Need help finding statistics

Everyone puts everything on the net these days,right?And people have statistics on just about everything,right?
So,why can't I find a reliable statistic on the worldwide best sold music record?
Boris and Shav's arguement in the nightwish thread got me intrested in it.Now I wanna know.Thanks guys,this is going to bug me for weeks LOL

Originally posted by SirLoseALot
Everyone puts everything on the net these days,right?And people have statistics on just about everything,right?
So,why can't I find a reliable statistic on the worldwide best sold music record?
Boris and Shav's arguement in the nightwish thread got me intrested in it.Now I wanna know.Thanks guys,this is going to bug me for weeks LOL

Originally posted by Alcra
True? I don;t know. Any way, from the guiness book of world records:
(http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/)


Best Selling World Music Album
The 1998 Grammy award-winning album Buena Vista Social Club (1997) has sold over 4 million copies and of these 1.5 million were sold in the US. The album inspired Wim Wenders to make the documentary film Buena Vista Social Club.

Statistics are usually misleading and often made up. 63% of people know that.

According to the Guiness *drool* book of world records, the best sold album ever is Thriller by MJ with 51 million sold world wide:

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=50890

Oh....and looky at what we have here: Worst rock band ever: Metallica!

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=54590