On 26 Aug 2000, 18:02, KBryan wrote:
> Hello All! Someone stumped me with a trivia Q today! Whereas I excel at
> lyrics trivia, other music related trivia frequently escapes me. Does
> anyone know where I could find of what is/was the biggest-selling album
> of all time?
According to the following page, the biggest selling album of all time was
Michael Jackson's Thriller:
http://www.exclusivelymj.com/records.html
However, to confuse the issue, the following site claims Thriller was
second to an Eagles Greatest Hits album, which it lists as first:
http://www.rockonthenet.com/special/toplps2.htm
And now here is a third site that puts Thriller back to number 1 and puts
the Eagles at number 2.
http://www.albumreview.com/best_selling/
So what do you pick? Door number 1. Door number 2. Or Door number 3?
Door number 3 looks the most authoritative, doesn't it? Makes you want to
shout out THILLER! as your answer. :-)
But the correct Answer is (envelope, please):
Door Number 2 which was here:
http://www.rockonthenet.com/special/toplps2.htm
Why is that the right answer? Because I scrolled down to the bottom of the
page and found their source. Their source is the Recording Industry
Association of America (RIAA) listing of the all time top 100 best selling
albums. You know the RIAA, don't you? They're the ones suing Napster. :-)
See for yourself:
http://www.riaa.com/Gold-Best-5.cfm
So what do you win if you get the answer right? A week's stay in the Hotel
California? <g>
Alan
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