can you post a link to this other website "Fan of Music?

Go Phil..........with Genesis added he'll be top ten of all time, (Unless you count all Beatles members and Queen members separately)

I think he'd probably beat Queen, if you combine his solo stuff with Genesis and the Mike Rutherford side projects. Queen members had little success as solo artists apart from Freddie Mercurys posthumous solo album. Genesis sold a huge amount of albums.

I forgot to mention Peter Gabriel, he did quite well also. Genesis would come in second only to The Beatles if you include everything that came out of it. If you look at the other big bands like The Stones, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, U2 and obviously Queen.

Hi Nuclear dolphin!

Don't forget the Jackson 5 🙂

Hi Anthony, you are right! I thought of that afterwards although it's very lop sided towards MJs solo material, did the Jackson 5 sell many albums?

Yes, about 40 million albums and more singles

The answer is here 😉
http://chartmasters.org/2017/09/cspc-jackson-5-the-jacksons-popularity-analysis/

Hi IRIS,

We shouldn't combined their totals. I feel like it would've been unfair. Because he started his solo career, already being well known, prior to his solo career and that definitely creates massive hype for his debut. Other artists, need to start from scratch. So it really isn't a fair comparison. Plus, if adding totals of groups + solo career sales should be the case, then John Lennon is the best selling solo artists of all time. Because his total + the beatles would make everybody else's career looks like nothing, when I doubted he would've sold half the amount he sold had he not been from the beattles. Saying that John Lennon is a much2 bigger solo artist than the likes of MJ, Elvis, Madonna is kind of dumb and unfair to me. So we should really separate artists original group and solo discography.

I'm really curious to see if Phil's CSPC is bigger than Genesis? I would like to see Genesis CSPC, as well.

I had not really thought about it from that perspective but yes, that is an interesting comparison.

I'd personally go for Phils solo career being higher than Genesis but that is not really backed up by any kind of research on Genesis.

Yes, Phils solo career CSPC is probably higher then Genesis CSPC. Geneis weren't to much commercially successful(relatively speaking ) at the time when they were a pure progressive rock band(Peter Gabriel era).

Besides that, I wonder if Phil is the only one star who was more successful than his parent group from which he originated? Obviously, Michael Jackson as well is/was more successful than The Jackson 5, from which he originated.

Are there any other same examples, aside from those two?

And also, would Sting have higher CSPC than The Police?

Three I thought of relatively quickly are George Michael, Robbie Williams & Eric Clapton (Yardbirds, Cream, Blind Faith & Derek & The Dominos)

Rod Stewart (The Small Faces, The Jeff Beck Group)

Dio, with Rainbow vs solo. Same goes for Ozzy.