RIAA Top Selling One Word Artists – Choose Number
DirectionsEnter ’50’, ‘100’, or ‘All’ to begin. Then, name the top selling artists in terms of RIAA certifications (at least 1 total certification) who have one word in their name. One word refers to the artist name not containing a space. Artists which are sometimes referred to as ‘The (something)’ are included if they are officially not titled with ‘the’. Object is most certs, not artists. Total certs and first letter (or ‘#’ for a number) of artist name along with # of certified albums shown.
Things you learn playing these quizzes, like that “Meat Loaf” was 2 words …
No NSYNC?
Starship definitely had at least 2 million in certs as Starship, even if you do lump Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship and Starship together as the same band.
They’re not. Paul Kantner has nothing to do with either Jefferson Airplane or Starship, and Kantner, not Grace Slick, was the leader of Jefferson Starship, so the three entities should be counted separately for the purposes of this quiz.
In fact, Slick was only the leader of Jefferson Airplane. Mickey Thomas lead Starship.
Cancel that. Kantner was part of Jefferson Airplane, joining the band a few months before they became Jefferson Starship, and Slick was co-leader along with Thomas in Starship.
I guess I’m the only one who remembers Us3. Too bad, they were pretty good.