Who is the biggest selling recording artist of all time?
British rock band The Beatles are the best-selling artists in the world, with 600 million certified sales.
The Beatles are the best-selling music act of all time, with 600 million units sold worldwide. The Beatles have 15 number-one albums on the UK Albums Chart, 20 number-one hits on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, and the most singles sold in the UK (21.9 million). Seven Grammy Awards, four Brit Awards, an Academy Award (for Best Original Song Score for the 1970 documentary film Let It Be), and fifteen Ivor Novello Awards were bestowed upon the band.
The Beatles were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988, and each of the band’s principal members was inducted separately between 1994 and 2015. The group topped Rolling Stone’s lists of the greatest artists in history in 2004 and 2011. Time magazine named them among the 100 most influential people of the twentieth century.
