Talk:List of highest-certified music artists in the United States

Sort order
I see you removed the language "Ties are ordered by surname or, if not a single person, act name." from the internal comments and re-ordered some entries by their first (given) name. It's been there and done this way for a while (it was inconsistent before, which caused me to write the comments). It seems to be kind of a normal thing when sorting alphabetically to use surnames (last names) of people and drop common leading articles so you find things more intuitively. E.g., "The Beatles" and "Justin Bieber" should be with the Bs. Is there a reason you don't like this approach?

If we do go to sorting by given (first) name, we would also need to remove the wrappers from all those individual names. The language would also need to be removed from two other internal comments as well as the edit notice.

Anyone else care to comment? —[ Alan M 1  (talk) ]— 22:55, 17 February 2024 (UTC)


 * The reason I put them in that order is because I have a way to check the current amount of units of each artist.
 * I pull up the RIAA's Top Artists page and look at the amount of units the first artist has. Then I check the Wiki page to see if it's correct. Then I look at the artist below the first one on the Wiki page and then check the Top Artists page to see if it's correct.
 * Basically, I alternate between both tabs to go faster when checking the unit amounts. I edit the Wiki page to put all the artists with the same unit amounts in the order shown on the RIAA so that the alternation doesn't get derailed. HangInThere1000 (talk) 21:47, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

records sold
Must be a certain genre or era. Johnny Mathis has sold 360 million records worldwide. 2603:8080:D3F0:7E30:445E:FC96:38E5:BF45 (talk) 02:22, 3 March 2024 (UTC)