Greatest Female Singers

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FLORENCE WELCH

Dog Days Are Over (2008)
Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) (2009)
You've Got the Love (2009)
Spectrum (Say My Name) (2012)
Sweet Nothing (2012)

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JAZMINE SULLIVAN

Need U Bad (2008)
Bust Your Windows (2008)
Lions, Tigers & Bears (2008)
Holding You Down (Goin' in Circles) (2010)
Pick Up Your Feelings (2020)

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FANTASIA

I Believe (2004)
Truth Is (2004)
When I See U (2007)
Bittersweet (2010)
Enough (2019)

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TAMMY WYNETTE

FIRST LADY OF COUNTRY

My Elusive Dreams (1967)
D-I-V-O-R-C-E (1968)
Stand By Your Man (1968)
Bedtime Story (1971)
Til I Can Make It on My Own (1976)

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KELLY CLARKSON

PRINCESS OF POP

A Moment Like This (2002)
Breakaway (2004)
Since U Been Gone (2004)
My Life Would Suck Without You (2009)
Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You) (2012)

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NORAH JONES

Don't Know Why (2002)
Sunrise (2004)
Here We Go Again (2005)
Thinking About You (2006)
Chasing Pirates (2009)

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BRANDY

PRINCESS OF R&B

Baby (1994)
Sittin' Up in My Room (1995)
The Boy Is Mine (1998)
Have You Ever (1998)
What About Us (2003)

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BIG MAMA THORNTON

Partnership Blues (1951)
Hound Dog (1953)
Black Rat (1966)
Ball and Chain (1968)
Jail (1975)

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IRMA THOMAS

SOUL QUEEN OF NEW ORLEANS

Wish Someone Would Care (1964)
Breakaway (1964)
Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand) (1964)
Time Is on My Side (1964)
Straight from the Heart (1964)

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ANITA BAKER

Sweet Love (1986)
Caught Up in the Rapture (1986)
Same Ole Love (365 Days a Year) (1987)
No One in the World (1987)
Giving You the Best That I Got (1988)

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BETH GIBBONS

Roads (1994)
Glory Box (1995)
Over (1997)
Only You (1998)
The Rip (2008)

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MELANIE

Beautiful People (1989)
Ruby Tuesday (1970)
What Have They Done to My Song Ma (1970)
Lay Down (Candles in the Rain) (1970)
Brand New Key (1971)

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ROBERTA FLACK

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (1972)
Where Is the Love (1972)
Killing Me Softly with His Song (1973)
Feel Like Makin' Love (1974)
The Closer I Get to You (1978)

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WANDA JACKSON

QUEEN OF ROCKABILLY

FIRST LADY OF ROCKABILLY

You Can't Have My Love (1954)
There's a Party Goin' On (1961)
Right or Wrong (1961)
In the Middle of a Heartache (1961)
Tears Will be the Chaser for Your Wine (1966)

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SHANIA TWAIN

QUEEN OF COUNTRY POP

Any Man of Mine (1995)
You're Still the One (1998)
That Don't Impress Me Much (1999)
Man! I Feel Like a Woman! (1999)
Come On Over (1999)

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CHER

GODDESS OF POP

EMPRESS OF POP

I Got You Babe (1965)
Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves (1971)
The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss) (1990)
If I Could Turn Back Time (1989)
Believe (1998)

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EVA CASSIDY

Fields of Gold (1998)
Over the Rainbow (1998)
Songbird (1998)
Time After Time (2000)
What a Wonderful World (2007)

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JESSYE NORMAN

"Porgi Amor" Le Nozze di Figaro (1969)
"Urlicht" Des Knaben Wunderhorn (1972)
"Der Einsame im Herbst" Das Lied von der Erde (1985)
Deep River (1991)
"Nonn' Erubescite, Reges" Oedipus Rex (1992)

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PJ HARVEY

Dress (1991)
Rid of Me (1993)
Down By the Water (1995)
A Perfect Day Elise (1998)
This is Love (2001)

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LALAH HATHAWAY

Heaven Knows (1990)
Forever, For Always, For Love (2004)
That Was Then (2008)
Something (2013)
Angel (2015)

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DARLENE LOVE

He's a Rebel (1962)
He's Sure the Boy I Love (1962)
Wait ’til My Bobby Gets Home (1963)
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) (1963)
All Alone on Christmas (1992)

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RACHELLE FERRELL

You Send Me (1990)
You Don't Know What Love Is (1990)
Autumn Leaves (1990)
'Til You Come Back to Me (1992)
Satisfied (2000)

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JENNIFER HUDSON

PRINCESS OF SOUL

And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going (2006)
I Am Changing (2006)
Spotlight (2008)
If This Isn't Love (2009)
I Remember Me (2011)

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YOLANDA ADAMS

QUEEN OF URBAN GOSPEL

FIRST LADY OF MODERN GOSPEL

In the Midst of It All (1999)
Open My Heart (1999)
I'm Gonna Be Ready (2001)
Be Blessed (2005)
Better Than Gold (2005)

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SARAH McLACHLAN

I Will Remember You (1995)
Building a Mystery (1997)
Adia (1998)
Angel (1998)
Fallen (2003)

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JOAN BAEZ

QUEEN OF FOLK

We Shall Overcome (1963)
There But for Fortune (1965)
Farewell, Angelina (1965)
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (1971)
Diamonds & Rust (1975)

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BESSIE SMITH

EMPRESS OF THE BLUES

Downhearted Blues (1923)
Gulf Coast Blues (1923)
St. Louis Blues (1925)
Careless Blues (1925)
Empty Bed Blues (1928)

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KAREN O

Maps (2003)
Gold Lion (2006)
Zero (2009)
Heads Will Roll (2009)
Sacrilege (2013)

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QUEEN OF FUNK

Tell Me Something Good (1974)
I'm Every Woman (1978)
Ain't Nobody (1983)
I Feel for You (1984)
Higher Love (1986)

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RONNIE SPECTOR

Be My Baby (1963)
Baby, I Love You (1963)
Sleigh Ride (1963)
Walking In the Rain (1964)
She Talks to Rainbows (1999)

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ALICIA KEYS

QUEEN OF R&B

Fallin' (2001)
A Woman's Worth (2001)
My Boo (2004)
No One (2007)
Girl on Fire (2007)

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AUDRA McDONALD

"(When I Marry) Mister Snow" Carousel (1994)
"Wheels of a Dream" Ragtime (1998)
"Raunchy" 110 in the Shade (2007)
"God Bless the Child" Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill 2014)
"Aria" Beauty and the Beast (2017)

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LIANNE LA HAVAS

Lost & Found (2012)
What You Don't Do (2015)
Green & Gold (2015)
Say a Little Prayer (live) 2016)
Can't Fight (2020)

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PAT BENATAR

Heartbreaker (1979)
Hit Me with Your Best Shot (1980)
Promises in the Dark (1981)
Love Is a Battlefield (1983)
We Belong (1984)

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ÉDITH PIAF

La Vie en rose (1947)
Padam, padam... (1951)
Milord (1959)
Mon Dieu (1960)
Non, je ne regrette rien (1960)

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MADONNA

QUEEN OF POP

ONE OF 'THE HOLY TRINITY OF POP'

Like a Virgin (1984)
Into the Groove (1985)
Like a Prayer (1989)
Vogue (1990)
Ray of Light (1998)

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EXENE CERVENKA

Your Phone's Off the Hook (1980)
Los Angeles (1980)
I'm Coming Over (1981)
Under the Big Black Sun (1982)
Breathless (1983)

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LaVERN BAKER

Tweedle Dee (1955)
Play It Fair (1955)
I Can't Love You Enough (1956)
Jim Dandy (1956)
I Cried a Tear (1958)

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FIONA APPLE

Criminal (1997)
Across the Universe (1998)
Fast as You Can (1999)
Paper Bag 2000)
Shameika (1920)
Jazzman (1974)

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CAROLE KING

It Might as Well Rain Until September (1962)
So Far Away (1971)
It's Too Late (1971)
You've Got a Friend (1971)
Jazzman (1974)

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RICKIE LEE JONES

Chuck E's in Love (1979)
On Saturday Afternoon in 1963 (1979)
Easy Money (1979)
The Moon is Made of Gold (1988)
The Horses (1989)

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PEGGY LEE

It's a Good Day (1946)
Mañana (Is Soon Enough For Me) (1948)
Black Coffee (1953)
Fever (1958)
Is That All There Is? (1969)

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MARY J. BLIGE

EMPRESS OF SOUL

QUEEN OF HIP HOP

QUEEN OF R&B

Real Love (1992)
Not Gon' Cry (1996)
Family Affair (2001)
No More Drama (2001)
Be Without You (2005)

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ELIZABETH FRASER

Song to the Siren (1983)
Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops (1980)
Iceblink Luck (1990)
Teardrop (1998)
Lament for Gandalf (2001)

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SHIRLEY BASSEY

Kiss Me, Honey Honey, Kiss Me (1958)
As I Love You (1958)
I (Who Have Nothing) (1963)
Goldfinger (1964)
Something (1970)

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DINAH WASHINGTON

QUEEN OF THE BLUES

Am I Asking Too Much (1948)
Baby Get Lost (1949)
What a Diff'rence a Day Makes (1959)
Baby (You've Got What It Takes) (1960)
A Rockin' Good Way (To Mess Around and Fall in Love) (1960)

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GRACE SLICK

Somebody to Love (1967)
White Rabbit (1967)
Winds of Change (1983)
We Built This City (1985)
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now (1987)

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SADE

Your Love is King (1984)
Smooth Operator (1984)
The Sweetest Taboo (1985)
Paradise (1988)
No Ordinary Love (1992)

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k.d. lang

Crying (1987)
Lock, Stock, and Teardrops (1988)
Trail of Broken Hearts (1989)
Constant Craving (1992)
Hush Sweet Lover (1994)

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KATHLEEN HANNA

Double Dare Ya (1991)
Rebel Girl (1993)
I Wish I was Him (1984)
Deceptacon (1999)
Hot Topic (1999)