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editIt is essential to provide reliable sources when editing this article.
For examples, see the references section. Unsourced or unreliably sourced additions will be removed immediately.
The list is frequently edited in good faith; however, sales figures published by reliable sources may need to be verified with certification databases to avoid inflated figures.


Artists without sufficient certifications to support published claimed figures may not be added to the list.

Editors should expect all artists' claimed figures to be supported by the following specified percentage of certified units.
To be on this list, artists who began charting:
  • before 1975 are required to have their available claimed figures supported by 20% in certified units.
  • between 1975–1990 are required to have their available claimed figures supported by 20-45% in certified units. (That is 1.66% for each additional year after 1975)
  • between 1990–2000 are required to have their available claimed figures supported by 45-75% in certified units. (That is 3% for each additional year after 1990)
  • between 2000–present are required to have their available claimed figures supported by 75-80% in certified units. (That is 0.35% for each additional year after 2000)

The eras above are based on when certification-databases of each music market began, and the global-market-share each country represents. More information about when each music market started issuing certifications can be read on the main page.

Whilst we encourage editors to be bold, it is highly recommended to discuss changes on this talk page before editing.

The year next to markets below indicates how far back the certification-systems go in each country, and the percentages stand for the global-market-share countries represented in 2010.

USA: RIAA (1958) (22.5%) · Japan: RIAJ (Million-seller database),RIAJ (Physical certifications since 1994),RIAJ (Physical certifications since 2003),RIAJ (Digital certifications) (1989) (25%) · Germany: BVMI (1975) (10%) · UK: BPI (1973) (8.5%) · France: SNEP, Infodisc (albums), Infodisc (singles) (1973) (6.2%) · Australia: ARIA (1997) (2.5%) · Canada: Music Canada (1975) (2.1) · Italy: FIMI (2010) (1.7%) · Brazil: ABPD (1990) (1.6%) · Sweden: IFPI (Archived certification-database), Sverige Topplistan (Chart-database) (1987) (0.8%) · Spain: PROMUSICAE (1979) (1.13%) · Mexico: AMPROFON (1999) (0.97%) · Austria: IFPI (1990) (1.14%) · Switzerland: Schweizer Hitparade (1989) (1.02%) · Belgium: Ultratop (1997) (1.16%) · Denmark: Hitlisten (Chart-database), IFPI Denmark (2001) (0.59%) · Poland: ZPAV (1995) (0.77%) · Argentina: Capif (1980) (0.5%) · Finland: IFPI (1971) (0.49%) · Ireland: IRMA (2005) (0.48%) · New Zealand: RIANZ (1978) (0.35%)
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  • Note that the List of best-selling music artists does not include certifications of those singles that are performed by more than two lead artists (vocalists) and more than one featured artist. See below when the issued certifications should be included:
  • One lead artist and one featured artist. (The issued certification(s) should be added in the total of both, the lead artist and the featured artist as both will have almost equal amount of parts).
  • Two lead artists and one featured artist. (The issued certification(s) should be added in the total of both lead artists as well as the featured artist. Both lead artists will play a significant part in a song and the part of the featured artist also should be significant enough).
  • One lead artist and more than one featured artists, (it's sometimes three and even four featured artists). (The issued certification(s) should be included in the total of the lead artist only. None of the featured artists should be credited as their parts will naturally be small, unless the single includes two featured artists and all vocals are provided by the featured artists).
  • Two lead artists and more than one featured artists. (The issued certification(s) should be added in the total of both lead artists but none of the featured artists as multiple featured artists tend to have very small parts in songs).
  • More than two lead artists and one or two featured artists.(The issued certification(s) shouldn't be added in the total of any as all of them will have small parts).