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List of best-charting music artists in the United States
This Billboard Hot 100 best charting artists/list of best-charting music artists in the United States includes acts from anywhere in the world who have charted singles on the Billboard Hot 100 since its inception (August 4, 1958).

In addition to the U.S. Hot 100, the table includes (in the U.S. only):
 * Top 40 hits
 * Top 10 hits
 * Adult Contemporary ("AC")
 * Adult Top 40
 * Mainstream Rock
 * Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs
 * Hot Country Songs
 * Billboard 200 LPs (excludes greatest hits, compilation, live, Christmas, and soundtrack albums)

For records outside the U.S., the table includes:
 * UK singles
 * Canada singles
 * Australia singles



Artists
Empty columns mean the artist did not chart hit singles in those charts or genres of music.

This table can be sorted numerically or alphabetically on any category by clicking the icon below the heading.

The Dark Side of the Moon sales and certifications
$†$ The album has sold 9,167,000 copies since Nielsen SoundScan started tracking album sales in 1991. The previous year the album received a 11× Platinum certification from the RIAA. Ignoring the possibility that its shipments exceeded sales in 1991, total American sales likely pass the 20 million mark.

Tango sales and certifications
= Music certifications=

Album sales and certifications compiled or found by me (Estimated worldwide sales)

 * Back in Black (30+ million copies)
 * No Angel (12+ million copies)
 * Brothers in Arms (~30 million copies)
 * Dirty Dancing (30+ million copies)
 * The Immaculate Collection (25+ million copies)
 * Rumours (30+ million copies)
 * Private Dancer (12+ million copies)
 * Forrest Gump
 * The Lion King (14+ million copies)
 * Footloose (~20 million copies)
 * Top Gun (~20 million copies)
 * Grease (~30 million copies)
 * Flashdance (~20 million copies)
 * Titanic (~30 million copies)
 * Can't Slow Down (~20 million copies)
 * Back to Front
 * Let's Dance (6+ million)
 * 5to Piso
 * Human Clay (12+ million copies)
 * CrazySexyCool (>12 million copies)
 * Boston (~20 million copies)
 * Hotel California (25+ million copies)
 * Carreras Domingo Pavarotti in Concert (~10 million copies)
 * The Three Tenors in Concert 1994 (5+ million)
 * Bat Out of Hell (30+ million copies)
 * Step by Step
 * Hangin' Tough
 * The Dark Side of the Moon (40+ million copies)
 * Phantom of the Opera (Original London production)
 * Phantom of the Opera (Other productions)
 * Highlights From The Phantom of the Opera
 * We Can't Dance (~15 million copies)
 * Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits (25+ million copies)
 * Abbey Road (~30 million copies)
 * News of the World
 * Jazz
 * Flash Gordon
 * Jonathan Livingston Seagull
 * Synchronicity (10+ million)
 * Kick (≥10 million)
 * No Jacket Required (~25 million copies)
 * Déjà Vu
 * Harvest
 * ...But Seriously (20+ million copies)
 * Mezmerize
 * Hypnotize
 * System of a Down
 * Happy Nation/The Sign (20+ million copies)
 * Tracy Chapman (15+ million copies)
 * Tapestry
 * True Blue (20+ million copies)
 * Greatest Hits (Creed)
 * Weathered
 * El Concierto
 * The John Lennon Collection
 * Gipsy Kings
 * Greatest Hits
 * Pokémon 2.B.A. Master
 * Caravanserai
 * Welcome
 * Borboletta
 * Festival
 * Moonflower
 * Inner Secrets
 * Marathon
 * Zebop!
 * All That I Am
 * Santana's Greatest Hits
 * The Ultimate Collection
 * The Doors (10+ million copies)
 * L.A. Woman
 * The Best of The Doors
 * Sueño Stereo
 * Jesus Christ Superstar (Australian Cast)
 * Jesus Christ Superstar
 * High Voltage (Australia)
 * Highway to Hell
 * Duets
 * My Way: The Best of Frank Sinatra
 * The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
 * What About Now?
 * One Cell in the Sea
 * Christopher Cross
 * The Next Day
 * Searching for Sugar Man
 * Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em (12+ million copies)
 * Let It Loose
 * Livro
 * Me Verás Volver
 * Nightflight to Venus (≤10 million copies)
 * Please Please Me
 * With The Beatles
 * Meet the Beatles!
 * A Hard Day's Night (~10 million copies)
 * Beatlemania! With the Beatles
 * Twist and Shout
 * The Beatles' Second Album
 * The Beatles' Long Tall Sally
 * Something New
 * The Beatles' Story
 * Beatles for Sale
 * Help! (~10 million copies)
 * The Early Beatles
 * Revolver (10+ million copies)
 * Magical Mystery Tour (~10 million copies)
 * Yellow Submarine
 * The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl
 * Live at the BBC
 * Now That's What I Call Music! 85
 * Now That's What I Call Music! (Asian series)
 * Now That's What I Call Music! 2 (Asian series)

Best-selling and highest-certified pre-digital era singles (compiled or found by me)

 * Singles in whose table of contents entry the word "certifications" is in bold owe nearly all their sales to certifications alone.

"We Are the World" certifications
!scope="row"| Japan (RIAJ)
 * 311,000
 * 311,000

!scope="row"| Total available sales:
 * 9,833,750
 * 9,833,750

"Eye of the Tiger" sales and certifications
!scope="row"| Japan (RIAJ)
 * 244,000
 * 244,000

!scope="row"| United States (RIAA) !scope="row"| Total available sales:
 * 3× Platinum+Gold (MT)
 * 5,992,000
 * 8,749,000
 * 8,749,000

"Don't Stop Believin'" sales and certifications
!scope="row"| Total available sales:
 * 8,147,761
 * 8,147,761

"I'll Be Missing You" sales and certifications
!scope="row"| Total available sales:
 * 7,162,000
 * 7,162,000

"Hips Don't Lie" sales and certifications
It is debatable whether this song should be considered part of the digital era or not. The fact remains, however, that like "Don't Stop Believin'", "Eye of the Tiger", "Bohemian Rhapsody", and the three Thriller singles listed, "Hips Don't Lie" owes a significant part of its sales to digital downloads and mastertones.

!scope="row"| Total available sales:
 * 6,920,5263
 * 6,920,5263

"Bohemian Rhapsody" sales and certifications
!scope="row"| Total available sales:
 * 6,732,000
 * 6,732,000

"You're the One That I Want" sales and certifications
!scope="row"| Total available sales:
 * 6,550,000
 * 6,550,000

"Thriller" sales and certifications
!scope="row"| United States (RIAA) !scope="row"| Total available sales:
 * Platinum+Gold+Gold (MT)
 * 4,972,000
 * 6,492,000
 * 6,492,000

"Macarena" sales and certifications
!scope="row"| Total available sales:
 * 6,370,000
 * 6,370,000

"Do They Know It's Christmas?" certifications
!scope="row"| Total available sales:
 * 6,290,000
 * 6,290,000

"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" sales and certifications
!scope="row"| Total available sales:
 * 6,168,000
 * 6,168,000

"Gangsta's Paradise" sales and certifications
!scope="row"| Total available sales:
 * 5,910,000
 * 5,910,000

"Y.M.C.A." sales and certifications
!scope="row"| Japan (RIAJ)
 * 302,000
 * 302,000

!scope="row"| Total available sales:
 * 5,762,000
 * 5,762,000

"Billie Jean" sales and certifications
!scope="row"| United States (RIAA) !scope="row"| Total available sales:
 * Platinum+Gold+Gold (MT)
 * 3,700,000
 * 5,563,000
 * 5,563,000

"Le Freak" certifications
!scope="row"| Total available sales:
 * 5,500,000
 * 5,500,000

"Beat It" sales and certifications
!scope="row"| United States (RIAA) !scope="row"| Total available sales:
 * Platinum+Gold (MT)
 * 3,400,000+^
 * 5,007,500
 * 5,007,500

"We Are the Champions" sales and certifications
!scope="row"| Total available sales:
 * 4,532,000
 * 4,532,000

"Sweet Child o' Mine" sales and certifications
!scope="row"| Total available sales:
 * 4,442,804
 * 4,442,804

"Stayin' Alive" sales and certifications
!scope="row"| Japan (RIAJ)
 * 216,000
 * 216,000

!scope="row"| Total available sales:
 * 4,347,000
 * 4,347,000

"I Just Called to Say I Love You" sales and certifications
!scope="row"| Total available sales:
 * 4,306,000
 * 4,306,000

"Over the Rainbow" sales and certifications
!scope="row"| Total available sales:
 * 4,300,561
 * 4,300,561

"Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" sales and certifications
!scope="row"| Total available sales:
 * 3,624,000
 * 3,624,000

"Girls Just Want to Have Fun" sales and certifications
!scope="row"| Japan (RIAJ)
 * Gold
 * 110,420undefined

!scope="row"| Total available sales:
 * 3,575,420
 * 3,575,420

"Rivers of Babylon" sales and certifications
!scope="row"| Total available sales:
 * 3,570,000
 * 3,570,000

"Night Fever" sales and certifications
!scope="row"| Japan (RIAJ)
 * 370,000
 * 370,000

!scope="row"| Total available sales:
 * 3,520,000
 * 3,520,000

"Flashdance... What a Feeling" sales and certifications
!scope="row"| Japan (RIAJ)
 * 697,000
 * 697,000

!scope="row"| Total available sales:
 * 3,512,000
 * 3,512,000