"Music gives soul to universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything."
The above lines are experienced by most of us listening to music. However, the artists and bands are the creators of this magic called music. Over the years, these artists and bands gain a lot of popularity and become the best-selling music artists of all time. In each era, there is a band or artist ruling the world with their musical abilities that are showcased in the race chart above on the popularity gained over the last century (1920 - 2020).
In this graph we aimed to depict the most popular bands / artists over time. We used the popularity index for every song the band / artist made and calculated the number based on the number of songs they made.
From the Graph what we can infer is that Songs made by Rock bands and Rock 'N' Roll have the highest popularity overall.
We see legendary Bands like The Beatles , The Rolling Stones , Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd still till this day are still popular and in the hearts and minds of people, even after 50 years!
The Beatles rose to fame in the 60s and sold over 283 million copies of their songs.
Their album "The White Album" and "Abbey Road" are their greatest hits selling over 50 million copies
Frank Sinatra holds the unique distinction of singing on the first Billboard #1 single, "I'll Never Smile Again" (1940) — which sold 900,000 copies
Elvis Presley is credited for initially starting the “ rock and roll '' music revolution
Elvis has been inducted into five Halls of Fame: Rock 'n' Roll, Country, Gospel, Rockabilly, and R&B and has sold over 200 million records worldwide.