IS MADONNA THE BIGGEST SELLING ARTIST?

Madonna fans do have a point: she was after all, Guinness’ Most successful female artist of all time. While I agree with Guinness, it must be put into proper context. If you dissect sales record of every year since both their debuts, you’ll see that Madonna has NEVER topped a year-end chart, nor has she ever become the top-performing artist in any year, more so in any decade. Whereas Mariah Carey has been Artist of the Year thrice, for Mariah Carey, Daydream, and TEOM. She has also received the Best selling Album of the year twice, for Mariah Carey and TEOM. She is also the only female artist to have the #1 song of the year. All these achievements made her Artist of the Decade, and female artist of the millennium. Mariah has been cited as the most successful female artist of all time by Billboard, AMA, WMA, Capital FM (London), MTV Asia, Bambi (Germany), Lady of Soul, and a lot more. Madonna’s only citation for her lifetime work is from Guinness, MTV (as icon), WMA (Michael Jackson ...  more

AS YOU HAVE ALREADY SAID, “YES!”. AND YOU SHOULD NOT QUESTION THE GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS CAUSE YOU CAN’T GET ANY CREDIBLE THAN THAT. AND MAY I SAY THAT HAVING “SONG OF THE YEAR” OR NUMEROUS NUMBER 1 SONGS IN THE US CHARTS DOES NOT GUARANTEE YOU THE BIGGEST SELLING ARTIST OF ALL TIME (EXCPET FOR THE BEATLES AND ELVIS), THAT IS FOR THE CASE OF MARIAH ON MADONNA.  more