Posted January 25, 201015 yr Published in the latest Music Week: Best-selling artists of the Noughties Singles - UK 01 EMINEM 4,592,127 (not including a further 563,130 as a featured artist, and not including a further 723,240 with D12) 02 WESTLIFE 4,551,712 03 BRITNEY SPEARS 04 BLACK EYED PEAS 4,224,350 05 GIRLS ALOUD 06 MADONNA 07 RIHANNA 08 WILL YOUNG 3,532,410 09 SUGABABES 10 BEYONCE 11 LEONA LEWIS 12 ROBBIE WILLIAMS 13 PINK 14 KYLIE MINOGUE 15 LADY GAGA 2,952,097 16 S CLUB 7 17 MICHAEL JACKSON 18 OASIS 19 TAKE THAT 20 GARETH GATES 21 ATOMIC KITTEN 22 KINGS OF LEON 23 NELLY 24 COLDPLAY 25 AKON 26 KANYE WEST 27 ELVIS PRESLEY 28 PUSSYCAT DOLLS 29 SHAGGY 30 CHRISTINA AGUILERA 31 MARIAH CAREY 32 SHAKIRA 33 JENNIFER LOPEZ 34 U2 35 KILLERS 36 RONAN KEATING 37 CRAIG DAVID 38 JAY-Z 39 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS 40 DESTINY'S CHILD 41 50 CENT 42 ALEXANDRA BURKE 43 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE 44 NICKELBACK 45 MCFLY 46 LILY ALLEN 47 USHER 48 NELLY FURTADO 49 SHAYNE WARD 50 SNOW PATROL Best-selling artists of The Noughties Albums - UK 01 ROBBIE WILLIAMS 13,065,783 02 WESTLIFE 03 COLDPLAY 9,190,189 04 TAKE THAT 05 EMINEM 7,373,972 06 MICHAEL JACKSON 7,339,085 07 THE BEATLES 08 MADONNA 6,938,889 09 OASIS 10 U2 11 ROD STEWART 12 DIDO 13 RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS 14 ELVIS PRESLEY 5,728,071 15 DAVID GRAY 16 STEREOPHONICS 17 SNOW PATROL 18 PINK 19 QUEEN 20 GREEN DAY 21 THE KILLERS 22 KYLIE MINOGUE 23 KINGS OF LEON 24 WILL YOUNG 25 SUGABABES 26 BOB DYLAN 27 MICHAEL BUBLE 28 SCISSOR SISTERS 29 BRITNEY SPEARS 30 RONAN KEATING 31 KEANE 32 JAMES BLUNT 33 NORAH JONES 34 AMY WINEHOUSE 35 REM 36 BLUE 37 IL DIVO 38 ANDREA BOCELLI 39 BLACK EYED PEAS 40 FOO FIGHTERS 41 GIRLS ALOUD 42 ANASTACIA 43 KATIE MELUA 44 ELTON JOHN 45 TRAVIS 46 PINK FLOYD 47 ABBA 48 LEONA LEWIS 49 MUSE 50 DAVID BOWIE 3,390,394
January 25, 201015 yr Wow for Take That! Number four in the album stakes and they've only been active for less than four years of the decade! Thought they'd be around the 20 position. Norma
January 25, 201015 yr Wow. James Blunt only #32 even when he had the best selling album of the noughties. Edited January 25, 201015 yr by Riverside FM11
January 25, 201015 yr Westlife at #2 on both despite them releasing perhaps only 1 halfway decent song throughout the whole decade AWFUL
January 25, 201015 yr Well done Will #8th & #24th. Proof Will is the most successful talent show winner in the UK.
January 25, 201015 yr Wouldn't it be interesting to see where Westlife would be if these figures were divided by the number of singles and albums released? Justin Timberlake is further down the singles list than his fame would suggest.
January 25, 201015 yr 49 MUSE 50 DAVID BOWIE 3,390,394 so Muse have sold more than that? That's quite good considering they never had any albums in the Top 10 Albums of the Year charts.
January 25, 201015 yr What an truly awful decade. :mellow: I see Westlife's war of attrition has paid off handsomely. -_- LOL @ the Beatles (7) and Elvis (14) - will any of the current lot be selling in the 2040's? :heehee: Edited January 25, 201015 yr by Ethan.
January 25, 201015 yr Wow. James Blunt only #32 even when he had the best selling album of the noughties. That's what a tragic selling second album does to your overall sales tally. 'Back To Bedlam' must make up 95% of his overall sales compared to 'All The Lost Souls' 5%?
January 26, 201015 yr The albums chart does seem to have more 'oldies' in than the singles one. Guess it proves though who the defining acts that will pass the test of time are. Gah at the Westlife invasion :/ It highlights how atrocious the last decade truly was. I'm glad P!nk did well on both though.
January 26, 201015 yr Best-selling artists of the Noughties Singles - UK 05 GIRLS ALOUD Woah! :mellow: :w00t: Absolutely amazing, to say the didn't have an extra 3 years worth of sales, that other artists did! :cheer: Best-selling artists of The Noughties Albums - UK 41 GIRLS ALOUD Not as good, but beating Leona kind of says how well they did! :o
January 26, 201015 yr Well done Will #8th & #24th. Proof Will is the most successful talent show winner in the UK. Not for long mateeey! :lol: :P ^_^ :dance: Imagine, thats with only 3 years worth of sales, leona is going to climb every single year :yahoo: EDIT:- LOL Leona has sold millions worldwide making her easily the biggest talent show winner ever from the UK, probably worldwide too! ;) Edited January 26, 201015 yr by LL1
January 26, 201015 yr How does that compare to the 90s? I'm assuming the Spice Girls trounced all comers in the singles....
January 26, 201015 yr Very interesting stuff.. How come Mariah Carey is so high in singles? Did she have other huge hits than We Belong Together? I'm sure I've forgotten something.. Her duet with Westlife wasn't that successful. EDIT: All I Want for Christmas Is You of course Edited January 26, 201015 yr by SKOB
January 26, 201015 yr Lady GaGa already number 15 in the singles list :) I know and she was only active for a whole year and almost sold as much as Kylie who was active July 2000 - July 2008 although she did have a break of over 2 year due to her cancer. Is there any write up to go with this pretty please? Thanks
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