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Best Selling Albums of All TimesThe Eagles: Their Greatest Hits 1971 - 1975 is Number One
It is not surprising that most of the top ten best selling albums of all time are rock albums that were made in the 60s and 70s, before the Internet and music downloads.
The two exceptions in the Top Ten Best Selling Albums of All Times, are the country music albums of Shania Twain and Garth Brooks, both recorded on Nashville labels in the late 90s Eagles: Their Greatest Hits is the Best Selling Album of All TimesAccording to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 by The Eagles is the best-selling album ever with 29 million copies sold. Michael Jackson’s Thriller is second, followed by Led Zeppelin IV, Pink Floyd's The Wall, and AC/DC's Back in Black. It's unlikely the Eagles will ever be surpassed. As the music industry often laments, album sales are down in recent years, thanks in part to music downloads available on the Internet. Eagles, Jackson, Zepplin, Shania, Beatles, Garth AC/DCThe Top Ten Best Selling Albums of All Times are still selling
The Eagles – Their Greatest Hits 1971 -1975 Believe it or not, but the Eagles were originally gathered together by a record producer to be Linda Ronstadt's back-up band. The Greatest Hits album draws from what is commonly regarded as The Eagles’ pre-Joe Walsh era - the first four albums, The Eagles' early albums were a hybrid of country, pop, folk, and rock, and they virtually defined the southern California rock sound. And these 10 hit songs capture the Eagles at the top of their game playing music that turned out to be the right combination for the best selling album of all times Favorite Eagles Hit Songs Include:
Come on Over, Country Pop from Shania Twain Come on Over (1997) is the third studio album released by country singer Shania Twain. She broke various sales records around the world, becoming the biggest-selling album of all time by a female artist, the biggest-selling country music album ever, the biggest-selling album of the 1990s and one of the biggest selling albums in music history. Country music purists call it professionally crafted country-pop, but Shania Twain music fans couldn’t get enough of her hit songs on Come on Over like:
Listen to samples and buy MP3 music downloads at Amazon.com Garth Books Double Live Troyal Garth Brooks, known professionally as Garth Brooks is an American country music singer-song writer who manages to integrate rock music elements into his recordings and live performances. According to RIAA, Brooks has sold the most albums of any solo artist in recording history, and is the second top selling performance in terms of album sales, behind only The Beatles Double Live is the name of Garth Brooks' tenth country pop album. It is a two CD live set from the country music superstar. Double Live finds Garth revisiting 22 of his hit songs, with three new cuts thrown in. Popular Garth Brooks Hit Songs From Double Live:
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