14-09-2015, 13:44
SammyIbanez Wrote:
The Beatles Sold the Most Records
They are a little ahead of Elvis in total sales, but miles ahead of MJ.
I don't know about the accuracy of the webpage where you got your info but I visited Graceland in 2011 and
the RIAA honoured Presley with a plaque in 2004 for "worldwide album sales in excess of one billion"....on the plaque it also states
Presley "is the first recording artist to achieve one billion sales"....!
The Bealtes achieved one billion sales around 2012 so Presley is almost a decade up on Beatles sales figures.
on a side by side comparison of #1 hits I have checked my music books and the Wiki results and this is how it stands between Elvis and Beatles....
Elvis Presley.....................16 US...10 US Country...24 CAN...20 UK...13 AU
Beatles............................22 US..........................22 CAN...17 UK...27 AU
if you are talking actual record sales.....Presley wins hands down,
if your talking career duration..............Beatles win hands down...
if you talk movies(movie career), Presley wins hands down....31 movies ALL if which made money at the box office, Presley was also the first Hollywood actor to earn a one million dollar fee to appear in a movie....his movie success rate was 100%, he never appeared in a 'box office flop'.
again, to look on the other side of the coin, Presley never wrote songs, he was a singer/vocalist...he received writing credits for "love me tender" which he adapted from an old folk song entitled "aura lee", he also received credit for "all shook up", but I doubt he ever had any input in the music or the lyrics other than he used the phrase "im all shook up" in his everyday life....
in the mid 1970s when he recorded his "aloha from Hawaii" concert the show was beamed live via satellite to all corners of the globe, it had an estimated viewing audience of one billion people....not bad considering the world population was around the two billion mark at that time....
we could go on making comparisons forever and a day but lets just agree that both Presley and The Beatles were hugely influential in their respective eras of music...
the fact is Beatles made some amazing pop records and took music to places it had never been before and Presley could sing every style/genre and still sound authentic.
that's my take on it, end of rant.....over and out!
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They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.