Lady Gaga #11 Best Selling Female Artist Of All Time WW... 2025 Certified Update

[Economy 53,031]

Updated to 2025. Interesting list to go thru:

 

https://chartmasters.org/46-best-selling-female-artists-50-million-album-sales/

 

Important Hights of the list and article:

- Lady Gaga is higher than Katy Perry (#11 vs #21)

- They praise Madonna for being #1 still after all this time but essentially implied her reign is coming to an end because Taylor Swift is going to Surpass her soon

 

Article lists top 25 but screenshot shows top 15:

[Guest]

Who is chartmaster again?

[HeavyCapiLover 4,389]

who is Enya ?

[FFXIV WhiteMage 6,321]

1 minute ago, HeavyCapiLover said:

who is Enya ?

a European legend. She's a legend even here in Asia. 

[artdoll 47,180]

5 minutes ago, HeavyCapiLover said:

who is Enya ?

You might recognize some of her biggest songs such as 'Only Time', 'Caribbean Blue', & 'Orinoco Flow'

[julz 8,049]

Those are really true household female singer or popstar names, known all over the world. Amazing list. And Taylor achieving so much in such timeframe, is a feat. For Lady Gaga, im honestly surprised that she has not reached 100M in this chart. It may take a little while to reach top 10. Also happy for Enya. This chart looks legit

[Leoj305 3,774]

Chart does not look legit, gaga had 100+ million records sold by the born this way era. 
 

 

[Guest]

8 minutes ago, julz said:

This chart looks legit

The atrocious font used on the website says otherwise tbh.

[lastpopicon 37,265]

Chartmasters is not perfect but it's the best we have to compare records sold. 

[Guest]

8 minutes ago, lastpopicon said:

Chartmasters is not perfect but it's the best we have to compare records sold. 

That’s what they want you to believe. Please don’t fall into this propaganda.

Abolish Chartmasters.

[Killa 18,864]

Its impossible that Gaga has only 30 m when the fame Monster, the two together version male that amount. This makes It all dubious

[PartySick 173,863]

2 hours ago, Leoj305 said:

Chart does not look legit, gaga had 100+ million records sold by the born this way era. 
 

 

Usually "records sold" includes singles and albums.

Then you have to consider if they're factoring in streams as sales.

Theeeen you have to consider if they're counting TFM as an EP, a reissue of TF, or it's own project.

THEEEN are they also counting a soundtrack like ASIB (which has sold like 4m copies).

She's one of the most popular artists to ever live, I think we just take that win and not worry so much about the specifics

[PartySick 173,863]

23 minutes ago, Killa said:

Its impossible that Gaga has only 30 m when the fame Monster, the two together version male that amount. This makes It all dubious

Everything I see says The Fame sold 18 million copies when it's lumped with The Fame Monster

Even Google's AI summary thing says 23 million but then you click the link for the source of that info and it says 18 million

I don't track sales though so don't quote me  

[Horny Chicken 11,067]

Celine Dion #3 

LEGEND 

[KevinWright 1,736]

Ariana is also doing very well. She's at number 14 and she's active for like 12 years? Pretty impressive.