Which music artist has the greatest hits of All-Time?

[L.Kizzle]

Who has the most well known hits? For example, take an artist 5 best known songs, who would the average Joe have heard the most?


James Brown?
Elvis Presley?
Queen?
Chuck Berry?
Diana Ross and the Supremes?
Michael Jackson?
The Beatles?
Otis Redding?
Elton John?
Madonna?


These are listed are just examples.

[Beatlezz]

The Beatles easily. :pimp:

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/1555851/april-4-1964-the-beatles-control-entire-top-five-on-billboard

[Bless Mathews]

Michael Jackson easy. Not even close. Anybody would know his top 5. 35% of population wouldn't even know one beetles song. No niggah in the hood could name that song. Any one. And i mean anyone from the burbs to the hood name mike.

[Myth]

Beetles have the most. Queen has the best.

[Myth]

Michael Jackson easy. Not even close. Anybody would know his top 5. 35% of population wouldn't even know one beetles song. No niggah in the hood could name that song. Any one. And i mean anyone from the burbs to the hood name mike.

Everybody knows tons of Beetles songs and just don't know that tune they love is a Beetles song.

[Bless Mathews]

Beetles have the most. Queen has the best.
Original question was who would average Joe know most. Most known

[Beatlezz]

Michael Jackson easy. Not even close. Anybody would know his top 5. 35% of population wouldn't even know one beetles song. No niggah in the hood could name that song. Any one. And i mean anyone from the burbs to the hood name mike.

http://youtu.be/-bKac55h1Ls?t=4s

[Bless Mathews]

http://youtu.be/-bKac55h1Ls?t=4s
"Name that song". You know. Play a song. Ask who it is. No one coming close to mike. No one. Go in the hood and play your top 5 beetles song. No one guessing one right. Go to the burbs. Go to the middle of country listening hoods , death metal listening hoods , they all gettin thriller right. Smh

[Bigsmoke]

Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, and 2pac.

Nas is my favorite artist but the songs I like from him weren't hits lol. His biggest song was I Can
2pac had Brenda's got a baby, Dear Mama, California love, Do for Love, keep your head up thats were not only hits but classics

I don't listen to Rock before I was born.

[Kensta]

Beatles
Mariah Carey
Michael Jackson

[Myth]

Original question was who would average Joe know most. Most known

Actually the original question was: "Which music artist has the greatest hits of All-Time?"

The second question was: "Who has the most well known hits?"

Third question was: "who would the average Joe have heard the most?"

I just happened to only answer the original question. :D

[Go Getter]

James Brown
Stevie Wonder
The Beatles
Queen
MJ

[Loneshot]

damn, cats sleep on Bill Withers like no tomorrow.

[hateraid]

I think being recognized internationally and having the most known recognized hits are 2 different things.
Everyone knows MJ but probably couldn't go past more that 10 of his songs. Speaking about the majority of course. The Beatles have covered many genres and decades your bound to know more than 10 even by accident.

1- Beatles
2- MJ
3- Mariah Carey

Some that haven't been mentioned: Billy Joel, U2, Hall&Oates, Air Supply, Peter Cetera/Chicago

[SuperPippen]

Nobody can beat the Beatles on this. Not even MJ.

[Go Getter]

I am a Beatles fan but there is something bland about their vocals sometimes. I mean just superlative instrumentation and writing but the blokes from across the pond don't have the soul/gnads/heart [idk it's hard to nitpick one of the best bands of all-time] to rock a party and I need that from a catalogue.

[HardwoodLegend]

Prince
Katy Perry

[Just2McFly]

damn, cats sleep on Bill Withers like no tomorrow.
aint that the truth.

[wakencdukest]

Michael Jackson easy. Not even close. Anybody would know his top 5. 35% of population wouldn't even know one beetles song. No niggah in the hood could name that song. Any one. And i mean anyone from the burbs to the hood name mike.



The brothers ain't known to be very diverse in their musical tastes, so it will probably be michael jackson up in the hood. And the farther it gets from the 60's, the less white people will recognize the Beatles. So, you're right, it's Probably Michael Jackson.

[TheReal Kendall]

Who has the most well known hits? For example, take an artist 5 best known songs, who would the average Joe have heard the most?


James Brown?
Elvis Presley?
Queen?
Chuck Berry?
Diana Ross and the Supremes?
Michael Jackson?
The Beatles?
Otis Redding?
Elton John?
Madonna?


These are listed are just examples.

MJ, JB, Beatles, Diana, Madonna

Didn't Elvis steal Chuck Berry's whole style?

[Dnn111]

Like one said...Bill Withers is heavily slept on. His hits include "Ain't No Sunshine", "Lean on Me", "Use Me" (that bass line is fire), "Who Is He (and What Is He to You)", "Lovely Day", Grandma's Hands, and also Aretha Franklin not only covered his song "Let Me In Your Life", she named one of her albums of the same name. Plus, Michael Jackson when he was younger covered "Ain't No Sunshine". Bill Withers is an R&B legend. He may not be as well known as the artists aforementioned, but he is still a legend.





P.S. Go out and get Still Bill his 1972 album right away. It's a bonafide classic!!!

[eurobum]

http://www.thomasmorecollege.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/bach_col.jpg

Going strong since the 1600s.

[miller-time]

The brothers ain't known to be very diverse in their musical tastes, so it will probably be michael jackson up in the hood. And the farther it gets from the 60's, the less white people will recognize the Beatles. So, you're right, it's Probably Michael Jackson.

That does seem to be a theme on here. Most white guys will give props to black artists but black guys just rattle off lists of black artists like they've never even attempted to listen to white artists. Not saying that is how it is, just seems like that on here sometimes.

Personally I'd go with MJ or Queen. I've never been sold on The Beatles. Some good songs but I could take them or leave them.

[KevinNYC]

Didn't Elvis steal Chuck Berry's whole style?
You've never heard either artist have you?

Elvis was hugely influenced by black music, but he already had his style by the time most of the black giants of Rock and Roll had been in a studio. Elvis had his first hit before Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Bo Diddley ever recorded a single. Before before Ray Charles recorded "I got a woman." Sam Cooke was still sing gospel music. The only 50's big rock artist I can think of who was big before Elvis hit was Fats Domino. Ike Turner had a giant hit in 1950, but his name wasn't on the record.

Elvis did cover Chuck Berry in concert, but he didn't record a Chuck Berry song until 1963. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7ATrL5fN_g)

Elvis first record was rocked up covers of 1946 blues hit by this guy
http://blues145.com/images/ArthurBigBoyCrudup.jpg

and a 1939 bluegrass hit by the guy on the mandolin, Bill Monroe.
http://cdn.bluegrasstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Wooten-Monroe-Davis-Garren.jpg

That single came out in July 1954. In July 1955 Chuck Berry's first single came out. It was a rocked up version with new lyrics of a 1938 hillbilly hit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maybellene)by these guys
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Bob_Wills_Texas_Playboys_Publicity_Photo_-_Cropped.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFef08YZ6qk

This American music cross pollination stuff went both ways.

[KevinNYC]

The Beach Boys and The Beatles were much more directly influenced by Chuck Berry than Elvis was.

[KevinNYC]

Didn't Elvis steal Chuck Berry's whole style?
You've never heard either artist have you?

Elvis was hugely influenced by black music, but he already had his style by the time most of the black giants of Rock and Roll had been in a studio. Elvis had his first hit before Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Bo Diddley ever recorded a single. Before Ray Charles recorded "I got a woman." Sam Cooke was still sing gospel music. The only 50's big rock artist I can think of who was big before Elvis hit was Fats Domino. Ike Turner had a giant hit in 1950, but his name wasn't on the record.

Elvis did cover Chuck Berry in concert, but he didn't record a Chuck Berry song until 1963. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7ATrL5fN_g)

Elvis first record was rocked up covers of 1946 blues hit by this guy
http://blues145.com/images/ArthurBigBoyCrudup.jpg

and a 1939 bluegrass hit by the guy on the mandolin, Bill Monroe.
http://cdn.bluegrasstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Wooten-Monroe-Davis-Garren.jpg

That single came out in July 1954 on a small label and was a local hit. The first DJ who got his hands on the single played 14 times straight because the audience went nuts. This was a year before Elvis had ever heard of Chuck Berry. In July 1955 Chuck Berry's first single came out. It was a rocked up version with new lyrics of a 1938 hillbilly hit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maybellene)by these guys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFef08YZ6qk

This American music cross pollination stuff went both ways.

[KevinNYC]

damn, cats sleep on Bill Withers like no tomorrow.

I fairly knowledgeable about music, and I can't name 5 Bill Withers songs. Most folks who do know his songs don't know who sings them.

Pretending he's more popular than Elvis, The Beatles, Michael Jackson or The Supremes is just silly.

[Go Getter]

Like one said...Bill Withers is heavily slept on. His hits include "Ain't No Sunshine", "Lean on Me", "Use Me" (that bass line is fire), "Who Is He (and What Is He to You)", "Lovely Day", Grandma's Hands, and also Aretha Franklin not only covered his song "Let Me In Your Life", she named one of her albums of the same name. Plus, Michael Jackson when he was younger covered "Ain't No Sunshine". Bill Withers is an R&B legend. He may not be as well known as the artists aforementioned, but he is still a legend.





P.S. Go out and get Still Bill his 1972 album right away. It's a bonafide classic!!!
*forgot "Just the Two of Us"

[nathanjizzle]

britney spears has alot of hits...atleast 4 hits on each album and shes had like 8 albums.

[MadeFromDust]

Lionel Ritchie :pimp:

[MadeFromDust]

Hey diipshiites. The question was which music artist, not which music artists or group. :rolleyes:

[Kblaze8855]

Everybody knows tons of Beetles songs and just don't know that tune they love is a Beetles song.

Naaaaaaaah. A lot of people don't know or like a single Beatles song. Im sure you could play some and they know they heard it in a commercial or movie...but they wouldn't call it a song they love. Id bet anything my grandma wouldn't know a single beatles song. She knows Michael Jackson though. And shes about to be 93. She knows him and so do her great grand kids.

Im not even sure how. But they just....absorbed knowledge of him the same way kids still know Super Mario and Sonic when they have barely been brought up for 20 years.

Mike is the only musician I suspect is known by anyone I could find over 6 and under 80. Little black kids don't know Elvis. Or the Beatles.

But they know Michael Jackson.

[alenleomessi]

everybody knows billie jean and thriller..
cant say the same about hey jude or bohemian rhapsody

[KevinNYC]

everybody knows billie jean and thriller..
cant say the same about hey jude or bohemian rhapsody

Queen wouldn't even make the top of the list of white rock acts.

The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Eagles all have greater claims that Queen.

The Eagles Greatest Hits sold at least 32 Million copies. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_albums)

Plus The Eagles were played on many more types of radio stations than Queen.

The Beatles' Yesterday is the most covered song of all time with something like 3,000 covers.

I would think worldwide only Elvis, The Beatles and Michael Jackson are in the running for this.

[eriX]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4IRMYuE1hI

The most famous 8 notes ever?

[L.Kizzle]

*forgot "Just the Two of Us"
People know Bill Wither's songs, but they don't know it's Bill Withers who sing them.

You can here a James Brown song for the first time ever, and know it's James Brown.

[Heavincent]

The brothers ain't known to be very diverse in their musical tastes

True.

[Dresta]

It's clearly someone like Beethoven or Mozart (who hasn't heard Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, ode to joy, 5th symphony etc.?). It is so ingrained into our culture that most people will have heard them without knowing what they are.Then if you account for the multitude of dead people who listened to them, Beethoven (or another classical composer) clearly wins.

[Beatlezz]

The Beatles got this guys. Let's end the debate now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Billboard_Hot_100_chart_achievements_and_m ilestones#Most_number-one_singles

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_music_artists#250_million_or_more_records

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Billboard_Hot_100_chart_achievements_and_m ilestones#Most_number-one_singles_in_a_calendar_year

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Billboard_Hot_100_chart_achievements_and_m ilestones#Most_number-one_singles_2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Billboard_Hot_100_chart_achievements_and_m ilestones#Most_consecutive_years_writing_a_number-one_hit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Billboard_Hot_100_chart_achievements_and_m ilestones#Simultaneously_three_or_more_singles_in_ the_top_10

Happy Xmas, war is over.. :pimp:
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