New Jersey Artists Dominate This Important Music List

Artists from New Jersey dominate the list of best-selling music artists of all time.
New Jersey has had a storied history in the music industry.

Many of us remember the amazing Asbury Park years that produced Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Southside Johnny and many more.

New Jersey's Most Famous Music Artists

That was the same music scene that, years later, was a big part of the Bon Jovi story.
But the New Jersey music legacy dates well before that.

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Let’s not forget that Hoboken’s Frank Sinatra was blazing a musical trail in the late 1930s.
And the New Jersey music scene is still going strong.

All the proof you need to prove that the Garden State has made its mark on the world is on the biggest-selling artist list published by Chartmasters.

The Biggest Selling New Jersey Artists Of All Time

A full 12% of that list belongs to New Jersey artists.

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There are 3 Garden State music stars on the list of 25, and they land in chronological order.

The highest-ranked New Jersey artist is Frank Sinatra. He landed at #7 on the list.
Bruce Springsteen is #23 on the list, and the timeless Whitney Houston is coming in at #25.

Of course, many other New Jersey artists who have sold a ton of records are not on the list, and the first one that comes to mind was a rock band that dominated over a decade of music and was probably the most popular in the world during its peak.

Any list that New Jersey dominates that doesn’t even include Bon Jovi shows how impressive New Jersey music is.