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If Aretha sold 51 million singles, I assume that Diana Ross and Olivia Netwon-John are over 60 million each.
Why Respect and some songs appear more than twice in Physical Singles table？
if there were different version, why other artists'singles count all together?
Wow, she sold a lot! 130 million records! Very close to the 180 million that Barbra Streisand sold (I'm not talking about CSPC) I expected much less from her, unlike Streisand she doesn't have so many albums certified gold and the sales of her singles are amazing.
Hi jt1916!
Lady Soul got most of these sales in 2004 through El Pais' Los Discos De Tu Vida 2 series. These collections were massive in markets like Spain.
Next will be Lewis Capaldi and then Roberto Carlos according to what MJD said in the CSPC requests leaderboard previously.
Also disappointing considering Janet Jackson is an MTV era icon, which should help her with Youtube views
It's the same with Madonna (but not nearly to the same extent). You'd expect someone like Madonna to have at least a handful of videos at 500 million or more. But she only has one (La Isla Bonita). And that's shocking because her videos were massive back in the day.
Thank you!. That had to be a really good help. That also means that despite there is no new article from the collections series, now you are tracking that type of sales in new articles? That's amazing.
Aretha's top 2 songs combined have more streams than Barbra's entire discography 😆
Most streamed pre-2000 songs by female singers in the top 100 acts of all-time :
Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas Is You 1446m
Fleetwood Mac - Dreams 1244m
Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance with Somebody 975m
ABBA - Dancing Queen 969m
Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere 677m
Britney Spears - Baby One More Time 635m
ABBA - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) 582m
Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You 578m
Fleetwood Mac - Landslide 552m
Aretha Franklin - I Say a Little Prayer 491m
Aretha Franklin - Respect 490m
Shania Twain - Man! I Feel Like A Woman! 458m
Céline Dion - My Heart Will Go On 456m
ABBA - Mamma Mia 416m
Shania Twain - You're Still The One 407m
Tina Turner - What's Love Got to Do with It 387m
Whitney Houston - I Have Nothing 355m
Madonna - Material Girl 344m
Céline Dion - Because You Loved Me 343m
Fleetwood Mac - Little Lies 330m
Barbra only has one song with 100m streams (Woman In Love, 144m), as for Janet, it is indeed similar to Madonna in the sense that Madonna was 3 times bigger than Janet and now she has 3 times more streams. Oh and Cher's Believe isn't included because her real EAS total is more like 60m (without Sonny & Cher).
Thank you! I been waiting for this analysis for a very long time. so MJD Quick question is I never loved a Man the Way I love you the highest selling female CSPC album ever up to 1967 or was there a female album higher than 13 million before 1967 ? And did Aretha put female albums on par with men? Or was it Diana/The Supremes? Thank you
Most streamed？Spotify is only a part of stream world.And as MJD pointed in “More features, less problems” article: “It was the fact that not all artists and genre perform equally well in distinct platforms, like Spotify and Apple Music for example, many divas's global hits are very popular in other platforms.
Such as My heart will go on, which's spotify figure seems not big as second best-selling physical by female,but in fact it's only one song from the ’90 inside top 10 most US streamed songs of the ’80s and’90s No. 1s, according to（Billboard）Nielsen Music（ https://jezebel.com/which-no-1-singles-from-the-80s-and-90s-stand-the-test-1844294232?rev=1595250877341）
And it had drawed at least 300 millions each year(the most among legacy female singers’s records) according to YouTube Chart.
I don't think female albums have ever really been on par with mens, until perhaps more recent times. Between 1963-1966 Streisand had 8 Top 10 albums in a row, in the US, but none of them seem to be thought of as being on par with albums that The Beatles, Dylan, The Stones etc were releasing at the time. While both The Supremes and Franklin had studio album success, it was quite fleeting, only lasting a year or two. Likewise, Ross on her own, had successful albums here and there but most underperformed.
Not thinking too deep about it, I'd say the first studio album by a female artist to seriously challenge the biggest albums of the time and come out on top, was Tapestry by Carole King. My shout though would be Linda Ronstadt, as being the first female artist to consistently have albums with the selling power of males.
In my opinion though, it wasn't really until Madonna and Whitney came around, that females started to consistently have albums sales, more in line with their male counterparts.
