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Best-Selling Artists, Songs & Albums in SoundScan History

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Unlike the year-end threads, these are overall sales since Billboard started using Nielsen's SoundScan to accurately track sales of albums and singles in the country in 1991. Keep in mind album sales listed here don't include sales from music clubs, which were pretty substantial in the 1990's.

Also, these are from Neilsen's 2010 year-end report, so they're not up-to-date, especially digital sales, but album units won't be much different.

Top 10 Album Artists

1. Garth Brooks 68,513,000

2. Beatles 62,066,000

3. Mariah Carey 53,185,000

4. Metallica 52,672,000

5. Celine Dion 51,162,000

6. George Strait 42,396,000

7. Eminem 39,643,000

8. Tim McGraw 39,396,000

9. Alan Jackson 38,275,000

10. Pink Floyd 36,429,000

Top 10 Albums

1. Metallica, Metallica 15,620,000

2. Come On Over, Shania Twain 15,499,000

3. Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette 14,673,000

4. Millennium, Backstreet Boys 12,115,000

5. Soundtrack, The Bodyguard 11,823,000

6. Supernatural, Santana 11,709,000

7. Beatles 1, Beatles 11,703,000 (11,740,000 now)

8. Human Clay, Creed 11,563,000

9. No Strings Attached, N Sync 11,117,000

10. Falling Into You, Celine Dion 10,785,000

Top 10 Digital Songs

1. I Gotta Feeling, Black Eyed Peas 6,270,000

2. Just Dance, Lady Gaga feat. Colby O'Donis 5,911,000 (is now 6,147,000)

3. Poker Face, Lady Gaga 5,840,000 (is now 6,139,000)

4. Low, Flo Rida feat. T-Pain 5,781,000

5. Boom Boom Pow, Black eyed Peas 5,754,000

6. Tik Tok, Ke$ha 5,483,000

7. I'm Yours, Jason Mraz 5,470,000

8. Hey, Soul Sister, Train 5,001,000

9. Apologize, Timabaland feat. One Republic 4,880,000 (is now 5,010,000)

10. Love Story, Taylor Swift 4,853,000

Top 10 Digital Artists

1. Taylor Swift 34,269,000

2. Black Eyed Peas 33,831,000

3. Rihanna 33,673,000

4. Eminem 33,279,000

5. Lady Gaga 29,311,000

6. Kanye West 25,343,000

7. Beyonce 25,136,000

8. Nickelback 23,919,000

9. Michael Jackson 23,218,000

10. Katy Perry 22,574,000 (should be #6 now)

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