Cool Video: Best-Selling Music Artists 1969-2019

[StillAWarrior]

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I thought this video was really cool to watch.  The format is kind of mesmerizing, and it provides a really interesting way of seeing how some people shot up the charts, plummeted down the charts and how dominant they were at times.


I know my impressions are primarily a function of age, but a few thoughts/surprises to me as I watched it:

• Elton John has been a big, big deal for a long, long time.
• Not a surprise, but Michael Jackson was certainly dominant for a while, wasn't he?  And fell fast.
• I thought there would be more U2.
• Never realized that Eminem was quite that huge.
• Or Rihanna.
• Or Drake.
• I had to google to figure out who Luis Fonsi even was; I didn't recall ever hearing his name.
• I was surprised that there was no Van Halen.  Or Sting/The Police.  Or a lot of other 80s fixtures (e.g., Duran Duran, Bryan Adams, Def Leppard, Motley Crue, REM, etc.) -- unless, of course, I just missed them.

There was really a pretty huge gap in my awareness of popular music between my college days when I was more immersed in it, and my kids' getting to HS when I started hearing more of their music (i.e., the 20 years between the early nineties and the early teens).

[Cheeks]

I would love to know how the artists from older than 5 years ago would have done with singles only sold.  Yes, you could buy the 45’s, but scale was way different.