>Best selling musician
>The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the Estate of Michael Jackson, Epic Records and Legacy Recordings announced today that Michael Jackson’s THRILLER is the first album in RIAA Gold & Platinum Program history to be certified 30X Multi-Platinum for U.S. sales, continuing The King of Pop’s reign as the biggest selling artist of all time with worldwide sales of over 100 million for Thriller and 1 billion overall.
>Most acclaimed musician
>With more than 700,000 people voting worldwide rock anthem, We are the Champions by Queen was crowned number one in the first global song poll. Queen had 3 songs voted with the top 100 making them the second most greatest artist of all time, the winner overall was the King of Pop with a whopping 18 songs more than Queen, Elvis, Madonna, The Beatles & Rolling Stones combined
>Best selling movie
>Gone with the Wind held the record of highest-grossing film for twenty-five years and, adjusted for inflation, has earned more than any other film. Grossing over 3.7 Billion dollars and drawing 300,000 people to Atlanta Georgia on the night of the Premiere for the film
>Most acclaimed movie
>Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back has been named the greatest movie of all time, in a poll held by Empire Magazine to over 250,000 Voters, the poll held a decade earlier saw The Godfather winning, Japan's poll had 1,000,000 Voters seeing Audrey Hepburn film Roman Holiday taking the grand prize
>Best selling book
>The Bible has sold 5 Billion copies since it's circulation began
>Most acclaimed book
>To Kill a Mockinbird was crowned best novel of all time by a poll taken by PBS titled the Great American Read, 3 Million people voted, the UK polled 3/4 of 1 Million people and LOTR won
