This sums up the music biz today: Beatles the no. 2 selling act of the '00s

At No. 9 on that list, epic fail occurs.

 

Just wait until the entire remastered Beatles collection comes out in September.

 

I would absolutely not have expected Nelly to be No. 7 there.

 

There are a lot of bad artists here, but Nelly's presence on the list blows my mind more than any. More albums than Jay-Z?

Ye god.

 

Well, the guy (term used loosely) who owns the publishing has needed the steady cash flow in order to pay for the still-ongoing transformations.

 

Garth hasn't produced new music since, what, 1997?

 

Am I reading it right that it's counting actual album sales, i.e, CDs/tapes/eight-tracks/wax cylinders/etc.? If that's the case, doesn't it take away some of the meaning from these numbers? Digital sales are something like 20 percent of all music sales.

 

Scarecrow was his last album of new music, in 2001. He's released a few singles and some compilation albums since then, I think mostly through a deal with Wally World.

 

That's an interesting point. It's Nielsen/Soundscan numbers, and I don't know if they track online sales or not.

If not, the Beatles are higher on the charts than they should be, since their online sales are exactly zero.

 

Somehow, I had blocked that awful Scarecrow album from my memory banks.

 

We can only hope so, S-P.

And yeah ... only the Beatles are in my collection from this "Top 20."

 

Maybe if music producers would look for singers and bands that can sing instead of just looking good for the cameras while they lip-synch, maybe there would be better-selling musicians.