Led Zeppelin: In 1973, Led Zeppelin played to 56,800 fans at Tampa Stadium, Florida - which broke the record previously set by The Beatles at Shea Stadium in 1965, as they played to a mere 55,600 fans.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, British rock band The Beatles are top of the list for best-selling artists worldwide, with 183 million units certified sales. Second is Garth Brooks with over 157 million units sales, followed by Elvis Presley with 139 million units.
In a decade that produced countless hits for The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley, Tom Jones, Frank Sinatra, Cliff Richard and many more, Ken Dodd's track outsold them all – except for two songs by The Beatles: She Loves You and I Want to Hold Your Hand, both released in 1963.
Their contribution to music has given both bands and individual members places in the Guinness book of records, with The Beatles having a total of 25 Guinness World Records and BTS 23.
In terms of numbers, The Beatles have sold 36.5 million more albums in the U.S. than Elvis, yet Elvis sold 25.5 million more singles than The Beatles.
The Beatles sold over 600 million albums worldwide, whereas Michael Jackson sold over 400 million albums worldwide.
The Beatles were basically the biggest thing ever, when it comes to mainstream music. Led Zeppelin could maybe be considered similar to an extent for a sub category of rock music, but in full reality, as huge as Zeppelin was, it really isn't even close.
"More popular than Jesus" is part of a remark made by John Lennon of the Beatles in a March 1966 interview in which he argued that the public were more infatuated with the band than with Jesus and that Christian faith was declining to the extent that it might be outlasted by rock music.
Swift's run atop the Billboard 200 is remarkable, but it still pales in comparison to the Beatles. The Fab Four launched a whopping 19 albums to the top of the chart, with 12 of them ruling for six weeks or more. Those 12 titles include, in descending order of weeks at the top: Sgt.
As teenagers, The Beatles, especially John Lennon, were strongly influenced by Elvis Presley. They started wearing their hair slicked back like Elvis. They admired his rebelliousness and his appeal to women, not to mention his musical talent. “Nothing affected me until I heard Elvis,” John Lennon said.
A secretive meeting between the Fab Four and the King. On August 27, 1965, a turning point in pop culture occurred at 525 Perugia Way in Bel Air, California, one that few knew about while it was taking place: the meeting between the four Beatles and Elvis Presley, in Elvis's home.
As to be expected, due to his far greater number of total chart entries, Elvis has the advantage over The Beatles in most performance categories. Presley placed 102 titles in Billboard's top 40, while The Beatles had 50 entries that made it that far up the chart.
Drake has officially broken The Beatles' Billboard Hot 100 record, which they held for 55 years. The Canadian rapper now has more songs on the top five hits in Hot 100 history than any other artist thanks to his recent collaboration with DJ Khaled and Lil Baby on the hit "Staying Alive." The song debuted at No.
John Lennon liked the upstart band's sound, and Led Zeppelin copied The Beatles' playbook with several albums in quick succession early in their career. Speaking of early careers, Jimmy Page said Led Zeppelin was better than The Beatles when it came to one aspect of their music — improvisation.
It's fair to say that in Britain, before The Beatles, there was Cliff Richard and The Shadows. The group were the closest thing Britain had to a rock 'n' roll band and did draw on a lot of American inspiration with a slight British twist.
Beatlemania hit the UK in 1963 and the US in 1964. From the footage and by all accounts it's fair to say that even at that early stage they were the most popular act in the world, and the biggest pop phenomenon in music history, even bigger than Elvis.
An analysis of the median number of song counts shows some interesting facts: Paul was the most popular Beatle! His median stream count is almost double that of John's.
Which Beatle had the most successful solo career? Despite Harrison's accolade, Paul McCartney achieved the greatest chart success through the sheer quantity of music he has released.
As a recording group, The Monkees sold more than 65 million albums worldwide and claim to have outsold the Beatles and the Rolling Stones between 1967-1968.
Canadian rapper Drake has surpassed the record of the legendary English rock band - The Beatles as he has officially become the artist with the most top five hits in Billboard Hot 100 history. He achieved the feat with DJ Khaled's 'Staying Alive,' on which he and Lil Baby are featured, debuting at No.
Paul McCartney says Oasis' claim that they were bigger than The Beatles was the biggest mistake of Oasis' career.