Below ranking lists the votes of our users to know artists to be treated next on our CSPC series.
The weight of artists is based on expected sales. Weight 4 represents the biggest omissions up to date, 1 the weakest ones.
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CSPC votes: the leaderboard
| # | Artist | Weight | Votes | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hikaru Utada | 2 | 269 | 538 |
| 2 | R.E.M. | 4 | 121 | 484 |
| 3 | Xuxa | 3 | 128 | 384 |
| 4 | Luis Miguel | 3 | 122 | 366 |
| 5 | Iron Maiden | 3 | 91 | 273 |
| 6 | Jimi Hendrix | 3 | 82 | 246 |
| 7 | Frank Sinatra | 4 | 43 | 172 |
| 8 | Julio Iglesias | 4 | 39 | 156 |
| 9 | Genesis | 4 | 38 | 152 |
| 10 | Vladimir Vysotsky | 3 | 45 | 135 |
| 11 | Johnny Cash | 3 | 43 | 129 |
| 12 | 2Pac | 3 | 39 | 117 |
| 13 | Aretha Franklin | 3 | 37 | 111 |
| 14 | BigBang | 2 | 55 | 110 |
| 15 | Tina Turner | 3 | 31 | 93 |
| 16 | Pearl Jam | 3 | 30 | 90 |
| 17 | Bing Crosby | 4 | 22 | 88 |
| 18 | EXO | 2 | 43 | 86 |
| 19 | Marvin Gaye | 3 | 27 | 81 |
| 20 | Kanye West | 2 | 38 | 76 |
| 21 | A.R. Rahman | 2 | 37 | 74 |
| 22 | Roberto Carlos | 3 | 24 | 72 |
| 23 | Jay-Z | 2 | 35 | 70 |
| 24 | Scorpions | 3 | 23 | 69 |
| 25 | Eric Clapton | 4 | 16 | 64 |
| 26 | Namie Amuro | 2 | 30 | 60 |
| 27 | Blondie | 2 | 29 | 58 |
| 28 | Boyz II Men | 2 | 27 | 54 |
| 29 | Ricky Martin | 2 | 24 | 48 |
| 30 | B'z | 3 | 15 | 45 |
| 31 | Def Leppard | 3 | 15 | 45 |
| 32 | Diana Ross | 3 | 15 | 45 |
| 33 | Ace Of Base | 2 | 22 | 44 |
| 34 | Kiss | 3 | 14 | 42 |
| 35 | Adriano Celentano | 2 | 18 | 36 |
| 36 | Dr Dre | 2 | 17 | 34 |
| 37 | Foreigner | 3 | 11 | 33 |
| 38 | Carpenters | 4 | 8 | 32 |
| 39 | Lionel Richie | 3 | 10 | 30 |
| 40 | Ray Charles | 3 | 10 | 30 |
| 41 | The Beach Boys | 4 | 7 | 28 |
| 42 | Mina | 2 | 14 | 28 |
| 43 | Gloria Estefan | 3 | 8 | 24 |
| 44 | Cyndi Lauper | 1 | 24 | 24 |
| 45 | Eros Ramazzotti | 2 | 12 | 24 |
| 46 | Lenny Kravitz | 2 | 12 | 24 |
| 47 | James Brown | 3 | 7 | 21 |
| 48 | Depeche Mode | 3 | 7 | 21 |
| 49 | Dolly Parton | 1 | 21 | 21 |
| 50 | Toni Braxton | 2 | 10 | 20 |
| 51 | A-ha | 2 | 10 | 20 |
| 52 | 50 Cent | 2 | 10 | 20 |
| 53 | Alan Jackson | 3 | 6 | 18 |
| 54 | Jay Chou | 2 | 8 | 16 |
| 55 | Simply Red | 3 | 5 | 15 |
| 56 | ZZ Top | 3 | 5 | 15 |
| 57 | Cliff Richard | 3 | 5 | 15 |
| 58 | The Who | 3 | 5 | 15 |
| 59 | Alejandro Sanz | 2 | 7 | 14 |
| 60 | Motley Crue | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| 61 | James Last | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| 62 | Andrea Bocelli | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 63 | Kenny G | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 64 | Miles Davis | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 65 | Rush | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 66 | Earth, Wind & Fire | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 67 | Reba McEntire | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 68 | MC Hammer | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 69 | Will Smith | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 70 | Lil Wayne | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 71 | Arashi | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 72 | Whitesnake | 1 | 7 | 7 |
| 73 | Linda Ronstadt | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 74 | Duran Duran | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 75 | Jewel | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 76 | Paula Abdul | 1 | 6 | 6 |
| 77 | Alabama | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 78 | Alla Pugacheva | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 79 | Billy Ray Cyrus | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| 80 | Offspring | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 81 | Demis Roussos | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 82 | Chicago | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| 83 | REO Speedwagon | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 84 | Beastie Boys | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 85 | Carole King | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 86 | Willie Nelson | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| 87 | Aqua | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 88 | Neil Diamond | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| 89 | Kenny Rogers | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| 90 | Janis Joplin | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 91 | Barry White | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| 92 | Nana Mouskouri | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 93 | Bob Seger | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| 94 | Tom Petty | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| 95 | Herbert Grönemeyer | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 96 | Jethro Tull | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 97 | Jimmy Buffett | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 98 | Kid Rock | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 99 | Dixie Chicks | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 100 | John Cougar Mellencamp | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 101 | Luther Vandross | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 102 | Matchbox 20 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 103 | Boney M | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 104 | Luciano Pavarotti | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 105 | Lynyrd Skynyrd | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 106 | Creed | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 107 | Grateful Dead | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 108 | Limp Bizkit | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 109 | Juan Gabriel | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 110 | Mr. Children | 3 | 0 | 0 |
radiohead…
it’s sad to see that women are so low in the rankings. Pls update a woman every 3 artists
Well, they are so low precisely because they have been better covered up to now as they won all past requests! There are much bigger male artists left than females.
Right, however some divas not on the list of possible choices stuns me like p.e. Mary J. Blige, Donna Summer and Annie Lennox (I really think that, including her work with Eurythmics she would be above the threshold). Can you give me at least an estimate of those three? Thanks in advance
Hi Johnny be Good! On top of the ones already listed among choices, a lot more sold in the 30-50m ballpark, these include many big names. To me the first goal is to reduce the number of remaining articles to less than 100, and from that point we will keep the voting list to 100 artists, adding progressively artists who are just below the criteria. Mary J Blige should be over 40m, Annie Lennox roughly 20m on her own (we do not merge discographies to see if threshold are made as they would appear distinctively in the all-time list), Donna… Read more »
Great, thanks for the infos
About divas, the top 10 CSPC is currently as follow
1-Madonna
2-Celine Dion
3-Mariah Carey
4-Whitney Houston
5-Barbra Streisand
6-Britney Spears
7-Rihanna
8-Taylor Swift
9-Adele
10-Enya
Do you expect someone of those not yet studied might break in the divas top 10? I think it’s very difficult since Enya, who currently close the top 10 is at almost 88 mln EAS, a very high total, but I think maybe Tina Turner might have some shot, or simply the threshold is too high for the remaing divas?
Thanks in advance
Hi Johnny be Good!
Nobody will trouble this top 10 among missing artists! Some have good numbers like Tina Turner and Linda Ronstadt, but they won’t top Enya!
Not even Diana and the supremes or gloria estefan ?
Hi Fanofpop!
Merging Diana + the Supremes she may do it, but in the ranking they won’t be listed that way. Gloria is not as high.
do you think beyonce will eventually overtake enya?
enya being the 10th best selling female artist of all time doesn’t’t sot right with me for some reason
Maybe because she doesn’t have the same media exposure of the other divas. She is extremely reclusive, she rarely gives interviews and she never toured. But I think that her reclusiveness is a big part of her charm. Also most of her songs were not instant hits, but instead they achieved success little by little.
It’s a great idea but I don’t understand why we get to vote as many times as we want. Stans of all categories are gonna vote thousands of times …
It’s not unlimited voting: “Silver members can assign 3 points the way they want: 3 points to 1 artist, 1 point to 3 artists, etc.
Gold members can assign 25 points up to 10 artists, while Platinum members can assign 100 points up to 10 artists as well.”
Yup! When we “re-vote”, it erases the former vote, it’s not added! Now that users are subscribers, these votes can at last be more representative 🙂
Crosby, Stills, Nash (& Young) (might be worth doing all the solo/duo albums as well as they were all certified gold during the 70’s and they all featured on each others albums, despite being credited as individual artists, including the solo/duo releases claimed sales are 70 million)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Yes
Yeah I’m also hoping for this, it’ll be cool to get complete info on them just because as solo artists they wouldn’t have enough points to be studied so we’d otherwise never get their complete discography.
Id expect the four solo albums released after Deja Vu would all be high sellers as well. The fiftieth anniversary of Deja Vu is coming out soon, so time would be right to do it. MJD, would there be any chance when you do the CSN/Y as a band you would do the solo/duo albums as well? I know you are doing Neil Young at the moment already.
Hi cass!
CSN, CSNY and Buffalo Springfield will be treated too during Neil Young analysis.
Solo and duo albums won’t since their sales are too low compare to the time it would require. Maybe one day? 🙂
Hi Anthony, Thanks for the reply! That’s great new about CSN, CSNY and Buffalo Springfield, any chance the solo stuff from David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash and the duo’s Crosby & Nash and Stills-Young Band will be done? Considering when people speak about them they generally combine sales. For example “The trio configuration has sold around 13 million albums, while the quartet has sold around 20 million. Combined sales of the group including solo, duo, trio and quartet versions is over 70 million.” And they all played all over each others albums, the majority of their albums were… Read more »
You’re welcome cass!
I think that the best we can do is a very quick estimation of the sales thanks to discogs figures (let’s say for exemple “Stills has sold between 15 ans 20m solo albums”). If the figures are big enough they may be added to the analysis but the chance remains low!
My knowledge about sales for such precise artist is limited, so the best answer about it will be done by MJD 🙂
Hi Cass!
I need to check in greater details but to be honest it’s unlikely, Crosby, Stills and Nash sold poorly, at best they have albums at 2 million sales or so. They released so many records and have been involved in so many projects too that I think it would be too much work for the value they would bring!
Hi MJD, Thanks for the response. That’s a shame, I know its a lot to ask but would you consider doing their solo/duo albums as well to complete the whole collective (or even just their 70’s albums)? I have never seen any figures of their solo/duo albums, though claims of the whole collective together are reaching 70 million as stated above. It would feel like a missed opportunity especially as you’re doing CSN (without Neil) with Neil’s solo releases as well. I also think people forget how much of a bigger star Stills was than Young in the early 70’s… Read more »
Jimmy hendrix, a guitarist leads, really? How dull
I dont understand. And weight 3. Really?
Possibly, members with Platinum access and more points to give, are fans and have given quite a few of theirs to Hendrix.
I didn’t personally vote for him but I think I gave Maiden and Purple 45pts each.
Well, his sales results may surprise you if he gets studied 😉
I don’t see how a guitarist, leading, equates to dull. Surely, it’s the fact you have no interest in him or his sales, that makes it dull.
He released 3 albums.
These artists only interest me if they had a blockbuster like Shania Twain.
Jimmy never had such album.
Why have no interest? I don’t understand. Jimi is absolutely best guitarist. Ask Jimmy Page, Clapton, Beck…..and made beautiful songs, Wind cries Mary, Hej Joe….
Can you guys plase add The Supremes,Olivia Newton John and Tarkan
I would think The Supremes will be treated along with Diana Ross, for Olivia and Tarkan I don’t think any of them reach 50 or 30 million respectively.
Yeah but i want to know how many total records they sold
I think Oliva reach 30 million and and Selena Quitanilla where is she she sold a lot I think
Hi dery22!
We regard Olivia as an international artist so for them the bar is at 50m CSPC!
Please add the mexican singerThalía when you could. Claims of her website and media says she sold 45 million records worldwide (which is obviously inflated)!
You point out exactly why she’s not here haha, The requirement for local artists is 30m which it’s unlikely she’ll reach
Girls Generation!
Try Depeche Mode. Should Be Interesting. They(like many others) also claim
100 million… in records total.
Vote up KISS people! I think their real numbers will be a long way from their 100 million abums sold claim. Should be an interesting read 🙂