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Beyonce: The most successful Female of our generation in US?
So...since the late 90s or so till now is Beyonce the most successful female in the US? Her only other real competition is Brit or Alicia. So here are a few of her achievements (BTW all of them are solo expect listed):
RIAA (Recording Industry Association Of America):
- Most certified artist of the 00s
- Most Master Ringtones certifications of the 00s
VH1′s 100 Greatest Women In Music :
05. Adele
04. Lady Gaga
03. Beyoncé
02. Mariah Carey
01. Madonna
Billboard awards:
- Billboard Millennnium Award
- Billboard's Female artist of the 00s (with 3 albums!)
- Billboard Radio artist of the 00s
DVDs:
- Live At Wembley: 297,000 3X PLATINUM
- B'day Anthology Video Album: 302,000 3X PLATINUM
- The Beyoncé Experience Live: 447,446 4X PLATINUM + GOLD
- I am...Yours 163,000: 2X PLATINUM
- I am...World Tour 211,865: 2X PLATINUM
- Live at Roseland 129,928: GOLD & PLATINUM
Albums:
- Dangerously In Love: 4.8 million
- B'Day: 3.3 million
- I Am...Sasha Fierce: 3 million
- 4: 1.25 million
Top 5 best selling singles (Including MasterTones):
1. Irreplaceable: 6 million
2. Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It): 5.9 million
3. Halo: 3.5 million
4. If I Were A Boy: 3.2 million
5. Crazy In Love: 2.3-2.5 million (released back in 2003)
Other Records/Achievements:
- Female artist who has spent the most weeks at No. 1 this decade (37 wks).
- Female artist with the most Top 5 hits of the decade.
- Female artist with the most Top 10 hits of the decade.
- Female artist with the most Top 40 hits of the decade.
- Highest paid black actress in the history of cinema.
- Only artist in history to have all her studio albums début at the number one spot in the Billboard 200.
- Female artist with the most Grammy awards won on a single night with six.
- First and only female artist to have 9 singles in the UK Top 75 off one album.
- “I am…Sasha Fierce” is the album with the most entries on the Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop chart this decade with 7.
- “I am…Sasha Fierce” holds the record for the most #1 Dance singles off one album with 6.
- First African-American female and second overall female to win the “Songwriter of the Year” award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers Pop Music Awards (2001).
- First and only woman to have a single and album simultaneously topping the main charts in both the U.S. and the UK (2003).
- 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).
- First non-athlete, non-model to appear on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and the second African-American (the first being Tyra Banks) to do so (2007).
- “Irreplaceable” is the first song to top twelve Billboard charts simultaneously (December 30, 2006).
- 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 and win a Grammy Awards in the same week twice (”Check on It” and “Irreplaceable”, consecutively).
- Is the singer with the biggest film début ever with Austin Powers in Goldmember when it grossed $213,307,889 in America alone.
- Most number-ones by lead female artist this decade ( “Crazy In Love” , “Baby Boy” ,”Check on It” , “Irreplaceable” & “Single Ladies”).
- First Female to ever be awarded the International Artist Award at the American Music Awards.
Destiny’s Child is the biggest selling female group of all time.
- “Single Ladies” the most viewed video by female artist ever with over 520 million views.
- The most MTV nominations for a single video ever ny a black artist (“Single Ladies” with 9) – second overall after Bad Romance with 10.
- Black female artist with the most magazine covers ever (over 300).
- First black female artist to top the 4 million mark.
- Female artist with the most Grammy nominations ever with 41.
- “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)” is the first (non-rap) R&B hit to top the 4 million mark in paid downloads.
- “Independent Women” is the longest-running song by a female group ever.
IF YOU ARE VOTING FOR SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY AND USE RECEIPTS! 
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Those voting Brit please explain yourself as to why you voted for her, as well as for those who voted for someone else.