,000 - Recovery
- 2,317,000 - The Marshall Mathers LP 2
- 905,000 - Curtain Calls: The Hits
- 722,000 - The Marshall Mathers LP
- 710,000 - The Eminem Show
- 650,000 - Relapse
While for Recovery its sales WW in 2011 were at 7.0m but it sold 571k just in US since then:
Source: [X]
2011:
Worldwide: 7,000,000
US: 4,100,000
Canada: 480,000
Australia: 260,000
UK: 825,000
Sweden: 25,000
2014:
Worldwide: 571k (US) + 90k (Canada) + 20k (AUS) + 75k (UK) + 55k (Sweden)
= 7,800,000
US: 4,671,000
Canada: 570,000
Australia: 280,000
UK: 900,000
Sweden: 80,000
So 7,800,000 with the update from five countries..
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