Best-selling Music Artists List, which lists artists who have sold 75 million or more albums. Its sales figures are based on total certified sales of albums, singles, greatest hits, music videos sold and singles and albums downloaded in each country. Here's a list of artists' third-party certified album sales, with the most sold albums at the top. Currently, the Beatles are the best-selling band with the highest record sales, followed by the King of Pop Michael Jackson in the charts.