Artists Ranking – CSPC – Total per decade
Here is the sum of all the value released by the artists during each decade. The figures are given in EAS (equivalent album sales).
Please keep in mind that some artists are missing, because their analysis has not been done yet. The complete list is available here. All figures reflect the value as collected at the time of the artist’s respective articles.
1950s
1. Elvis Presley – 127,149,000
1960s
1. The Beatles – 376,924,000
2. Elvis Presley – 131,658,000
3. The Rolling Stones – 110,801,000
4. Simon & Garfunkel – 89,796,000
5. Bob Dylan – 72,934,000
6. The Doors – 72,455,000
7. Led Zeppelin – 57,592,000
8. Creedence Clearwater Revival – 52,246,000
9. Barbra Streisand – 31,384,000
10. Johnny Hallyday – 29,793,000
11. Bee Gees – 27,358,000
12. Pink Floyd – 21,773,000
13. Stevie Wonder – 17,580,000
14. Santana – 16,834,000
15. Cher – 14,854,000
16. Cher – 14,854,000
17. Fleetwood Mac – 14,807,000
18. Jackson 5 & The Jacksons – 13,281,000
19. Buffalo Springfield – 11,061,000
20. David Bowie – 8,481,000
1970s
1. Pink Floyd – 171,695,000
2. Eagles – 163,422,000
3. Led Zeppelin – 138,828,000
4. Queen – 129,623,000
5. Elton John – 129,344,000
6. Abba – 125,972,000
7. Rod Stewart & Faces – 108,674,000
8. Bob Marley – 107,997,000
9. Bee Gees – 104,914,000
10. Fleetwood Mac – 95,398,000
11. Santana – 75,660,000
12. The Rolling Stones – 73,368,000
13. Billy Joel – 72,103,000
14. David Bowie – 68,914,000
15. AC/DC – 67,824,000
16. Paul McCartney – 65,482,000
17. Stevie Wonder – 63,036,000
18. Black Sabbath – 62,946,000
19. Aerosmith – 60,765,000
20. Supertramp – 58,979,000
21. Barbra Streisand – 57,359,000
22. Elvis Presley – 54,499,000
23. Neil Young – 53,662,000
24. John Lennon – 47,679,000
25. Michael Jackson – 46,469,000
1980s
1. Michael Jackson – 181,681,000
2. Madonna – 131,613,000
3. Phil Collins – 119,105,000
4. U2 – 111,861,000
5. Queen – 107,789,000
6. Prince – 93,149,000
7. AC/DC – 84,857,000
8. Bruce Springsteen – 82,382,000
9. Bon Jovi – 79,146,000
10. George Michael & Wham! – 69,617,000
11. Dire Straits – 67,720,000
12. The Police – 64,978,000
13. Metallica – 64,948,000
14. Billy Joel – 62,280,000
15. Journey – 61,102,000
16. Van Halen – 60,076,000
17. Guns N’ Roses – 58,419,000
18. Whitney Houston – 56,494,000
19. Sade – 46,991,000
20. Bryan Adams – 46,495,000
21. Barbra Streisand – 43,186,000
22. The Rolling Stones – 37,912,000
23. Elton John – 37,330,000
24. Stevie Wonder – 36,782,000
25. David Bowie – 35,564,000
1990s
1. Céline Dion – 160,090,000
2. Mariah Carey – 144,462,000
3. Garth Brooks – 108,309,000
4. Whitney Houston – 88,381,000
5. Nirvana – 80,179,000
6. Michael Jackson – 78,755,000
7. Metallica – 75,261,000
8. Backstreet Boys – 74,905,000
9. Madonna – 66,562,000
10. Shania Twain – 65,863,000
11. Guns N’ Roses – 56,524,000
12. Red Hot Chili Peppers – 55,552,000
13. Alanis Morissette – 50,237,000
14. Oasis – 47,347,000
15. Spice Girls – 47,339,000
16. Green Day – 44,616,000
17. The Cranberries – 42,810,000
18. U2 – 42,021,000
19. TLC – 38,447,000
20. Sting – 37,855,000
21. Bon Jovi – 37,185,000
22. Bryan Adams – 36,037,000
23. Aerosmith – 35,248,000
24. Santana – 33,069,000
25. Enya – 31,849,000
2000s
1. Eminem – 128,253,000
2. Linkin Park – 67,608,000
3. Coldplay – 67,474,000
4. Britney Spears – 62,135,000
5. Beyoncé – 50,503,000
6. P!nk – 48,326,000
7. Norah Jones – 48,153,000
8. Robbie Williams – 47,775,000
9. Nickelback – 46,375,000
10. Black Eyed Peas – 45,631,000
11. Alicia Keys – 43,142,000
12. Michael Bublé – 42,346,000
13. Ayumi Hamasaki – 40,263,000
14. Rihanna – 40,163,000
15. U2 – 38,338,000
16. Madonna – 37,931,000
17. Avril Lavigne – 36,931,000
18. Lady Gaga – 35,949,000
19. Usher – 34,775,000
20. Shakira – 34,227,000
21. Justin Timberlake – 33,379,000
22. Green Day – 32,386,000
23. Taylor Swift – 29,445,000
24. Miley Cyrus – 28,856,000
25. Evanescence – 28,339,000
2010s
1. Drake – 87,409,000
2. Adele – 73,356,000
3. Justin Bieber – 66,066,000
4. Taylor Swift – 64,282,000
5. Ed Sheeran – 61,066,000
6. Rihanna – 60,916,000
7. BTS – 55,749,000
8. Bruno Mars – 52,339,000
9. One Direction – 44,466,000
10. Eminem – 44,008,000
11. Maroon 5 – 37,803,000
12. Katy Perry – 35,012,000
13. The Weeknd – 34,942,000
14. Ariana Grande – 33,108,000
15. Coldplay – 32,644,000
16. Lady Gaga – 30,122,000
17. Post Malone – 28,844,000
18. Kendrick Lamar – 26,660,000
19. Imagine Dragons – 24,676,000
20. Selena Gomez – 23,749,000
21. Bad Bunny – 23,336,000
22. Beyoncé – 23,194,000
23. Michael Bublé – 19,821,000
24. Shawn Mendes – 17,365,000
25. Billie Eilish – 16,709,000
2020s
1. BTS – 16,701,000
2. Bad Bunny – 9,112,000
3. Taylor Swift – 7,851,000
4. Drake – 6,009,000
5. The Weeknd – 4,070,000
6. Justin Bieber – 3,462,000
7. Eminem – 3,313,000
8. Dua Lipa – 2,884,000
9. Lady Gaga – 2,249,000
10. Selena Gomez – 1,958,000
hey! how can i find a certain album’s sales, they arent available anywhere (including this list) and i wanted to ask if theres any way i could find it. thank you!
Hi elora93838!
Are you looking at sales of one specific album that isn’t present or how to access to album sales of the artists listed on page 18?
I can’t search any artists. Chartmasters should sent an email to each subscriber that their website will be down or something like that
Hi jam001!
With nearly 12,000 subscribers, time for all emails to be sent the issue would be solved more often than not! Also, while I’ve set the needful to be notified when the website is down, it’s trickier when the site is up and running and only the tool is offline. I’ve no notification in this case. The best would be to mail us at contact@chartmasters.org so that we are aware of it and restart the tool fast.
As mentioned to L145, I’ve increased Silver’s limit to 10 for today for the inconvenience caused!
What happened to your website?
Justin bieber is at 82m eas
Justin bieberstotal seems to glitch between 82 and 85 million.
Which is the correct total?
The other image I saw
it’s 82m
Hi Fanofpop!
Weirdly enough, from time to time Spotify credits the song Bad Guy to Justin, the solo song. This ends up with this glitch, the correct value is the lowest one.
Thank you so much
it’s still showing 85m
hey can you please update ed sheeran album sales?