Best-Selling Musical Acts by Category

Can you accept Zeppelin, please? Most of us who take a lot of these quizzes are in the habit of typing the one-word common name for almost everything, to save time.

Ok, so this is in the US, not worldwide.

Ahh, a note that states US sales only would have been useful. AC/DC was the first thought for hard rock, and probably true for worldwide?

I think it's time for a little update - there have been changes over the last years

Kenny G is elevator music at best, not jazz

Can you accept Kelly for R. Kelly, please?

Tupac beats NWA, Beasty Boys and Eminem? Surprising.

Pretty sure Em has 45 million

Not sure why everyone hates on Kenny G. Sure he looks like a goofball, and the soprano sax looks weird, and he playes out of the side of his mouth...but he's good. I like him...not saying I would listen to his album with a bunch of my friends over, but it's still pretty good.

If Justin Bieber had sold more records than Celine Dion then I would finally have lost all faith in the world.

Rush should outsell them both :p.

Simon and Garfunkel are folk rock. I believe Bob Dylan has outsold them in that genre, but both crossed over into other genres as well.

I would have kept Kenny G out of this quiz on principle...lol

I'd never have guessed that Beatles = pop. When they were playing pop wasn't even invented yet, it was rock 'n' roll.

The term "pop music" was used back then. They're definitely either pop or rock, but regardless of what category they would fall in, they really should be everyone's first guess. As the best-selling artist of all time, they're clearly going to fill one of the categories.

Michael Jackson was the king of pop...

Does Bob Dylan span too many genres to be considered folk? He must have sold more albums than Simon & Garfunkel, surely?

this is stupid because it is only in America. Why can't it be in the world. Why does it have to be only American sales? People like Garth Brooks for example, not many people outside America know him compared to all the other best selling artists.

The labeling of these categories is somewhat strange. As a matter of fact, I would never call Green Day a punk band. They are not. The Sex Pistols or the Ramones on the other hand... Same goes for the Beatles who were a rock n roll band, not a pop artist. A pop artist is most likely a single performer or "front" with musicians and/or producers who are not credited as a band or a whole. I believe MJ would definitely be the best-selling musical act in this category.