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What is most surprising to you from this list?
That Billy Joel's consistency didn't catch your eye.
ABBA? Didn’t reflect their presence
Didn’t know Sinatra would have been in the top ten as late as 1969. Guess my parents generation was still buying records! 😉😁
@w.geoffreyspaulding6588 surprisingly it was the kickoff to the summer love, May 1969, Frank released the album and what would become his signature song, "My Way".
How much the level of musicianship and quality fell OFF the Cliff after 2000. Thanks Auto-Tune!
I am soooo glad the 70's were the soundtrack of my teen years! Best Music Ever!!!!!
The 70’s were the best decade for music
Everybody feels that the music during their teen years is the best. For me it’s the80s.
@@ronnix23 we are mainly attached to our carefree years.Too human,too physical and justified.
@@ronnix23 The 80s were great too.
Imo, 1971 to 1978 were the peak years. I was between 8 and 16 years old at the time. Still some great stuff after and before, but this is what I percieve as the apex.
That was very interesting. The best music by far was from the 60's-70's & some 80's. After that a lot of the music went downhill with just a few exceptions.
You can tell when big albums were released. You can see when Hotel California came out for The Eagles, Rumours for Fleetwood Mac, Back in Black for AC DC, and then Thriller for Michael Jackson. Then in 1990/91, you see Madonna pass up Michael Jackson when she put out Vogue which was huge (not as big as Thriller, but I'd bet I'm Breathless is her biggest album). STaying power is easily seen. The Beatles broke up in 1970, Elvis died in 1977, but their sales were still out there.
I think like a prayer and the Vogue single combined with the immaculate collection and the blonde ambition tour, truth or dare and justify my love created that massive numb. I know I’m breathless wasn’t a big seller on its own but the vogue single was massive. She could do no wrong in that era. I’m so boggled that we didn’t see Simon and Garfunkel and I feel like Queen should have been higher up especially in 1981/1982 with the release of the game album.
Madonna passing MJ in 1990-1991 was because of The Immaculate Collection, which still remains her biggest selling album to date. And ofc Vogue helped, I'm breathless and the blonde ambition tour. But I'm breathless was actually her worst selling album at that time because it's a jazz album
Absolutely, and the length of time between albums got larger so you see wide variations when that groups big albums came out. I did expect to see a big jump for 'dark side of the moon' that wasn't there.
What was most shocking was Eminem pretty much being the top from 1999 to 2007. A rapper, in the age of the Internet. He pretty much saved CDs and created a landscape for the likes of Lil Wayne and the others by the late-2000s. Madonna is a weird case. Kind of the female Michael Jackson in many ways and more 'pop' than Tina Turner and other big women around this time. She's clearly crazy and not extremely talented, with weird songs, and fairly generic pop music. She was just one of the best at it before everybody else, but you see a lot of MJ in her and pretty much everybody else post-1982.
But, my real realisation is that Elvis might be the best of all time. He stayed way up there from about 1955 to the 1990s, and never really left America to tour, either. He was a master of every possible genre, had a very great, unique natural voice, could dance quite well, was very good-looking, had good song-writers, and was highly popular across the generations. He massively inspired MJ, for one. Without Elvis, this video likely wouldn't even exist. He single-handedly saved music, along with Jerry Lee Lewis, Ben. E. King, The Beatles, and so on. But, again: The Beatles merely copied Elvis for many years (very clear in their early stuff, and some of them are direct covers of older music, such as Twist and Shout).
Queen now has sold the most if we judge by streams and such, but a lot of that is since about 2015. Though they were still massive in the 1980s and sold well, they largely died in the 1990s when Freddie did, and music radically changed. But, they are big again due to their great music and Freddie's natural voice. This makes me think Queen is likely the greatest band of all time, and the next 10 years might just prove that even more. Don't forget: Queen was going very strong since about 1975! Not quite as early as the others, but a long time given that they have 6 of the best-selling songs of all time according to some datasets (with MJ, U2, and AC/DC in second place with 4), and they had some of the best and most popular albums of the 1980s and early-1990s, and still did well in the 1970s. If Freddie had lived, they'd likely be the greatest by far (at least into the 2000s).
Still: the fact Eminem cuts through like glass is very interesting. I've largely put that down to (a) his clarity of speech; (b) his talent (which wider than you might assume); and (c) his extreme speech/freedom of speech (in an age that was drowned by either anti-freedom of speech and dullness or simple girl and boy groups, as Em often talks about). Honestly, without Eminem, music would be dead and look horrible post-1990 or so (at least for the biggest sales). On the other hand, Em was so good and singular that it meant that music really crashed after Em fell off (around 2009). Now, I think Em is still the only great rapper in 2024, and one of the best musicians. Many other bands are still going, but I dislike almost all young/new music since the 2000s. I dislike K-Pop, Madonna, Swift, Drake -- all of them. From rock to rap. I dislike it all. The only areas I really care about are Slipknot, Foo Fighters, Tool, and some other older bands that still make decent music. But even here, I don't love these bands. I like old Foo Fighters, though. I also like AC/DC and much more.
Cultures change as generations change, and technology. You can clearly see this, and I also feel like Michael Jackson left a crushing hole in pop, which was never really filled. Eminem merely ripped it apart. Pop died with MJ/Em. Queen was a mixture of all genres, and Freddie died in 1991, to get a sense of the vast time differences here. It's 2024 now. Who is the King of Pop, or rock? Elvis and Queen and MJ and EM still stand firm. Indeed, I think Queen, Elvis, and Eminem were some of the best-selling artists online downloads/streams in 2023, but you can check that if you want. A lot of Gen-Z are going back to the great music of the past, so I think this will become more common, and the likes of Drake and K-Pop will keep going down in the future. But, we'll see. :)
Madonna’s best selling studio album is True Blue… which… is sort of sad honestly because aside from the hits, the album as a whole is not among her best. Creatively, her peak was in the 90s
Elvis Presley was on the list until about 1994 which is really something considering he passed away in 1977 which was 17 years prior. Great fans.
This gave new meaning to "My life flashed before my eyes."
Nice one lol
Excellent.
And Billy Joel was there for about 3 decades....not one mention. I feel like my favorite wasn't picked, lol. But very cool visual.
These numbers must have been US sales - there is no way on earth that Garth Brooks had that kind of impact in the UK, for example. Extraordinary that the Beatles kept on selling way after they split in 1970. I suspect very few other bands would do likewise.
'These numbers must have been based US sales - there is no way on earth that Garth Brooks had that kind of impact in the UK, for example.'
Apart from The Beatles and Elvis I doubt it too.Something does not click right to the puzzle no matter what the original video claims..
They’re based on sales worldwide according to the original video description
U.S only I would say
@@alexioverdo5225 You need to check world population charts, and also consider the wealth in the US.
@@libertyresearch-iu4fy Yea,Apart from the wealth Latin America,Asia have also a big market with lots of domestic acts,But then there's also Europe which was/is even more influential with UK,Germany, being the biggest continental markets without ignoring the support of other markets such a France and Spain.I'm also very much surprised that Abba with sales of over 380 million records around 2000 and over 400millions up to now (as also reported on BBC late '21 and more latetly 2023 by BPI )are missing this list ....
Is this list about sales in the U.S. only?
The chart may be far different if it were on a worldwide basis.
Agree.
This is not a criticism, but I’m surprised that you didn’t start around 1963….if this chart went back that far. You would have seen the Motown groups and The Beachboys dominating, and then the British Invasion hitting. That would have been cool to see.
i wonder if they only started calclating sales,compareing them and making a record of them a few years after the charts were up and running.or if the person who made this vid didn't have the complete numbers to do it.
i would have loved to see which motown groups were popular.
People haven't always been able to buy albums, and radio wasn't even that popular for music early on. A lot of the early charts measured sheet music sales and records in juke boxes. The record sales charts were not around all that early either.
@@libertyresearch-iu4fy the Billboard and Cashbox charts were around at least since the 50s and sheet music sales weren't used for tabulation since around 30s-40s when Bing Crosby was the most popular.
Just remember that popularity is not a measure of talent or quality of music.
True. I never understood how Britney Spears got to be so popular. Her voice/music grated on my nerves.
Thank you SO MUCH for doing this chart. So very interesting. I really didn’t know Pink Flloyd was out as early as 1969. Back in "my music" days of 60's to 80’s the chart really makes sense. The 70's are my favorites.
The competition was so strong lol
@SalvoG yes it was, but you can see when their music started to get hot and then, obviously, the ones with the most staying power.
The most impressive was Elvis Presley, who was the absolute nr 1 in the 50s and stood in the top 10 for many Decades, even years after he died
ABBA forever
Consider: The Beatles remained on the top-sellers list until Q1 of 1986 - more than 15 years after the band broke up!
I don't know what's more satisfying than seeing Michael's rise and longevity
Seeing Madonna’s lol. King and Queen 4ever
What amazes me is how long Elvis stayed on the list since he had died in '77. You probably didn't know about Garth Brooks popularity, because I'd bet money you weren't into country music. Shania was country too, but she crossed over into pop, so more memorable. Frank Sinatra was surprising to me, but because I would have thought '69 was late for him to be on the list.
Yes, good point about Garth Brooks. I vaguely remember people thinking he was a bit of a joke.
About Sinatra - I was growing up in the 60s and I can remember hearing him a lot, when my parents had Radio 2 on, or The Light Programme, whatever it was called in those days. All those crooners like Dean Martin and Andy Williams. 'My Way' came out in 1969, so Frank being there at the start was reasonable to me.
@@markharris1125 That makes sense about Sinatra. I guess the crossover between pre-rock and rock and roll. I remember him, but I always associated him with the older movies. I would have put him even pre-Doris Day.
@@karehelene I still think he had one of the best voices of the recording age, along with Elvis.
When I made my comment about Garth Brooks, I actually think I was picturing Billy Achy-Breaky Cyrus. Shows how much I care about Country! Apparently his biggest hit in the UK was 'The Red Strokes' in 1994. Just listened, never heard it before, nicely sung and played but dull as dishwater.
@@markharris1125 I agree Frank Sinatra had a wonderful voice. I, too, grew up in the 60's and I would have placed him more 40's and 50's. I don't know when the billboard charts started, but rightly or wrongly, I think of them as more of a product of the rock n roll era vs. swing, jazz eras. As for Garth Brooks, I'm not a country fan either. I know his name because I have family that are. I couldn't name a single song he's recorded, though I wouldn't be surprised if I have heard some of his music.
@@markharris1125 Its funny how time warps in our heads. I remember seeing variety shows with Dean Martin, Andy Williams and Frank Sinatra. My freshman high school class, maybe 8th grade class, had a field trip to see the Andy Williams Show. But I think in my head I relate them to movies instead of chart toppers.
Notice the Beatles were still number 3 three years after they broke up with no new albums put out. And still in the top 10 13 years after their last album release.
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There is a reason Michael Jackson is called "The King of Pop": lots of years at or near the top of the charts.
Billy Joel never gets higher than 5th but is the ONLY entry to last literally 20 years in the top 10: he appears in Q4 1971 and stays until Q4 1991. He's the most successful artist hardly any TH-camr reacts to, which is such a shame as he's a frickin poet and genius. Worth your attention, @SalvoG!
Billy Joel is definitely worth a listen.
Don't forget that this began in 1969. If it had started in 64, the Beatles would have had five more years at the top and would then have been over 20 years on the list. This arbitrary cut off skews the results.
@@braemtes23 I haven't forgotten that? How's that remotely relevant? I'm commenting on the period covered by the video. Equally, if the period had continued beyond 2000, there'd be other artists in the 20+ years category. Really don't get the point of your comment.
This was fascinating! It would be interesting to correlate this to when big singles or albums were released by each artist.
Any time you had a large jump, that is when you could expect that a big album had been released or someone died. This appears to be for worldwide sales, not US alone. Queen didn't appear until Night at the Opera came out in late '75, they hung around near the bottom, but did not take over first place until after The Game and Greatest Hits I (late '81) were released. 1983-1990 were nightmare years for Queen sales in the US, while they were the biggest thing since sliced bread everywhere else. The Eagles roared to the top in 1976/77 on the strength of Hotel California and maintained that into the '80's due to successful solo careers by Frey and Henley.
So many amazing artist during that time frame! Some of my favs didn't make this list. Love it!!
In 1969-72 most Top bands/artists had a wealth of great songs/albums. The Beatles and Elvis for instance. Then a band like The Eagles shot up the list when their Greatest Hits album was released. A band like Pink Floyd released "Dark Side Of The Moon" and stayed on the charts for years due mostly to that great album, then shot back up when "The Wall" was released. It seems by 1980-90s the "Best Selling" artists just needed a few new hit songs, or a new album. No longer about artists with multiple albums and sustained music quality.
I think The Doors would blow you away, "Riders on the Storm" and "People are Strange" are my favorites from them. You seem to like falsetto voices a lot so the Bee Gees would be right up your alley, "I Started a Joke" is my favorite. And I entirely missed the disco era because I was listening to Neil Diamond at the time: "I Am, I Said", "Sweet Caroline", "Cracklin' Rosie", "Play Me", "Forever In Blue Jeans" are my favorites.
The Beatles were still there even when they weren't a band any more, along with the King Elvis! I was expecting for Pink Floyd were higher than that btw!
Elvis died in '77, but didn't drop out of the running until 1993. That's 16 years. Unreal.
Elton was the first (maybe still the only, idk) artist to have at least one song in the Top 40 continuously for over 30 years.
Thank you, this was very cool to see.
Didn't see GNR or Def Leppard in the list considering they sold massively in late 80s-early 90s. Something very odd about that, Between them they sold 120 million in that period of time.
These sales really show the longevity of Beatles, Elvis Presley, and Elton John…this also shows specific time frames when certain artists had their best selling Albums of their careers released. At one point, Fleetwood Mac takes the lead due to the fact their album “Rumors” became the best selling album of all time, until Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” album becomes the best selling album of all time.
As I followed along through the years I thought of certain albums, and you could see the sales of that artist surge for a period. Some great memories were in there for me.
Thanks. That was really enjoyable
The fact remains the Beatles are the best selling artists of all time This was showing what was popular year by year not total sales thus when an artist released a great ablbum or 2 in a year they sor to the top. The Beatles and Elvis never left the chart
Beatles the best selling band,Elvis the b.s. soloist.
@@alexioverdo5225michael jackson shits on elvis presley by FAR… he dominated the 80s with just 2 albums, if he released as many projects as elvis he’d be even far more ahead.
@@amiramir-qg7xv Well maybe not maybe yes,we 'll never know.We can only speculate.It's just some available datas that estimate their sales.I think Michael is the 2nd best selling soloist after Elvis.Glad about it cause M.J. is a part of my Gen same way Elvis was ma father's Gen.Both hygely influential anyway.Hugs.
@@alexioverdo5225 no it’s not up for speculation i’m sorry… you can’t just judge based on US stats simply becasue in every other country on this planet michael jackson multiplied elvis’ sales.
just becasue the elvis estate keep spewing out fake numbers and stats about his sales doesn’t make them true at all !
Also, MJ liked to abuse children. He should not be respected
This was fun to watch, I had no you could see the changes in this kind of format. As he's watching the numbers change, I'm thinking of the corresponding albums that would have been out at the time. For instance, Hotel California took the Eagles to the top and by a lot. You can see when News of the World came out for Queen, DSOTM for Pink Floyd and so on. Pretty cool!
Frank Sinatra had long since surpassed his glory days by 1969 -- heck, he was already waning by 1959. He was biggest in the late 1940's to early 1960's.
really cool vid. very cool! loved it.
So interesting,especially for you to see this and a trip down memory lane for some of us .Groovy .
As an old codger this is a great reminder of how some of my favorite bands were so popular. My dad loved Celine Dion. The Eagles were huge for a time. A bit surprised Phil Collins did not get higher considering how many records overall he sold.....over 100 million each as a solo and with a group; right up there with Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney. Elton John was persistent and hugely popular. Simon and Garfunkel had a big impact. Thanks for highlighting this interesting chart!
It is an interesting chart, but it show quarterly earnings. It would be interesting to see cumulative earnings (adjusted for inflation). Example: Dark Side of the Moon was in the top two hundred for 981 weeks. That has to add up... but it is spread over 81 quarters.
@@ChrisJones-cs2zd Isn't 'Dark Side' the single most popular album of all time?
@@rk41gator I think Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' doubled it.
@@rk41gator Thriller and Back in Black managed to beat it (by how much depends on who's doing the counting though)
Love this! I'm surprised Garth Brooks was so massive. I know he ruled the country charts but had no idea how really big he was! Elton has always been massive. As you discover more of his music, you'll begin to understand why. Too cool!
As a non country fan, the two that crossed over were Garth Brooks and Shania Twain.
This is one of my favorite songs. As someone who battles insomnia from time to time, this is one the best representations of how it feels. Great lyrics, nice little guitar solo in the middle. Men At Work at their best.
I love this video and have suggested it to a number of channels to take a look at. I think you do need to see it all, if only to see the sad decline in quality - from the musical geniuses of the 70s and 80s to mediocre non-entities who appear later. I mean, I just noticed on your little fast-forward there someone called Flo Rida. Who the hell is she?
As a diehard lifelong Elton John fan it's so good to see him up there for so long. I love the way he disappears for a while, pokes his head up , hovers, then shoots back up to #1 again in 1998 and all of 99. You'd think this was something to do with The Lion King or Princess Diana, but the first was in 1994 and Goodbye England's Rose was in 1997. (And that is still the best-selling single of all time - or maybe the second, because they don't really know about the sales of White Christmas.)
It's a shame you didn't mention Billy Joel - he was hovering around the middle to the bottom of the charts for ages, and at times it seems you were naming everyone around him - but not him. If this is because of some long-running feud or legal matter between you and Mr Joel, then we'll leave it there. But as an EJ fan of course I like Billy, and it's good to see him selling so well.
Thanks for the reaction. Data Is Beautiful has some very interesting stuff on his channel.
I would LOVE Salvo to check out Billy Joel. "Only the Good Die Young", "Piano Man", and "Movin' Out" are my favorites but his catalog is huge.
@@jodij6280 No love for the entire "Glass Houses"? lol!
@@thomasdempsey721 The Stranger is my favorite Billy Joel album.
@@jodij6280 'Allentown' for me. And 'Goodnight Saigon'. I'm sure he'll get to him one day!
That was fascinating to watch!
Bro michael jackson was really number one from 1980 to 1997 bruh. Crazy
eagles shot up with Hotel California album...they broke up shortly after because the knew they couldnt out perform that last album. and every band is always trying to improve. Performance anxiety killed them....
From here , popular music begins to ..."SUCK" is the word you were looking for! Hahaha
Not sure where the information is coming from but it's wrong. Fleetwood Mac's album "Rumors" outsold every thing including The Eagles "Hotel California" in 1977.
I don't know about this chart. Deep Purple had by 1973 become the best-selling artists in the US. Not listed?
Kansas has 5 platinum albums (three of which are multi-platinum) including hit singles. Even if that's not enough to have made the list, then what about Styx? They had 5 consecutive multi-platinum albums AND hit singles. There's also Chicago, The Police, ...
if you look at the album they dropped, thats where the sales boosts come from, also there were so many more forms of music listening more people had access to be able to hear the kind of music they wanted to hear
Hey Salvo... thanks for this, so fun to reminisce... but not surprising really... except I never did see the Beach Boys?? I would have thought they would be in there... or Bob Seger or Deep Purple or Heart... but of course my favorite was Queen... so thankful to have grown up in the 70's and beyond, such awesome tunes... blessings.
The Beach Boys would have been a dominant force in the Sixties, before this timeline started.
If the chart had gone back and started in 1962 or so, The Beachboys would have shown up…..probably would have made number one…along with The Supremes and other Motown groups. And it would have been cool to see when The Beatles arrived and how they just took,over.
The Beach Boys never had any big selling albums or Bob Seger and Purple had 1
That was so much fun! 💗💓💖
That was very interesting, great reaction S. If I may point out,many of the fast climbers had 2or3 great songs/with video, Super Tramp never appeared (even in 79) but runs deeper with tube amps and talent than some of the more modern upgraded productions. Cheers to MJ.
You can sure tell when certain albums or songs came out. Some will be remembered, others will fade.
Also, Really like your videos Salvo :-)
You can tell when these artists had a good album drop!!
Ever since this particular statistical graphic software was created I love watching the stats over the years... I get excited like I'm at a horse race, LOL.
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An interesting chart and fun to watch, assuming this is based on units sold/week.
The Beatles stopped making music in 69…. Stayed on that chart for 20 more years. They were amazing. Where were The Stones??
Elvis is still the top selling solo artist in the Guiness Book of World Records.
I’m shocked Alanis Morissette wasn’t there at all. Her “Jagged Little Pill” album was the biggest selling album of the 90’s decade according to the Billboard charts.
McDonalds is the best-selling restaurant in America. Point is, whatever is most popular & consumed is often far from the best.
Haven't been to McD's in decades. But little kids seem to love it.
The McDonalds analogy has never really been a good one. McDonalds sell a lot because they're both easily accessible to a lot of people and they're relatively cheap. Vinyl, tapes and CD's cost pretty much the same, regardless of the artist and they were also distributed alike. Everything else regarding what is best is purely subjective and down to individual taste.
My favourite all time band was on that chart until 1994. Twenty four years after they had broken up!
Interesting to see how some groups stayed on the list after they stopped performing. Plenty of great music that doesn't show up in most popular lists to hear though. Check out Huey Lewis & The News playing "Working for a Living". It's one of their many classic hits.
Elton's my guy, really proud of him.
In the 1980s, Madonna was very famous. She was one of the most defining musical figures of the time due to her rebellious image, controversial actions, and songs with provoking lyrics and messages. She has sold over 300 million records worldwide. The Guinness World Records acknowledged her as the bestselling female music artist of all time.
I bet if this went on from 1956 until today, Elvis would undoubtedly be number 1 the most of any artist. He was and is the best of the best.
No the Beatles outsold him everywhere. Also Garth Brookes has now outsold him in the states
@@matthewashman1406 there's discrepancies in U.S. accounting methods. Even Garth Brooks admits everyone knows Elvis is ahead of him.
I hope you saw a few surprises there. It's kind of funny how younger people now don't know Elton John, when you saw how big he was on the charts.
Cool video
You should react to Michael Jackson and then his live performances from the BAD tour. Or the They don't care about Us versions. Or his duet with Santana from his last ever album. So worth it! LJ
ABBA I do believe their sales were what they were because it is staggering how huge they were everywhere but the United States. But they were not a failure by any means in the USA, they were just merely successful rather than a phenomenon.
Elton John was release of yellow brick road album (I’m not sure what year it was released, but I went to concert at LA forum in 1974. Scalped tickets were $20 🤩 affordable for a high schooler, and they were pretty close to stage)
This is fun, but it would be more instructive to know when big albums came out. Elton's first big jump, for example, looks like it coincided with his Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album. Bruce Springteen's jump in the 80s is obviously from his Born in the USA album. Michael Jackson was apparently already climbing with his Off the Wall album, but Thriller is what really put him over the top. Pink Floyd had a big album with Dark Side of the Moon, and then climbed again with the Wall. And so on and so forth.
Frank Sinatra was pretty much ancient history by 1969, and I was suprised to see him so high on these charts. I was also surprised the Beatles hung in there so long after breaking up, but I guess I shouldn't be. As a high school student in the early 80s, I was one of those people buying Beatles albums.
That was so fun!! I was surprised by Garth Brooks (he's country), Eagles and Neil Diamond.
Neil Diamond was big in the 70s. His movie, The Jazz Singer, gave him a resurgence for a while in the early 80s.
My main objection was that Billy Joel was pretty much unknown until around 1977/1978, but he was one of the most best selling artist before then? It’s impossible because his albums were mainly flops.
You can see right in between albums and world tours, Michael is losing ground, but then comes back when his album was released or he started a new world tour. :) Yes, at that time those were pretty much the main artists although there were more of course, just not popular worldwide. LJ
Garth is one of the biggest selling solo artists of all time
No he's not lol
@@Noel-ji8nm I would direct you check the numbers and see that he is
@user-wc9df9bq1c He's had no hits in UK.
@@Noel-ji8nm that means nothing.
@user-wc9df9bq1c Then stop buying UK artist record sales.
Can't ever go wrong with the holy trinity of pop. Prince, Michael, and Madonna born the same summer. Coincidence, doubtful. Just saying...❤
This is a perfect display of the slow devolution of music
It's amazing that Queen was in this list until 1996... Freddie Mercury died in 1991 and was very sick the last years of his life. But he sang until the very end leaving a huge legacy. With some of this groups and artists I can even tell which album they released that was giving them those pushes to the top 😅
They should have put album names with the artist names.
The release of Albums, causes the spikes back in the day
Very interesting
The Elton John spike in 1998 was "Candle in the Wind" upon the death of Princess Diana. I was in London when it happened; the most surreal weeks of my life.
haha...love how you cut it off. I agree.
You can see it happen in the late 90's where popular music started to blow. By the mid aughts the music scene is a real train wreck.
It would've been interesting to include the years starting around 55 when rock n roll came to be and became the major moving force in culture for decades. Elvis and the Beatles were top dogs then. Sinatra's peak singles years may have been the 40s. In the 50s he had some singles success but mostly recorded albums and established a respected acting career. In the 60s Frank's recordings enjoyed a resurgence.
This chart seems to measure the success of not only individual albums but also the continued popularity of certain artists' catalogs. That could be why artists like Stevie Wonder and the Rolling Stones, who had highly successful releases barely registered here while other artists who also had deep catalogs that still generate revenue show up higher and longer.
On a Google website both Elvis and the Beatles showed up in the top 10 for most album sales in the 2010s.
this just shows you how influential elvis was he stayed up there well into the 90’s and he had passed in 77 that’s saying something
By the time Elton took over, his best music was behind him. That was when Bernie stopped writing for him. Sinatra's style was waning by '69
What people need to remember is that the Beatles only recorded music for 7 years!
This shows that really after the Beatles, Elton and Stones era, MJ and Madonna basically dominated the charts for about 20 years, which proves why they are the King and Queen. Anyone claiming those titles for others (you know who you are) need to face reality. 🤣
Team Madonna here but I’m happy MJ still sold more 🥰😘
That list is obviously dominated by men, so *Madonna* really stands out!
Now time to go back and research why there were insurgent of the artist. For instance, Elvis in 1974. In 1973, he released multiple songs. But in 1974, Why Me, Lord was released and shot up the chart. Madonna in 1990 reinvented herself from being the cute teen singer to a more adult content creator. Garth Brooks had a great song-“We Shall Be Free”--song we could still learn from today. That was in 1992. So be fun finding out why singers changed when they did.
This bar graph is US sales.. World wide ABBA is over 400,000,000 , Beatles over a Billion [ 1, 000,000,000 }sales number ! and 2 in total sales
I know about Abba,but i remember Elvis being reffered many times in the press as the billion+ seller and The Beatles estimations just underneath having being outsold by him with M.Jackson as a runner up..
You have to remember that at this point the Beatles were not touring anymore
Not touring? They were not even a band anymore as of 4/10/70..
What surprises me is that the Carpenters, while making appearances,
didn't score higher, given that they were the 4th best-selling act (and
top American act) of the 1970s. They were especially popular in the
first half of that decade. Yet their music is still selling and appreciated.
Newer fans have found Karen's phenomenal voice and Richard's
amazing arrangements.
I'm at a loss as to the significance of music sales, in general, but I would put more credence to the sales in the early 70s when people had fewer dollars for leisure items (gas wars & rampant inflation-2 or 3X the recent rate). In the 80s we had cassette radios & we would make mix tapes off the radio play of our favorite songs/artists. Some radio stations were known as "album Rock stations" & would play one side of an album without commercial interruption. While there were computers, they were mainly used in business & were desk-sized clunky things with tiny B&W monitors that only had text capability. There were some intranets among colleges usually used by student coders. Personally, I wouldn't buy an album unless there were as least two songs I wanted. However, radio play was based on requests called into the stations, not on music sales. Attendance at live touring shows would most likely give a more accurate picture of 70s & 80s musical tastes.
Pink Floyd’s comeback in 1980 - The Wall
Surprised Lenard skynard or Peter Frampton wasn't on the list in the 70s.
Such classic acts like Elvis, Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zep and others are a guaranteed to sell at some volume in any year. It is interesting to add to these measurements what was going on at the time. The meteoric rise of some, the fading of others. Vinyl to tapes to CDs. I kind of expected to see more than a slight blip when Elvis died by these measurements. But the Eagles kicked butt in the later 70s. I was sick of them. Over exposure? But that attitude has changed immensely with the distance and age. Then came MTV and those would could employ that effectively. British New Wave. I remember beginning to lose track of it around 1984 as I became preoccupied elsewhere. So, that part and beyond is my mystery. The last act that ever really caught my attention was Nirvana.
Oh...and Tame Impala...
and Arcade Fire....yes...them, too.
Wow I didn’t realise Madonna was one of the top selling artist during the early 90’s? I only thought it was in 80’s? But dam, get Elton and Michael. Also the Eagles held the top for awhile. Amazing.
Yeah, Madonna dominated the early 90s with Vogue (one of her biggest selling singles) and The Immaculate Collection (her biggest selling album to date) and ofc the iconic blonde ambition tour.
Madonna is in top ten to 1985 to 2005 . amazing