#1 – Rihanna
The top 5 best selling black famale music artist of all time’s top spot goes to Rihanna. Coming in with $250 million dollars in sales and 270 million units sold. Delighting her fans since she came on the scene in 2005, she has everyone waiting for her next project to drop.
#2 – Mariah Carey
Selling 145 million units and claiming sales of $200 million dollars, Ms. Carey has grabbed the second spot. 1988 was the year Mariah burst on the scene.
#3 Whitney Houston
Active years in the business for The Voice was 1977 to 2012. Ms. Houston grabbed $200 million dollars in sales and sold over 133 million units.
$4 Beyonce
Queen Bae, Beyonce has sold over 94 million units and sales are upwards of $100 million and counting. Ms. Carter is still on top of her game and there is no slowing down in sight.
#5 – Janet Jackson
Janet, Miss Jackson if you nasty rounds out our list gathering $100 million dollars and selling more than 52.5 units so far. Haven’t recently completed a Las Vegas residency tour, Janet is about to venture on to another tour as we speak.
Gathering information from Wikipedia, all figures derived from the list of best selling music artists. For more Entertainment News, check out our front page at drenchedinblack.com.