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List of best-selling female music artists[edit]

The following list of best-selling female music artists includes those music acts from the 20th century to the present with claims of 75 million or more record sales worldwide. This information cannot be listed officially, as there is no organization that has recorded global music sales.

The tables are listed with each artist's claimed sales figure(s) and are ranked in descending order by claimed sales. The claimed sales figure within the provided sources include sales of albums, singles, compilation-albums, music videos as well as downloads of singles and full-length albums. Sales figures, such as those from SoundScan, which are sometimes published by Billboard magazine, have not been included in the certified units column.

Artists by reputed sales[edit]

250 million or more records


Artist	Country	Period active	Genre	Sales
Madonna	United States	1979-present	Pop / dance / electronica	300 million^[1]
Rihanna	Barbados	2003-present	R&B / pop / dance / hip-hop	250 million^[2]

^ Guibourg, Clara (August 15, 2018). "Madonna at 60: The Queen of Pop in seven charts".
^ "Rihanna appointed as ambassador by Barbados". September 22, 2018.

[1] Guibourg, Clara (August 15, 2018). "Madonna at 60: The Queen of Pop in seven charts".

[2] "Rihanna appointed as ambassador by Barbados". September 22, 2018.

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