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RIAA Top Selling One Word Artists – Choose Number (Premium Only)
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.
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“Reba” is one word?
She went by that name in addition to her full name and I had it on the quiz before the update this week, so left it in.
Seems rather inconsistent on how it treats punctuation. Why does AC/DC and Jay-Z count, but noy N’Sync or Y&T? IMO either at least 3 of those 4 should count or none should.
Yeah I’m going by how the RIAA lists the artist name. Some artists have variations in how their name appears across various sources.
an update would be nice
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.