463, 523 and counting.
Many Different Artists And Bands Who Make It To The Top 40 UK Every Week.
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David Hockney is the best-known British painter today.
Over 24,000 artists
American artists Elvis Presley, The Beach Boys and from the UK the Beatles.
Artcyclopedia has such info for some artists, not all.
Thousands.
Those have been used for drawing by many European artists, but most famously by Chinese artists.
Scarborough Fair is a traditional UK ballad, sung by many different commercial artists (eg Simon & Garfunkel, Justin Hayward, Sarah Brightman etc). )
Harry Belafonte Boney M.
Artists.
There is no way of knowing how many artists there were in the world then or now. Tens of thousands, anyway.