19 Top-Selling Female Recording Artists of All Time

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Barbra Streisand and the Other 19 Top-Selling Female Recording Artists of All Time
Paul Grein
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Yahoo MusicApril 23, 2017

Barbra Streisand, who turns 75 today (April 24), is the best-selling female recording artist in history. The superstar has sold 68.5 million albums in the U.S. over the years — 4 million more than her nearest rival, Madonna. (You could say the Funny Girl tops the Material Girl.) Streisand is the leader among female artists for most gold albums (51) and platinum albums (30).

Streisand landed her first gold album in May 1964, before such rivals as Mariah Carey and Celine Dion were even born. She has amassed eight Grammys, four Emmys, two Oscars, and a special Tony. In honor of Streisand’s milestone birthday, here are the 20 female solo artists who have sold the most albums in the U.S., according to the Recording Industry Assn. of America.

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[the Scribe]

This doesn't seem to jive with Wikipedia:

Her three biggest-selling studio albums to date are her 1977 release Simple Dreams, 1983's What's New, and 1989's Cry Like A Rainstorm, Howl Like The Wind, each one certified by the Recording Industry Association of America for over three million copies sold.

Her highest-selling album to date is the 1976 compilation Greatest Hits, certified for over seven million units sold in 2001.[93]

Ronstadt became music's first major touring female artist, selling out major venues, and she also became the top-grossing solo female concert artist for the 1970s.[38] Ronstadt remained a highly successful touring artist into the 1990s at which time she decided to "scale back" to smaller venues.

Cashbox magazine – fierce competition to Billboard in the 1970s – named Ronstadt the "#1 Female Artist of the Decade".[29]

Her RIAA certification (audits paid for by record companies or artist for promotion) tally as of 2001, totaled 19 Gold, 14 Platinum and 7 Multi-Platinum albums.[93]

Ronstadt's album sales have not been certified since 2001, and at the time, Ronstadt's U.S. album sales were certified by the Recording Industry Association of America at over 30 million albums sold, while Peter Asher, her former producer and manager, placed her total U.S. album sales at over 45 million.[48] Likewise, her worldwide albums sales are in excess of 100 million albums sold, according to the former president of Warner Bros. Records, Joe Smith, now member in the jury of the hitparade hall of fame. [139]

She was the first female in music history to score three consecutive platinum albums and ultimately racked up a total of eight consecutive platinum albums.[46]

Her album Living in the USA was the first album by any recording act in U.S. music history to ship double platinum (over two million advanced copies).[38]

Her first Latin release, the all-Spanish 1987 album Canciones De Mi Padre, stands as the best-selling non-English-language album in music history. As of 2013, it had sold over 2½ million U.S. copies.