List of best-selling girl groups

List of best-selling girl groups. A girl group is a popular music act featuring several female singers who generally harmonize together. Girl groups have been popular at least since the heyday of the Boswell Sisters beginning in the 1930s, but the term “girl group” also denotes the wave of American female pop singing groups who flourished in the late 1950s and early 1960s between the decline of early rock and roll and the British Invasion, many of whom were influenced by doo-wop style. This article covers only girl groups from that era and later.

Sales figures records in most countries are not available before the 1990s, so it is difficult to accurately determine best-selling records, either by country or worldwide. Certification levels have been used for most countries, but certification was not common until the 1970s in the US and UK, and later in other countries. In addition, in many countries certification is for shipments of a record to retailers, rather than actual sales. Complicating matters further, the changes from 2010 onwards as certifications have become based on combined sales figures and streaming instead of sales alone.

As a result, these tables should not be considered finalized of the best-selling records by girl groups in each country.

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Here is a List of Best-selling girl groups worldwide

Groups with claimed total record sales of more than 20 million

1. Spice Girls
2. The Andrews Sisters
3. AKB48
4. 2NE1
5. Little Mix
6. TLC
7. Destiny’s Child
8. The Pussycat Dolls
9. Bananarama
10. The Pointer Sisters
11. Girls’ Generation
12. The Nolans
13. SWV
14. Morning Musume
15. The Supremes
16. En Vogue
17. Speed

Best-selling girl group singles

It is extremely difficult to assess worldwide sales of singles, due to the lack of auditing in many countries, and that no country officially tracked sales before the 1990s. In the second edition of The Book of Golden Discs, author Joseph Murrell calculated a worldwide sales figure of 18 million singles for Baccara‘s “Yes Sir, I Can Boogie“, but this figure is disputed and has never been officially confirmed.

• Wannabe
• The Ketchup Song (Aserejé)
• Don’t Cha
• Say My Name