Top 100 artists of all time....according to Billboard magazine

Danny Tse
Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
edited September 2008 in Music & Movies
Only based on the US charts.....

Top 100 artists countdown....according to Billboard
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited September 2008
    Wow, I am amazed at how some of those hacks made even the top 1000. Just goes to show you about Americans taste in music (or lack thereof).

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  • zombie boy 2000
    zombie boy 2000 Posts: 6,641
    edited September 2008
    Surely that's based on album sales. Billboard and all that...
    Or possibly time spent on the Billboard chart?
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  • Danny Tse
    Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
    edited September 2008
    zombie boy 2000 wrote: »
    Surely that's based on album sales. Billboard and all that...
    Or possibly time spent on the Billboard chart?

    I would think so since artistic merit is soooooo debatable.
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  • PolkClyde
    PolkClyde Posts: 662
    edited September 2008
    Bing Crosby sold more records than Elvis I believe. I didn't see his name on the list and also James brown should be at least in the top 10 his songs did well on the top 20 and 40 charts without very much top 40 airplay and that's unbelievable.
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  • Danny Tse
    Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
    edited September 2008
    PolkClyde wrote: »
    Bing Crosby sold more records than Elvis I believe. I didn't see his name on the list and also James brown should be at least in the top 10 his songs did well on the top 20 and 40 charts without very much top 40 airplay and that's unbelievable.

    That's a good observation. Bing had the biggest selling single of all-time until Elton's remake "Candle in the Wind" for Princess Di.

    I believe Elvis' sales, on a worldwide basis, represented about 10% of all recorded music. :eek:
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  • bikezappa
    bikezappa Posts: 2,463
    edited September 2008
    I'm so glad Zappa was not in that list.
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  • Danny Tse
    Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
    edited September 2008
    Looking through the list....hard to imagine Usher ranks higher than Phil Collins, Billy Joel, or the Beach Boys. I can't name one single Usher song even if my life depends on it.

    No Van Halen?
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited September 2008
    Great line Peter.

    I can't believe Michael Jackson outsold Captain Beefheart worldwide.
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  • bikezappa
    bikezappa Posts: 2,463
    edited September 2008
    George Zappa always said he had no commercial potential.
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  • PolkClyde
    PolkClyde Posts: 662
    edited September 2008
    bikezappa wrote: »
    George Zappa always said he had no commercial potential.

    Oops George Zappa I was thinking Frank Zappa.........I have his double CD Compilation
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  • daboyz
    daboyz Posts: 5,207
    edited September 2008
    Eagles and Fleetwood Mac so far down the list? Definitely not a list of overall talent........
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  • bikezappa
    bikezappa Posts: 2,463
    edited September 2008
    What a schmuck. This what I meant. I forgot the comma.

    George, Zappa always said he had no commercial potential.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited September 2008
    Just remember, any time a magazine or someone puts out a list, they make it specifically to be talked about and debated. They make these lists purposefully divisive because it gives them publicity.
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited September 2008
    "No commercial potential" was the phrase that the guys at MGM or Verve were quoted as saying in response to one of the early Mothers demo tapes (or wrote that on the tape and handed it back to Tom Wilson). Frank loved it and usually printed it somewhere on the first few albums.
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  • PolkClyde
    PolkClyde Posts: 662
    edited September 2008
    Check this out guys

    http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/specials/hot100/charts/most-hits-overall.shtml
    PolkAudioClyde
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  • reeltrouble1
    reeltrouble1 Posts: 9,312
    edited September 2008
    Zappa was the father of Phish who have beget???

    RT1
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  • edossin4
    edossin4 Posts: 105
    edited September 2008
    Don't blame Zappa for Phish. Phish's music looks silly when compared to the depth and complexity of Zappa's music.;)
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  • wingnut4772
    wingnut4772 Posts: 7,519
    edited September 2008
    I thought The Greatful Dead begat the Phish?
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  • hockeyboy
    hockeyboy Posts: 1,428
    edited September 2008
    Am I reading this right, or did Janet beat Michael?
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  • obieone
    obieone Posts: 5,077
    edited September 2008
    wingnut4772 wrote: »
    I thought The Greatful Dead begat the Phish?

    You are correct ma'am:) NOT that I'm a fan of either.
    I refuse to argue with idiots, because people can't tell the DIFFERENCE!
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