Listfield - Biggest Selling Music Artists

The world's best-selling music artists lists artists with claims of 50 million or more record sales in multiple third-party reliable sources. The sales figures within the provided sources include sales of albums, singles, compilation-albums, music videos as well as downloads of singles and full-length albums. Within record-sales brackets, artists are listed in alphabetical order, rather than by number of records sold.Although this lists largely relies on claimed figures by highly reliable sources, some of the figures may need further examination to avoid inflated sales figures which is frequently practiced by Record Companies for promotional purposes. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_music_artists

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Description	The world's best-selling music artists lists artists with claims of 50 million or more record sales in multiple third-party reliable sources. The sales figures within the provided sources include sales of albums, singles, compilation-albums, music videos as well as downloads of singles and full-length albums. Within record-sales brackets, artists are listed in alphabetical order, rather than by number of records sold.Although this lists largely relies on claimed figures by highly reliable sources, some of the figures may need further examination to avoid inflated sales figures which is frequently practiced by Record Companies for promotional purposes. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_music_artists
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Rank	Artist	Country of origin	Period active	Genre	Total certified sales(From available markets)[Notes]	Claimed sales
1	The Beatles	United Kingdom	1960–1970	Rock, pop	US: 202.6 million[3]JAP: 850,000[4]UK: 5.5 million[5]GER: 7.2 million[6]FRA: 3 million[7]BRA: 500,00... more.	1 billion[15] 600 million[16][17]
2	Elvis Presley	United States	1954–1977	Rock and roll, pop,country	US: 176.6 million[18]UK: 4.2 million[5]GER: 1.5 million[6]FRA: 2.4 million[7]CAN: 2.7 million[19]AUS... more.	1 billion[21][22] 600 million[23][24]
3	Michael Jackson	United States	1964–2009	Pop, dance, Soul,Contemporary R&B	US: 89.3 million[25]JAP: 1,750,000[4]UK: 18 million[5]GER: 10.9 million[6]FRA: 10.1 million[7][26][2... more.	750 million[33] 350 million[34] 300 million[35]
4	ABBA	Sweden	1972–1982	Pop	US: 12.7 million[36]JAP: 750,000[4]UK: 12,2 million[5]GER: 12.2 million[6]FRA: 2.7 million[7][26]CAN... more.	370 million[40][41] 300 million[42]
5	Queen	United Kingdom	1971–present	Rock	US: 41.3 million[43]JAP: 1,100,000[4]UK: 17.8 million[5]GER: 11.1 million[6]FRA: 4.1 million[7][26]C... more.	300 million[48][49] 150 million[50]

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