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Stats: will.i.am one of the best-selling artists of all time?
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will.i.am one of the best-selling artists of all time?
I was recently checking out the wiki pages and RIAA certs for random artists and I started thinking "isn't will.i.am just selling a shitton?" So I took up the challenge of finding out an estimate of how many records he's sold...
These is my results:
Will.I.Am's certifications (ALL BACKED UP BY CERTIFICATIONS ON WIKIPEDIA WEBSITE)
SINGLES
14.6 - I Gotta Feeling (As BEP)
10.7 - Boom Boom Pow (As BEP/Producer)
8 - My Humps (As BEP/Producer)
7.3 - The Time (As BEP/Producer)
6.9 - OMG (Featured/Producer)
4.1 - Big Girls Don't Cry (Producer)
4 - Scream & Shout (Main/Producer)
3.1 - Fergalicious (Featured/Producer)
3 - Let's Get Retarded/It Started (As BEP/Producer)
3 - Meet Me Halfway (As BEP/Producer)
2.1 American Boy (Producer)
2 - In The Ayer (Featured/Producer)
2 - Hall of Fame (Featured)
1.5 - Where Is The Love? (As BEP/Producer)
1.5 - Pump It (As BEP/Producer)
TOTALS: 73.8 MILLION
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ALBUMS
11 - The E.N.D. (As BEP/Producer)
10 - Monkey Business (As BEP/Producer)
8.5 - Elephunk (As BEP/Producer)
4 - The Dutchess (Producer)
2.9 - The Beginning (As BEP/Producer)
TOTALS: 36.4 MILLION
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Total certified sales in this case total 110.2 million albums/singles sold.
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Anyone else surprised at this? :O These are all backed up by the references on wikipedia' site (you can check them out if you want... I'm not listing hundreds of refs for all the diff countries and diff songs lol)
These sales (which are all backed up with references that I can provide for any specific song you want to see for) would mean that will.i.am has sold more records than ACDC, Whitney Houston, the Rolling Stones, Queen, ABBA, U2, Billy Joel, Phil Collins, Aerosmith, Genesis, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, Metallica, Rihanna, Eminem, Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, Bon Jovi, Guns N' Roses, Prince, and countless more artists!
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99,9% by BEP and 0,1% by Will. lol
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Britney has sold 200 million + records on her own. Madonna 300 million +
will.i.am is not even close
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Quote:
Originally posted by Travextina
99,9% by BEP and 0,1% by Will. lol
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More like 75% BEP and 25% himself, keep in mind a lot of his creds are from producing hits too :P
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Considering you're using BEP (which account for about 70% of his sales) and his producing (which probably counts for at least 10%), not really surprised.
WAIT, not you putting Fergie's album under HIS sales. You damn mess.
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About 97 percent of sales are from BEP
Only Michael Jackson's Thriller has sold 110 million copies worldwide
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Originally posted by Nacho
Britney has sold 200 million + records on her own. Madonna 300 million +
will.i.am is not even close
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Britney has sold around 69 million copies that are certified... with claims of 100 mill.
http://bangordailynews.com/2012/03/0...ells-x-factor/ - claim of over 100 million
1.4M in Japan
42.7M in the US
4.5M in Germany
5.8M in Britain
3.7M in France
3M in Canada
665K in The Netherlands
355K in Brazil
900K in Belgium
365K in Austria
440K in Switzerland
1M in Mexico
570K in Sweden
200K in Poland
280K in Argentina
140K in Finland
180K in New Zealand
You can look all of these up on the respective recording industry websites for each country.
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Originally posted by DvnR
Considering you're using BEP (which account for about 70% of his sales) and his producing (which probably counts for at least 10%), not really surprised.
WAIT, not you putting Fergie's album under HIS sales. You damn mess.
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Fergie's album was produced by Will... lol... production credits
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Only God knows how much Dr. Luke has from producing.
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Quote:
Originally posted by Nacho
Britney has sold 200 million + records on her own. Madonna 300 million +
will.i.am is not even close
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Not even 150 millions.Not even shipped.
Will I Am is big part of BEP success.So he deserve the name of one of most successful producers.
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Originally posted by TeamRHI
Fergie's album was produced by Will... lol... production credits
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That
Does
Not
Make
It
His
Album
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BEP one of the most best selling is all because of Fergie...Dutchess everyone?
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if will is apart of the BEP's why wouldn't they count.. idgi
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Quote:
Originally posted by TeamRHI
(ALL BACKED UP BY CERTIFICATIONS ON WIKIPEDIA WEBSITE)
6.9 - OMG (Featured/Producer)
4.1 - Big Girls Don't Cry (Producer)
2.1 American Boy (Producer)
2 - Hall of Fame (Featured)
4 - The Dutchess (Producer)
These sales (which are all backed up with references that I can provide for any specific song you want to see for) would mean that will.i.am has sold more records than ACDC, Whitney Houston, the Rolling Stones, Queen, ABBA, U2, Billy Joel, Phil Collins, Aerosmith, Genesis, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, Metallica, Rihanna, Eminem, Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, Bon Jovi, Guns N' Roses, Prince, and countless more artists!
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Quote:
Originally posted by TeamRHI
Britney has sold around 69 million copies that are certified... with claims of 100 mill.
http://bangordailynews.com/2012/03/0...ells-x-factor/ - claim of over 100 million
1.4M in Japan
42.7M in the US
4.5M in Germany
5.8M in Britain
3.7M in France
3M in Canada
665K in The Netherlands
355K in Brazil
900K in Belgium
365K in Austria
440K in Switzerland
1M in Mexico
570K in Sweden
200K in Poland
280K in Argentina
140K in Finland
180K in New Zealand
You can look all of these up on the respective recording industry websites for each country.
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You can't base everything on certifications since most are outdated.
Britney has sold nearly 40 million albums and nearly 40 million singles in the States alone.
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OP delusions and lack of common sense
By this logic Max Martin would be WW biggest selling artist.
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The Army discussing her album sales under a thread for will.i.am's sales. I know they're related but calm yo ****.
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Quote:
Originally posted by Ulrihs
By this logic Max Martin would be WW biggest selling artist.
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Thanks to Britney
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