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List of best-selling music artists

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.

The tables are listed with each artist's claimed sales figure(s) and their total independently certified units and are ranked in descending order by claimed sales. If two or more artists have the same claimed sales, they are then ranked by certified units. The claimed sales figure and the total of certified units (for each country) within the provided sources include sales of albums, singles, compilation-albums, music videos as well as downloads of singles and full-length albums. Sales figures, such as those from SoundScan, which are sometimes published by Billboard magazine, have not been included in the certified units column.

To ensure the highest level of fact checking and editorial control, this list sources sales figures to news organizations and highly regarded music industry related organizations such as .

Billboard

The figures of total certified units within the tables below are based on certified units of albums, singles (including digital downloads) and videos.

Markets' order within the tables is based on Retail Value: each market generates respectively, the largest market at the top and smallest at the bottom.[10]

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The column for certified sales includes markets, the databases of which contain certifications representing figures of 100,000 and more.

List of best-selling albums

List of best-selling albums by country

List of best-selling singles

List of best-selling singles by country

List of best-selling Belgian music artists

List of best-selling music artists in Finland

List of best-selling Latin music artists

IFPI Global Recording Artist of the Year