Editing David Bowie (section)

==Awards and achievements==
{{Main|List of awards and nominations received by David Bowie}}
[[File:David Bowie's Outfits - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2014-12-30 13.09.55 by Sam Howzit).jpg|thumb|right|alt=Costumes on display|Variety of Bowie's outfits on display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]]
Bowie's 1969 commercial breakthrough, "Space Oddity", won him an [[Ivor Novello Awards|Ivor Novello]] Special Award For Originality.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bucksmusicgroup.com/about/Ivor_Novello_Awards.html|title=Ivor Novello Awards|publisher=Bucks Music Group|access-date=16 September 2010|archive-date=22 August 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070822231123/http://www.bucksmusicgroup.com/about/Ivor_Novello_Awards.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> For his performance in ''The Man Who Fell to Earth'', he won the [[Saturn Award for Best Actor]]. In the ensuing decades he received six Grammy Awards<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.grammy.com/nominees/search?artist=%22David+Bowie%22&field_nominee_work_value=&year=All&genre=All|title=Grammy Award Winners|publisher=National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences|access-date=16 September 2010|archive-date=29 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129025052/http://www.grammy.com/nominees/search?artist=%22David+Bowie%22&field_nominee_work_value=&year=All&genre=All|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.grammy.com/Recording_Academy/Awards/Lifetime_Awards/ |title=Lifetime Achievement Award: Past Recipients |publisher=National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences |access-date=16 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100826002047/http://www2.grammy.com/Recording_Academy/Awards/Lifetime_Awards |archive-date=26 August 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=59thGA/> and four Brit Awards, including Best British Male Artist twice; the award for Outstanding Contribution to Music in 1996; and the Brits Icon award for his "lasting impact on British culture", given posthumously in 2016.<ref name="Icon 2016">{{cite news|title=Brit Awards 2016: Adele dominates with four awards|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35656227|publisher=BBC|date=25 February 2016|access-date=21 June 2018|archive-date=9 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170309183751/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35656227|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Brit Awards 2014: David Bowie wins Best Male and wades into Scottish independence debate via Kate 'Ziggy' Moss|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/brit-awards-2014-david-bowie-wins-best-male-and-kate-ziggy-moss-collects-it-for-him-9139637.html|newspaper=The Independent|date=11 January 2015|access-date=26 August 2017|archive-date=21 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170721175803/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/brit-awards-2014-david-bowie-wins-best-male-and-kate-ziggy-moss-collects-it-for-him-9139637.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Read Annie Lennox And Gary Oldman's David Bowie Tribute Speeches at the Brit Awards 2016|url=https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/read-annie-lennox-and-gary-oldmans-david-bowie-tribute-speeches-at-the-brit-awards-2016|newspaper=NME|date=4 October 2016|access-date=21 April 2020|archive-date=5 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161005130539/http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/read-annie-lennox-and-gary-oldmans-david-bowie-tribute-speeches-at-the-brit-awards-2016|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:Statue of David Bowie (geograph 5942789).jpg|thumb|upright|left|alt=A statue against a wall|[[Statue of David Bowie|Statue of Bowie]] in different guises in [[Aylesbury]], Buckinghamshire, the town where he debuted Ziggy Stardust in 1972]]
In 1999, Bowie was made a Commander of the {{Lang|fr|[[Ordre des Arts et des Lettres]]}} by the French government,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-big-question-how-does-the-french-honours-system-work-and-why-has-kylie-been-decorated-822752.html|title=The Big Question: How does the French honours system work, and why has Kylie been decorated?|last=Lichfield|first=John|date=8 May 2009|work=The Independent|access-date=17 September 2010|archive-date=11 December 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121211190241/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-big-question-how-does-the-french-honours-system-work-and-why-has-kylie-been-decorated-822752.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and received an honorary doctorate from [[Berklee College of Music]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.berklee.edu/news/1999/grad99.html|title=ChChChChanges|publisher=[[Berklee College of Music]]|access-date=17 September 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326155914/http://www.berklee.edu/news/1999/grad99.html|archive-date=26 March 2012}}</ref> He declined the royal honour of [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (CBE) in 2000, and turned down a [[knight]]hood in 2003.<ref>{{cite news |last=Thompson |first=Jody |title=Sixty things about David Bowie|work=BBC News|date=8 January 2007|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6230201.stm|access-date=17 September 2010|archive-date=24 November 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101124015738/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6230201.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> Bowie later stated "I would never have any intention of accepting anything like that. I seriously don't know what it's for. It's not what I spent my life working for."<ref>{{cite web |date=18 April 2015 |url=http://www.music-news.com/news/UK/88765/Read |title=David Bowie turns down knighthood |publisher=music-news.com |access-date=11 January 2016 |archive-date=17 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180617220037/http://www.music-news.com/news/UK/88765/Read |url-status=live}}</ref>

During his lifetime, Bowie sold over 100&nbsp;million records worldwide, making him one of the [[List of best-selling music artists|best-selling music artists]].{{efn|Additional sources place this figure somewhere between 100 million and 150&nbsp;million.<ref>{{multiref2 | {{cite news|last=Wilkinson|first=Peter|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/22/showbiz/uk-david-bowie-exhibition/|title=Bowie exhibition charts life of pop's ultimate Starman|publisher=CNN|date=22 March 2013|access-date=29 April 2017|archive-date=30 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730121712/http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/22/showbiz/uk-david-bowie-exhibition/|url-status=live}} | {{cite magazine|last=Anderson|first=Kyle|url=https://ew.com/article/2016/01/21/david-bowie-ew-cover-story/|title=David Bowie EW cover story: How the singer, style icon, and eternal chameleon, ch-ch-ch-changed pop culture forever|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|date=21 January 2016|access-date=29 April 2017|archive-date=22 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170622015131/http://ew.com/article/2016/01/21/david-bowie-ew-cover-story/|url-status=live}} | {{cite news|url=http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/rebel-rebel-we-profile-singing-legend-david-bowie-34329294.html|title=Rebel, rebel: We profile singing legend David Bowie|first=Andy|last=Gill|work=[[Belfast Telegraph]]|date=2 January 2016|access-date=28 April 2017|archive-date=21 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191221151338/https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/rebel-rebel-we-profile-singing-legend-david-bowie-34329294.html|url-status=live}} }}</ref>}} In the UK, he was awarded nine platinum, eleven gold and eight silver albums, and in the US, five platinum and nine gold.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&se=David+bowie#search_section|title=RIAA Searchable Database: search for David Bowie|publisher=[[Recording Industry Association of America]]|access-date=11 January 2016|archive-date=12 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112083653/http://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&se=David+Bowie#search_section|url-status=live}}</ref> Since 2015, [[Parlophone]] has remastered Bowie's catalogue through the "Era" box set series, starting with ''[[Five Years (1969–1973)]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Aswad |first=Jem |date=8 January 2021 |title=The Best David Bowie Archival Recordings, From 'Space Oddity' to 'Lazarus' |url=https://variety.com/2021/music/news/david-bowie-best-archival-recordings-albums-reissues-1234880912/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211027064815/https://variety.com/2021/music/news/david-bowie-best-archival-recordings-albums-reissues-1234880912/ |archive-date=27 October 2021 |access-date=3 January 2022 |website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]}}</ref> Bowie was announced as the best-selling vinyl artist of the 21st century in 2022.<ref>{{cite web |last=Krol |first=Charlotte |title=David Bowie is best-selling vinyl artist of the 21st Century |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/david-bowie-is-best-selling-vinyl-artist-of-the-21st-century-3139491 |website=NME |access-date=17 January 2022 |date=17 January 2022 |archive-date=14 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214213128/https://www.nme.com/news/music/david-bowie-is-best-selling-vinyl-artist-of-the-21st-century-3139491 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The 2020 revision of ''Rolling Stone''{{'}}s [[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|500 Greatest Albums of All Time]] list includes ''The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars'' at number 40,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/david-bowie-the-rise-and-fall-of-ziggy-stardust-1063193/|title=Ziggy Stardust ranked no. 40|date=22 September 2020|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=8 November 2021|archive-date=5 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130305163419/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-20120531/david-bowie-the-rise-and-fall-of-ziggy-stardust-and-the-spiders-from-mars-20120524|url-status=live}}</ref> ''Station to Station'' at 52,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/david-bowie-station-to-station-2-1063181/|title=Station to Station ranked no. 52|date=22 September 2020|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=8 November 2021|archive-date=7 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210807011045/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/david-bowie-station-to-station-2-1063181/|url-status=live}}</ref> ''Hunky Dory'' at 88,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/david-bowie-hunky-dory-2-1063145/|title=Hunky Dory ranked no. 88|date=22 September 2020|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=8 November 2021|archive-date=23 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923223600/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/david-bowie-hunky-dory-2-1063145/|url-status=live}}</ref> ''Low'' at 206,<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/david-bowie-low-2-1063027/|title=Low ranked no. 206|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=8 November 2021|archive-date=26 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200926151644/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/david-bowie-low-2-1063027/|url-status=live}}</ref> and ''Scary Monsters'' at 443.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/david-bowie-scary-monsters-1062790/|title=Scary Monsters ranked no. 443|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=8 November 2021|archive-date=24 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924234739/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/david-bowie-scary-monsters-1062790/|url-status=live}}</ref> On the 2021 revision of the same magazine's [[500 Greatest Songs of All Time]] list, Bowie's songs include "{{-'}}Heroes{{'-}}" at number 23,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-songs-of-all-time-1224767/david-bowie-heroes-3-1225315/|title=Heroes no. 23|date=15 September 2021|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=8 November 2021|archive-date=8 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211108165346/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-songs-of-all-time-1224767/david-bowie-heroes-3-1225315/|url-status=live}}</ref> "Life on Mars?" at 105,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-songs-of-all-time-1224767/david-bowie-life-on-mars-2-1225233/|title=Life on Mars no. 105|date=15 September 2021|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=8 November 2021|archive-date=15 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210915204954/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-songs-of-all-time-1224767/david-bowie-life-on-mars-2-1225233/|url-status=live}}</ref> "Space Oddity" at 189,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-songs-of-all-time-1224767/david-bowie-space-oddity-1225149/|title=Space Oddity no. 189|date=15 September 2021|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=8 November 2021|archive-date=16 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210916200050/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-songs-of-all-time-1224767/david-bowie-space-oddity-1225149/|url-status=live}}</ref> "Changes" at 200,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-songs-of-all-time-1224767/david-bowie-changes-2-1225138/|title=Changes no. 200|date=15 September 2021|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=8 November 2021|archive-date=16 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210916071134/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-songs-of-all-time-1224767/david-bowie-changes-2-1225138/|url-status=live}}</ref> "Young Americans" at 204,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-songs-of-all-time-1224767/david-bowie-young-americans-2-1225134/|title=Young Americans no. 204|date=15 September 2021|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=8 November 2021|archive-date=8 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211108165352/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-songs-of-all-time-1224767/david-bowie-young-americans-2-1225134/|url-status=live}}</ref> "Station to Station" at 400,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-songs-of-all-time-1224767/david-bowie-station-to-station-3-1224938/|title=Station to Station no. 400|date=15 September 2021|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=8 November 2021|archive-date=16 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210916194408/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-songs-of-all-time-1224767/david-bowie-station-to-station-3-1224938/|url-status=live}}</ref> and "Under Pressure" at 429.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-songs-of-all-time-1224767/queen-and-david-bowie-under-pressure-1224909/|title=Under Pressure no. 429|date=15 September 2021|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=8 November 2021|archive-date=8 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211108165347/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-songs-of-all-time-1224767/queen-and-david-bowie-under-pressure-1224909/|url-status=live}}</ref> Four of his songs are included in [[The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://rockhall.com/exhibits/500-songs-that-shaped-rock-and/ |title=The Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll |publisher=[[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] |access-date=12 January 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100317150057/http://rockhall.com/exhibits/500-songs-that-shaped-rock-and/ |archive-date=17 March 2010}}</ref>

[[File:David Bowie Madame Tussauds London.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=A wax figure of a red-haired man with a lightning bolt across his face.|Wax figure of Bowie at [[Madame Tussauds]], London]]
In the BBC's 2002 poll of the [[100 Greatest Britons]], Bowie was ranked 29.<ref>{{cite news|title=100 great British heroes|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/2208671.stm|publisher=BBC|access-date=11 January 2015|date=21 August 2002|archive-date=3 May 2003|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030503073147/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/2208671.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2004, ''Rolling Stone'' magazine ranked him 39th on their list of the [[Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time|100 Greatest Artists of All Time]].<ref>{{cite magazine|title=100 Greatest Artists: 39 David Bowie|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-artists-of-all-time-19691231/david-bowie-20110420|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=11 January 2015|access-date=26 August 2017|archive-date=22 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180122101238/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-artists-of-all-time-19691231/david-bowie-20110420|url-status=live}}</ref> Bowie was inducted into the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] in 1996 and into the [[Songwriters Hall of Fame]] in 2005.<ref>{{cite web |title=David Bowie: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction |publisher=Rock and Roll Hall of Fame |url=https://www.rockhall.com/inductees/david-bowie |access-date=16 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308144940/https://www.rockhall.com/inductees/david-bowie |archive-date=8 March 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.songhall.org/profile/david_bowie1 |title=David Bowie: Fabled innovator in popular music. |access-date=28 June 2022 |publisher=[[Songwriters Hall of Fame]] |archive-date=17 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211017144224/https://www.songhall.org/profile/david_bowie1 |url-status=live }}</ref> He was inducted into the [[Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame]] in 2013.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.empmuseum.org/about-emp/emp-news/emp-newsflash/science-fiction-and-fantasy-hall-of-fame-emp-welcomes-five-major-players.aspx |title=Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame: EMP welcomes five major players |date=June 2013 |publisher=EMP Museum |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130818180527/http://empmuseum.org/about-emp/emp-news/emp-newsflash/science-fiction-and-fantasy-hall-of-fame-emp-welcomes-five-major-players.aspx |archive-date=18 August 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.empmuseum.org/at-the-museum/museum-features/science-fiction-and-fantasy-hall-of-fame/members/david-bowie.aspx |title=David Bowie: Shape-shifting musician and movie star |publisher=EMP Museum |access-date=11 September 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130925235627/http://www.empmuseum.org/at-the-museum/museum-features/science-fiction-and-fantasy-hall-of-fame/members/david-bowie.aspx |archive-date=25 September 2013}}</ref> A poll by ''[[BBC History]]'' magazine in 2013 named Bowie the best-dressed Briton in history.<ref>{{cite news |last=Michaels |first=Sean |title=David Bowie voted the best-dressed person in British history |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/16/david-bowie-best-dressed-briton-bbc-history-magazine |url-status=live |work=The Guardian |date=16 October 2013 |access-date=22 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308195903/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/16/david-bowie-best-dressed-briton-bbc-history-magazine |archive-date=8 March 2021}}</ref> Days after Bowie's death, ''Rolling Stone'' contributor [[Rob Sheffield]] proclaimed him "the greatest rock star ever".<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Sheffield |first=Rob |author-link=Rob Sheffield |title=Thanks, Starman: Why David Bowie Was the Greatest Rock Star Ever|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/thanks-starman-why-david-bowie-was-the-greatest-rock-star-ever-20160111|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=11 January 2016|access-date=10 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308213938/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/thanks-starman-why-david-bowie-was-the-greatest-rock-star-ever-76166/|archive-date=8 March 2021|url-status=dead}}</ref> The magazine also listed him as the 39th greatest songwriter of all time.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/interactive/lists-100-greatest-songwriters/#david-bowie |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=26 January 2022}}</ref> In 2022, [[Sky Arts]] ranked him the most influential artist in Britain of the last 50 years.<ref name="Graye">{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/50-influential-artists-britain-david-bowie-b2142923.html|first=Megan|last=Graye|title=50 most influential artists in Britain revealed: David Bowie, Steve McQueen and Russell T Davies among top spots|work=The Independent|date=11 August 2022|access-date=22 January 2023|archive-date=22 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230122191336/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/50-influential-artists-britain-david-bowie-b2142923.html|url-status=live}}</ref> He ranked 32nd on the 2023 ''Rolling Stone'' list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time.<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=1 January 2023 |title=The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-singers-all-time-1234642307/david-bowie-21-1234643157/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=6 January 2023}}</ref>