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The 20 best-selling music artists of all time

Sep 23, 2017, 18:21 IST

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The Beatles took the US by storm in the early 1960s, and by the end of the decade, the "British invasion" quartet left a historic - and likely untouchable - mark on the charts.

In the RIAA's tally of the best-selling artists by album sales and streaming figures, The Beatles lead the second-place artist, country singer Garth Brooks, by over 30 million album units.

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From Michael Jackson to Bruce Springsteen to Whitney Houston, this list of 20 of the most successful artists of all time contains the expected legendary names, and a few surprising appearances.

Check out the chart below, and find the rest of the top 50 here:

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