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Both are impressive.
Yet 27 multi-million sellers is more amazing and hard to get than 6 albums where 3 best seller albums on the peak of their fame are responsible for 82% of their sales in a 5 years period of release. In fact their 4 albums from their peak of fame represent 92% of their total CSPC points and 7 years release span.
David Bowie 3 best sellers represent just 34% of his sales and are from a period over 13 years span with many other albums in between. His 4 best sellers would increase that span a bit and represent 40% of his CSPC.
All this excluding orphans, yet David Bowie orphans have huge numbers while Guns'N Roses almost don't have orphans making them in advantage when orphans are excluded. It shows that David Bowie singles were also good sellers while Guns N' Roses were more album sellers. That said, Guns'N Roses had bigger hit songs and their biggest hit had ended having even more than double the CSPC numbers of David Bowie biggest hit ( "Sweet Child O' mine" 18.8 million vs "Let's Dance" 8.2 million). In fact, Guns N' Roses even had 6 hit songs bigger than David Bowie biggest song showing that they had some extremely popular hits - despite having more hits David Bowie never had such popular songs in his career but was a much more consistent artist.
Bowie (?) did deal with Warner company. Bowie's copyrights sold 1.11 i think. Price was $ 200 million. Billboard write that Bowie has sold well after his dead. About 300000 albums in Uk last year, 2020. And future Warner make new boxs and collection and heavy advertising to stream world.
Just noticed that a number of Bowie songs have recently been been greyed out on spotify and their totals no longer show on the spotify tool report.They're all on the albums Platinum Collection and Sound + Vision.
Also for some reason the songs credited to Bowie and the Spider on the Bowie at the Beeb album have a separate artist id??
Also the version of All The Young Dudes with Ian Hunter and Bowie on vocals on the Mott The Hoople page doesn't show up on his features.
Best selling solo artist of all time, but not most important or most influential solo artist of all time.
That’s just your opinion, mine is he is very overrated and his sales are poor considering he is supposed to be that good. Half a dozen very good songs doesn’t make you the greatest.
Yes, Jacksons sales and popularity are amazing and his influence immense but Bowie was way, way more diverse than Jackson.
It's so irritating when people can't wrap their heads around the fact that sales aren't everything. Sales are great but they don't indicate how inventive, creative, influential, etc. an artist was/is.
"That’s just your opinion"
It's all about opinions, except if you believe that talent should be measured by success, which would be very dumb.
Lots of people care, lots of people don't want to listen to an artist who just releases the same sounding stuff over and over again.
As for critical acclaim, I couldn't give a toss about it either.
