Best selling artists of all-time

Setting up accurate best selling artists lists

For decades, marketing tricks from labels and lack of education from media led to various myths about the best selling artists of all-time getting repeated so often that the general public assumed it was true.

Top CSPC – the best selling artists of all-time

The below table presents the best selling artists of all-time using the below ratios.

- Studio Album: sales of the original album

- Other LPs: sales of compilations generated thanks to the album

- Physical Singles: sales of physical singles from the album (added to CSPC total with a ratio 3/10 for 2-tracks, 5/10 for EPs and Maxis)

- Digital Singles: sales of digital singles from the album (ratio 1,5/10 for CSPC total)

- Streaming: equivalent album sales of all the album tracks (ratio 1/1500 for Audio stream and 1/11750 for Video stream)

More info: chartmasters.org