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Beyonce

Claim To Fame: Crazy In Love

The Most Billboard Hot 100 #1 Singles This Decade. With 5.
The Most Top 5 Hits.
The Most Top 10 Hits.
The Most Top 40 Hits.
The Most Weeks Cumulative At #1 By A Female This Decade. 36 Weeks.
Most Weeks at #1 on Pop Radio this decade.
3 Golden Globe Nominations.
First woman to have a single and album simultaneously topping the main charts in both the U.S. and the UK.
Longest stay at number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 within a year for a female ever (seventeen weeks with "Crazy in Love" and "Baby Boy").
Handled twice the record of most weeks spent at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in a single year by a female artist (seventeen weeks in 2003 and eight weeks in 2006).
Ranked number one on AskMen.com 's list of Top 99 Most Desirable Women of 2007, voted by 8.5 million men.
Tied for third most successful song on the Billboard Hot 100 by a solo female artist (Irreplaceable).
Irreplaceable is the first song to top twelve Billboard charts simultaneously .
First artist to have a number-one single ("Check on It"), a number-one film (The Pink Panther), and win a Grammy Award in the same week (February 2006).
First female artist to have a number-one single single and win a Grammy Awards in the same week twice ("Check on It" and "Irreplaceable", consecutively).
Second artist to have two songs in the same year passing the two hundred-million audience mark ("Irreplaceable" and "Check on It" in 2006).
Is the singer with the biggest film debut ever with Austin Powers in Goldmember when it grossed $213,307,889 in America alone.
Won 5 Grammys In A Single Night.
Performed 3 times in one single night at The Oscars.
Performed more than any other artist at the BET Awards.
Performed With Tina Turner Live @ The Grammy's
Sang For Barbara Streisand At The Kennedy Honors.
A Box Office Total Gross of $717,975,963
First Non Model To Cover Sports Illustrated.
Averages $87 Million A Year
11 Grammys Won.
2 Legend Awards.
The Most Iconic Video Of The Decade- Single Ladies
20+ Million albums sold.
Billboard Woman Of The Year 2009.
Most Video Music Awards won this decade with 9.
Most BET Awards won by a female artist this decade.
First Black Woman to win ASCAP Songwriter of the Year.
Sang at the Presidential Inauguration.
POP ICON

BRITNEY


Claim To Fame: ...Baby One More Time

Best Selling Teen Artist Of All Time
Best Selling Female Artist Of The Decade
60+ Million albums sold.
1.3 million copies sold in a week with her second album.
The first female in the Nielsen SoundScan era to have her first four studio albums to debut at number one.
The only act in Nielsen SoundScan history to have four albums debut with 500,000 copies or more.
4 Video Music Awards
She has 2 certified Diamond albums.
Spears has won the most Teen Choice Awards ever, which is 15 as of 2008.
The youngest female artist to occupy the #1 spot on the Hot 100 and the Billboard 200 album chart at the same time.
Britney is the only artist with most music videos to debut on MTV's TRL. (18 videos) She is also the only artist with most #1 retired music videos on MTV's TRL. (15 videos #1) (13 videos retired)
Britney is the 2nd artist with most number one hits in United World Chart history, tying with Madonna.
Britney is the artist with the most Mainstream Top 40 chart hits since 2000, with 21 tracks.
Britney Spears' has been Yahoo!'s and Goggle's most popular search term for the last four consecutive years (2005-2009), seven times in total.
Two Billboard Hot 100 #1 Singles.
Youngest Artist With A Star On The Walk Of Fame.
Gimme More' is the 2nd highest debut by a female aritst in the United World Chart (Mariah's 'Honey' holds the record).
Blackout' debuted at #1 On the U.S Digital Albums chart, making her the highest selling digital female artist in a first week of sales.
"Me Against The Music" is the music video with most consecutive days at number one by a female on MTV's TRL . (11 days)
In Australia, Britney's "In The Zone" album is one of only three to have all the albums single go to #1 (the others being Delta Goodrems "Innocent Eyes" and Kylies "Kylie")
Blackout' has had more than 1 million streams at MTV's The Leak, by far the biggest total ever for the program.
Break The Ice' is Spears’ 18th charting title this decade, making her having the most Top40/CHR hits by female artist this decade.
The biggest opening-week download tally by a female artist EVER.
Kissed Madonna Live On Television.
Ultimate Teen Choice Award
POP ICON

well of course they are, i mean in the pop world, they are songwriters.

but this is off-topic and already was warned for it

Norah Jones and Alanis Morisette are not relevant in mainstream pop music the way they were five (or ten) years ago. Just because someone buys your concert tickets doesn't mean that you have any influence on the music industry anymore.

I see you guessed who I was referring to.

You think Gaga wouldn't have got a WW #1 without the discount? Please.

But you can't deny that Britney is flopping outside the US with her singles (with the exception of HIAM). That may change with 'Criminal', because I think it could actually do well WW, but TTWE fell like a rock in most countries after its first week 'hype' and let's not even speak of IWG.

Femme Fatale is a great album, but let's not be delusional.

Oh gorl.

You're just feeding her.

norah jones never smashed with singles.

Adele is having #1 album & single in US, UK, and WW this year. I can't think of any other act who's done that before... or at least in a very long time.

All of her singles have gone top 10 worldwide making her the 4th artist with most top 10 singles ever after Madonna, Mariah, and Michael, without leaving the States, and she has sold 9.4 million singles worldwide this era. Bye.

Rihanna, then Katy.

Umm dont play yourself, Bleeding Love is a bigger hit than Rolling In The Deep ever will be. And her debut sold 7-8 million which was a nice amount considering she found fame on a talent show.

Britney isn't flopping worldwide at all and Criminal has already started smashing worldwide and it has only just been released

All four are already irrelevant.

That would have made no sense.

Bleeding Love... the bigger hit?



Show me the receipts.

That's what they always say yet britney still manages to stick to around.

Shakira is not irrelevant, she is like the 3rd most liked on facebook.

Alicia keys does not have an album out, does not mean she is irrelevant

Gurl, hush.

More like 6. But I agree about "Bleeding Love," it was massive, much bigger than "Rolling In The Deep."

Seriously? Bleeding Love and RITD were both absolutely huge, about equal on the smash scale, but let's not forget about the fact that Leona Lewis barely managed to keep interest going long enough for her second single to do decently, while SLY and SFTTR are worldwide hits and Adele manages to pull BOMT album sales in a Teenage Dream-era of music.