Tears: Ken Dodd record outsold everyone but the Beatles in the 1960s.
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 total, the boy band has moved 1.417 million album-equivalent units through the first half of 2020. Only one other group has eclipsed 1 million album units in the U.S., and they're a group to which BTS often gets compared: The Beatles.
Over the course of Elvis' life, he achieved some of the highest accolades in music and film. It is estimated that more than one billion Elvis records have been sold worldwide, more than anyone in record industry history.
Conversation. Michael Jackson, Paul McCartney and Phil Collins are the only musicians to have sold over 100 million albums as a solo artist and member of a group. I remember Phil Collins.
Elvis' 14 chart-toppers spent a combined total of 62 weeks at #1 on the “Top/Hot 100,” while The Beatles' 20 #1s spent a total of 59 weeks in the top slot.
Today, 'I Want to Hold Your Hand' remains The Beatles' highest-selling physical single of all time, with no less than 12 million copies sold worldwide.
The Beatles sold over 600 million albums worldwide, whereas Michael Jackson sold over 400 million albums worldwide. Beatlemania what a very serious thing, but a lot of that popularity is just from the members being together, how was it when they were separated?
The Beatles have the most No. 1 hits of all time: 20. Though unclear for how long, the Beatles still reign supreme as the artist with the most No. 1 songs of all time.
If you crunch the overall sales that would be correct. The Beatles have sold approximately 180 million records and Stones approximately 67 million and Zep around 110 million.
Drake with 30 passed The Beatles, who have 29, for the record over the list's 64-year history. The Beatles held the top-five mark for 55 years, having last reached the region in 1970 with 'The Long and Winding Road'/'For You Blue', which spent two weeks at Number 1.
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.
Drake has broken The Beatles' long-standing Billboard Hot 100 record streak with the most Top 5 singles over the past 55 years.
1 Beatles hit was "Come Together," which reached No. 1 on November 29, 1969, and spent 16 weeks on the charts. "I Want to Hold Your Hand" reached No. 1 on February 1, 1964, and "She Loves You" reached No.
As the Beatle with the longest solo career, it's no surprise Paul McCartney has the most solo number one singles. Paul can lay claim to nine number-one songs outside of The Beatles. His biggest hit was Wings' 'Silly Love Songs', which held the top spot for five non-consecutive weeks in May, June and July of 1976.
Most number one singles by a songwriter (US/UK)
McCartney is credited as the writer on 32 number one hits in the US to Lennons 26 (with 23 co-written), whereas Lennon authored 29 UK number ones to McCartney's 28 (25 co-written).
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.
While Lennon composed most of the songs for the Beatles (by a low margin) and had the most number-one hits in the UK (29), McCartney has the highest percentage of hits reaching the top chart (49%) and most number-one hits in the US (32). But as we all know, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
As of June 2023, "Blinding Lights" (2019) by Canadian singer the Weeknd is the most-streamed song of all time on Spotify, while "Dance Monkey" (2019) by Australian singer-songwriter Tones and I is the most-streamed song by a female artist.