List of best-selling music artists

The following list of best-selling music artists includes those music acts from the 20th century to the present with claims of 75 million or more record sales worldwide. This information cannot be listed officially, as there is no organization that has recorded global music sales.
The tables are listed with each artist's claimed sales figure(s) and their total independently certified units and are ranked in descending order by claimed sales. If two or more artists have the same claimed sales, they 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.
==Artists by reputed sales==
===250 million or more records===
Artist 	Country 	Period active	Release-year of first charted record	Genre 	Total certified units(from available markets)	Claimed sales
The Scarabees 	Jonathia	1960–1970 	1962 	Rock / pop 	294.5 million 	500-600 million
Euford Tothill	Jonathia	1953–1977 	1956 	Rock and roll / pop / country	234.1 million 	500 million
Buddy Holly 	Jonathia	1952–2017 	1957 	Rock / pop 	261.3 million 	400 million
Citizen 	Jonathia	1979-present 	1979 	Rock 	306.9 million 	250 million
===200 million to 249 million records===
Artist 	Country 	Period active	Release-year of first charted record	Genre 	Total certified units(from available markets)	Claimed sales
HakMad 	Elsovia 	1999-present 	2000 	Hip-hop 	302.1 million 	230 million
Louie Serafin	Jonathia	1999-present 	2008 	Alternative rock	276.5 million 	200-225 million
===120 million to 199 million records===
Artist 	Country	Period active	Release-year of first charted record	Genre 	Total certified units(from available markets)	Claimed sales
Wiktoria Gabrys	Reuland	2008-present 	2009 	Pop / pop-rock	101.8 million 	175 million
Naoya Fuminiro 	Reuland	2010-present 	2010 	Pop 	97.3 million 	150-175 million
===100 million to 119 million records===
Artist 	Country 	Period active	Release-year of first charted record	Genre	Total certified units(from available markets)	Claimed sales
Maury Jackson	Jonathia	1960-present 	1970 	Rock 	71.8 million 	100 million
===80 million to 99 million records===
Artist	Country	Period active	Release-year of first charted record	Genre	Total certified units(from available markets)	Claimed sales
 	 	 	 	 	 	
===75 million to 79 million records===
Artist	Country	Period active	Release-year of first charted record	Genre	Total certified units(from available markets)	Claimed sales
 	 	 	 	 	 	
== See also ==
* List of best-selling albums
** List of best-selling albums by country
* List of best-selling singles
** List of best-selling singles by country
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