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RIAA Top Selling Artists By Letter

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Name the top 10 (or less if 10 didn’t qualify) artists with the most RIAA album certifications by first letter of the artist name (‘#’ denotes artists which begin with a number). Tried to use the most common artist name. Artists with leading ‘The’ or ‘A’ have them removed, do not enter those in the answers. Artist names are first name listed first for artists named as their full name, so first letter would be first letter of their first name. Object is most certifications, not artists. First two words accepted for longer artist names.

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Klinkhamer

2 months ago

Is an update justified? Likely only for Swift?

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