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Facts proving Madonna as the world's best selling female recording artist of all time. Since her debut in 1982, Madonna has released many chart-topping albums and singles, and has sold more than 250 million albums and 150 million singles worldwide (excluding 2005 Confessions On A Dance Floor and Hard Candy 2008)
On the United World Chart, April 2008 "4 Minutes" the 1st single from Hard Candy became Madonna's 13th Number One single, and her 9th number One Single in under 8 years. Madonna holds the record for the artist with the most Number One hits worldwide.
*Most Successful Singles Artist (1999-2008)
*Artists with Most Weeks at #1 (76 weeks including 4 Minutes)
*Most Time Spent at the Number One spot by an artist in a year- 20 Weeks- "American Pie"(8 Weeks) and "Music"(12 weeks) in 2000. 16 Week -"Hung Up" (9 Weeks) and "Sorry"(7 Weeks) in 2006.
Artists claimed to have sold 250 million recordsworldwide or more:
ABBA Sweden 70s-80s Pop
Alla Pugacheva Russia 70s-00s Pop
The Beatles UK 60s-70s Rock / Pop
Bing Crosby U.S. 20s-70s Pop
Chubby Checker U.S. 60s-00s Pop / R&B
Cliff Richard UK 50s-00s Pop
Elton John UK 60s-00s Pop
Elvis Presley U.S. 50s-70s Rock / Pop
Frank Sinatra U.S. 30s-90s Pop
Julio Iglesias Spain 70s-00s Pop /Latin
Led Zeppelin UK 60s-80s Hard Metal
Madonna U.S. 80s-00s Pop /Dance
Michael Jackson U.S. 60s-00s Pop
Nana Mouskouri Greece 60s-00s Pop
Pink Floyd UK 60s-90s Rock
Queen UK 70s-00s Hard Rock
Rod Stewart UK 60s-00s Rock / Pop
Tino Rossi France 30s-80s Pop Madonna is the top selling female recording artist in the U.S., that is if we combine both her albums and singles sales. But if you're going to break it down, in the album category, she is second to Barbra Streisand while for the singles category, she tops among all female artists. She is also the female artist w/ most certified singles (gold and platinum) in the U.S. surpassing The Beatles' record.
Hard Candy became her 7th Number One album in the USA after Barbra Streisand. As of 23 April 2008, Madonna is back at #1 in Soundscan Digital Single Sales (USA). 4 Minutes has sold over 1,000,000 downloads in only few weeks. Also, Madonna holds the record of 38 #1 Hot Dance Club Play hits in the US, the most for any female rock artist.
*Madonna is also the female artist with The Most Certified Singles (gold and platinum) in the U.S. surpassing The Beatles' record.
*RIAA named Madonna The Best Selling Female Rock Artistof the twentieth century. Madonna's 11th studio album, Hard Candy has debuted #1 in more than 27 key players/countries for overall music markets including Canada and the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, Germany, Italy, France, Japan, Netherlands, South Africa, Sweden, Finland and Slovakia.
4 Minutes featuring Justin Timberlake has grasped her 13th Number One in the U.K singles chart a record for any female. The single has also broken records in the UK, where it became Madonna's 61st Top 10, more than any other female solo artist. Vogue is the biggest hit for Madonna in the UK. Madonna is the top earning female singer in the world with an estimated net worth of over $400 million. Regarded as "one of the greatest pop acts of all time", she has been dubbed the "Queen of Pop" by the media.
Sources are typically media, fan sites, record labels, newspaper articles or manual addition of figures from various official sources. * http://www.answers.com/topic/ifpi (IFPI) * http://www.answers.com/topic/riaa (RIAA)
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∙ 15y agoYes, Madonna is the best-selling female artist.
Europe's Best- Sellers of All Time...
*1 (1963 -1970) Beatles - 92,500,000
*2 (1973 -1995) Queen - 80,050,000
*3 (1983 -2005) MADONNA - 74,600,000 [including Hard Candy]
*4 (1979 -2001) Michael Jackson - 70,200,000
*5 (1967 -1994) Pink Floyd - 69,900,000
*6 (1980- 2004) U2 - 59,300,000
*7 (1980 2004) Phil Collins - 55,200,000
*8 (1964 2005) Rolling Stones - 53,800,000
*9 (1969 2006) Elton John - 52,600,000
*10 (1973 1982) ABBA - 52,300,000
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