The RIAA mentions Barbra Streisand as the best selling female artist in America however they only mention United States album sales The Worldwide RECORD sales for Barbra Streisand that they keep trying to justify as 145 million simply doesn t make sense 145 million is around the amount of albums she sold not total records The Barbra Streisand wiki page is the only page that lists an artists total album sales as their total record sales and that s a major discredit to Ms Streisand Talk shows and documentaries use 200 records not 145 million records