best-selling music act of all time Billboard charts UK Albums Chart most number-one hits Billboard Hot 100 many accolades Grammy Awards Brit Awards Academy Award Best Original Song Score Let It Be Ivor Novello Awards Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Rolling Stone the greatest artists in history Time 20th century's 100 most important people The Beatles singles
The Beatles are the best-selling music act of all time, with estimated sales of 600 million units worldwide. They are the most successful act in the history of the US Billboard charts, holding the record for most number-one albums on the UK Albums Chart (15), most number-one hits on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart (20), and most singles sold in the UK (21.9 million). The band received many accolades, including seven Grammy Awards, four Brit Awards, an Academy Award (for Best Original Song Score for the 1970 documentary film Let It Be), and fifteen Ivor Novello Awards. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988, and each principal member was individually inducted between 1994 and 2015. In 2004 and 2011, the group topped Rolling Stone's lists of the greatest artists in history. Time magazine named them among the 20th century's 100 most important people.
