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	List of best-selling music artists - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Thus, the list cannot be considered definitive, and must be taken with a grain of salt.
		This table represents the album sales of artists that are popular both in the USA and in the world.
		Also since this technique is based on album sales, it will tend to undercount those artists popular in the 1960s and before, when singles were much more popular relative to albums than they have been since then.
	www.secaucus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Best_selling_music_artists (451 words)

	RIAA certification - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		See Gold album.) Certification is not automatic; for an award to be made, the record label must pay a fee to have the sales of the recording audited.
		The best-selling album in the United States is The Eagles' Greatest Hits, which has gone 28 times platinum, meaning it has sold 28 million copies.
		The best selling album worldwide is Michael Jackson's Thriller, which has worldwide sales of over 51 million copies (5 Diamond and 1x Platinum)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/RIAA_certification (254 words)

	Best Selling Albums Of All Time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Best is a municipality and a town in the southern Netherlands.
		Some albumshave compartments which the photos may be slipped in to; older style albums often were simply books of heavy paper which photoscould be glued to or attached to with adhesive corners.
		Now that albums are on CD and new media, the matter of how long an album should be is open to debate.
	www.daikaiju.com /edge/25377-best%20selling%20albums%20of%20all%20time.html (1211 words)

	The Wall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Hailed by critics and fans as one of Pink Floyd's best albums (along with Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here), the album is known as a rock and roll classic, and its morbid, depressing anthems have inspired many contemporary rock musicians.
		The album has been certified 23 times platinum and sits in third place on the list of best-selling albums ever in the US and hit #1 on the Billboard Album Charts in 1980.
		The album's storyline portrays the fictional life of an anti-hero ("Pink") who is hammered and beaten down by society from the earliest days of his life: smothered by his mother and oppressed at school, he withdraws into a fantasy world of his own.
	www.marylandheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/The_Wall (2081 words)

	Popdirt.com - Pop Artists On 100 Best Selling Albums List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		MJNI.com has posted a list of the top 100 best selling albums of all time.
		Michael Jackson tops the list with his 1983 album, 'Thriller,' with over 54 million copies sold.
		The Beatles have the most albums on the list with six, followed by Michael Jackson and Mariah Carey with five each.
	www.popdirt.com /print21448.html (106 words)

	USATODAY.com - 10 years of best sellers: How the landscape has changed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Best sellers (top 10 hardcover fiction, top 10 hardcover non-fiction, top 10 trade paperbacks and top 10 mass-market paperbacks) accounted for only 4% of sales last year at the largest retailer, Barnes and Noble, vice president Bob Wietrak says.
		Simon and Schuster's editor in chief, Michael Korda, says best sellers have always been a mixture of "quality and trash, of literature for the ages and self-improvement schemes." For better or worse, the list is a way of assessing the culture.
		Selling books is a hit-driven business, especially for the five biggest publishers (Random House, Penguin, Simon and Schuster, HarperCollins and Time Warner), now all part of entertainment conglomerates.
	usatoday.com /life/books/news/2004-03-10-bookslist-decade-main_x.htm (1886 words)

	U2 Feedback - The Best Selling Albums released after January 1, 2000 WORLDWIDE!
		Albums on the previous list without any confirmed new sales level are listed at the same sales level as before.
		If an album sold 4 million in the USA and 4 million in Europe, I gave it 4 million in sales for the other area's of the world for a combined total of 12 million, unless I had exact info from the record company giving the real total.
		The first list was based on a lot on information posted by the record companies and matched very well with the formula I used for estimating the sales of other albums that I had less info for.
	forum.interference.com /t59505.html (1407 words)

	List of best-selling music artists - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Thus, there are few if any reliable figures to go into this list.
		The ratio between their US and worldwide album sales can be helpful in estimating the worlwide sales of artists that are similar in their US and worldwide exposure but only have US sales figures.
		This technique may also undercount artists who sometimes record in other languages in addition to English, since they will likely have a larger worldwide audience.
	www.bonneylake.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Best_selling_music_artists (451 words)

	AskMen.com - Best selling album of all time
		This was the third album from the Canadian babe.
		She had started her ascent into social consciousness with country music, but as she grew in popularity, it was obvious that she had also struck a chord with mainstream audiences.
		This album came at the right time, as it was exactly what fans were looking for.
	www.askmen.com /toys/top_10_60/67_top_10_list.html (731 words)

	The Best Selling Albums of All Time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		You can listen to and purchase the albums listed by linking to Amazon by clicking on hypertext in the list.
		For boxed sets and double albums with a running time that exceeds 100 minutes, the RIAA multiplies shipments by the number of discs (or its tape or vinyl equivalent).
		All of the albums on this chart are certified at a diamond level for sales of 10 million or more.
	members.aol.com /PaulHry/music/riaa.html (186 words)

	Isn't greatness required for 'greatest hits'?
		NEW YORK -- A greatest-hits album once stood as a watershed -- a milestone chronicling a collection of top-rated hits, culturally significant songs or the end of a stellar career.
		But in recent years, a flood of ''best of'' titles from acts with only few years in the business -- and performers with even fewer hits -- have called into question how great a greatest-hits collection is.
		The following are popular greatest-hits albums, their ranking on the list of best-selling albums of all time and number of copies sold in the United States:
	www.suntimes.com /output/music/cst-ftr-hits22.html (720 words)

	Shania Twain Honors (Recent/Selected)
		Remains the top selling country album ever and the top selling female artist album (in any genre) of all time, now tied (again) for the #6 best selling CD in music history (with other albums from the '70s and 80s).
		Though ranks of the top-selling albums fluctuate, it is now tied as the 5th best selling album in history (the other albums ranked 1-5 were released from the '60s to mid '80s).
		Since she won the Best Selling Country Artist in 1996, some of the WMA categories change from year to year on a whim, so this is very minor news.
	www.shania.com /shonors.htm (4314 words)

	Encyclopedia: List of best selling albums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		List of best_selling singles in the United States
		List of best selling singles by year (UK)
		Other descriptions of List of best selling albums
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-best-selling-albums (99 words)

	Variety.com - 'Heart' breaking as top album
		Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
		Billy RayBilly Ray Cyrus is the odds-on favorite to cop the top-selling album of 1992, while Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" is the leading candidate for best-selling single of the year, according to data compiled by SoundScan, the point-of-sale monitoring system for the nation's retail outlets.
		Albums currently topping the Billboard charts, which are based either wholly or in part on SoundScan data, include Houston's soundtrack for "The Bodyguard" as the top-selling album on the Billboard 200 and the R&BR&B album chart, with its "I Will Always Love You" single atop the Hot 100 singles and the R&B singles charts.
	www.variety.com /article/VR102446?categoryid=16&cs=1 (699 words)

	arabic music ARAMUSIC Discussion Board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Also in Alahram his albums were proclaimed as topping the list of best-selling albums.
		Unlike others, Kazem's sales and popularity are not only based on what producing companies or newspapers and magazines write (different magazines write differently), but Kazem's concerts confirm clearly the facts.
		His concerts have been the highest selling since years, and this year he not only stopped at that, but he also broke all previous records in all of the festivals he participated in.
	www.aramusic.com /bbs/archives00.pl?read=18339 (138 words)

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	objections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The best-selling albums in the U.S. has Shania (for whom the memory register in my head is “that redheaded country singer") Twain’s (1997) “Come on Over” in the top ten.
		Here’s a short list of albums that undersold Shania Twain:
		Don’t get me wrong: America has some serious explaining to do for the list list of best-selling albums of all time.
	www.ibiblio.org /lenhart/objections/index.php?m=20041204 (150 words)

	U2 Feedback - The best selling albums released after January 1, 2000 in the USA!
		This is a list of the best selling albums released after January 2000 in the USA.
		Eminem's new album will probably make an addition to this list in the next month depending on how large the initial 2 month shipment for his album is. U2 of course are nearly on top of the 4,000,000 in actual units sold tracked by soundscan.
		That album did pretty poorly in relation to their last albums and really didn't have near the success that ATYCLB did on the charts.
	forum.interference.com /t59458.html (863 words)

	Journey Newspaper / Magazine Article
		For Journey lovers, 1997 is a landmark year, as one of the best-selling rock bands in history reunites to please audiences with their classic material-- as well as songs from their first studio record in ten years, Trial By Fire.
		Then we tried to hone down the best of those because the lyric and final melody writing was rather painstaking for Jon and Steve, and they didn't want to do it if it was unnecessary.
		We had a list of some of the old Journey tunes we were going to play, which none of us had played for all those years.
	www.journey-tribute.com /journey/resources/articles/97_moderndrummer2.html (5766 words)

	Record-Breakers and Trivia - Albums - everyHit.com
		Longest stay in the Top 40 by an album recorded by a group is "Dark Side Of The Moon" by Pink Floyd (211 weeks: 1973-2003).
		These are artists who had one Number One album and have been involved in no other hit album (with the possible exception of inclusion on compilations).
		Biggest climb by an album recorded by a group is The Shadows' "String Of Hits" (up 36 places to no. 3 in Mar 1980).
	www.everyhit.com /recordalb.html (2540 words)

	catallaxy » Blog Archive » Is Bookscan bad for Australia’s reading habits? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Once upon a time the bestseller lists in the book review sections of the Fairfax papers were compiled from a few mostly inner city upmarket bookstores, probably the shops frequented by people who read the literary pages in Saturday newspapers.
		A study of The New York Times bestseller list indicated that for known authors appearance on the list could be worth an extra 13% or 14% in sales over a year, but for new authors it was a huge 57% extra.
		The bestseller lists in the newspaper book pages should track the kinds of books their readers are likely to be interested in, rather than the books that everyone else reads.
	badanalysis.com /catallaxy/index.php?p=597 (1316 words)

	The best-selling albums of all-time as of Nov. 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		And the trend towards artists releasing relatively longer (CD-length) albums spaced a few years apart has resulted in more "mega-albums" that continue to spin off hits and run up their sales totals long after a '70s artist would have closed the book and moved on to a new album.
		It was basically impossible for an album from the '60s or '70s to sell anywhere near the number of copies during its run as a current release as a typical big hit album from today does, and few albums from any era enjoy enough catalog sales to make up that kind of defecit.
		The few older albums that score high on the list are releases that have long histories of very heavy catalog sales, many of them not individual studio releases but greatest-hits compilations.
	www.seriousliving.net /new-2980837-470.html (2512 words)

	Michaholics - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		To this day it has sold 30 million copies, making it Michael's second entry in the top five list of the best selling albums of all time with Thriller still standing firm as the number one.
		It is, to this day, regarded by many fans as Michael's best tour with his performance level at it's peak.
		During the ongoing battle Michael produced an album of new music and in the midst of tapes being stolen from the recording studio and leaked to radio stations, and the whole album being put on Sony's official web site to "listen to", there was no promotion.
	www.michaholic.com /bio2.htm (1367 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		For more information about sales data see list of best selling albums and list of best selling singles.
		The RIAA was formed in 1952 to administer the RIAA equalization curve, applied to vinyl records during cutting and playback.
		Recently, several industry companies as well as RIAA opponents have claimed that the group artificially expands its membership by listing companies which are not member of RIAA, and do not wish to be.
	www.alanaditescili.net /index.php?title=RIAA (1388 words)

	1970s Best-Selling Albums Based on Sales - All Info About Web Almanac - Your Guide To Current Explorations on the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		From the sweet country sounds of John Denver, Kenny Rogers, and Willie Nelson to Saturday Night Fever disco to classic and glam rock, the decade of the 1970s produced some of the best classic rock albums by artists such as Pink Floyd, Elton John, and Led Zeppelin.
		This list is based on recording industry sales.
		Album of the Year; Record of the Year; Song of the Year; Best Contemporary Song; Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists; Best Engineered Record
	webalmanac.allinfoabout.com /music/1970.html (243 words)

	Shania.com: The Shania Twain Supersite - Content Index
		Shania's album "Come On Over: The International Version" was released November 23, 1999 in North America, with new "pop-country" mixes/remixes of tracks previously available only on the international version of her album, and new album cover photo & artwork.
		In the USA "Come On Over" is the best-selling album by a female artist in any genre, and the best-selling country album of all time.
		The album went #1/Top 5 "pop" in most every international territory, garnering accolades as #1 selling album of the year in the UK & Australia, in addition to its historic success in the US and Canada.
	www.shania.com /index2.htm (711 words)

	Global music sales down 5% in 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Sales of CD albums fell globally by 5%, and there were declines in sales of singles (-16%) and cassettes (-10%).
		Eighteen of the 20 top-selling albums in France carried French repertoire; in the UK, domestic artists accounted for the top seven best-selling albums last year.
		Three of the world's top five markets - the US, Japan and Germany - attribute a significant part of their sharp drop in recorded music sales in 2001 to the proliferation of free music and piracy.
	www.ifpi.org /site-content/press/20020415.html (657 words)

	Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This is a selective list of resources for finding books, scores, journal articles, reference sources, citation style guides, Internet resources and organizations for music.
		This title features 500 composers' profiles with biographies, contact information, list of works with the place and date of first performances, and an article discussing the composer's influences, innovations, and analysis of at least one major work.
		Lists of various music awards compiled by the University of Washington.
	www-lib.uwyo.edu /subres/display.cfm?id=58 (1014 words)

	E! Online News - "Hybrid" Parked on Top of 2001 Charts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		While the guys in Linkin Park are undoubtedly psyched about their finish, the rest of the record industry isn't ready to pop the Champagne: 2001 sales were down from 2000, the first such drop since the New York-based SoundScan began keeping tabs on statistics in 1991.
		Overall album sales in 2001 were about 762.8 million, 3 percent off from the record 785.1 million sold in 2000.
		Meanwhile, SoundScan also updated its list of top-selling albums of the past decade, with Shania Twain's Come on Over upping its total to 14 million copies to steal the top spot from Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill.
	www.eonline.com /News/Items/Pf/0,1527,9331,00.html (446 words)

	Linda McKechinie \|\| Appearance Schedule
		The collaborative efforts of this Steinway Artist and the orchestration of her brother, arranger, and producer, Don Marsh, have recorded a long list of best selling instrumental albums.
		Look at her web-site for a list of keyboard music, coordinating orchestrations and string quartets, solo treble instrumental music with piano, orchestrated CD track accompaniments, handbell music and commissions, and wedding music ideas for a traditional, elegant Christian wedding.
		Being a wife of a Presbyterian Pastor and mother of two grown children, Linda has successfully realized one of her dreams later on in life: to become a recording artist and concert pianist and share her faith through music around the world.
	www.lindamckechnie.com /Main/Appearance.html (513 words)

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