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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| # | Artist | Weight | Votes | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Xuxa | 3 | 198 | 594 |
| 2 | Frank Sinatra | 4 | 139 | 556 |
| 3 | Kanye West | 3 | 162 | 486 |
| 4 | Def Leppard | 3 | 104 | 312 |
| 5 | Ace Of Base | 2 | 128 | 256 |
| 6 | EXO | 2 | 125 | 250 |
| 7 | Aretha Franklin | 3 | 79 | 237 |
| 8 | Tina Turner | 3 | 63 | 189 |
| 9 | Diana Ross | 3 | 55 | 165 |
| 10 | Hikaru Utada | 2 | 74 | 148 |
| 11 | Jay-Z | 2 | 64 | 128 |
| 12 | Luis Miguel | 3 | 42 | 126 |
| 13 | Neil Diamond | 4 | 31 | 124 |
| 14 | Vladimir Vysotsky | 3 | 41 | 123 |
| 15 | Pearl Jam | 3 | 40 | 120 |
| 16 | Earth, Wind & Fire | 3 | 38 | 114 |
| 17 | Foreigner | 3 | 38 | 114 |
| 18 | Julio Iglesias | 4 | 28 | 112 |
| 19 | Roberto Carlos | 3 | 35 | 105 |
| 20 | B'z | 3 | 35 | 105 |
| 21 | Cliff Richard | 3 | 33 | 99 |
| 22 | Johnny Cash | 3 | 33 | 99 |
| 23 | Ricky Martin | 2 | 47 | 94 |
| 24 | Cyndi Lauper | 1 | 88 | 88 |
| 25 | Blondie | 2 | 44 | 88 |
| 26 | Marvin Gaye | 3 | 28 | 84 |
| 27 | Carpenters | 4 | 21 | 84 |
| 28 | Depeche Mode | 3 | 27 | 81 |
| 29 | 50 Cent | 2 | 40 | 80 |
| 30 | Lynyrd Skynyrd | 2 | 36 | 72 |
| 31 | The Beach Boys | 4 | 17 | 68 |
| 32 | Scorpions | 3 | 22 | 66 |
| 33 | Namie Amuro | 2 | 33 | 66 |
| 34 | Jay Chou | 2 | 31 | 62 |
| 35 | Lionel Richie | 3 | 20 | 60 |
| 36 | Boyz II Men | 2 | 28 | 56 |
| 37 | New Kids On The Block | 2 | 27 | 54 |
| 38 | BigBang | 2 | 25 | 50 |
| 39 | A-ha | 2 | 23 | 46 |
| 40 | Adriano Celentano | 2 | 23 | 46 |
| 41 | Dr Dre | 2 | 22 | 44 |
| 42 | The Who | 3 | 14 | 42 |
| 43 | Toni Braxton | 2 | 21 | 42 |
| 44 | Kiss | 3 | 14 | 42 |
| 45 | Duran Duran | 2 | 19 | 38 |
| 46 | Lil Wayne | 2 | 19 | 38 |
| 47 | Bing Crosby | 4 | 8 | 32 |
| 48 | Paula Abdul | 1 | 31 | 31 |
| 49 | Alan Jackson | 3 | 10 | 30 |
| 50 | Gloria Estefan | 3 | 10 | 30 |
| 51 | Will Smith | 2 | 13 | 26 |
| 52 | Rush | 3 | 8 | 24 |
| 53 | Alejandro Sanz | 2 | 11 | 22 |
| 54 | Dolly Parton | 1 | 22 | 22 |
| 55 | A.R. Rahman | 2 | 10 | 20 |
| 56 | ZZ Top | 3 | 6 | 18 |
| 57 | Chicago | 4 | 4 | 16 |
| 58 | Alla Pugacheva | 2 | 8 | 16 |
| 59 | Andrea Bocelli | 3 | 5 | 15 |
| 60 | Linda Ronstadt | 3 | 5 | 15 |
| 61 | Simply Red | 3 | 5 | 15 |
| 62 | Arashi | 2 | 7 | 14 |
| 63 | Kenny Rogers | 4 | 3 | 12 |
| 64 | Reba McEntire | 3 | 4 | 12 |
| 65 | Whitesnake | 1 | 12 | 12 |
| 66 | REO Speedwagon | 2 | 6 | 12 |
| 67 | Alabama | 3 | 4 | 12 |
| 68 | Billy Ray Cyrus | 1 | 11 | 11 |
| 69 | Motley Crue | 1 | 11 | 11 |
| 70 | Jethro Tull | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 71 | Carole King | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 72 | Matchbox 20 | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 73 | Tom Petty | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 74 | George Strait | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 75 | James Brown | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 76 | Miles Davis | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 77 | Demis Roussos | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 78 | Mina | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 79 | Dixie Chicks | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 80 | Lenny Kravitz | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 81 | Willie Nelson | 4 | 2 | 8 |
| 82 | MC Hammer | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 83 | Beastie Boys | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 84 | R.Kelly | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 85 | Barry White | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 86 | Bob Seger | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 87 | Eros Ramazzotti | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 88 | Luciano Pavarotti | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 89 | Jewel | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 90 | Tim McGraw | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 91 | Aqua | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 92 | Offspring | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 93 | Boney M | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 94 | Janis Joplin | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 95 | Juan Gabriel | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 96 | Herb Alpert | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| 97 | John Denver | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| 98 | Nana Mouskouri | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 99 | Nat King Cole | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| 100 | Jacky Cheung | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 101 | Zard | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 102 | Herbert Grönemeyer | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 103 | Kid Rock | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 104 | Jimmy Buffett | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 105 | Luther Vandross | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 106 | Creed | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 107 | Glay | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 108 | Limp Bizkit | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 109 | Yumi Matsutoya | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 110 | Grateful Dead | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Hi all! Just to let you know, I’ve fully concentrated on Clapton’s CSPC lately and now pure sales (albums, videos, songs) of all his products and related (himself, Yardbirds, Cream, Blind Faith, Derek & the Dominos, collabs Delaney & Bonnie / John Mayall / Howlin’ Wolf and more) are now completed. We still need to write down the last tracklists of some compilations to distribute sales, and to retrieve streaming numbers. There are still a bit of work but the huge majority is behind us. We will start by publishing the bands involved in order (starting with the Yardbirds), up… Read more »
so excited !!
Finally !!
Congratulations!
You should look into Miles Davis and Louis Armstrong. Kind of Blue is the most successful jazz album of all time but Louis Armstrong actually does better on streaming. Louis Armstrong has great numbers considering the fact that his peak was the 30s!
Hey MJD, I really do think Nicki deserves an article. She has been one of the leading figures in music pop culture in the last 12 years, is about to score a potential US #1, and is about to receive the Video Vanguard award at the VMAs along with a tribute. She also is an interesting case of someone with a vast amount of features and whose orphan section could very well dwarf any of her studio albums, or even all of them combined. Even if she’s not over 50M units, lots of leading artists of the last decade who… Read more »
Frank Sinatra sold maybe five times more than Nicki, how is she more “deserving” of an article ? And these countless featurings mean that she must be really annoying to study.
nicki is a lot more relevant than frank sinatra and they have done ton of recent acts despite them selling far less than he has so im not sure how she isnt more deserving.
Hi Chartmasters! Nice to see all these updates! A couple of months ago you said you also planned to update Arctic Monkeys and Imagine Dragons. They seem to have been skipped in favour of other artists, but are they still included in your plans for the near future? Thanks in advance for your answer!
When should we expect analysis of Eric Clapton ?
Olivia newton-john has passed away. Did she sold over 100 million albums like the reports.
Please do the research of Olivia Newton John
If I guessed, and this is just a guess, I’d say she would be around 40m without Grease + her tracks from Grease add for like idk 30m of 50m album total so around 70m total maybe a bit lower?
Where is Nicki Minaj? I noticed that ya’ll on this site don’t give to her enough credit!!! Shame on you!
I can’t believe Nicki isn’t on here, surely she deserves a spot? With the sheer volume of features she has I can imagine she is close to 50M sales in total.
Remember that with the new formula, featured artists receive at most 50% of the sales from a song they’re featured on. And if the song has multiple artists featured, that % drops much lower (25%, 16.7%, 12.5%, etc.). So keeping this in mind she might not be approaching that 50M CSPC minimum required to be studied.
Plsssss this has nothing to do with the sales…
She has twenty six Top 40 singles as a lead artist on the Hot 100. And THIRTY THREE as a featured artist. And an extra six tracks that went Top 40 but were not released as a single.
She is possibly the most prolific artist of the 2010s decade in terms of sheer number of tracks released. This volume, despite the 50% rule, leads me to believe she could be approaching the 50M number.
“Approaching 50m” isn’t enough to be in the list, and I think she’s closer to 40m anyway.
Depois que a Xuxa vencer, nós brasileiros devíamos votar no Roberto Carlos!
Vamos votar pro brasil ser representado entre os maiores músicos da história!
Eu vou de Nana Mouskouri, estou curioso para saber como são as vendas dessa mulher, é uma das artistas com as vendas mais infladas da história. Se eu perceber que ela não está ganhando, vou de Cyndi Lauper, Ricky Martin, ou New Kids on the Block.
How many do you think have a shot at joyning the 100 milion club?
if i guessed, Frank Sinatra, Neil Diamond, Eric Clapton, Beach Boys, Carpenters, Bing Crosby, Chicago, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, Julio Iglesais
less likely potentially Johnny Cash and at a stretch Diana Ross and the Supremes if combined, The Who and George Strait maybe?
so 14?
Eric Clapton, Neil Diamond can join
backstreet boys, red hot chilli peppers, the police, justin bieber and nirvana can reach this milestone on their atualization
George Strait is a big “IF” together with kenny rogers and kenny g… Lionel Richie?
Brasilian best sellers could do, maybe roberto carlos.