Title: List of best-selling female music artists
Content:  This appendix lists the best-selling female music artists of all time. The criteria for inclusion in the annex are singers who have reached more than 75 million copies of their musical productions; in cases where two or more artists have sold the same number of copies, they were ordered according to the seniority of their career. Sales may have been in different formats: vinyl record, cassette, compact disc (CD), music video, DVD or in Mp3 through legal downloads on the Internet. There is no official entity that certifies sales in their totality; thus sales figures may also vary according to the year of publication or the diffusing media. The artist with the highest sales of all time is Madonna, with around 300 million of her musical productions distributed since her recording debut; she was also certified by the Guinness Book of Records as the "best-selling female solo artist of all time". Simultaneously, Madonna is the musician with the highest sales of all time, while Shakira is the best-selling Latin female singer in history. The United States is the country of origin of twenty of the top-selling artists.
Title: List of best-selling music artists
Content:  are then ranked by certified units. The claimed sales figure and the total of certified units (for each country) within the provided sources include sales of albums, singles, compilation-albums, music videos as well as downloads of singles and full-length albums. Sales figures, such as those from Soundscan, which are sometimes published by Billboard magazine, have not been included in the certified units column. , based on both sales claims and certified units, the Beatles are considered the highest-selling band. Elvis Presley is considered the highest-selling individual artist based on sales claims and Drake is the highest-selling individual artist based on certified units.
Title: Beyoncé
Content:  Beyoncé has received numerous awards, and is the most-awarded female artist of all time. As a solo artist she has sold over 17 million albums in the US, and over 75 million worldwide (as of February 2013). Having sold over 100 million records worldwide (a further 60 million additionally with Destiny's Child), Beyoncé is one of the best-selling music artists of all time. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) listed Beyoncé as the top certified artist of the 2000s decade, with a total of 64 certifications. Her songs "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)", "Halo", and "Irreplaceable" are some of the best-selling 
Title: List of best-selling music artists
Content:  The following is an independently verified list of best-selling music artists (those with claims of 75 million or more record sales) from the second half of the 20th century to the present. Only artists whose claimed sales figures can be cross-referenced with music recording certification systems (the first of which appeared in the late 1950s) are included. The tables are listed with both their claimed sales figure along with their total independently certified units and are ranked in descending order, with the artist with the highest amount of claimed sales at the top. If two or more artists have the same claimed sales, 
Title: List of best-selling singles in the United States
Content: Bruno Mars is the first and only artist to have five singles surpass 10 million units. ; As of February 2021, Drake is RIAA's top awarded digital singles artist. Rihanna ranks second and was the first artist to cross 100 million cumulative singles sales in 2015. She held the title as the only artist with over 100 million cumulative singles sales from July 2015 until June 2017 when Taylor Swift crossed the mark as well. ; After his sudden death, Michael Jackson became the first artist in digital history to sell one million downloads in a week, with a record-breaking 2.6 
Title: List of best-selling female music artists
Content:   300 million or more records sold 
Title: Billboard Music Award for Top Song Sales Artist
Content:  The Billboard Music Award for Top Songs Sales Artist was first presented at the 2016 Billboard Music Awards. The Weeknd was the award's first recipient. Drake is the most-awarded artist in this category having won twice, in 2017 and 2019. Drake is also the most-nominated artist, together with Post Malone and The Weeknd — all three artists have been nominated three times each. BTS is the first group and the first Korean artist in BBMA history to win the award, doing so at the 2021 ceremony.
Title: Metallica
Content:  23 nominations, and its last six studio albums (beginning with Metallica) have consecutively debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. Metallica ranks as one of the most commercially successful bands of all time, having sold over 125 million albums worldwide as of 2018. Metallica has been listed as one of the greatest artists of all time by magazines such as Rolling Stone, which ranked them at no. 61 on its 100 Greatest Artists of All Time list. As of 2017, Metallica is the third best-selling music artist since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991, selling a total of 58 million albums in the United States.
Title: List of best-selling music artists in Japan
Content:  The best-selling music artists in Japan include Japanese artists with claims of 15 million or more record sales. Japan is the largest physical music market in the world and the second largest overall behind the United States, and the biggest in Asia, according to International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. Sources that provide the sales an artist or record company claim via press release, rather than certified or reported by reliable third parties such as Oricon, are denoted by a "†".
Title: Usher (musician)
Content:  sold 23.8 million albums and 38.2 million digital songs in the United States. Internationally, he has sold 80 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. At the end of 2009, Billboard named him the second most successful artist of the 2000s decade, the number-one Hot 100 artist of the 2000s decade, and ranked Confessions as the top solo album of the 2000s decade. In 2010, Billboard placed him at number 6 on their list of Top 50 R&B/Hip-Hop Artists of the Past 25 Years. In 2019, Billboard also placed him at number 14 on their "Greatest of All Time Hot 100 Artists" list. Usher has earned 9 number-one singles. Considered an 

Question: who is the most selling music artist of all time?
Answer: The Beatles.