List of best-selling music artists

The following list of best-selling music artists includes those music acts from the 20th century to the present with claims of 75 million or more record sales worldwide. ^[1]

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ABBA

ABBA are a Swedish pop supergroup formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad.

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ABC News (Australia)

ABC News, also known as ABC News and Current Affairs and overseas as ABC Australia, is a public news service produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

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ABC News (United States)

ABC News is the news division of the American television network ABC.

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AC/DC

AC/DC are an Australian rock band formed in 1973.

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Adele

Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (born 5 May 1988), known mononymously as Adele, is an English singer-songwriter.

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Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the 1980s to the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quiet storm and rock influence. List of best-selling music artists and Adult contemporary music are popular music.

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Aerosmith

Aerosmith is an American rock band formed in Boston in 1970.

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Alabama (band)

Alabama is an American country music band formed in Fort Payne, Alabama, in 1969.

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Album-equivalent unit

The album-equivalent unit, or album equivalent, is a measurement unit in music industry to define the consumption of music that equals the purchase of one album copy.

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Albuquerque Journal

The Albuquerque Journal is the largest newspaper in the U.S. state of New Mexico.

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Alicia Keys

Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), known professionally as Alicia Keys, is an American singer and songwriter.

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All Day (Kanye West song)

"All Day" is a song by American rapper Kanye West.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.

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Alternative rock

Alternative rock (also known as alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a category of rock music that evolved from the independent music underground of the 1970s.

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Aretha Franklin

Aretha Louise Franklin (March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist.

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Argentine Chamber of Phonograms and Videograms Producers

The Argentine Chamber of Phonograms and Videograms Producers (Cámara Argentina de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas, CAPIF) is an Argentine organization member of the IFPI, which represents the music industry in the country.

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Ariana Grande

Ariana Grande-Butera (born June 26, 1993) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress.

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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is the newspaper of record in the U.S. state of Arkansas, printed in Little Rock with a northwest edition published in Lowell.

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Art rock

Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that generally reflects a challenging or avant-garde approach to rock, or which makes use of modernist, experimental, or unconventional elements.

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Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas

Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas (AMPROFON) (English: Mexican Association of Producers of Phonograms and Videograms, A.C.) is a non-profit organization integrated by multinational and national record companies in Mexico.

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Associação Fonográfica Portuguesa

The Associação Fonográfica Portuguesa (AFP; English: Portuguese Phonographic Association) is the recording industry association of the major labels in Portugal.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Australian Recording Industry Association

The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) is a trade association representing the Australian recording industry which was established in the 1970s by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers (AARM) which was formed in 1956.

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Ayumi Hamasaki

is a Japanese singer, songwriter, record producer, actress, model, spokesperson, and entrepreneur.

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B'z

is a Japanese rock duo consisting of guitarist, composer and producer Takahiro "Tak" Matsumoto and vocalist and lyricist Koshi Inaba,佐伯明『B'z ウルトラクロニクル』ソニー・マガジンズ、2003年。新型光「」 R25、2005年12月15日。（参照：2007年5月1日。） known for their energetic hard rock tracks and pop rock ballads.

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Backstreet Boys

The Backstreet Boys (often abbreviated as BSB) are an American vocal group consisting of Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, AJ McLean, and cousins Brian Littrell and Kevin Richardson.

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Barbra Streisand

Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand (born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, songwriter, producer, and director.

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Barry Manilow

Barry Manilow (born Barry Alan Pincus; June 17, 1943) is an American singer and songwriter with a career that spans seven decades.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Bee Gees

The Bee Gees --> were a musical group formed in 1958 by brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb.

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Belgian Entertainment Association

The Belgian Entertainment Association (BEA) is the organization that represents the interests of the music, video and video game industries in Belgium.

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Beyoncé

Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter (Knowles; born September 4, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, and businesswoman.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.

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Billy Joel

William Martin Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter and pianist.

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Black Eyed Peas

Black Eyed Peas (also known as The Black Eyed Peas) is an American musical group consisting of rappers will.i.am, apl.de.ap and Taboo.

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Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News (originally Bloomberg Business News) is an international news agency headquartered in New York City and a division of Bloomberg L.P. Content produced by Bloomberg News is disseminated through Bloomberg Terminals, Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets, Bloomberg.com, and Bloomberg's mobile platforms.

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Blues rock

Blues rock is a fusion genre and form of rock music that relies on the chords/scales and instrumental improvisation of blues.

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan; born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter.

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Bob Marley

Robert Nesta Marley (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) was a Jamaican reggae singer, guitarist, and songwriter.

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Bob Seger

Robert Clark Seger (born May 6, 1945) is a retired American singer, songwriter, and musician.

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Bon Jovi

Bon Jovi is an American rock band formed in 1983 in Sayreville, New Jersey.

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British Phonographic Industry

British Phonographic Industry (BPI) is the British recorded music industry's Trade association.

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Britney Spears

Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American singer.

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Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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Bruno Mars

Peter Gene Hernandez (born October 8, 1985), known professionally as Bruno Mars, is an American singer-songwriter.

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Bryan Adams

Bryan Guy Adams (born November 5, 1959) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, and photographer.

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Bundesverband Musikindustrie

The (English: Federal Music Industry Association), or simply BVMI, represents the music industry in Germany.

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Cashbox (magazine)

Cashbox, also known as Cash Box, is an American music industry trade magazine, originally published weekly from July 1942 to November 1996.

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CBC News

CBC News is a division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely CBC Television, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC.ca.

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CBS News

CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio broadcaster CBS.

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CBS News Sunday Morning

CBS News Sunday Morning (frequently shortened to Sunday Morning) is an American television newsmagazine that has aired on CBS since January 28, 1979.

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Celine Dion

Céline Marie Claudette Dion (born 30 March 1968) is a Canadian singer.

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Celtic music

Celtic music is a broad grouping of music genres that evolved out of the folk music traditions of the Celtic people of Northwestern Europe (the modern Celtic nations).

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Chanson

A chanson (chanson française) is generally any lyric-driven French song.

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Cher

Cher (born Cherilyn Sarkisian on May 20, 1946) is an American singer, actress, and television personality.

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Chicago (band)

Chicago is an American rock band formed in Chicago in 1967.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.

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Chris Brown

Christopher Maurice Brown (born May 5, 1989) is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actor.

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Christina Aguilera

Christina María Aguilera (born December 18, 1980) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and television personality.

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Circle Chart

The Circle Chart, previously known as the Gaon Music Chart or the Gaon Chart, tabulates the relative weekly popularity of songs and albums in South Korea.

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CNBC

CNBC is an American business news channel owned by NBCUniversal News Group, a unit of Comcast's NBCUniversal.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.

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Coldplay

Coldplay are a British rock band formed in London in 1997, consisting of vocalist and pianist Chris Martin, lead guitarist Jonny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman, drummer and percussionist Will Champion, and manager Phil Harvey.

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Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.

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Contemporary R&B

Contemporary R&B (or simply R&B) is a popular music genre that combines rhythm and blues with elements of pop, soul, funk, hip hop, and electronic music.

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Country music

Country (also called country and western) is a music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and the Southwest. List of best-selling music artists and country music are popular music.

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Country pop

Country pop (also known as urban cowboy) is a fusion genre of country music and pop music that was developed by members of the country genre out of a desire to reach a larger, mainstream audience.

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Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. List of best-selling music artists and dance music are popular music.

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Dance-pop

Dance-pop is a subgenre of pop music that originated in the late 1970s to early 1980s.

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David Bowie

David Robert Jones (8 January 194710 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter, musician, and actor.

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Def Leppard

Def Leppard are an English rock band formed in 1976 in Sheffield.

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Deutsche Welle

("German Wave"), commonly shortened to DW, is a German public, state-owned international broadcaster funded by the German federal tax budget.

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Dire Straits

Dire Straits were a British rock band formed in London in 1977 by Mark Knopfler (lead vocals and lead guitar), David Knopfler (rhythm guitar and backing vocals), John Illsley (bass guitar and backing vocals) and Pick Withers (drums and percussion).

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Disco

Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the late 1960s from the United States' urban nightlife scene.

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Donna Summer

Donna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948May 17, 2012), known professionally as Donna Summer, was an American singer and songwriter.

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Drake (musician)

Aubrey Drake Graham (born October 24, 1986), known mononymously as Drake, is a Canadian rapper, singer, and actor.

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Eagles (band)

The Eagles are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1971.

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Earth, Wind & Fire

Earth, Wind & Fire (EW&F or EWF) is an American band whose music spans the genres of jazz, R&B, soul, funk, disco, pop, Latin, and Afro-pop.

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Ed Sheeran

Edward Christopher Sheeran (born 17 February 1991) is an English singer-songwriter.

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El País

() is a Spanish-language daily newspaper in Spain.

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Electronic dance music

Electronic dance music (EDM), also referred to as club music, is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres originally made for nightclubs, raves, and festivals.

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Electronic music

Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation. List of best-selling music artists and electronic music are popular music.

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Elton John

Sir Elton Hercules John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is a British singer, songwriter and pianist.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), known mononymously as Elvis, was an American singer and actor.

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Eminem

Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), known professionally as Eminem (stylized as EMINƎM), is an American rapper, music producer and songwriter.

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Enya

Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin (born 17 May 1961) known mononymously as Enya, is an Irish composer and singer-songwriter.

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Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton (born 1945) is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Essence (magazine)

Essence (stylized in all caps) is an American monthly lifestyle magazine covering fashion, beauty, entertainment, and culture.

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Euronews

Euronews (stylised in lowercase) is a European television news network, headquartered in Lyon, France.

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Evening Standard

The Evening Standard, formerly The Standard (1827–1904), is a long-established newspaper, since 2009 a local free newspaper in tabloid format, with a website on the Internet, published in London, England.

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Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana

The Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana (FIMI) or Federation of the Italian Music Industry is an umbrella organization that keeps track of virtually all aspects of the music recording industry in Italy.

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Financial Times

The Financial Times (FT) is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and also published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs.

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Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac are a British-American rock band formed in London in 1967 by guitarist and singer Peter Green.

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Flo Rida

Tramar Lacel Dillard (born September 16, 1979), better known by his stage name Flo Rida, is an American rapper and singer.

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Folk music

Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.

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Folk rock

Folk rock is a fusion genre of rock music with heavy influences from pop, English and American folk music.

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Folk-pop

Folk-pop is a broad musical style that includes contemporary folk songs with pop arrangements, and pop songs with intimate, acoustic-based folk arrangements.

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Foreigner (band)

Foreigner is a British-American rock band formed in New York City in 1976 by guitarist Mick Jones, vocalist Lou Gramm, drummer Dennis Elliott, keyboardist Al Greenwood, bassist Ed Gagliardi and multi-instrumentalist Ian McDonald, the last of whom was also a founding member of King Crimson.

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Fox News

The Fox News Channel (FNC), commonly known as Fox News, is an American multinational conservative news and political commentary television channel and website based in New York City.

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France 24

France 24 (vingt-quatre in French) is a French publicly-funded international news television network based in Paris.

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Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the mid-20th century. List of best-selling music artists and Funk are popular music.

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Funk rock

Funk rock is a fusion genre that mixes elements of funk and rock.

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Garth Brooks

Troyal Garth Brooks (born February 7, 1962) is an American country singer and songwriter.

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Genesis (band)

Genesis were an English rock band formed at Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey, in 1967.

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George Michael

George Michael (born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou; 25 June 1963 – 25 December 2016) was an English singer-songwriter, record producer and philanthropist.

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George Strait

George Harvey Strait Sr. (born May 18, 1952) is an American country music singer, songwriter, actor, and music producer.

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Glam metal

Glam metal (also known as hair metal or pop metal) is a subgenre of heavy metal that features pop-influenced hooks and guitar riffs, upbeat rock anthems, and slow power ballads.

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Global Recording Artist of the Year

The Global Recording Artist of the Year is an award presented by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) to honor the year's commercially best-performing musician, based on global album-equivalent units earned, which includes music downloads, streaming and physical sales. List of best-selling music artists and global Recording Artist of the Year are popular music.

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Gloria Estefan

Gloria María Milagrosa Estefan (née Fajardo García; born 1 September 1957) is a Cuban-American singer, actress, and businesswoman.

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Gospel

Gospel (εὐαγγέλιον; evangelium) originally meant the Christian message ("the gospel"), but in the 2nd century it came to be used also for the books in which the message was reported.

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Gospel music

Gospel music is a genre of Christian Music that spreads the word of God and a cornerstone of Christian media.

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Green Day

Green Day is an American rock band formed in Rodeo, California in 1987 by lead vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong and bassist and backing vocalist Mike Dirnt, with drummer Tré Cool joining in 1990.

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Grunge

Grunge (sometimes referred to as the Seattle sound) is an alternative rock genre and subculture which emerged during the in the U.S. state of Washington, particularly in Seattle and nearby towns.

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Guns N' Roses

Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in March 1985 when local bands Hollywood Rose and L.A. Guns merged.

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Hard rock

Hard rock or heavy rock is a heavier subgenre of rock music typified by aggressive vocals and distorted electric guitars.

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Heavy metal music

Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States. List of best-selling music artists and Heavy metal music are popular music.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from the African American community.

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Hip house

Hip house, also known as rap house or house rap, is a musical genre that mixes elements of house music and hip hop music, that originated in both London, United Kingdom and Chicago, United States in the mid-to-late 1980s.

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Hitlisten

Hitlisten, also known as Tracklisten, is a Danish top 40 record chart that is updated every Wednesday at midnight on the website hitlisten.nu.

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Houston Chronicle

The Houston Chronicle is the largest daily newspaper in Houston, Texas, United States.

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IFPI Danmark

IFPI Danmark is the Danish branch of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and is the official charts provider and recording sales certification body for Denmark.

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Imagine Dragons

Imagine Dragons are an American pop rock band formed in 2008, based in Las Vegas, Nevada, and currently consisting of lead singer Dan Reynolds, guitarist Wayne Sermon, and bassist Ben McKee.

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India Today

India Today is a weekly Indian English-language news magazine published by Living Media India Limited.

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IndieWire

IndieWire is a film industry and film criticism website that was established in 1996.

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International Federation of the Phonographic Industry

The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) is the organisation that represents the interests of the recording industry worldwide.

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Irish Independent

The Irish Independent is an Irish daily newspaper and online publication which is owned by Independent News & Media (INM), a subsidiary of Mediahuis.

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Irish Recorded Music Association

The Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) is a non-profit association set up in 1999 to promote certain interests of the music industry in Ireland.

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J-pop

(often stylized in all caps; an abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music"), natively also known simply as, is the name for a form of popular music that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s.

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Jamaica

Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At, it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and south-east of the Cayman Islands (a British Overseas Territory).

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James Taylor

James Vernon Taylor (born March 12, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.

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Janet Jackson

Janet Damita Jo Jackson (born May 16, 1966) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and dancer.

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Jay-Z

Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969), known professionally as Jay-Z, is an American rapper and entrepreneur.

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Johnny Cash

John R. Cash (born J. R. Cash; February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter.

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Johnny Hallyday

Jean-Philippe Léo Smet (15 June 1943 – 5 December 2017), better known by his stage name Johnny Hallyday, was a French rock and roll and pop singer and actor, credited with having brought rock and roll to France.

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Journey (band)

Journey is an American rock band formed in San Francisco in 1973 by former members of Santana, the Steve Miller Band, and Frumious Bandersnatch.

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Julio Iglesias

Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva (born 23 September 1943) is a Spanish singer, songwriter and former professional footballer.

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Justin Bieber

Justin Drew Bieber (born March 1, 1994) is a Canadian singer.

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Justin Timberlake

Justin Randall Timberlake (born January 31, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor.

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KABC-TV

KABC-TV (channel 7) is a television station in Los Angeles, California, United States, serving as the West Coast flagship of the ABC network.

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Kanye West

Ye (born Kanye Omari West; June 8, 1977) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and fashion designer.

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Katy Perry

Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson (born October 25, 1984), known professionally as Katy Perry, is an American singer, songwriter, and television personality.

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Kenny G

Kenneth Bruce Gorelick (born June 5, 1956), known professionally as Kenny G, is an American smooth jazz saxophonist, composer, and producer.

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Kenny Rogers

Kenny Rogers (August 21, 1938 – March 20, 2020) was an American singer and songwriter.

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KHOU

KHOU (channel 11) is a television station in Houston, Texas, United States, affiliated with CBS.

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Kiss (band)

Kiss (often styled as KISS) was an American rock band formed in New York City in 1973 by Paul Stanley (vocals, rhythm guitar), Gene Simmons (vocals, bass guitar), Ace Frehley (lead guitar, vocals) and Peter Criss (drums, vocals).

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KYTV (TV station)

KYTV (channel 3) is a television station in Springfield, Missouri, United States, affiliated with NBC.

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Lady Gaga

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (born March 28, 1986), known professionally as Lady Gaga, is an American singer-songwriter and actress.

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Las Vegas Review-Journal

The Las Vegas Review-Journal is a daily subscription newspaper published in Las Vegas, Nevada, since 1909.

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Latin music

Latin music (Portuguese and música latina) is a term used by the music industry as a catch-all category for various styles of music from Ibero-America, which encompasses Latin America, Spain, Portugal, and the Latino population in Canada and the United States, as well as music that is sung in either Spanish and/or Portuguese. List of best-selling music artists and latin music are popular music.

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Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin were an English rock band formed in London in 1968.

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Libertad Digital

Libertad Digital (LD) is a Spanish-language online newspaper founded on March 8, 2000.

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Lil Wayne

Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. (born September27, 1982), known professionally as Lil Wayne, is an American rapper.

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Linda Ronstadt

Linda Maria Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946) is an American singer who performed and recorded in diverse genres including rock, country, light opera, the Great American Songbook, and Latin music.

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Linkin Park

Linkin Park is an American rock band formed in Agoura Hills, California, in 1996.

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Lionel Richie

Lionel Brockman Richie Jr. (born June 20, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and television personality.

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List of best-selling albums

This is a list of the world's best-selling albums of recorded music in physical mediums, such as vinyl, audio cassettes or compact discs.

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List of best-selling albums by country

The following is a list of best-selling albums by country.

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List of best-selling Belgian music artists

The best-selling Belgian music artists cannot be listed officially, as there is no organization that has recorded global music sales of Belgian artists. List of best-selling music artists and list of best-selling Belgian music artists are lists of best-selling music artists.

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List of best-selling female music artists in the United Kingdom

The following is a list of the best-selling female music artists in the United Kingdom, based solely on sales units published by reliable music industry-related organizations, including the British Phonographic Industry, the Official Charts Company, Music Week and Record Mirror. List of best-selling music artists and list of best-selling female music artists in the United Kingdom are lists of best-selling music artists.

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List of best-selling female rappers

This is a following list of the best-selling female rappers of all time, including albums and singles. List of best-selling music artists and list of best-selling female rappers are lists of best-selling music artists.

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List of best-selling girl groups

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List of best-selling gospel music artists

The following list of list of best-selling gospel music artists includes music acts from the 20th century to the present who have recorded gospel music. List of best-selling music artists and list of best-selling gospel music artists are lists of best-selling music artists and lists of musicians.

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List of best-selling Latin music artists

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List of best-selling music artists in Brazil

The following is a list of the best-selling music artists in Brazil, and the best-selling Brazilian artists worldwide. List of best-selling music artists and list of best-selling music artists in Brazil are lists of best-selling music artists.

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List of best-selling music artists in Finland

These are the lists of the music artists that have the highest certified record sales in Finland (and/or sales explicitly confirmed by Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland in their database). List of best-selling music artists and list of best-selling music artists in Finland are lists of best-selling music artists.

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List of best-selling music artists in Japan

The top music artists in Japan include Japanese artists with claims of 15 million or more record sales or with over 2 million subscribers. List of best-selling music artists and List of best-selling music artists in Japan are lists of best-selling music artists.

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List of best-selling singles

This is a compendium of the best-selling music singles.

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List of best-selling singles by country

The following is a list of best-selling singles by country.

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List of best-selling singles in the United States

This list compiles the best-selling singles in the United States, based on reported sales figures.

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List of best-selling Swedish music artists

The list of best-selling Swedish music artists according to the Swedish newspapers. List of best-selling music artists and list of best-selling Swedish music artists are lists of best-selling music artists.

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List of biggest-selling British music artists

This list documents Britain's best-selling music artists alphabetically as well as by record sales. List of best-selling music artists and list of biggest-selling British music artists are lists of best-selling music artists.

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List of estimated best-selling Italian music artists

This is the chart of Italian music artists listed by estimated sales according to the most important Italian newspapers, national television channels and music magazines. List of best-selling music artists and list of estimated best-selling Italian music artists are lists of best-selling music artists.

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List of highest-certified music artists in Germany

This list includes music artists with at least five million record sales in Germany, based on certifications by the BVMI (Bundesverband Musikindustrie).

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List of highest-certified music artists in the United States

This is the list of the highest-certified music artists in the United States based on certifications of albums and digital singles (but not physical singles) by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

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List of music recording certifications

Music recording certifications are typically awarded by the worldwide music industry based on the total units sold, streamed, or shipped to retailers.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Luke Bryan

Thomas Luther "Luke" Bryan (born July 17, 1976) is an American country singer, songwriter, and television personality.

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Luminate (company)

Luminate Data, LLC (formerly MRC Data and P-MRC Data) is a provider of music and entertainment data.

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Madonna

Madonna Louise Ciccone (born August 16, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress.

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Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress.

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Maroon 5

Maroon 5 is an American pop rock band from Los Angeles, California.

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Meat Loaf

Michael Lee Aday (born Marvin Lee Aday; September 27, 1947 – January 20, 2022), known professionally as Meat Loaf, was an American singer and actor known for his powerful, wide-ranging voice and theatrical live shows.

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Metallica

Metallica is an American heavy metal band.

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Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist.

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Monster (Kanye West song)

"Monster" is a song by American hip hop recording artist Kanye West, released as the third single from his fifth studio album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010).

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Music & Media

Music & Media was a pan-European magazine for radio, music and entertainment.

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Music Canada

Music Canada is a non-profit trade organization that was founded 9 April 1963 in Toronto to represent the interests of companies that record, manufacture, produce, and distribute music in Canada.

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Music recording certification

Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.

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Musiikkituottajat

Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland ry, or Musiikkituottajat for short (Music Producers; formerly known as Suomen Ääni- ja kuvatallennetuottajat; ÄKT), IFPI Finland in English, is the umbrella organization of recording producers active in Finland, with 23 record labels as its members.

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National Music Centre

The National Music Centre (NMC; Centre national de musique) is a non-profit museum, performance venue, and recording studio located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

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Neil Diamond

Neil Leslie Diamond (born January 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter.

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Neo soul

Neo soul (sometimes called progressive soul) is a genre of popular music.

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New-age music

New-age is a genre of music intended to create artistic inspiration, relaxation, and optimism.

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Nicki Minaj

Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty (Maraj; born December 8, 1982), known professionally as Nicki Minaj, is a Trinidadian-born rapper and singer based in the United States.

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Nirvana (band)

Nirvana was an American rock band formed in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1987.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand.

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NPR

National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.

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Nu metal

Nu metal (sometimes stylized as nü-metal) is a subgenre of that combines elements of heavy metal music with elements of other music genres such as hip hop, funk, industrial, and grunge.

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NVPI

NVPI (Nederlandse Vereniging van Producenten en Importeurs van beeld - en geluidsdragers) (The Dutch Association of Producers and Importers of image - and sound carriers) is the Dutch trade association of the entertainment industry.

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Oasis (band)

Oasis were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1991.

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Olivia Newton-John

Dame Olivia Newton-John (26 September 1948 – 8 August 2022) was a British and Australian singer and actress.

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Omaha World-Herald

The Omaha World-Herald is a daily newspaper in the midwestern United States, the primary newspaper of the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area.

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Oricon

, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music.

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Paul McCartney

Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer, songwriter and musician who gained worldwide fame with the Beatles, for whom he played bass guitar and shared primary songwriting and lead vocal duties with John Lennon.

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Phil Collins

Philip David Charles Collins (born 30 January 1951) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and actor.

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Philippine Association of the Record Industry

The Philippine Association of the Record Industry (Filipino: Kapisanan ng Industriya ng Plaka ng Pilipinas, abbreviated as PARI) is a non-profit and private trade organization, that represents the recording industry distributors in the Philippines.

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Pink (singer)

Alecia Beth Moore (born September 8, 1979), known professionally as Pink (stylized as P!nk), is an American singer and songwriter.

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Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd are an English rock band formed in London in 1965.

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Polish music charts

The Polish music charts are provided by ZPAV, the Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry (Polish: Związek Producentów Audio-Video).

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Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry

The Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry (Związek Producentów Audio-Video; ZPAV) is the trade organization that represents the interests of the music industry in Poland, and the Polish chapter of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI).

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom. List of best-selling music artists and pop music are popular music.

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Pop rock

Pop rock (also typeset as pop/rock) is a fusion genre and form of rock music characterized by a strong commercial appeal, with more emphasis on professional songwriting and recording craft, and less emphasis on attitude than standard rock music.

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Pop-punk

Pop-punk (also punk-pop, alternatively spelled without the hyphen) is a rock music fusion genre that combines elements of punk rock with power pop or pop.

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Post Malone

Austin Richard Post (born July 4, 1995), known professionally as Post Malone, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and guitarist.

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Prince (musician)

Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958April 21, 2016) was an American singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer, and actor.

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Pro-Música Brasil

Pro-Música Brasil (PMB), previously Associação Brasileira dos Produtores de Discos (ABPD) (English: Brazilian Association of Record Producers), is an official representative body of the record labels in the Brazilian phonographic market.

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Productores de Música de España

Productores de Música de España (English: Spanish Music Producers, shortened as Promusicae) is the national organisation responsible for the music charts of Spain.

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Progressive rock

Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog) is a broad genre of rock music that primarily developed in the United Kingdom through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s.

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Psychedelic rock

Psychedelic rock is a rock music genre that is inspired, influenced, or representative of psychedelic culture, which is centered on perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s.

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Queen (band)

Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1970 by Freddie Mercury (lead vocals, piano), Brian May (guitar, vocals), and Roger Taylor (drums, vocals), later joined by John Deacon (bass).

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R. Kelly

Robert Sylvester Kelly (born January 8, 1967), known as R. Kelly, is an American former singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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R.E.M.

R.E.M. were an American alternative rock band from Athens, Georgia, formed in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills, and lead vocalist Michael Stipe, who were students at the University of Georgia.

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Rafu Shimpo

is a Japanese-English language newspaper based in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, California and is the largest bilingual English-Japanese daily newspaper in the United States.

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Rap rock

Rap rock is a music genre that developed from the early to mid-1980s, when hip hop DJs incorporated rock records into their routines and rappers began incorporating original and sampled rock instrumentation into hip hop music.

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Reading Eagle

The Reading Eagle is the major daily newspaper in Reading, Pennsylvania.

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Record sales

Record sales or music sales are activities related to selling music recordings (albums, singles, or music videos) through physical record shops or digital music stores.

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Recorded Music NZ

Recorded Music NZ (formerly the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ)) is a non-profit trade association of record producers, distributors and recording artists who sell recorded music in New Zealand.

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Recording Industry Association of America

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the music recording industry in the United States.

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Recording Industry Association of Japan

The is an industry trade group composed of Japanese corporations involved in the music industry.

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Red Hot Chili Peppers

The Red Hot Chili Peppers are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1982, comprising vocalist Anthony Kiedis, bassist Flea, drummer Chad Smith, and guitarist John Frusciante.

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Reggae

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. List of best-selling music artists and Reggae are popular music.

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Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s. List of best-selling music artists and Rhythm and blues are popular music.

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Rihanna

Robyn Rihanna Fenty (born February 20, 1988) is a Barbadian singer and businesswoman.

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Robbie Williams

Robert Peter Williams (born 13 February 1974) is an English singer and songwriter.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock-n-roll, rock 'n' roll, rock n' roll or Rock n' Roll) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. List of best-selling music artists and rock and roll are popular music and rock music.

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Rock music

Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom. List of best-selling music artists and Rock music are popular music.

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Rod Stewart

Sir Roderick David Stewart (born 10 January 1945) is a British rock and pop singer and songwriter.

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Santana (band)

Santana is an American rock band formed in San Francisco in 1966 by Mexican-born guitarist Carlos Santana.

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Scoop (website)

Scoop is a New Zealand Internet news site run by Scoop Media Limited, part of the Scoop Media Cartel.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer (popularly known as the Seattle P-I, the Post-Intelligencer, or simply the P-I) is an online newspaper and former print newspaper based in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Shakira

Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (born 2 February 1977), known mononymously as Shakira, is a Colombian singer and songwriter.

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Shania Twain

Eilleen Regina "Shania" Twain (born August 28, 1965) is a Canadian singer-songwriter.

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Simon & Garfunkel

Simon & Garfunkel were an American folk rock duo consisting of the singer-songwriter Paul Simon and the singer Art Garfunkel.

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Sky News

Sky News is a British free-to-air television news channel and organisation.

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Smooth jazz

Smooth jazz is a term used to describe commercially oriented crossover jazz music.

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SNEP

SNEP (Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique, in English National Syndicate of Phonographic Publishing) is the inter-professional organisation that protects the interests of the French record industry.

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Soul music

Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in the African-American community throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. List of best-selling music artists and Soul music are popular music.

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Stevie Wonder

Stevland Hardaway Morris (Judkins; born May 13, 1950), known professionally as Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer.

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Stuff (website)

Stuff is a New Zealand news media website owned by newspaper conglomerate Stuff Ltd (formerly called Fairfax).

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Sunday World

The Sunday World is an Irish newspaper published by Independent News & Media.

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Surf music

Surf music (also known as surf rock, surf pop, or surf guitar) is a genre of rock music associated with surf culture, particularly as found in Southern California.

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Swing music

Swing music is a style of jazz that developed in the United States during the late 1920s and early 1930s.

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Swiss Hitparade

The Swiss Hitparade (Schweizer Hitparade) is Switzerland's main music sales charts.

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Tampa Bay Times

The Tampa Bay Times, called the St.

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Taylor Swift

Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter.

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Teen pop

Teen pop is a subgenre of pop music that is created, marketed and oriented towards preteens and teenagers.

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The Advertiser (Adelaide)

The Advertiser is a daily tabloid format newspaper based in the city of Adelaide, South Australia.

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The Age

The Age is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854.

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The Albany Herald

The Albany Herald is the daily newspaper for metro Albany in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

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The Beaumont Enterprise

The Beaumont Enterprise is a newspaper of Hearst Communications, headquartered in Beaumont, Texas.

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The Buffalo News

The Buffalo News is the daily newspaper of the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area, located in downtown Buffalo, New York.

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The California Aggie

The California Aggie is a weekly newspaper distributed in the Davis, California area.

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The Carpenters

Carpenters, also known as The Carpenters, were an American vocal and instrumental duo consisting of siblings Karen (1950–1983) and Richard Carpenter (born 1946).

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The Columbus Dispatch

The Columbus Dispatch is a daily newspaper based in Columbus, Ohio.

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The Courier (Dundee)

The Courier (known as The Courier & Advertiser between 1926 and 2012) is a newspaper published by DC Thomson in Dundee, Scotland.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Doors

The Doors were an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1965, comprising vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore.

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The Florida Times-Union

The Florida Times-Union is a daily newspaper in Jacksonville, Florida, United States.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Herald (Glasgow)

The Herald is a Scottish broadsheet newspaper founded in 1783.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Irish News

The Irish News is a compact daily newspaper based in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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The Irish Times

The Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper and online digital publication.

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The Life of Pablo

The Life of Pablo is the seventh studio album by the American rapper Kanye West.

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The Mercury News

The Mercury News (formerly San Jose Mercury News, often locally known as The Merc) is a morning daily newspaper published in San Jose, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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The Morning Call

The Morning Call is a daily newspaper in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The New Zealand Herald

The New Zealand Herald is a daily newspaper published in Auckland, New Zealand, owned by New Zealand Media and Entertainment, and considered a newspaper of record for New Zealand.

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The Oakland Press

The Oakland Press is a daily newspaper published in Oakland County, Michigan with headquarters in Troy.

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The Patriot Ledger

The Patriot Ledger is a daily newspaper in Quincy, Massachusetts, that serves the South Shore.

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The Patriot-News

The Patriot-News is the largest newspaper serving the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, metropolitan area.

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The Police

The Police were an English rock band formed in London in 1977.

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The Post and Courier

The Post and Courier is the main daily newspaper in Charleston, South Carolina.

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The Press and Journal

The Press and Journal is a daily regional newspaper serving northern and Highland Scotland including the cities of Aberdeen and Inverness.

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The Providence Journal

The Providence Journal, colloquially known as the ProJo, is a daily newspaper serving the metropolitan area of Providence, the largest newspaper in Rhode Island, US.

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The Repository

The Repository is an American daily local newspaper serving the Canton, Ohio area.

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The Republican (Springfield, Massachusetts)

The Republican is a newspaper based in Springfield, Massachusetts, covering news in the Greater Springfield area, as well as national news and pieces from Boston, Worcester and northern Connecticut.

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The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962.

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The Scotsman

The Scotsman is a Scottish compact newspaper and daily news website headquartered in Edinburgh.

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The Seattle Times

The Seattle Times is an American daily newspaper based in Seattle, Washington.

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The Straits Times

The Straits Times (also known informally by its abbreviation ST) is a Singaporean daily English-language newspaper owned by the SPH Media Trust.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.

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The Weeknd

Abel Makkonen Tesfaye (አቤል መኮንን ተስፋዬ; born February 16, 1990), known professionally as the Weeknd, is a Canadian singer-songwriter.

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This Is What You Came For

"This Is What You Came For" is a song by Scottish DJ Calvin Harris featuring Barbadian singer Rihanna.

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Thrash metal

Thrash metal (or simply thrash) is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music characterized by its overall aggression and fast tempo.

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Tim McGraw

Samuel Timothy McGraw (born May 1, 1967) is an American country singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor.

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Times Leader

The Times Leader is a privately owned newspaper in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

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Times of Malta

The Times of Malta is an English-language daily newspaper in Malta.

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Tina Turner

Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939 – May 24, 2023) was a singer, songwriter, and actress.

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Tom Petty

Thomas Earl Petty (October 20, 1950October 2, 2017) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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Tupac Shakur

Tupac Amaru Shakur (born Lesane Parish Crooks; June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996), also known by his stage names 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American rapper, actor, activist, poet, and songwriter.

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U2

U2 are an Irish rock band formed in Dublin in 1976.

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Ultratop

Ultratop is an organization which generates and publishes the official record charts in Belgium.

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United Press International

United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century until its eventual decline beginning in the early 1980s.

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USA Today

USA Today (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.

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Usher (musician)

Usher Raymond IV (born October 14, 1978), known mononymously as Usher, is an American singer, songwriter, and dancer.

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Van Halen

Van Halen was an American rock band formed in Pasadena, California, in 1973.

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Vogue (magazine)

Vogue U.S., also known as American Vogue, or simply Vogue, (stylized in all caps) is a monthly fashion and lifestyle magazine that covers style news, including haute couture fashion, beauty, culture, living, and runway.

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We Found Love

"We Found Love" is a song by Barbadian singer Rihanna from her sixth studio album, Talk That Talk (2011).

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Western Mail (Wales)

The Western Mail is a daily newspaper published by Media Wales Ltd in Cardiff, Wales owned by the UK's largest newspaper company, Reach plc.

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Where Them Girls At

"Where Them Girls At" (originally titled "Where Dem Girls At?") is a song by French DJ and record producer David Guetta featuring American rapper Flo Rida and Trinidadian-born rapper Nicki Minaj.

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Whitney Houston

Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was an American singer, actress, film producer, and philanthropist.

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WNKS

WNKS (95.1 FM, "Kiss 95.1") is a commercial radio station licensed to serve Charlotte, North Carolina.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.

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1 News

1News is the news division of New Zealand television network TVNZ.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_music_artists

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