Can you name the Top 50 Selling Artists of All Time In the US Without Setting Off the MINE? by nsxdarin

Can you name the Top 50 Selling Artists of All Time In the US Without Setting Off the MINE?

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Source: RIAA Top Selling Artists
Name the top 50 (incl ties) selling artists in the US based on certifications by the RIAA. #53-62 are forgiven and won't trigger a MINE. #63-167 (all above 15M certs) will.
Covers albums certifications all time for all genres. Last names accepted for applicable artists, a couple abbreviations for long band names accepted too.
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Certs (Mil)	Artist
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177
129.5
128
111.5
100
79.5
74.5
72
71.5
71
70.5
68.5
66.5
66
64.5
64
63.5

Certs (Mil)	Artist
60
56.5
55
51.5
51
50
48.5
48.5
48
48
47
46
44.5
43.5
43.5
42.5
41
41

Certs (Mil)	Artist
39.5
38.5
38.5
37.5
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33.5
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Top 50 Selling Artists in the US (RIAA) - MINES Quiz

by nsxdarin

Created Jun 14, 2011 in Music
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	chriskotx:	Jun 14th, 2011 at 17:58 GMT		4 points
	It might be useful to the quiz taker to know that 1) this is all-time best selling artists and 2) that all genres (country, heavy metal, rap, adult contemporary, instrumental) are included and that 3) albums are included.

	nsxdarin:	Jun 14th, 2011 at 18:02 GMT		1 point
	i'll add in description...thx.

	rockgolf:	Jun 14th, 2011 at 18:48 GMT		3 points
	Great stuff & Editor's pick already, but can I ask for 2 changes? The first artist listed at 41m now is known by first name only (a la Prince or Madonna) so can that be set as an alternate answer? Also, if someone enters the full name of a the artist with 70.5m, that artist's first name triggers a bomb, since it is accepted as a last name for a "Bomb" artist. Can you remove the "last name" alternative for that artist? (Around #114, I think.)

	nsxdarin:	Jun 14th, 2011 at 18:48 GMT		1 point
	thx rockgolf - will do shortly.

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	charolastra:	Jun 14th, 2011 at 20:54 GMT		4 points
	Wow, very tough quiz. There aren't many I enjoy taking multiple times, but this will be one of them.

	Etheridge2:	Jun 15th, 2011 at 13:20 GMT		2 points
	This could be my favorite of the MINE quizzes yet...outstanding effort.

	ABarrett1124:	Jun 15th, 2011 at 21:59 GMT		2 points
	no Eminem was a surprise.

	nsxdarin:	Jun 16th, 2011 at 15:31 GMT		2 points
	@Abarrett: Eminem was a forgiven answer :)

	rockgolf:	Jun 16th, 2011 at 17:21 GMT		1 point
	@nsxdarin: You've manged to stump me on a technical issue. If I enter one of the top 10 or so artists, you fill the first cell with "Safe...", thus making a perfect score possible. But, even if I've already filled the "() \| Safe..." row, I later enter a "bomb" act, the "Safe..." answer disappears and is replaced by the bombs. I've tried every way I can think of to replicate this in a quiz I'm developing, but cannot do it. I've tried put the bombs above the "safe" answer, immediately below, at the end of all valid answers, but nothing I do allows me to replace the already-answered question. How do you do it? I assume you have lines that look like this in the data: () \| Safe... / beatles/ eagles / rolling stones... \| (empty) (*) \| BOOM! #2000 - Rebecca Black / Rebecca Black \| ee Is the above correct or subtly different somehow? What row #'s would the "safe" and "mine" lines appear on? Because this doesn't happen often on Sporcle, but I'm baffled.

	darinh:	Jun 16th, 2011 at 18:32 GMT		2 points
	@rockgolf: yeah there's a tricky issue to it. When you put the () fields at the end of the quiz for the "BOOM" answers, put a SPACE after the ()...so the Hint field is entered as "() " - but leave the mine field (the first one listed where the mine is) as just "()" without the added space. Then it works...why I have no idea.

	rockgolf:	Jun 16th, 2011 at 19:14 GMT		1 point
	Wow! That is subtle but it works. No idea how. Thanks.

	cardspartan:	Jun 18th, 2011 at 06:52 GMT		2 points
	How the heck is Sinatra so low??

	bombers:	Jun 21st, 2011 at 22:47 GMT		2 points
	Kiss dropped the bomb on me.For a band that boasts about all their albums going platinum.Still got 46 out 53.Eminem with one more release will make the list.

	lyndseyjoy:	Jun 22nd, 2011 at 06:13 GMT		1 point
	awesome quiz!!

	Dr_Corndog:	Jun 22nd, 2011 at 21:39 GMT		2 points
	Fun quiz, but man, having to restart the whole thing every time I get one wrong is annoying.

	halloween:	Jun 24th, 2011 at 02:33 GMT		1 point
	i lost cause i type Jimi Hendrix in

	Quizmaster91:	Jun 28th, 2011 at 22:20 GMT		1 point
	For getting 12 accepted artists I needed 10 goes because of bombs # 76, 96, 99, 108, 110, 112, 140, 144, & 146. Great quiz but thanks to it I hate all music now >:€

	barnztormre:	Jul 5th, 2011 at 20:53 GMT		4 points
	What, no Kajagoogoo????

	debbiedoesnothin:	Sep 27th, 2011 at 19:41 GMT		1 point
	Aw, dang. #64 took me out.

	rockgolf:	Jun 15th, 2012 at 15:40 GMT		1 point
	A great quiz celebrates its first birthday in style. If you're still out there nsxdarin, any chance you can update this? Eminem is now up to 35 million, so he should be shifted in the list.