Info Musik : List of best-selling music artists

This list documents the world's best-selling music artists alphabetically as well as by record sales. This page lists those artists who have had claims of over 50 million or more records in sales. The list is divided into numerous record-sales brackets within each of which, artists are listed in alphabetical order, rather than by number of records sold. The artists on the list are supported by third-party reliable sources, the sales-figures within which should represent a total number of sold albums, singles, compilation-albums, music videos as well as downloads of singles and full-length albums. It should, also, be noted that because record companies are known for inflating sales figures for promotional purposes, some of the figures published by even reliable sources may need to be verified through certification-databases to avoid inflations in sales figures.

Artist	Country of origin	Period active	Genre	Total certified sales (From available markets) [Notes]	Claimed sales
The Beatles	United Kingdom	1960–1970	Rock, pop	US: 202.6 million UK: 5.5 million GER: 7.2 million FRA: 3 million BRA: 500,000 CAN: 12.5 million AUS: 2.7 million SWE 485,000 ARG: 1.5 million SWI: 350,000 AUT: 470,000 Total available certified sales: 236.8 million	1 billion 600 million
Elvis Presley	United States	1954–1977	Rock and roll, pop, country	US: 176.6 million UK: 4.2 million GER: 1.5 million FRA: 2.4 million CAN: 2.7 million AUS: 1 million NLD: 520,000 SWE 360,000 Total available certified sales: 189.2 million	1 billion 600 million
Michael Jackson	United States	1964–2009	Pop, Rock, Soul	US: 89.3 million UK: 18 million GER: 10.9 million FRA: 10.1 million CAN: 4.5 million MEX: 3.3 million AUS: 5.4 million SPA: 720,000 NLD: 1.9 million SWE: 930,000 SWI: 900,000 FIN: 336,326 AUT: 1,180,000 POL: 385,000 Total available certified sales: 147.8 million	750 million 350 million 300 million
ABBA	Sweden	1972–1982	Pop	US: 12.7 million UK: 12,2 million GER: 12.2 million FRA: 2.7 million CAN: 4.5 million AUS: 1 million SPA: 580,000 NLD: 1.2 million SWE: 730,000 SWI: 600,000 FIN: 652,605 Total available certified sales: 49 million	370 million 300 million
Queen	United Kingdom	1971–present	Rock	US: 41.3 million UK: 17.8 million GER: 11.1 million FRA: 4.1 million CAN: 1.5 million AUS: 1.9 million BRA: 960,000 NLD: 1.8 million ARG: 1,040,000 FIN: 366,152 SWI: 1.2 million POL: 730,000 AUT: 920,000 Total available certified sales: 84.7 million	300 million 150 million

(source : en.wikipedia.org)