Rihanna has become the best-selling solo artist of all time! She managed to do this in just 12 years of her music career. She began her journey with the song Pon De Replay in 2005. 213.2 million albums sold later, she has taken the crown of the most successful solo artist in music history. She dethroned the king of rock'n'roll, Elvis Presley. Now Rihanna has a new target on the fly - the legendary band The Beatles, who are the only ones to have sold more albums than the Barbadian beauty. But even this record is at risk...
28 years old Rihanna she became the best-selling solo artist of all time. Z 213.2 million sold albums, she made a legendary figure from the top Elvis Presley, which he sold 211.5 million. Now he is only looking at the back of the English group The Beatles, which sold just 270 million albums.
Having said that, the comparison of statistics is interesting the king of rock'n'roll and the queen of r'n'b, which has released so far 12 albums (8 studio, two remixes and two compilations) and 65 singles, and Presley just strung them up 193 and at the same time issued 111 singles. As an interesting fact, we should add that he is the best-selling Slovenian music artist, that is Avsenik Brothers Ensemble, sold 31 million plates.
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Barbadian singer started her musical journey in 2005 with an album Music Of The Sun. The track shot her into the stratosphere Mon De Replay. It is her best-selling album to date Good Girl Gone Bad from 2017, on which we find tracks such as Umbrella, Shut Up and Drive, I Hate That I Love You, Don't Stop the Music and Rehab. Many of her singles are among the best-selling in history - Take a Bow, Disturbia, Umbrella, Only Girl (In the World), S&M, We Found Love, Diamonds, Stay ... Most views on the channel YouTube collected her music video for the song Diamonds (see above).
Top 8 - the list of the best-selling music artists in history:
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