Rahman sells more than Madonna and Britney

Latest estimates of UK-based paper ‘The News of the World’ puts music wizard A.R.Rahman among the highest selling musicians in the world.

Rahman is said to have sold a mind-boggling 200 million albums worldwide, a figure that surpasses the collective sales of albums by pop stars Madonna and Britney Spears.

According to the estimate Madonna’s albums sold 130 million copies while Britney ranked low with 20 million copies. That puts Rahman’s album sales 50 million more than album sales of Madonna and Britney collectively.

Yet, it is surprising that in spite of such whopping sales Rahman is not in Billboard top ten list. Reason? Explains Andrew Lloyd Webber (producer of hit play ‘Bombay Dreams’) that there is probably “no proper mechanism to log the sales of Rahman’s albums in US and UK”.