How did Elvis Presley sell so many albums?

[Dr. Acula]

Whatever he did, it was less the MJ and The Beatles.

MJ received the award for the biggest selling artist of the millennium, not Elvis or The Beatles.

What's more impressive is that MJ put out far less music than everyone else. He put out an album every 4-5 years, while other acts were releasing albums multiple times a year.

Got a source for MJ being the highest? What I'm seeing is The Beatles being the highest selling.

List of best-selling music artists - Wikipedia

 

[KodeBlue]

Got a source for MJ being the highest? What I'm seeing is The Beatles being the highest selling.

List of best-selling music artists - Wikipedia

If Wikipedia is your source, you already lost.

It did research on this a few years ago, and MJ was the biggest selling artist of all time. However, I will say that it's close between MJ and the Beatles. No artist has sold more than a Billion albums as some claimed.

MJ and the Beatles are roughly around 330-350 million albums; Elvis is a little over 300.

I didn't go to one site to find this information I had to dig for it. That's how I know that Elvis' album sales have been grossly exaggerated.

 

[get these nets]

Got a source for MJ being the highest? What I'm seeing is The Beatles being the highest selling.

List of best-selling music artists - Wikipedia

I don't have a source but I think I can explain why there would be a discrepancy.

Elvis and Beatles numbers are based re-issued music on cd box sets. Also, when the WuTang double album came out....I learned that the sale of one double album counts as 2 albums sold. Wutang forever scanning a million times would count as going double platinum. I'm assuming those Beatles box sets count for multiple units.

I would have hard time believing that Michael Jackson isn't the top selling artist of all time if you take those kinds of tricks/loopholes away.

 

[Cave Savage]

I don't have a source but I think I can explain why there would be a discrepancy.

Elvis and Beatles numbers are based re-issued music on cd box sets. Also, when the WuTang double album came out....I learned that the sale of one double album counts as 2 albums sold. Wutang forever scanning a million times would count as going double platinum. I'm assuming those Beatles box sets count for multiple units.

I would have hard time believing that Michael Jackson isn't the top selling artist of all time if you take those kinds of tricks/loopholes away.

But MJ didn't release as many albums in his prime as The Beatles did, so I can see it going either way.

 

[get these nets]

He’s the biggest selling solo artist BUT he released A LOT of music. Like, A LOT. So did the Beatles.

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this is a good point. They've been talking about Buddy Holly all day.I guess this is the anniversary of the plane accident. One of the things they mention is that Holly recorded so much music in his life, that the record company released "new" music for ten years after his death.

Some Tupac shyt, decades before Tupac.

 

[get these nets]

But MJ didn't release as many albums in his prime as The Beatles did, so I can see it going either way.

Good point.
I'd like the see the numbers of the Beatles discography in the years following their releases versus MJ's.

I'd think that Thriller sold more within 2 years of release than combined album sales of the Beatles within 2 years of their final album.

 

[You Win Perfect]

bc he stole from black people and refashioned it as though it were new

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