Additionally, he won an award as best-selling artist of the 1980s.

Carey was also named the best-selling female artist of the millennium in 2000.

The trio was the best-selling new Christian artist of 2004.

By the mid-1990s, she had established herself as one of the best-selling artists in the world.

Daddy Yankee remains, for the moment, the best-selling artist of the bunch.

By the end of that year, Spears had become one of the best-selling artists in the world.

She was the best-selling female artist of the 1950s, and sold over 100 million records.

Following is a list of the year's best-selling artists, albums and singles as reported by Billboard.

And she is one of the best-selling artists of all time, having sold more 80 million records worldwide.

They are two of the best-selling artists in hip-hop, but not for the same reason.