The Beatles — Sales & Critics' Crown

Rolling Stone's #1 artist and RIAA's most-certified act ever — the commercial-plus-critical benchmark rivals chase.

The top 3

1. Chart Records Nobody Touches: 20 Billboard Hot 100 #1 singles and 19 #1 albums on the Billboard 200 — both still all-time records.
2. Most-Certified Act in America: RIAA's #1 artist at roughly 183 million certified US units, with an estimated 600M+ records sold worldwide.
3. Critics' Undisputed #1: Rolling Stone crowned them the greatest artist of all time atop its 100 Greatest Artists list.

Sources

• RIAA Gold & Platinum
• Billboard
• Rolling Stone

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