June 29, 2003-Billboard introduces its first weekly Digital Tracks chart. The #1 track that week: "Crazy In Love" by Beyonce featuring Jay-Z. The amazing part is the paltry total the track sold that week: just 1,500 copies.
May 16, 2010-Beyonce's "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)" becomes the first (non-rap) R&B hit to top the 4 million mark in paid downloads.
"Dangerously In Love" album ranked as one of the top 200 albums that shaped rock and roll according to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ( and Beyonce is one of the few artist of her generation to make this list), and Entertainment Weekly named the album as one of best albums in the past 25 years of music.
Beyonce became the First Female Artist, and the fifth artist ever to top both the U.S. and U.K. singles chart with "Crazy in Love" and albums chart simultaneously in the United States and the United Kingdom, following The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, Rod Stewart, and Men at Work.
Oh! And I have another record, Utada's single "Flavor of Life" has the most digital sales of any song in Japan and possibly worldwide (I'm not sure). The song's digital sales in May 2008 were 8 million. So it should be just a tiny bit above that by now.
September 2009 – Lady Gaga becomes the first artist to reach the 4 million mark in digital downloads with two songs.
September 2009 – “Poker Face” becomes the most downloaded song ever in the UK.
November 2009 – Lady Gaga becomes the first artist in the history of Billboard’s Pop Songs chart to score four number ones from a debut album.
December 2009 – Lady Gaga becomes the first female artist in British chart history to score three number ones in a single year.
January 2010 – Lady Gaga becomes the first artist in the history of Billboard’s Pop Songs to send their first five singles to number one.
January 2010 – “Bad Romance” sets the record for most weekly plays registered in the history of Billboard’s Pop Songs chart with 10,859 plays in a week.
March 2010 – Lady Gaga becomes the first artist in history to top the 5 million mark in digital downloads with both of their first singles.
March 2010 – Lady Gaga becomes the first artist in history to top one billion views of her videos on the Internet.
April 2010 – “Bad Romance” becomes the most viewed video on YouTube.
June 2010 – Lady Gaga becomes the first artist to reach the 4 million mark in digital downloads with three songs.
July 2010 – Lady Gaga becomes the first living person to reach 10 million fans on Facebook.
July 2010 – Lady Gaga’s The Fame becomes the top-selling album in digital history.
July 2010 – Lady Gaga performs in front of the biggest crowd of The Today Show history.
August 2010 – Lady Gaga scores thirteen MTV Video Music Awards nominations, more than any other artist in one year in the history of the show.
The Tours section will only include total records and not selective ones, or else there will be a lot of minor records.
What's the highest grossing tour for a Female/Male/Group ever? What's the tour with the most dates ever? The tour with the most attendance, etc...
Highest grossing tour of all time: The Rolling Stones - "A Bigger Bang Tour" ($558 million) Highest grossing tour by a solo artist and by a female: Madonna - "Sticky & Sweet Tour" ($408 million)
Britney Spears has the most Teen Choice Awards (16 as of 2010)
Britney has the most MTV EMA awards for a female artist
Britney Spears has more retired videos on TRLs daily daily countdown than any other artist (15 videos retired)
You should add the number of weeks PITUSA was #1 digitally (6)
And add Bad Day - Daniel Powter: First song with 2 million downloads
Crank That: First to 3 Million downloads (also Soulja boy is the youngest artist to produce write and sing on a #1 song at 16 years and 10 months)