Who sold most records ever?

Perhaps unsurprisingly, British rock band The Beatles are top of the list for best-selling artists worldwide, with 257.7 million certified sales. Second is Elvis Presley with almost 207 million sales, followed by Michael Jackson with 169.7 million.
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What is the number 1 selling song of all time?

According to Guinness World Records, Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" (1942) as performed by Bing Crosby is the best-selling single worldwide, with estimated sales of over 50 million copies.
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Who has sold a billion records?

Elvis has sold a billion records.
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Who is the #1 artist in the world?

Justin Bieber takes the top spot, with millions of followers across socials and billions of plays on streaming services. The most popular female artist currently goes to Taylor Swift, while BTS are unsurprisingly the most popular band. Any surprises here amongst the most popular artists in 2022?
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What is the most streamed song of all time?

Ed Sheeran's 'Shape Of You' The Most Streamed Song In Spotify History.
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Best-Selling Music Artists 1969 - 2019



Who wrote the most #1 songs?

The most successful songwriters in terms of number one singles are John Lennon (1940-80) and Paul McCartney (b. 18 Jun 1942). McCartney is credited as the writer on 32 number one hits in the US to Lennons 26 (with 23 co-written), whereas Lennon authored 29 UK number ones to McCartney's 28 (25 co-written).
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What song has the most curse words?

Sweariest Song
  • Lil' Jon - "Real N----- Roll Call" (feat. ...
  • The 1980s group, 2 Live Crew, made everyone sound like they were just writing the encore for the school play and Lil' Jon (see below) holds a Guinness World Record with 295 cusses in just one song: 2004's "Real N----- Roll Call," with Ice Cube.
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Who is the #1 artist on Spotify?

As you can see below, with just over 84 million monthly listeners, Ed Sheeran remains comfortably in the lead, despite having not released a new studio album since = in October 2021.
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Who has the most billion streams on Spotify?

It's official: Justin Bieber is the first artist to accrue one billion streams on different songs on the popular (though perhaps less popular these days) streaming platform, Spotify. Chart data broke the news to its 1.3 million Twitter followers on Wednesday (January 26), writing, “.
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Who is the most streamed artist?

First up is Drake, with a whopping 46 billion streams.
  • Ed Sheeran. ...
  • The Weeknd. Lead streams: 31,588,739,684. ...
  • Ariana Grande. Lead streams: 30,689,233,907. ...
  • Justin Bieber. Lead streams: 30,250,265,777. ...
  • Taylor Swift. Lead streams: 28,852,695,444. ...
  • Eminem. Lead streams: 28,368,411,475. ...
  • Post Malone. Lead streams: 27,852,251,588. ...
  • BTS.
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Who is the 1st artist in 2021?

The Year in Charts 2021: Drake Is Billboard's Top Artist of the Year.
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What is the oldest swear word?

Fart, as it turns out, is one of the oldest rude words we have in the language: Its first record pops up in roughly 1250, meaning that if you were to travel 800 years back in time just to let one rip, everyone would at least be able to agree upon what that should be called.
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Can you say the F word on YouTube?

Previously, YouTube allowed for light profanity like "hell" or "damn" in monetized videos. Now, though, YouTube will allow moderate profanity like "s**t" and "b**ch" in the first 30 seconds of a video, as well as infrequent strong profanity and censored profanity (the f-word, etc.)
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What is the most common word in songs?

LOVE. I think nobody is surprised knowing the fact that the most common word of all time is the word “love”. Most song lyrics are about this topic, so we are not surprised. But we also know that it's a little bit tricky to write about love because saying simply “I love you” became soooo overused, and so cheesy.
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Who has the most #1 hits of all time?

The Beatles have the most No. 1 hits of all time: 20.
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Who has the most #1 albums?

  • As a musician, Paul McCartney has the most number-one albums, with 27. This includes 19 albums from his work with The Beatles, 3 solo albums, and 5 albums as a part of his 1970s group Wings. ...
  • Barbra Streisand is the only artist to have number 1 albums in six different decades.
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Who has the most Top 10 hits of all time?

Throughout his career, Drake has now charted 54 top 10 hits, by far the most among all artists.
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Who recorded the most songs?

Most recorded artist in music history - Asha Bhosle

In 1974, the Guinness Book of Records had older sister Mangeshkar (now 87) down as recording the most songs in history - a staggering 25,000.
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