most awarded pop album of all time

Kraftwerk's savvy use of pop elements smuggled in a Trojan horse of electronic experimentalism to the broadest audience possible. In 1971, not yet 30, she showed how those pop sentiments could remain relevant for adults, revisiting the lingering uncertainty of "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" and expressing even-tempered resignation on "It's Too Late." document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Lady Gaga - Born This Way (Official Music Video), Madonna - Material Girl (Official Video) [HD], Michael Jackson - Dont Stop 'Til You Get Enough (Official Video), Taylor Swift - We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, Keith Urban, Maggie Rogers, Tim McGraw, And More Set For March Madness Music Fest, The Weeknds Live At SoFi Stadium To Be Released As Live Album, Madison Cunningham Releases All Ive Ever Known Vevo Session, Best Gifts for Billie Eilish Fans This Christmas, Native Invader: Tori Amos Uncompromising Album Took No Prisoners, Come As You Are: The Story Behind The Nirvana Song, Glen Campbell, Shaggy, And Lil Wayne: Currently Trending Songs, Weighty In The Eighties: When Prog Rock Went Pop. Singles Success Every track here offers the best of both worlds; every song knocks you on the head from the first notes, and more than a few are surprisingly poignant. 18. This Chicago quintet featured two stunning guitarists in Elvin Bishop and Mike Bloomfield the latter, an early version of the skills-centric "guitar hero" model. - Rank in decade: #15. Dears, and what about Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Burt Bacharach, Paul McCartney, Sergio Mendes and so on: are they less than Taylor Swift or Spice Girls? (38 million units sold) 2 . She won her first Grammy. Talk Talk The Colour of Spring What a load of crap, We would argue that David Bowie is rock, not pop. Suddenly Istanbul seemed a little less farther away, or California, a little more. Flying the independent Sub Pop logo alongside DGC's corporate shield and powered by Kurt Cobain's golden scream Nevermind shuffled the major/indie ecosystem, brought shine to punk and punk to the charts, transmitted a post-feminist sensitivity to the masses, bridged MTV and college radio, provided aphoristic angst for sullen teens to replicate in school notebook margins, altered the way engineers recorded bands and publicists marketed them, commodified discontent, kicked off an archetypal music myth for the late 20th century, spurred an alt-rock gold rush that resulted in hundreds of bands earning record contracts and impacted nearly every sad guitar player that followed. Not pop. Don't Come Home A Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind). To appear on the list, the figure must have been published by a reliable source and the album must have sold at least 20 million copies. It was originally a pair of concept albums among the first of those as well in the very literal sense: two bound collections of six 78-RPM discs documenting the hardships of the 1930s dust storms in plain-sung song. The rap-rock fusion "Rock Box" stands as a foundationally transformative moment for American culture itself, while the earth-shaking one-two punch of "Sucker MCs" and "It's Like That" (which had been released together in a landmark 1983 single) segued from Herculean MC grandstanding to complex social realism. Released in June 1966, Frank Zappa's major-label debut was only rock's second double album (Bob Dylan released Blonde on Blonde a month earlier) but it set a higher bar for conceptual audacity. This list is simply one mans perception and is no more valid than anyone elses. 1.Michael . The Awardist Taylor Swift makes history as most awarded artist of all time at American Music Awards Swift beat Michael Jackson's record of 24 all-time wins. Patty Loveless The. For the first time ever, hip-hop's mainstream and America's were one. Not bad for a $287,000 advance. The saxophonist would get much further out (what's that piano doing here?) What could go. The lyrics were both more acerbic and allusive, questioning yesterday's romantic optimism. Required fields are marked *. Year of establishment (from largest market to smallest based on, Note, the esitimated sales of 20 million for, While sales of the original album released in 1957 are only 3.85 million, if this is added to the sales of the eponymous 1970 reissue (11.05 million), 1985, Legend: The Best of Bob Marley & The Wailers, Grease: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture, HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I, Flashdance: Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture, International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, List of best-selling albums of the 21st century, "RIAA: Eagles' Greatest Hits Certified 38x Platinum, Passing 'Thriller', "Adele's 21 overtakes sales of Thriller in UK album list", "MJ nearly scrapped 'Thriller' release | Music News | Zee News", "31. In turn, the soundtrack served not so much as a venue for a hot new sound, but a diplomatic introduction to something that had been percolating for years. The German group pulled away from rock music's formal identity while channeling its to-the-jugular pop spirit on Autobahn. Sgt Pepper is usually considered one of the greatest rock albums. Once again, its an album of terrific (and mostly non-autotuned) vocal performances; Swift is your tour guide for one gloriously dramatic love life. Traces of the album that launched a thousand bands can be found in Reed's contemporaries like David Bowie and Iggy Pop, as well as successive generations of snotty aesthetes from proto-punks, punks, post-punks and art-rockers from Jonathan Richman and Patti Smith, to R.E.M. ", Never had rock music been so fussy or so technical, forgoing the pleasure of the moment for the rarefied pursuits of multi-song suites and breakdowns in time signatures no teenager would dare try to do the mashed potato alongside. Pepper's wasn't the first album to blend rock music with high art, but it was probably the first time that musicians of the Beatles' stature and popularity (if there even were musicians of their stature and popularity before them) decided to turn their back so completely on what had made them famous. These all-time rankings are based on actual performance on the weekly Billboard Hot 100 (from its launch on Aug. 4, 1958 through Oct. 10, 2015) and Billboard 200 (from Aug. 17, 1963 when we 12. The week's most popular albums as compiled by Luminate, based on multi-metric consumption (blending traditional album sales, track equivalent albums, and streaming equivalent albums). A path-finding moment in the pre-history of hip-hop, the debut album from this Los Angeles poetry collective full of minimalist beats and brilliant wordplay nearly a decade before the first recorded rap song still feels relevant 45 years later. 75, No. Aside from Styles and Beyonc, Bad Bunny, Adele, Lizzo, ABBA, Kendrick Lamar, Mary J. Blige, Brandi Carlile and Coldplay were also up for the Album of the Year award. The rock band U2 is the most awarded group in Grammy history. (in its proper, UK version) was where The Beatles creative imagination really took flight: John with his daring lyrical angles (the title song and Youve Got to Hide Your Love Away), Paul with his most soaring melodies (The Night Before and Yesterday). Part of the influence lies in the way Tony Iommi's guitars were tuned down, the result of a freak accident that resulted in him shearing off two of his right hand's fingertips and having to play with their tenderness in mind. Beyonc now counts 32 total GRAMMY wins. Their debut album only reached Number 123 on the Billboard charts but it has reverberated through the decades. Sgt. She has 896 awards, making her the first on the list of musicians in the world. Kate Bush The Kick Inside The problem with this list is that the author clearly does not know what pop is. When Henzell asked Cliff to get on it, Cliff said "no," at which point Henzell got into bed with a notepad and started running the film back and forth in his head, writing down song titles. A blueprint for modern folk music, Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl Ballads introduced the idea of the songwriter as a personality of his own. Check out: Country Comfort, In which new wave opens its heart to the whole of pop history; never again would Buddy Holly (who gets covered) and Robert Fripp (who guests) fit comfortably on the same album. The albums, released in 2004 and 1999, respectively,. But then, most of us have never lived in the Old West era, either, which is beautifully evoked in these figments of Elton Johns and Bernie Taupins imaginations. Lisa Germano Geek the Girl On their second album, the Allman Brothers transmogrified from mere blues-rockers to an assemblage creating an entirely new kind of Southern music. The Beach Boys Pet Sounds The seminal Australian rock band release "Back In Black" (Epic Records) and rock 'n' roll is changed forever. Meanwhile, Lindsey Buckinghams Im So Afraid and Stevie Nicks Rhiannon hint at the angst and the mystic adventures to come. BTW: pop, as in popular, is a very generic term which can encompass music of ANY style which appeals to a large enough audience. Shania twain and that specific Taylor Swift album both were country not pop. A sardonic, satirical, weirdly entertaining predecessor to kitchen-sink productions such as Sgt. Their music played consistently on all types of programmes and bohemian rhapsody one of the biggest selling singles of all time. The media-savvy Guthrie initiated the age of songwriter-as-messenger, bending traditional melodies and country-blues techniques to anti-authoritarian purposes: punk-folk for the New Deal. In 2016, RIAA included streaming in addition to track sales and album sales based on the concept of album-equivalent unit for certification purposes, and certification therefore no longer reflects shipment alone. Put positively, it was the first time the Beatles were free of the responsibility of being the Beatles. Spice Girls again,I give up!!! Luckily, you can embed audio very simply into any slide on AhaSlides. "I Still Have Faith In You," ABBA. How To Dress Well Love Remains Check out: Without You, Rumours may have been the last word on failed marriages and 70s decadence, but Fleetwood Mac, the first album by the Rumours line-up, was a more joyful affair, revelling in wide-eyed romance and scruffy rocknroll, while embracing the bands blues roots (on World Turning) for the last time. Best-selling female recording artist. "Right on Time," Brandi Carlile. The album's seediness proved inspirational to generations of musicians, who used Black Sabbath's ideas of soot-covered rock & roll making it faster, slowing it down even more, adding orchestral flourishes to create not just a genre, but a musical movement. "I know it had to cost ten thousand pounds to make," the ad, written by Pete Townshend, proceeds. He died of a cocaine overdose in 1981. to modern indie rock. The word pop derives from popular, which means universal and thats what we kept in mind while compiling a list of the 20 best pop albums of all time. Most media only report the most-awarded artists at individual award show, and a complete list of the most-awarded music artists remains unavailable. 9. Its been years in the making, but the Indian Scout is back. With their innocent romanticism and meticulous vocal arrangements, Boyz II Men became the most commercially successful R&B vocal group of all time. The Olivia Tremor Control Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume One You decide if its a pop or a jazz record, but both worlds came out ahead. ), between 1990 and 2000 are required to have their claimed figures supported by 5060% in certified units. 22. The album's splashy, cinematic videos from the John Landis-directed short film that promoted "Thriller" to the West Side Story homage accompanying "Beat It" legitimized the still-nascent form and forced MTV to incorporate black artists into its playlists. With its innovative, liquid-cooled V-twin, big, smooth spread of power and exceptionally low center of gravity, the new Indian Scout serves up a ride like nothing else. Shes absolute trash. A primo reference point for Radiohead, Nick Drake, My Bloody Valentine and anyone else looking to evoke the eternal teenage bedroom of the mind. Accepting the rhythmic and improvisatory challenges of Jimi Hendrix, James Brown and Sly Stone, the trumpeter, over the course of several sessions, goaded multiple large combos to use a shifting funk pulse to guide them toward explorations more open-ended than even the freest of jazz players had attempted. The party line on Gaye's 1971 album is that it was the first time soul music approached the condition of art as though Motown's pocket symphonies didn't require as much wit and invention as any of the more exploratory music contained herein. 67, No. Hayes reluctantly agreed to record another LP for Stax, with the caveat of having complete creative control a rare opportunity for a soul musician at the time, but after Hot Buttered Soul's wild success, a necessity. Beyonce has received numerous awards, and is the most-awarded female artist of all time. (That is 1.33% for each additional year after 2000. So James personally financed the recording of this blazing half-hour set at the storied Harlem theater, and soon radio DJs were playing entire LP sides on the air. Check out: Dont Stop Til You Get Enough, Taylor Swifts Redis the perfect update of Blondies Parallel Lines, and it took a fast-evolving country artist to make it. Taylor definitely deserves to be on this list, though. 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