History of Rock n' Roll

By alan05

  • Top 50 Music Artists of the 1950's

    1. Elvis Presley

  • Fifties Genres / Key Artists:

    Jazz: Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Thelonious Monk, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey, Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, Charles Mingus

  • 1950's Top 100 Best Selling Singles Worldwide:

    6: Harry Belafonte

  • Sixties Genres / Key Artists:

    Psychedelic Rock: 13th Floor Elevators, Grateful Dead, The Charlatans, Pink Floyd, Love, Spirit, The Electric Prunes, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Traffic, Soft Machine, Eric Burdon, Jefferson Airplane

  • 1960's Top 100 Best Selling Albums Worldwide:

    65 The Beatles - Please Please Me - 1963

  • 1960's Top 100 Best Selling Singles Worldwide:

    32 The Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Woman - 1969

  • Seventies Genres / Key Artists:

    Pop: Abba, Jackson Five, The Osmonds, David Cassidy, Barry Manilow, Bay City Rollers, Helen Reddy, Leo Sayer, Cher, Tom Jones, Rod Stewart, Dionne Warwick, Barbara Streisand, Dianna Ross, Neil Diamond

  • 1970's Top 100 Best Selling Albums Worldwide:

    10 Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here - 1975

  • 1970's Top 100 Best Selling Singles Worldwide:

    73 Abba - Money, Money, Money - 1976

  • 1980's Top 100 Best Selling Singles Worldwide:

    56 Queen - Another One Bites the Dust - 1980

  • Eighties Genres / Key Artists:

    R&B / Urban: Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Whitney Houston, Bobby Brown, Aretha Franklin, Janet Jackson, Lionel Richie

  • 1980's Top 100 Best Selling Albums Worldwide:

    1 Michael Jackson - Thriller - 1982

  • 1990's Top 100 Best Selling Albums of the Decade Worldwide:

    2 Nirvana - Nevermind

  • 1990's Top 100 Best Selling Singles of the Decade Worldwide:

    19 Ace of Base - The Sign

  • Nineties Genres / Key Artists:

    Pop / Teen Pop: Ricky Martin, Bryan Adams, Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC, 98 Degrees, Hanson, The Spice Girls, Jennifer Lopez, Destiny's Child, Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, Roxette, Madonna