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

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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)[reply]

Sources used as references

McCarthy, Joe; Wiggins, Brandon (April 19, 2020). "Lady Gaga, Céline Dion, Taylor Swift, and More: Musical Moments From 'One World: Together At Home' You Need to Watch". Global Citizen. Retrieved May 2, 2020.

Why is this article about The One World: Together At Home celebrated April 18, 2020, quoted so many times as a source providing numbers of certifications by RIAA if that article does not mentions certifications by RIAA? This happens with several other websites used as references. Why are websites with no mention to cerfications used as sources? Lots of these certifications have references that are from 2020. That's four year old and some of these numbers changed since 2020. Paladium (talk) 17:18, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New Section

Should a separate section be added in this page for artists who've sold the most certified albums and singles combined in the United States? The RIAA's website lists best selling artists from album sales and then single sales whilst excluding features which would tend to skew it for this kind of list. So we could come up with a ranked section ordering artists based on total records sold to date.

This is just an idea but it would theoretically work very well and would be helpful for people viewing the page Never17 (talk) 07:57, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Like if you go to this page right here, it will give us a complete tally of the best selling artists in the United States whilst excluding their featured collaborations

https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?advance_search=1&tab_active=awards_by_artist&type=all#search_section Never17 (talk) 07:59, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No, it has been discussed before that we should not combine albums and singles due to double-counting reason. All the singles' certified units have also been counted for albums' certifications (10 downloads or 1,500 streams each contribute to 1 album unit). It largely inflates the certified units for artists in digital era. Contrary to pre-digital era, physical singles were never counted for albums certifications. Bluesatellite (talk) 05:05, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]