Can you name the band out of each pairing that has sold more albums in the U.S., according to the RIAA? by druhutch

Can you name the band out of each pairing that has sold more albums in the U.S., according to the RIAA?

created by druhutch

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Source: RIAA top selling artists
*To repeat, this is based on the "certified" numbers listed on the website of the Recording Industry Association of America.
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Band One	Band With Higher U.S. Sales*	Band Two
Smashing Pumpkins		Beastie Boys
Rush		Heart
The Monkees		The Offspring
Pearl Jam		Def Leppard
N Sync		Dixie Chicks
Grateful Dead		Outkast
Queen		Foreigner
Counting Crows		The Cranberries
Genesis		Creed
Nine Inch Nails		3 Doors Down
Nirvana		The Police

Band One	Band With Higher U.S. Sales*	Band Two
Whitesnake		ABBA
Bush		Alice in Chains
The Cars		The Carpenters
Stone Temple Pilots		Duran Duran
Green Day		The Who
Backstreet Boys		The Doors
Coldplay		No Doubt
Hootie & The Blowfish		New Kids on the Block
REM		Styx
Red Hot Chili Peppers		Matchbox Twenty
Pink Floyd		Rolling Stones
Counting Crows	Rolling Stones
Stone Temple Pilots	Rolling Stones
Hootie & The Blowfish	Rolling Stones
Nine Inch Nails	Rolling Stones
Red Hot Chili Peppers	Rolling Stones
Bush	Rolling Stones
Whitesnake	Rolling Stones
Coldplay	Rolling Stones
REM	Rolling Stones
Smashing Pumpkins	Rolling Stones
The Monkees	Rolling Stones
Grateful Dead	Rolling Stones
Green Day	Rolling Stones
Genesis	Rolling Stones
Nirvana	Rolling Stones
The Cars	Rolling Stones
Rush	Rolling Stones
N Sync	Rolling Stones
Backstreet Boys	Rolling Stones
Pearl Jam	Rolling Stones
Pink Floyd	Rolling Stones
Queen	Rolling Stones

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Created Sep 15, 2011 in Music
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	sammyhain:	Sep 15th, 2011 at 04:30 GMT	3 points
	Kiss has sold over 40 million records in the US according to my source.

	Disraeli:	Sep 15th, 2011 at 05:23 GMT	3 points
	That's what I get for picking the bands that I liked best. I mean Foreigner has more than Queen, seriously? What a screwed up world we live in.

	druhutch:	Sep 15th, 2011 at 05:52 GMT	1 point
	@sammyhain: It sounds so mysterious when you put it like that without naming the source (like it's Deep Throat, or something). Seriously though, I have no doubt there are different numbers in different places; even inside of Wikipedia the numbers vary. That's why I didn't just list the source, but included the source in the actual question. "According to the RIAA".

	Acelynk:	Sep 15th, 2011 at 13:05 GMT	1 point
	Um, I just looked up KISS and according to RIAA KISS has 37,500,000 in album sales.

	druhutch:	Sep 15th, 2011 at 21:23 GMT	1 point
	Well, I just checked again and that's not what it says on the "Top Selling Artists" page. But since there seems to be serious debate about it I've swapped Kiss out with another band (one that in no way approaches Kiss's status)

	Saints09:	Sep 15th, 2011 at 21:32 GMT	2 points
	Good quiz druhutch but I would suggest making it a forced answer quiz (the one that has the skip button) and either typing "One" or "Two" (or A or B or something) rather than typing the whole name of the band.

	batmann:	Sep 15th, 2011 at 22:25 GMT	1 point
	a LOT of these surprised me. especially Foreigner more than Queen?

	mneh:	Sep 15th, 2011 at 22:38 GMT	2 points
	Great concept. The one drawback is that the format doesn't allow for the usual complement of druhutch's trademark snarky bonus answers.

	rockgolf:	Sep 16th, 2011 at 00:22 GMT	1 point
	To me, the differences are so small, that it's really more luck than skill in most cases. Then there are the inherent problems with using RIAA as a source. The table is based on total gold and platinum albums, rather than actual sales. Those aren't awarded automatically: unless the record company pays for it, you don't get one. They are also based on shipments, not actual sales. Also, according to RIAA, the Beatles' self-titled "white" album (19x Platinum) has outsold Sgt Pepper (14x Platinum) or Abbey Road (12x Platinum). Why? Because a double album counts as two sales, not one. So actually, the white album sold about 9.5 million copies.