Top selling music artists in history, Part 5

Queen wedding songs

  The top selling music artists in history are: The Beatles Michael Jackson Elvis Presley Elton John Queen Madonna Led Zeppelin Rihanna Pink Floyd This week’s entrant is Queen, a legendary band that saw its fame get a boost with the 2018 biopic, “Bohemian Rhapsody.” Queen generates more weekly visitors to Spotify than any of…

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Top selling music artists in history, Part 4

Elton John wedding songs

The top selling music artists in history are: The Beatles Michael Jackson Elvis Presley Elton John Queen Madonna Led Zeppelin Rihanna Pink Floyd We continue the series considering the best wedding songs from the list of musical greats. This week we look at the best Elton John wedding songs. Elton may be #4 on this…

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Top selling music artists in history, Part 3

Elvis wedding songs

The top selling music artists in history are: The Beatles Michael Jackson Elvis Presley Elton John Queen Madonna Led Zeppelin Rihanna Pink Floyd This series considers the best wedding songs from the list of musical greats. This week we look at the best Elvis Presley wedding songs. No artist on this list recorded more quality…

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Part 2: Top selling music artists in history

Michael Jackson wedding songs

The top selling music artists in history are: The Beatles Michael Jackson Elvis Presley Elton John Queen Madonna Led Zeppelin Rihanna Pink Floyd This series considers the best wedding songs from this list of musical greats. We looked at The Beatles in our last installment. This week let’s consider Michael Jackson’s best song for weddings.…

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Top selling music artists in history

And I Love Her

The top selling music artists in history are: The Beatles Michael Jackson Elvis Presley Elton John Queen Madonna Led Zeppelin Rihanna Pink Floyd Their careers spanned the 1950s to today. Songs by artists now deceased, like Elvis, continue to rack up the sales. This blog thought it only appropriate to select a song from each…

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Amazon’s 100 Greatest Wedding Songs

Today’s wedding advice is simple: don’t be a music snob. Or perhaps a more positive way to put it is: keep an open mind to music from different eras. That’s why Amazon’s 100 greatest wedding songs list proves helpful. It exposes young and old wedding attendees to a nice selection of wedding songs from different…

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Best Bee Gees love songs for weddings

Bee Gees

The recent wedding movie, “You’re Cordially Invited,” put the Bee Gees back in the spotlight with its use of the 1983 hit song, “Islands in the Stream.” A lot of younger readers of this wedding blog may not be aware of the enormous popularity of this band, and the power of Bee Gees love songs.…

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Islands in the Stream

Islands in the Stream

The latest wedding movie to stream on Amazon this season is, “You’re Cordially Invited.” It stars the always fun Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon. Perhaps the best part of the movie was the use of the Bee Gees’ 1983 hit song, “Islands in the Stream,” as originally sung by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton. The…

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Top Kris Kristofferson love songs for weddings

Singer, songwriter, and actor Kris Kristofferson died in Hawaii on September 28th. He left behind a rich legacy of well-crafted songs that were anything but cookie-cutter. This blog looks at his top love songs for weddings. Kristofferson was a high IQ Rhodes scholar who had a knack for telling great stories in country songs. Many…

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The band played the wrong song!

band played wrong song

On their 15th wedding anniversary, Eric and Jenny were reminiscing about their wedding day. And do you know what they remembered most? That the band played the wrong song for the first dance! Mistakes happen, but this one was a whopper! First dance songs are practically sacred, because they define a romance. They provide lifelong…

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