Well the list is already ridiculous. I mean, Justin Beiber and Austin Mahone over Bob Dylan, James Brown, and Nat King Cole? Ch....a Britney Jean mess.
Bruno Mars
Calvin Harris
Chris Brown
David Bowie
David Guetta
Drake
Eminem
Frank Ocean
Jay Z
Justin Timberlake
Kanye West
Kendrick Lamar
Marvin Gaye
Michael Jackson
Phil Collins
Prince
Stevie Wonder
Tupac
Usher
These must've all made it right? That's 19. Trying to think of the last one..
Ed Sheeran?
Sam Smith?
Stromae?
will.i.am?
James Blunt?
Skrillex?
Miguel?
Sting?
Seal?
Flo Rida?
Luther Vandross?
Barry White?
Bruno Mars
Calvin Harris
Chris Brown
David Bowie
David Guetta
Drake
Eminem
Frank Ocean
Jay Z
Justin Timberlake
Kanye West
Kendrick Lamar
Marvin Gaye
Michael Jackson
Phil Collins
Prince
Stevie Wonder
Tupac
Usher
I feel like I'm almost sure Marvin Gaye, Prince, David Bowie, and David Guetta didn't make Top 20.
Stevie Wonder is a stage name of Stevland Hardaway Morris (b. Stevland Hardaway Judkins, 13 May 1950 in Saginaw, MI, USA - aka Little Stevie Wonder), a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist. He débuted, as Little Stevie Wonder, with the single “I Call It Pretty Music, But The Old People Call It The Blues” (1961, Tamla Motown) and his latest album is “A Time 2 Love” (Oct 2005, Motown)
Stevland he lost his sight shortly after birth and, when four, his mother left his father and moved, with the children, to Detroit. She changed her name back to Lula Hardaway and later changed her son’s surname to Morris - partly, because of relatives - which has remained Stevie Wonder’s legal name, ever since.
Wonder signed with Motown’s Tamla label at the age of eleven, and continues to perform and record for Motown to this day. To date, he has recorded more than thirty U.S. top ten hits and received twenty-two Grammy Awards, the most ever awarded to a male solo artist. In 2008, Billboard magazine placed Wonder fifth in their list of the Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists. He has recorded several critically acclaimed albums and hit singles, and writes and produces songs for many of his labelmates and outside artists. A multi-instrumentalist, Wonder plays the drums, guitar, synthesisers, congas, and most famously the piano, harmonica, and keyboards.
Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. (2 April 1939 - 1 April 1984) was an American soul and rnb singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist, known as “The Prince of Soul”, or “The Prince of Motown.” Originally a member of the doo-wop group The Moonglows, he pursued a solo career after the group disbanded and released many successful solo hits including “I Heard It Through the Grapevine”, “Let’s Get It On” and “What’s Going On”. His best albums are still held in extremely high regard, and he is often cited as one of the finest singers of his era.
Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. was born in 1939 to Marvin Gay, Sr. and Alberta Gay in Washington, D.C… Gaye began his career in Motown in 1958, and soon became Motown’s top solo male artist. He scored numerous hits during the 1960s, among them “Ain’t That Peculiar”, “Stubborn Kind Of Fellow”, and “How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)”, as well as several hit duets with Tammi Terrell, including “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”” and “You’re All I Need To Get By”, before moving on to his own form of musical self-expression.
Along with Stevie Wonder, Gaye is notable for fighting the hit-making—but creatively restrictive—Motown record-making process, in which performers, songwriters and record producers were generally kept in separate camps. Gaye forced Motown to release his 1971 album What’s Going On, which is today hailed as one of the best albums of all time.
Miguel Jontel Pimentel (born October 23,1986 in San Pedro, Los Angeles, CA, United States) is a Grammy award-winning American R&B singer-songwriter signed to Jive Records. After working on albums by Usher, Musiq Soulchild, Jaheim and Asher Roth Miguel released his debut mixtape Mischief: The Mixtape in the summer of 2006. His debut studio album, All I Want Is You, was released in November 2010 and features the top ten hit All I Want Is You featuring J. Cole. Throughout October 2010, Miguel toured with singers Mary J. Blige and Jazmine Sullivan, as well as supporting Usher and Trey Songz on the OMG Tour from November to December. He received a 2011 Grammy Award nomination for his work on Jaheim’s single Finding My Way Back. The Adorn Songfacts reports that “Adorn,” the first single from Miguel’s second album Kaleidoscope Dream, was released on July 27, 2012. It was originally included on his Art Dealer Chic: Vol 1 mixtape and won a Grammy in February 2013 for Best R&B song. The song is also Miguel’s most successful to date peaking at 17 on the Hot 100 and at number 1 on Billboard’s Hip-Hop and R&B Chart.
Miguel worked with a local production duo Drop Squad in 2000, before being signed with independent record label Black Ice in 2004. He signed with Jive in 2007.