here is the current us album sales from the riaa website, i dont know how reliable they are has prince's sales dont seem to have went up from last year despite shifting 2 million copies of musicology in the us. here is the top 40 anyway.
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...Top Artists

Totals are derived from cumulative album sales totals (U.S. only)

Artist
Certified Units (in Millions)

BEATLES, THE
166.5

PRESLEY, ELVIS
117.5

LED ZEPPELIN
106.0

BROOKS, GARTH
105.0

EAGLES
88.0

JOEL, BILLY
78.5

PINK FLOYD
73.5

STREISAND, BARBRA
71.5

JOHN, ELTON
67.5

AEROSMITH
64.0

ROLLING STONES, THE
63.5

AC/DC
63.0

SPRINGSTEEN, BRUCE
61.5

MADONNA
60.0

JACKSON, MICHAEL
58.5

METALLICA
57.0

CAREY, MARIAH
57.0

STRAIT, GEORGE
54.5

HOUSTON, WHITNEY
54.0

VAN HALEN
50.5

ROGERS, KENNY
50.5

DIAMOND, NEIL
50.0

FLEETWOOD MAC
48.5

U2
48.0

KENNY G
47.5

ALABAMA
46.0

DION, CELINE
45.5

SANTANA
43.5

TWAIN, SHANIA
42.0

JOURNEY
40.0

NELSON, WILLIE
39.0

CLAPTON, ERIC
38.5

SIMON & GARFUNKEL
37.5

CHICAGO
37.0

SEGER, BOB/SILVER BULLET BAND
37.0

2 PAC
36.5

MC ENTIRE, REBA
36.5

PRINCE
36.5

FOREIGNER
36.0

BACKSTREET BOYS
36.0

http://www.riaa.com/gp/be...rtists.asp

Garth Brooks sold 3 times more albums than Prince?
What's wrong with you people?!!!
Start buying!!!

Sorry dear people from the U.S., I really love your country, but the fact that you re-elected G.W.B. and that the damn Backstreet Boys sold almost as much albums as Prince really scares me...

O.k., if you'd read such statistics for other countries, I doubt that the situation would be better (meaning sales being more on the side of good music)...

Sorry, forgot one thing: the ranking of The Beatles and Led Zeppelin is a sign of qualified taste!

the last time this was updated was in 2003

Fuck the US and Garth Brooks. I'm from Berkeley, so I don't consider myself American.

Damn Tupac!!! That man scares me

hes probally sold more after his death than before!

thekidsgirl said:

I've always believed he's be like 2pac. He's got so many hundreds of songs we've never heard that for decades after his death he'd still be reliecing new material. If you notice in the Graffiti Bridge movie, he had already written Rave Un2 the Joy fantastic ten years before it came out. Makes you wonder how much stuff we haven't heard.