Greatest Female Artist of All Time?

[TheComebackKid]

Candidates...


Adele

Total Albums Sales: 58,000,000 units sold
Total Single Sales: 52,500,000 units sold

Biggest Albums:

21 - 31,000,000 units sold
25 - 20,000,000 units sold
19 - 7,000,000 units sold

Biggest Singles:

Rolling in the Deep - 15,600,000 units sold
Someone Like You - 9,700,000 units sold
Hello - 8,300,000 units sold



Barbra Striesand

Total Album Sales: 104,300,000 units sold
Total Single Sales: 9,700,000 units sold

Biggest Albums:

A Star is Born - 15,000,000 units sold
Guilty - 15,000,000 units sold
The Broadway Album - 7,500,000 units sold

Biggest Singles:

A Woman in Love - 4,000,000 units sold
No More Tears - 1,300,000 units sold
Evergreen - 1,300,000 units sold


Beyonce

Total Album Sales: 65,100,000
Total Single Sales: 69,200,000

Biggest Albums:

Dangerously In Love - 11,000,000 units sold
The Writings On the Wall(Destiny's child) - 10,500,000 units sold
Survivor(Destiny's Child) - 10,000,000 units sold
I Am...Sasha Fierce - 8,000,000 units sold
B'Day - 8,000,000 units sold

Biggest Singles:

Telephone ft Lady Gaga - 7,400,000 units sold
Single Ladies - 6,200,000 units sold
Halo - 6,000,000 units sold
Crazy In Love ft Jay Z - 4,400,000 units sold


Britney Spears

Total Album Sales: 96,100,000
Total Single Sales: 38,200,000

Biggest Albums:

...Baby One More Time - 30,000,000 units sold
Oops...I Did it Again - 24,000,000 units sold
Britney - 15,000,000 units sold
In the Zone - 10,000,000 units sold

Biggest Singles:

Scream & Shout ft William - 11,000,000 units sold
...Baby One More Time - 5,400,000 units sold
Toxic - 3,400,000 units sold


Celine Dion

Total Album Sales: 178,500,000 units sold
Total Single Sales: 36,500,000 units sold

Biggest Albums:

Falling Into You - 32,000,000 units sold
Let's Talk About Love - 31,000,000 units sold
All The Way...A Decade of Song - 21,000,000 units sold
The Colour of My Love - 20,000,000 units sold

Biggest Songs:

My Heart Will Go On - 7,600,000 units sold
Because You Loved Me - 3,000,000 units sold
S'il suffisait d'aimer
- 2,800,000 units sold


Cher

Total Album Sales: 122,700,000 units sold
Total Single Sales: 99,100,000 units sold

Biggest Albums:

Believe - 12,000,000 units sold
Heart of Stone - 11,000,000 units sold
Love Hurts - 10,000,000 units sold
Look At Us(w/ Sonny) - 8,000,000 units sold


The Beat Goes On(w/ Sonny) - 9,000,000 units sold
Believe - 6,600,000 units sold
The Shoop Shoop Song - 6,100,000 units sold
I Got You Babe(w/ Sonny) - 6,000,000 units sold


Christina Aguilara

Total Album Sales: 41,700,000 units sold
Total Single Sales: 45,000,000 units sold

Biggest Albums:

Christina Aguilera - 17,000,000 units sold
Stripped - 13,000,000 units sold
Back to the Basics- 5,000,000 units sold

Biggest Singles:

Moves Like Jagger(w/ Maroon 5) - 11,000,000 units sold
Say Something - 9,000,000 units sold
Genie in a Bottle - 3,100,000 units sold


Diana Ross

Total Album Sales: 54,000,000 units sold
Total Single Sales: 6,600,000 units sold

Biggest Albums:

Diana - 10,000,000 units sold
Greatest Hits(The Supremes) - 6,000,000 units sold
The Supremes A Go Go(The Supremes) - 3,500,000 units sold

Biggest Singles:

Endless Love(w Lional Richie) - 1,300,000 units sold
Ain't No Mountain(w Temptations) - 1,100,000 units sold
Someday We'll Be Together(The Supremes) - 1,000,000 units sold


Janet Jackson

Total Album Sales: 73,300,000 units sold
Total Single Sales: 23,500,000 units sold

Biggest Albums:

janet. - 20,000,000 units sold
Rhythm Nation 1814 - 14,000,000 units sold
Control - 14,000,000 units sold
Velvet Rope - 10,000,000 units sold

Biggest Singles:

Together Again - 3,300,000 units sold
All For You - 1,600,000 units sold
Thats The Way Love Goes - 1,500,000 units sold


Madonna

Total Album Sales: 227,000,000 units sold
Total Single Sales: 36,300,000 units sold

Biggest Albums:

The Immaculate Collection - 30,000,000 units sold
True Blue - 25,000,000 units sold
Like A Virgin - 25,000,000 units sold
Ray of Light - 20,000,000 units sold
Music - 15,000,000 units sold
Like A Prayer - 15,000,000 units sold

Biggest Singles:

4 Minutes - 4,200,000 units sold
Vogue - 3,300,000 units sold
Hung Up - 3,200,000 units sold
Like A Virgin - 3,000,000 units sold
Like A Prayer- 3,000,000 units sold


Mariah Carey

Total Album Sales: 144,200,000 units sold
Total Single Sales: 36,500,000 units sold

Biggest Albums:

Music Box - 32,000,000 units sold
DayDream - 25,000,000 units sold
Merry Christmas - 15,000,000 units sold
Mariah Carey - 15,000,000 units sold
The Emancipation of Mimi - 12,000,000 units sold

Biggest Singles:

All I Want For Christmas Is You - 5,000,000 units sold
One Sweet Day - 2,800,000 units sold
Fantasy - 2,500,000 units sold
We Belong Together - 2,300,000 units sold


Rihanna

Total Album Sales: 34,100,000 units sold
Total Single Sales: 167,000,000 units sold

Biggest Albums:

Loud - 8,000,000 units sold
Good Girl Gone Bad - 7,000,000 units sold
Talk That Talk - 5,500,000 units sold
Unapologetic - 4,000,000 units sold

Biggest Singles:

We Found Love - 10,000,000 units sold
Love the Way You Lie - 9,200,000 units sold
Umbrella - 8,500,000 units sold
Only Girl - 8,000,000 units sold


Whitney Houston

Total Album Sales: 147,000,000 units sold
Total Single Sales: 32,800,000 units sold

Biggest Albums:

The Bodyguard - 45,000,000 units sold
Whitney Houston - 25,000,000 units sold
Whitney - 20,000,000 units sold
Whitney: Greatest Hits - 13,000,000 units sold
My Love is Your Love - 13,000,000 units sold

Biggest Singles:

I Will Always Love You - 6,000,000 units sold
I Wanna Dance with Somebody - 4,000,000 units sold
Saving All My Love For You - 3,000,000 units sold
Greatest Love of All - 2,500,000 units sold

 

[Medical Marijuana Man]

Aretha Franklin
Whitney Houston
Mariah Carey

 

[moreorless87]

Of those listed probably Madonna, overall her, Kate Bush, Aretha Franklin or Joni Mitchell?

 

[FacePunch]

I'm gonna say The Olsen Twins.

 

[Winter-John]

No Debbie Harry, no Patty Smith, No Kate Bush, No Janis Joplin, No Stevie Nicks, No Emmylou Harris, No Billie Holiday, No Aretha, No Nina Simone. Oh well, might as well vote for fucking Britney then eh

 

[TheComebackKid]

No Debbie Harry, no Patty Smith, No Kate Bush, No Janis Joplin, No Stevie Nicks, No Emmylou Harris, No Billie Holiday, No Aretha, No Nina Simone. Oh well, might as well vote for fucking Britney then eh

I also left out Faith Hill, Carrie Underwood, Shakira, Paula Abdul, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Pink, Olivia Newton John, and so many others.

This list is about the best of the best.

 

[tru3f4n]

No Aretha Franklin or Etta James fuck this thread

 

[Philo-Publius]

Candidates...


Adele

Total Albums Sales: 58,000,000 units sold
Total Single Sales: 52,500,000 units sold

Biggest Albums:

21 - 31,000,000 units sold
25 - 20,000,000 units sold
19 - 7,000,000 units sold

Biggest Singles:

Rolling in the Deep - 15,600,000 units sold
Someone Like You - 9,700,000 units sold
Hello - 8,300,000 units sold



Barbra Striesand

Total Album Sales: 104,300,000 units sold
Total Single Sales: 9,700,000 units sold

Biggest Albums:

A Star is Born - 15,000,000 units sold
Guilty - 15,000,000 units sold
The Broadway Album - 7,500,000 units sold

Biggest Singles:

A Woman in Love - 4,000,000 units sold
No More Tears - 1,300,000 units sold
Evergreen - 1,300,000 units sold


Beyonce

Total Album Sales: 65,100,000
Total Single Sales: 69,200,000

Biggest Albums:

Dangerously In Love - 11,000,000 units sold
The Writings On the Wall(Destiny's child) - 10,500,000 units sold
Survivor(Destiny's Child) - 10,000,000 units sold
I Am...Sasha Fierce - 8,000,000 units sold
B'Day - 8,000,000 units sold

Biggest Singles:

Telephone ft Lady Gaga - 7,400,000 units sold
Single Ladies - 6,200,000 units sold
Halo - 6,000,000 units sold
Crazy In Love ft Jay Z - 4,400,000 units sold


Britney Spears

Total Album Sales: 96,100,000
Total Single Sales: 38,200,000

Biggest Albums:

...Baby One More Time - 30,000,000 units sold
Oops...I Did it Again - 24,000,000 units sold
Britney - 15,000,000 units sold
In the Zone - 10,000,000 units sold

Biggest Singles:

Scream & Shout ft William - 11,000,000 units sold
...Baby One More Time - 5,400,000 units sold
Toxic - 3,400,000 units sold


Celine Dion

Total Album Sales: 178,500,000 units sold
Total Single Sales: 36,500,000 units sold

Biggest Albums:

Falling Into You - 32,000,000 units sold
Let's Talk About Love - 31,000,000 units sold
All The Way...A Decade of Song - 21,000,000 units sold
The Colour of My Love - 20,000,000 units sold

Biggest Songs:

My Heart Will Go On - 7,600,000 units sold
Because You Loved Me - 3,000,000 units sold
S'il suffisait d'aimer
- 2,800,000 units sold


Cher

Total Album Sales: 122,700,000 units sold
Total Single Sales: 99,100,000 units sold

Biggest Albums:

Believe - 12,000,000 units sold
Heart of Stone - 11,000,000 units sold
Love Hurts - 10,000,000 units sold
Look At Us(w/ Sonny) - 8,000,000 units sold


The Beat Goes On(w/ Sonny) - 9,000,000 units sold
Believe - 6,600,000 units sold
The Shoop Shoop Song - 6,100,000 units sold
I Got You Babe(w/ Sonny) - 6,000,000 units sold


Christina Aguilara

Total Album Sales: 41,700,000 units sold
Total Single Sales: 45,000,000 units sold

Biggest Albums:

Christina Aguilera - 17,000,000 units sold
Stripped - 13,000,000 units sold
Back to the Basics- 5,000,000 units sold

Biggest Singles:

Moves Like Jagger(w/ Maroon 5) - 11,000,000 units sold
Say Something - 9,000,000 units sold
Genie in a Bottle - 3,100,000 units sold


Diana Ross

Total Album Sales: 54,000,000 units sold
Total Single Sales: 6,600,000 units sold

Biggest Albums:

Diana - 10,000,000 units sold
Greatest Hits(The Supremes) - 6,000,000 units sold
The Supremes A Go Go(The Supremes) - 3,500,000 units sold

Biggest Singles:

Endless Love(w Lional Richie) - 1,300,000 units sold
Ain't No Mountain(w Temptations) - 1,100,000 units sold
Someday We'll Be Together(The Supremes) - 1,000,000 units sold


Janet Jackson

Total Album Sales: 73,300,000 units sold
Total Single Sales: 23,500,000 units sold

Biggest Albums:

janet. - 20,000,000 units sold
Rhythm Nation 1814 - 14,000,000 units sold
Control - 14,000,000 units sold
Velvet Rope - 10,000,000 units sold

Biggest Singles:

Together Again - 3,300,000 units sold
All For You - 1,600,000 units sold
Thats The Way Love Goes - 1,500,000 units sold


Madonna

Total Album Sales: 227,000,000 units sold
Total Single Sales: 36,300,000 units sold

Biggest Albums:

The Immaculate Collection - 30,000,000 units sold
True Blue - 25,000,000 units sold
Like A Virgin - 25,000,000 units sold
Ray of Light - 20,000,000 units sold
Music - 15,000,000 units sold
Like A Prayer - 15,000,000 units sold

Biggest Singles:

4 Minutes - 4,200,000 units sold
Vogue - 3,300,000 units sold
Hung Up - 3,200,000 units sold
Like A Virgin - 3,000,000 units sold
Like A Prayer- 3,000,000 units sold


Mariah Carey

Total Album Sales: 144,200,000 units sold
Total Single Sales: 36,500,000 units sold

Biggest Albums:

Music Box - 32,000,000 units sold
DayDream - 25,000,000 units sold
Merry Christmas - 15,000,000 units sold
Mariah Carey - 15,000,000 units sold
The Emancipation of Mimi - 12,000,000 units sold

Biggest Singles:

All I Want For Christmas Is You - 5,000,000 units sold
One Sweet Day - 2,800,000 units sold
Fantasy - 2,500,000 units sold
We Belong Together - 2,300,000 units sold


Rihanna

Total Album Sales: 34,100,000 units sold
Total Single Sales: 167,000,000 units sold

Biggest Albums:

Loud - 8,000,000 units sold
Good Girl Gone Bad - 7,000,000 units sold
Talk That Talk - 5,500,000 units sold
Unapologetic - 4,000,000 units sold

Biggest Singles:

We Found Love - 10,000,000 units sold
Love the Way You Lie - 9,200,000 units sold
Umbrella - 8,500,000 units sold
Only Girl - 8,000,000 units sold


Whitney Houston

Total Album Sales: 147,000,000 units sold
Total Single Sales: 32,800,000 units sold

Biggest Albums:

The Bodyguard - 45,000,000 units sold
Whitney Houston - 25,000,000 units sold
Whitney - 20,000,000 units sold
Whitney: Greatest Hits - 13,000,000 units sold
My Love is Your Love - 13,000,000 units sold

Biggest Singles:

I Will Always Love You - 6,000,000 units sold
I Wanna Dance with Somebody - 4,000,000 units sold
Saving All My Love For You - 3,000,000 units sold
Greatest Love of All - 2,500,000 units sold

I voted for Britney Spears because she is the one I would have most liked to bang in her prime. I honestly don't know which one I respect the most as an artist because I never really cared for any of their music.

 

[Winter-John]

I also left out Faith Hill, Carrie Underwood, Shakira, Paula Abdul, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Pink, Olivia Newton John, and so many others.

This list is about the best of the best.

Is it really. On what fucking planet are Rihanna or Britney fucking Spears better than Nina Simone or Aretha Franklin?

 

[Hyperglide]

Not a big fan of female artists but out of that poll Rihanna is my fave.

Just my type of music and she's sexy af.

 

[ArchGoat]

Joan Jett

 

[KYS]

I don’t wanna be that guy but most of these ladies are mere performers. Various people write their songs (which is perfectly fine ofc).

Maybe Kate Bush, Björk, PJ Harvey etc. are more relevant if you want to talk about art?

I‘m not an expert though.

 

[Hotora86]

Barbara Streisand (you misspelled her name BTW) was also amazing in Yentl as an actress but if I have to chose the impact to music and pop culture in general then definitely Madonna.

... but WTF is Brittney Spears doing on a "greatest" list??

 

[Jimmy Jazz]

jesus dude how old are you?

 

[machidafan99]

those in the know say ella fitzgerald

 

[National Acrobat]

This poll sucks dick

 

[Thundarr]

Not one of them can play a musical instrument.

 

[DangDaGawd]

Bjork

 

[HelloJapan]

No Joni Mitchell? Gtfo.

 

[Sage NorthGOAT]

I dont really listen to female singers.

That said, Janis Joplin and the chick from Heart were great