yo 1st 2 comment...but on a real Pac iz bigga dan big...nigga sold a million in da 1st 4hrz of releasin an album he recorded in jus 2 weekz.....damn nigga waz "ballin"

I LOVE IT.... Lauryn and the Fresh Prince @ 10-9.... Hip-Hop HISTORY 4 y'all headz...

lol the lil g-unot click should be up in this later talking their smack. probably will be up in the 5-1 page since their boy 50 is obviously gonna be up there. funny how they love to argue an artist is great because hits and album sales but yet will smith is up there. i guess will smith is better than nas, mos def and other good rappers. then they wanna call everyone a 50 hater who says the dude isnt good meanwhile ull find those same dudes callin ppl 50 haters but they hate on lil wayne because what? i got my reasons i dont like dude but im pretty sure he fits their lil standards of omg he has a great flow on his music. lol when yall make ur lil posts dont forget to do ur lil studder thing.

outkast number 1 mc hammer number 2

maybe eminem number 2

are maybe its a tie between eminem and mc hammer, but it sure outkast is number 1

i smell bullcrap

hammer could be number i,but those are my top three outkast,hammer and eminem

Yeah I think Hammer is number one to, I think hammer, outkast n Biggie was the only rappers to ever go diamond. But didnt The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory go about 25x platinum?

hey wen will we find out who topped the no1 n shit??

IT JUST NEW YORK, HATING BECAUSE THE SOUTH HAS CHANGE THE GAME, HIP HOP DEAD IS NOT DEAD IT JUST WANTED TO LIVE IN THE SOUTH AND TAKE A WEST COAST VACATION, DID WE CRY I MEAN THE SOUTH, WHEN OUTKAST GOT BOOED AT THE SOURCE AWARDS, NO WE KEPT GRIDING WE MAKE MORE MONEY IN THE SOUTH, BY STAYING AS ONE, WHEN WE COULD NOT GET THE EAST COAST TO PLAY OUR SHIT, OR BET TO PLAY OUR VIDEOS, WE JUST KEEP IT SOUTHERN GOT IT THE INDY WAY, NOW LOOK AT THE RAP GAME EAST COAST NIGGAZ WANNA GO THE INDY ROTE NOW, GET SOUTHERN NIGGAZ ON THERE SONGS AND SHIT, SNEAK DISSIN, STEALING OUR MUSIC, LIKE THAT MIMS BULL SHIT, THATS A DIRTY SOUTH SONG, EVEN EAST COAST CATS DONT LIKE DAT SONG, NOW THATS STEALING FORM UNDER THE TABLE, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY BLAME IT ON DFL, DFB AND FOR KILLING HIP HOP, NAW JUST KILLING EAST COAST SALES, JAY-Z THE KING OF NEW YORK, AND HE FUCKS WITH THE SOUTH JUST LOOK AT HIS GIRL SHE IS FROM THE SOUTH, EVEN HE KNOW THAT NEW YORK RECORDS SALES ARE WASH UP, WHEN WAS YALL LAST PLATINUM PARTY, 2005 OR 04 BESIDE JAY-Z, AND 50 CENT, THATS WHY YALL WHAT TO GO BACK TO THE 80'S WHERE GOING GOLD WAS THE SHIT, HA-HA, HATE IT OR LOVE IT THE SOUTH AND THE WEST COAST IS ON TOP, OR SHOULD I SAY NEW-FLOP, SON... PS GET IN THAT CHIPER CIRCLE AND SAY "YO SON, WE CANT SALE SON, U FEEL ME DON, JUST FACE IT NEW YORK BETTER YET NEW FLOP CITY IS DONE," HA-HA, GO BACK TO THE GRIMMIE DAYZ WHEN THERE WAS WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE IN THEM STREETS, WERE NIGGAZ TAUGHT NIGGAZ THE RULES OF THE GAME, AND SHOULD DEM WHAT WE ALL IS ONE, ALL FOR ONE AND ONE FOR ALL, BUT KNOW THIS MUSIC THAT IS OUT NOW, BESIDES THE REAL NIGGAZ AND BITCHEZ(IF U REAL, U REAL,) IS STR-8 BOOTLEG OF THE SOUTH AND WEST COAST, ENUFF SAID................

^^^ WTF???

STATING IT WITH CAPS DOES NOT GET YOUR POINT ACROSS ANY BETTER. CHILL IT UP.

Are y'all SERIOUS? THE FUGEES, THE SCORE will be #1!

The top 5 is probably 50 Cent and 50 cent and Notorious B.I.G-Life After Death and Tupac

The Score will also be up there

I take that back; the Marshall Mathers LP will be #1... I don't know where the Score will come in. Dre 2001, sold mad copies. Get Rich Or Die Tryin' sold mad copies. We shall see...

Best Selling Albums For A Male Solo Artist (Worldwide)

Though no single source can give a definitive number, the following are considered by most all accounts to be the best selling albums worldwide, of all-time, for a male solo artist:

Michael Jackson - Thriller (1983)
Copies Sold: 54 Million

Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell (1978)
Copies Sold: 37 Million

Michael Jackson - Bad (1987)
Copies Sold: 27 Million

Michael Jackson - Dangerous (1991)
Copies Sold: 27 Million

Santana - Supernatural (1999)
Copies Sold: 25 Million

Bruce Springsteen Born In The USA (1984)
Copies Sold: 24 Million

Lionel Richie - Can't Slow Down(1983)
Copies Sold: 22 Million

MC Hammer - Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em (1990)
Copies Sold: 20 Million

Ricky Martin - Ricky Martin (1999)
Copies Sold: 20 Million

Elton John - Greatest Hits (1974)
Copies Sold: 20 Million

In addition to the above, the following is a list of ten other albums recorded by male solo artists having reached an estimated 15 million in sales worldwide:

Prince - Purple Rain (1984)
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers (2000)
Peter Frampton - Comes Alive (1976)
Michael Jackson - History (1995)
Andrea Bocelli - Romanza (1997)
Garth Brooks - No Fences (1991)
Eric Clapton - Unplugged (1992)
George Michael - Faith (1987)
Michael Jackson - Off The Wall (1979)
Eminem - The Eminem Show (2002)

Best Selling Albums For A Female Solo Artist (Worldwide)

Though no single source can give a definitive number, the following are considered by most all accounts to be the best selling albums worldwide, of all-time, for a female solo artist:

Shania Twain - Come On Over (1997)
Copies Sold: 35 Million

Celine Dion - Let's Talk About Love (1997)
Copies Sold: 30 Million

Celine Dion - Falling Into You (1996)
Copies Sold: 29 Million

Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill (1995)
Copies Sold: 28 Million

Mariah Carey - Music Box (1993)
Copies Sold: 27 Million

Britney Spears - Baby One More Time (1999)
Copies Sold: 24 Million

Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston (1985)
Copies Sold: 23 Million

Madonna - The Immaculate Collection (1990)
Copies Sold: 23 Million

Carole King - Tapestry (1971)
Copies Sold: 22 Million

Mariah Carey - Daydream (1995)
Copies Sold: 22 Million

In addition to the above, the following is a list of ten other albums recorded by female solo artists having reached an estimated 15 million in sales worldwide:

Madonna - True Blue (1986)
Madonna - Like A Virgin (1984)
Britney Spears - Oops I Did It Again (2000)
Whitney Houston - Whitney (1987)
Shania Twain - The Woman In Me (1995)
Celine Dion - All The Way A Decade Of Song (1999)
Mariah Carey - Mariah Carey (1990)
Janet Jackson - Janet (1993)
Mariah Carey - Butterfly (1997)
Mariah Carey - Merry Christmas (1994)

TOP TEN BEST SELLING "ALBUMS" OF ALL TIME:

Michael Jackson - Thriller (1983)
Copies Sold: 54 Million
Though no-one can give a definitive number, Thriller is considered by most all accounts to be the best selling album of all-time, with an estimated fifty-four million copies sold worldwide and multiple number one hits.

AC/DC - Back In Black (1980)
Copies Sold: 42 Million
After Bon Scott's death it was questionable whether AC/DC could reach previous levels of success, but with the song writing started while Bon was still alive, and Brian Johnson taking over the mic, AC/DC were indeed Back in Black.

The Eagles - Greatest Hits 1971-75 (1976)
Copies Sold: 41 Million
Released in 1976, it was the first album to receive platinum status and to date is the best selling album of all-time in the United States at almost thirty million copies, and worldwide has achieved over forty million in sales.

Soundtrack - Saturday Night Fever (1978)
Copies Sold: 40 Million
The number one best-selling soundtrack of all-time, primarily recorded by the Bee Gees, was equally helped by the enormous popularity of the movie starring John Travolta. For a moment the disco era was mainstream.

Soundtrack - The Bodyguard (1992)
Copies Sold: 37 Million
One of the most successful films in history also produced one of the most successful soundtracks. Whitney Houston's cover of Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" helped bring the album to number eight all-time worldwide.

Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell (1978)
Copies Sold: 37 Million
After every record label refused to pick up the album, Cleveland International Records decided to take a chance. After an appearance on Saturday Night Live, the album started to receive huge fanfare in America and eventually the world.

Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon (1973)
Copies Sold: 35 Million
Though this post Syd Barrett conceptual album focusing on the human experience stayed at number one for only one week on The Billboard 200, amazingly it managed to stay on the chart itself for a record fourteen consecutive years until 1988.

Shania Twain - Come On Over (1997)
Copies Sold: 35 Million
This is the biggest selling album by a female solo artist, and is due to the successful team collaboration of the highly talented Shania and her husband, producer/writer Robert "Mutt" Lange, the producer for AC/DC's "Back in Black" (see above).

The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
Copies Sold: 32 Million
Considered by many to be the most influential rock album ever, this ground-breaker came at the end of the Beatlemania craze. The Beatles, who were no longer touring, took major leaps in the studio by incorporating new sounds and recording styles into their music.

Soundtrack - Dirty Dancing (1987)
Copies Sold: 32 Million
The best-selling soundtrack for the movie included many hit singles such as "Hungry Eyes", as sung by Eric Carmen, and an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "(I've Had) The Time of My Life", sung by the duet of Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes.

Haha all i can say is ALL EYEZ ON ME

I would not be surprised if Biggie, Hammer, or Eminem is number one.

whats the one dude blabbing about east n south?

Outkast is number 1. They got Diamond on there double cd.

LMAO at that dude saying hes dre and talking shit cause dude is white, stupid muthafucka dres top selling artist is white u dum fuck

First of all, to the fake ass Dre postin talkin bout Im the real Dre, nigga you need help, you pretendin to be another man, that automatically puts you homo suspect status, yous a clown....

Tupac I knew would be on there, but Im anticipating Notorious BIG Life after Death may be in the top 5 also, 50 will definately be up there because of GRODT, and Em will be there as well.....Im not sure that Jigga will be in there, but it'll be interesting to see whos number 1.....Radamez, it better not be Hammer!!! Cant Touch This!! LOL....

pretty sure number 1 is outkast

J-Crack,

I will be mad as hell if Hammer got that top spot.."Hammer Dont Hurt'em"...too fuckin funny.

I forgot to mention that I think Mr. Omerta74 is on his period this week.

By the way I don't think Jay is up there. His best-selling album was about 8 million.

Hammer's definitely UP THERE! $20 million.... as well as The Score... The Marshall Mather's LP ... Dre 2001 ... GRODT ... That should round out the top 5! Oh, yeah, Outkast's Double LP... we'll see...

And 4 the record, HAMMER MAY BE wack NOW, but in his PRIME, he was ON TOP OF THE WORLD. NOBODY was clownin' Hammer; admit it, YOU were feelin' him!

I'm not the biggest of Pac fans, but plantinum in 4 hours and recording a double disk in 2 weeks is unheard of no matter what style of music or who the artist is. If I remember correctly, VH1 did a behind the music on Pac and I think Shock G (of digital underground fame for you fake internet wannabee hip hop headz) said Pac recorded 4 different songs in one take and 2 or 3 with only one error, in one night and that was the same night he was released from jail. Supposedly they went straight to the studio from the jail, spent about 10 hours in the studio and came out with 6 or 7 songs completed. That is just insane if its true. But I guess its possible if 20 plus songs for a double disk where done in 2 weeks

Just like people who call themselves "hatin'" Will Smith... When Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince were in their PRIME (plus they had Ready Rock C!), they were on TOP too, and had MANY CLASSICS: "Girls Ain't Nothin' But Trouble", "Parents Just Don't Understand", "The Magnificent Jazzy Jeff", "Brand New Funk", this joint I LOVE called "Rock the House", and of course, THE ONLY JAM TO BE PLAYED ON EVERY RADIO STATION, WORLDWIDE, EVER SUMMER, GUARANTEED, "SUMMERTIME"!!!!!!

I gotta ? 4 Pac fans, concerning All Eyez on Me... did he go in and freestyle those tracks or did he have most of them already prepared and just finally laid them down, all at once, in a 2 week span? What producers did he work with? Where they all in house @ Death Row? There's a big difference in somebody layin' an album down in 2 weeks if they already had the stuff prepared or doin' some "Canibus" type stuff and goin' in and freestyling an album... And, if anyone responds, please include HOW YOU OBTAINED your in4mation.

Matic,

I never fucked with Hammer. I respect what he did but that's where it ends for me. In Livin Color didn't have a problem clowning on him. That skit was too funny.

To Let yall know pac is number one, Makaveli sold 28 million the highest rap album ever

Matic i think we all are older enough to know when get jiggy wit it came out

matic lol their you go again taking us back to 1987 lol

LOL @ Radamez.....I'm not gonna front, I had me a copy of that album, and back in the day, that shit was fire!! LOL, I wonder what the album sounds like now......hmmmmmm.......

Shit I remember that joint, what was it...."We got to pray just to make it today...." Hammer was doin his thing, come to think of it, he may be in the top 5, we'll just have to wait and see.....aight im out yall, peace to the usual suspects, yall know who yall are.....1

Actually I was FEELIN' the "song" 'Gettin' Jiggy Wit' It'... I ALWAYS knew there was somethin' I liked about it; then, I found out years later, in The Source, that Nas wrote it (as well as co-wrote OTHER songs on the album), and I was like, "I knew it, lol!" Not that I knew Nas wrote it, but I knew that there was some'n special about it!

By the way, Big Willie Style went Double Diamond and MIGHT actually be up there! I TOLD y'all Nas got $$$$$$!

YEAH MATIC NAS GOT CAKE, BUT HE DONT GOT THAT JAY-Z AND 50 CENT CAKE, NAS IS BALLLLIN BUT SOMEWHERE IN THE 20MILLIONS WAY MORE THAN I CAN SPEAK OFF

lol and that get jiggy wit was the shit

Actually I was FEELIN' the "song" 'Gettin' Jiggy Wit' It'... I ALWAYS knew there was somethin' I liked about it; then, I found out years later, in The Source, that Nas wrote it (as well as co-wrote OTHER songs on the album), and I was like, "I knew it, lol!" Not that I knew Nas wrote it, but I knew that there was some'n special about it!

By the way, Big Willie Style went Double Diamond and MIGHT actually be up there! I TOLD y'all Nas got $$$$$$!

big willie style is up their its number 9, it didnt go double diamond if it did that it would number 3 or something

Ha and Jay gotta line that goes, "...still sold more records than Will Smith..." ... I DOUBT IT.

It DID GO DOUBLE DIAMOND! I think they're just going off U.S. sales... That means the score probably won't be up there... It sold 17x million worldwide, but in the U.S. I think it only did 6 or 7 which IS STILL SMASHING what groups and artists do today; lucky if they go gold or platinum just once, lol.

I FEEL YOU, RIGHT THE U.S DONT COUNT OTHER COUNTRIES SALES, THE BILLBOARDS AND STUFF LIKE THAT DONT COUNT OTHER COUNTRIES STUFF.

AND I KNOW PAC GOT 3 DIAMOND RECORDS SO U GO CATCH HIM UP THEIR 3 TIMES AND HE WILL BE NUMBER 1

jay-z aint never really been a big seller on his albums, if u comine all 10 of his albums sales together he probably sold like 25 million with 10 . jay-z has sold that many records

6. And Then There Was X- DMX (5X)
HardKnock Life Vol. 2- Jay-Z (5x)
Very Necessary- Salt -n- Pepa (5x)
5. Get Rich or Die Tryin'- 50 cent (6x)
NellyVille- Nelly (6x)
The Chronic- Dr. Dre (6x)
The score-Fugees (6x)
4. No Way Out- P. Diddy (7x)
To the extreme-Vanilla Ice (7x)
3. The Eminem Show-Eminem (8x)
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill- Lauryn Hill (8x)
2. Country Grammat- Nelly (9x)
The Marshall Mathers LP-Eminem (9x)
Big Willie Style- Will Smith (9x)
All Eyes On Me- Tupac Shakur (9x)
Greatest Hits- 2Pac (9X)
SpeakerBox/The Love Below- Outkast (9x)
1. Please Hammer Don't Hurt Em'- MC Hammer (10x)
Life After Death- Notorious B.I.G. (10x)

OOps...I 4got Licensed to Ill by Beastie Boys (9x)

Dr.dre u motherfucker whos the wannabe hahaha "YOOO BUSTAA GET THE CHORNIIIC AIIIGHT" fuck u little wannabe ur mexican asshole suck my cock like ur mom did cocksucka. we sex money and murda u niggaz aint no playin round with this rap shit banana clip macks spit bodys rap in plastic

I aint talkin more got enought from u the wannabe and this internet beef u fakeass

WE NEED A DEFSOUNDS CONVENTION

Notorious i still see your bitch ass has a few people stuck on your mind myself included but im not going to even start with you there is no room for debating on this topic numbers dont lie and if 50 is going to be in the top 5 which most likely he is then so be it you cant call for a recount haha but you cant judge an artist on records sales right? right? right?

and blackdirtent those numbers are wrong homie...whatever site you got that from needs to be updated unless those are just US sales

lmao milehigh that would be funny...everyone rockin t shirts with thier defsounds name on it lol

Pac iz 2 raw sold a million in da 1st 4hrz of releasin an album he recorded in jus 2 weekz....Thats crazy many peeple now cant even reach dat in like 5 months DAM

Yeah them are just U.S. sales and for Dre this nigga mispell a word everytime he type I bet you like 10 y.o. that shit is so fucking immature kiddie nigga

If y'all go back and look @ the 3 posts I put up earlier showing the greatest selling artists and cds of all time, you'll see that ONLY THREE have a year greater the 1999 on them: 2 of Em's and 1 of Baldheaded's. The QUALITY OF MUSIC, OVERALL, HAS GONE DOWN IN THE '00s. How I miss the 80s and 90s.

All I know is, lol, Jennifer Hudson & Amy Winehouse might be the SAVIORS! They can blow. I'm waitin' 4 J.Hud's album now...see if she can stick it on MORE than that 1 song. Amy's a legend in the making, providing the fame & $$$ don't get 2 her head, with all the dumb ish she's done lately.

As far as hip hop... what did Nas say a couple months ago? LOL. Need I NOT repeat it.

lol matic i dont know what u be on, thats whats killing hip hop all these old school hip hop fans wanting to go back tothe old school hip hop but things ass change. what yall wantt these new school rappers to talk about fight the power and shit. yall wantt them to be positive in their raps. what for when yall the rappers that rapped aboutt that shit is no longer in business. I love the old school hip hop and i love this kind of hip hop just to different generations talking about other stuff. and i bet matic if your favorite rappers had money like these boys do today they would rap aboutt the same thing. money, cars, and bitches.

KING

"what yall wantt these new school rappers to talk about fight the power and shit"

....LOL, that was good....

TalkofNJ, what up nigga, let that no-name nigga be dead, he RIP'd ya feel me??

lol funny how niggas mentioning my name and shit but i aint saying not a damn thing to them. guess they must be them g-unots i was referring to. lol niggas stay on numbers but i aint gotta prove nothing. i know whats really good.

Camron- "Killa Season": 27 million records sold worldwide.
O my bad it was a misprint take the million out, it was 27 copies sold worldwide.

Did yall know Elvis sold over a billion records? Yea that was Billion with a "B".

But didnt The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory go about 25x platinum?

yo svj dats worldwide, sold over 28 million, and if nobody believe it, i will give u tha link. this list is for u.s sales

http://www.hitemup.com/tupac/lawsuit-agnant.html

go down until u see END Footnotes and read tha first three paragraphs

supposedly so did michael jackson MJ

My top 5:

5. BIG- "Life ater death"-10 mill
4. Puffy-"No Way Out"-10 mill
3. Vanilla Ice- I don't which one but one of them sold close to 15 million
2. Hammer- "Please hammer don't hurt em"-15 mill
1. Pac- 7 day theory- somewhere in the 20 mill area

*These are just my guesses*

I heard "Thriller" sold over 100 million copies worldwide. Not much is fuckin with that. Biggest selling album in history. That nigga sold more records than bibles. LOL!!

"i luv to go back
to when we played a kids
but things change
and dats tha way it is" - G.O.A.T

and why r yall talkin bout otha albums, this is hip hop not rock-n-roll or pop