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The week's most popular artists across all genres, ranked by album and track sales as compiled by Luminate, radio airplay audience impressions as compiled by Luminate and streaming activity...
- Every Artist With 100 or More Billboard Hot 100 Chart Hits
Eighteen artists in the Hot 100's 65-year history have...
- Greatest of All Time Hot 100 Artists - Billboard
These all-time rankings are based on actual performance on...
- Every Artist With 100 or More Billboard Hot 100 Chart Hits
Oct 4, 2021 · At the top of the list, you’ll find “The Icons,” the 50 artists whose influence has changed music forever, in alphabetical order, followed by “The Essentials,” 150 nearly-as-important ...
- Pitchfork
The following list of best-selling music artists includes those music acts from the 20th century to the present with claims of 75 million or more record sales worldwide. This information cannot be listed officially, as there is no organization that has recorded global music sales.
ArtistCountryPeriod ActiveRelease-year Of First Charted RecordUnited Kingdom1960–1970 [11]1962 [11]United States1964–2009 [47]1971 [47]United States1953–1977 [65]1956 [65]United Kingdom1962–present [72]1970 [72]- Talking Heads. By Dave Sitek. When I was a kid, I was really into hardcore punk. Hardcore was very rigid. Talking Heads was the first band I remember telling my punk friends about, saying, "Yo, check this out!
- Carl Perkins. By Tom Petty. Carl Perkins' songs will outlive us all. On tracks like "Blue Suede Shoes" and "Honey Don't!" he took that country-picking thing into the rock world.
- Curtis Mayfield. By Boz Scaggs. If, in the late Fifties and early Sixties, you were drawn to that place on the AM radio dial where the rhythms, the grooves and the beautiful sounds of African-American soul were playing, you would have found Curtis Mayfield.
- R.E.M. By Colin Meloy. I first heard R.E.M. in 1986, a song tacked on to the end of a demos collection of a Eugene, Oregon, band that my uncle, then in school at U of O, sent to me for Christmas.
Jan 1, 2023 · This new list was compiled our staff and key contributors, and it encompasses 100 years of pop music as an ongoing global conversation, where iconic Indian playback singer Lata Mangeshkar...
