The Beatles surpass 500M+ (!) album units, according to Chartmasters

[family.guy123]

1 hour ago, byzantium said:

I feel like it's worth noting that many of the sales came over the decades as people updated their collections from Vinyl, to Cassettes, to CD, to Digital, and now are streamed.  But then again, you need a legendary discography worth updating.  

Duh. It's really not worth noting actually because this is/will be true for literally every artist. 

[Technicolor]

See when you serve talentry 

[byzantium]

18 minutes ago, family.guy123 said:

Duh. It's really not worth noting actually because this is/will be true for literally every artist. 

Some people enjoy greater context to data.  

[Lightbringer007]

absolute legends

[John Slayne]

Kim Petras is better

[YellowRibbon]

I've yet to hear any song of them as a band... I've heard some from Paul McCartney I think 

[UnusualBoy]

Streaming farms, autoplay and payola confirmed.

[RobynYoBank]

4 hours ago, Doctor Dick said:

There's certainly no act right now that could do that with those averages. Taylor needed like 14 albums to cross 200M. Adele crossed 100M with only 4 albums impressively but she isn't releasing often enough and there's no male act who can swoop in either. 

That's one way of looking at it. But another is that Taylor has done like 100-150M just during the Eras Tour. And Beatles did not rack up those units during the initial chart run of those albums; it was over decades of sustained relevance. And Taylor has the strongest catalog performance of any artist now.