Here are the Top Ten Artists and albums since Nielsen SoundScan Company started to record the information. I’m totally amazed that Garth brooks has done so well, wow. The Beatles always sell a lot of copies.
TOP TEN SELLING ARTISTS OF SOUNDSCAN ERA – (1991-12/28/2008).
1.Garth Brooks -68,143,000, 2.Beatles -57,088,000, 3.Mariah Carey -51,569,000, 4.Metallica -51,136,000, 5.Celine Dion -50,571,000, 6.George Strait -40,619,000, 7.Tim McGraw -37,591,000, 8.Alan Jackson -36,520,000, 9.Pink Floyd -36,520,000, 10.Shania Twain -33,707,000.
TOP TEN SELLING ALBUMS OF SOUNDSCAN ERA – (1991 – 12/28/2008).
1.Come On Over/ Shania Twain -15,473,000, 2.Metallica/ Metallica -15,319,000, 3.Jagged Little Pill/ Alanis Morissette -14,607,000, 4.Millennium/ Backstreet Boys -12,104,000, 5.Soundtrack/ Bodyguard -11,805,000, 6.Supernatural/ Santana -11,673,000, 7.Human Clay/ Creed -11,525,000, 8.Beatles 1/ Beatles -11,345,000, 9.No Strings Attached/ N Sync -11,109,000, 10.Falling Into You/ Celine Dion -10,777,000.
TOP TEN SELLING DIGITAL SONGS OF SOUNDSCAN ERA -(7/4/2004-12/28/2008).
1.Low/ Flor Rida Feat. T-Pain -4,530,000, 2.Apologize/ Timbaland Feat. OneRepublic -4,009,000, 3.Crank That(Soulja Boy)/ Soulja Boy Tell’Em -3,968,000, 4.Bleeding Love/ Leona Lewis -3,434,000, 5.Stronger/ Kanye West -3,288,000, 6.Hey There Delilah/ Plain White T’s -3,244,000, 7.Lollipop/ Lil Wayne Feat. Static Major -3,161,000, 8.Big Girls Don’t Cry/ Fergie -3,148,000, 9.Umbrella/ Rihanna Feat. Jay-Z -3,122,000, 10.Sexyback/ Justin Timberlake Feat. Timbaland -3,037,000.
TOP TEN SELLING DIGITAL ALBUMS OF SOUNDSCAN ERA -(7/4/2004 – 12/28/2008).
1. Viva La Vida/ Coldplay -617,000, 2. Continuum/ John Mayer -386,000, 3. Back To Black/ Amy Winehouse -352,000, 4. Daughtry/ Daughtry -346,000, 5. Sleep Through the Static/Jack Johnson -325,000, 6. It Won’t Be Soon Before…/Maroon 5 -320,000, 7. Soundtrack/Juno -317,000, 8. Futuresex/Love Sounds/ Justin Timberlake -312,000, 9. In Between Dreams/ Jack Johnson -310,000, 10. Graduation/ Kanye West -303,000.
Data By: Nielsen SoundScan
