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The Best-Selling Artists of the 1990s

Hrefna Helgadóttir

The Best-Selling Artists
The Best-Selling Artists

We came across this animation on Facebook which shows what artists sold the most records from 1969 to the present day. Because we're suckers for an intuitive data visualisation, we wanted to share it with you all.

What's more, is we noticed a lot of these artists are still some of the biggest touring acts of the day, even the ones from the 70s. We published said findings here, and the 80s here, and now it's time for the 90s to get their day in the sun.

The 90s is the Diva Decade. What's interesting about our decades up until this points the only women artists are in Fleetwood Mac, ABBA and both as part of a band, and then Barbra Streisand. It's not until the 80s we get Madonna, and she really did change the game as the first female artist to top the list. In the 90s we see the continued rise of Whitney Houston, and then Celine Dion, Shania Twain, Janet Jackson and Mariah Carey start dominating in the charts.

Still carrying over from the 70s are Queen, Elton John who is absolutely killing it in the 90s, and then of course The Beatles and Elvis Presley. From the 80s we still have present AC/DC and Metallica, Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jackson and Madonna obviously, Phil Collins, Billy Joel, George Michael and Whitney Houston.

Backstreet Boys, on tour

Celine Dion, on tour

Eric Clapton, on tour

Garth Brooks, on tour

Janet Jackson, on tour

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Mariah Carey, on tour

Shania Twain, on tour

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Not on Tour


What's remarkable is every artist mentioned here is still a part of our culture, now 20-30 years later. These artists have provided the soundtrack of many of our lives while maintaining a huge audience this entire lifetime.

If you or your parents or your partner or your peers are a fan of these, now is the time to get tickets for these living legends. Maybe put it in a Christmas stocking for them?