Top Selling Artists of the 2000s

BLS-Pride

Eminem is the top selling artist of the 2000's. No big shock there. Amazing considering he was out of the rap game for about 4-5 years. He still sold over 32.2 million records.

Over three decades after their breakup, the Beatles still released the top-selling album of the 2000s. The Fab Four’s greatest hits compilation 1 sold over 11,448,000 copies since its release in November 2000 according to Nielsen SoundScan’s decade-end sales numbers. Eminem was the 2000s’ top-selling artist with 32.2 million combined in sales, plus two albums in the decade’s Top 10: The Marshall Mathers LP was fourth with 10,195,000 sold and Eminem Show was fifth with 9,789,000. Slim Shady edged out the Fab Four for the distinction of the decade’s top-seller as the Beatles claimed Number Two with 30 million.
Only two more albums managed to cross into diamond — or 10 million sales — certification: ‘NSync’s No Strings Attached (11,111,000) and Norah Jones’ Come Away With Me (10,523,000.) As a testament to the record industry’s decline in the second half of the decade, only two albums released in the years between 2005 and 2009 managed to get in the Top 20 of the 2000s’ bestsellers: Nickelback’s All the Right Reasons and Carrie Underwood’s Some Hearts at 14 and 17 with sales under seven million. Nickelback’s “How You Remind Me” was also named the 2000’s Number One overall song, beating out Train’s “Drops of Jupiter” and Lifehouse’s “Hanging on a Moment.”
While theses numbers only applied to the last, iTunes-dominated quarter of the decade, Flo Rida’s “Low” was the 2000s biggest-selling digital single, while Coldplay’s Viva La Vida was the best-selling digital album.
Nielsen SoundScan's top-selling albums of the decade:
1. The Beatles, 1,11,499,000 units sold
2. 'NSYNC, No Strings Attached, 11,112,000 units sold
3. Norah Jones, Come Away With Me, 10, 546,000 units sold
4. Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP, 10,204,000 units sold
5. Eminem, The Eminem Show, 9,799,000 units sold
6. Usher, Confessions, 9,712,000 units sold
7. Linkin Park, Hybrid Theory, 9,663,000 units sold
8. Creed, Human Clay, 9,491,000 units sold
9. Britney Spears, Oops! ... I Did It Again, 9,185,000 units sold
10. Nelly, Country Grammar, 8,461,000 units sold
Nielsen SoundScan's top-selling digital songs of the decade:
1. Flo Rida feat. T-Pain, "Low" 5,214,000 units sold
2. Lady Gaga feat. Colby O'Donis, "Just Dance," 4,690,000 units sold
3. Jason Mraz, "I'm Yours," 4,619,000 units sold
4. Timbaland feat. OneRepublic, "Apologize," 4,439,000 units sold
5. The Black Eyed Peas, "Boom Boom Pow," 4,349,000 units sold
6. Soulja Boy Tell'em, "Crank That," 4,315,000 units sold
7. Lady Gaga, "Poker Face," 4,200,000 units sold
8. Coldplay, "Viva la Vida," 4,140,000 units sold
9. Taylor Swift, "Love Story," 4,005,000 units sold
10. Katy Perry, "Hot N Cold," 3,945,000 units sold

Stepvhen

Thats what I like to see Bullshit in the Mainstream, That way the stuff I listen to is underground and cool. LONG MAY IT CONTINUE. Not only shall I drink to this. Im gonna have a big dirty chicken roll to this too and probably some club orange

Axlin16

Other than Em, and a couple songs off of Hybrid Theory, that list BLOWS.

If that's the list that represents the 2000's generation, man they fucking sucked.

PaSnow

The 2000's did blow pretty much. A few good debut albums, and a couple solid albums. Aside from that, not much.

Communist China

Do we have a thread for the best albums of the decade in our opinions? I'd be interested in seeing everybody's top 10 or so.

PaSnow

We did the elimination vote off series, but I don't think we wrote our own personal. Might as well do it here unless you want to start a thread for it.

-D-

my point proven

Look at the top 10 album list

what do they have in common? PRE ITUNES era

Look at those fucking singles

the 5 million that bought Flo Rida's "Low" normally would've bought the entire album thus giving him probably a 6 million seller instead of the 1 million seller he ended up with.

Jason Mraz' album barely went Gold I think, but his single sold 4 million.

U want to know why the business is in the shitter, don't blame illegal DL blame Itunes

Sky Dog

blame the internet.

PaSnow

D I'm a little confused though. Are you saying Flo Rida's album SHOULD have sold 6 million??

To be honest I never heard of them.

-D-

PaSnow wrote:

D I'm a little confused though. Are you saying Flo Rida's album SHOULD have sold 6 million??

To be honest I never heard of them.

no

im saying 5 million paid 99 cents for his super huge single

back when those 10 million selling albums came out, u had to buy the entire album if u wanted that song or steal it

5 million people bought it on Itunes, so that shows u, people still will buy music and not steal it.

but why pay 15 dollars for an album for that song, when u can get it for 99 cents?

U take away the 99 cent option, people have to buy the whole CD

so id say a good number of those 5 million would've bought the CD instead of the single thus boosting his record sales to 6 million instead of the 1 million it ended up selling.

Look at Kid Rock he didn't release his last album on Itunes.

All Summer Long hit and instead of 1 million DL's he got 1 million album buys and he ended up going double platinum. His album was dead at gold until that came out

now, are people going to buy The song for 99 cents or pay 15 for an entire album u don't know any other songs on?

U would pay the 99 cents thus killing the album sales.

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