Miley Cyrus :(

Nice to see Tina Turner rise alot this year, although she should still be at LEAST top 50!

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57= NE Diana Ross 136

57= NE Aaliyah 136

59= NE Selena Gomez 135

59= 75 Paloma Faith 135

61 53 Little Boots 133

 

Diana Ross enters at #57. Not a massive fan of her but I respect and recognise her contribution to the music scene since the 1960s. I do feel that Michael Jackson tried to model his 'new face' after her if I'm honest. I've seen a few of her old single covers and the resemblence is uncanny. From beyond the grave Aaliyah proves that she still holds a place in our hearts. It was just a shame that her career didn't really take off until after her death.

 

We have another tie just below the two ladies concerning Selena Gomez and Paloma Faith. Selena Gomez not really my cup of tea. A random UK top 10 hit with 'Naturally' last year and a slew of albums released since then, coupled with a high profile romance with the dreaded Justin Bieber and you wonder what the hell Disney feeds these teenagers (I'm thinking grinded up Mary Poppins ovaries but hmmm-ho). Love Paloma Faith and Little Boots. Their debut albums were both patchy in places but decent enough for the genres they represented. I wouldn't class either as amongst the best female artists of all time though (nor Gomez for that matter). I do, however, await to see if they can avoid the dreaded sophomore slump.

 

 

What is it about Gooddelta and his token flop star coming last in these things? :lol: Last year, Vanessa Amorossi, this year Agnes :heehee: I also think you're the only one who gave both of them points.

 

:lol:

 

I think it's because in the UK they're both basically one hit wonders, Vanessa barely even that. Whereas I'm a follower of their wider international careers and have been for a few years so am voting on the basis of quite a few albums worth of material as opposed to just Absolutely Everybody/Release Me.

LOL Aaliyah was huge before her death. Both of her first two albums were multi-platinum hits. In the UK she didn't score a #01 until she was dead but I think that was because she hadn't got around to releasing More Than A Woman here whilst she was still alive. It was her big crossover hit for countries like the UK who weren't huge on R&B.

Selena should be higher -_-

In my head I meant that she didn't get a #1 until after her death :P It's confuzzling doing dissertation and female countdowns :(

I really dislike Paloma Faith.

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52 69 Alison Goldfrapp 149

53 31 Amy Winehouse 147

54 42 Carrie Underwood 143

55 74 Brandy 142

56 38 Taylor Swift 138

 

It's rather creepy that the next batch of females contains Amy Winehouse (R.I.P). Quite a tumble from last year, despite making one of the best albums of recent times in 'Back To Black'. I'm even willing to let the monstrotity that was 'Valerie' slide.

 

Carrie Underwood has her legion of fans on BJ despite never releasing any material here. The American Idol winner is a huge selling star in her homeland, with her album sales topping even Kelly Clarkson's. Brandy and Taylor Swift round off this load - Brandy had some great material back in 1998, but I sort of lost interest after that. I still think she's very underrated in the UK anyway. Taylor Swift. Well, I'd rather not say anything tbh. She exceeds the definition of BLAND PERSONALITY and her music just fails to captivate me. She's America's sweetheart but I find her difficult to tolerate. Kudos also to Alison Goldfrapp for the raspy, soothing and emotional gem that was 'A&E'. Goldfrapp have been releasing music for over a decade and had their main breakthrough with album 'Supernature' in 2005, which ironically was their poorest album in my opinion until last year's 'Head First'.

 

R.I.P Amy, i was just thinking where would she come in this, really low. If it was voting after I bet she'd be top 10.

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47 48 Ciara 176

48 NE Janelle Monae 171

49= 41 Shania Twain 162

49= 20 Anastacia 162

51 63 Marina Diamondis 161

 

 

I never liked Ciara. She had a fairly successful era in 2005 with chart topper 'Goodies' and it's two follow up hits both reaching the UK top 5. She even had a small comeback in 2009 when she teamed up with Justin Timberlake on 'Love, Sex, Magic'. I found her to be just another RnB female really with nothing to make her stand out but I'm sure others (probably Jark :heehee:) will have something to say about that comment. Less we forget of course the old tired rumours that Ciara had man parts? Really, who comes up with such shit?

 

I had to Wikipedia Janelle Monae as she is the only artist in the countdown I had never heard of before. She was apparently discovered by Big Boi of Outcast fame and good old P Diddy and has just started to gain more commericial recognition in the US with her 2010 release 'The ArchAndroid (Suites II and III)' which reached #17 and also earned the singer a Grammy nomination. I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of the record when I skipped through. 'Tightrope' in particular is a stand out track.

 

Shania Twain will be forever be remembered as the woman who released 'Come On Over'. The '21' of the last couple of years of the 1990s. Spawning the mammoth hit 'That Don't Impress Me Much' with its now iconic video and 'Man I Feel Like A Woman', which played on the idea of role reversal between the sexes, taking the idea as far as to recreate Robert Palmer's 'Addicted To Love' video with women in charge. Feminist scholars got wet at the campness of it all.

 

Anastacia plummets out of the top 20 which is pretty expected considering she hasn't been relevant for about 7 years now. I was listening to her 'Anastacia' album the other day and it really hasn't stood the test of time at all :( Anastacia is one of FIVE artists to have fallen out of last year's top 20.

 

Finally we have Marina Diamandis of Marina & The Diamonds fame. I was underwhelmed by their debut album released last year and don't expect to see their career lasting much after that dreaded second record.

 

ANASTACIA beat Carrie Underwood? :(

Very surprised that Brandy has climbed so much given how inactive she's been since she UNLEASHED Right Here and the Human album over two years ago now.

 

Shania should quite obviously be higher. The woman's a bloody legend. Everything a popstar should be - she has the PERSONALITY and the SONGS. Anastacia would ideally be much higher too although obviously she's been tainted by Heavy Rotation.

 

Seeing that ridiculously obnoxious Marina cow this high kind of makes my blood boil. What a clueless bitch.

 

Seeing that ridiculously obnoxious Marina cow this high kind of makes my blood boil. What a clueless bitch.

 

 

 

JUST A BIT HARSH.

 

 

Marina is great. Anyone with two brain cells can see she's musically far more interesting than most of the drivel that surround her in this chart.

 

I mean, Anastasia - :lol:

Anastacia (how hard is it to spell a name that's written correctly in the post above yours?) recorded one of the greatest albums of the last decade without any shadow of a doubt. What has Marina done? Pranced around in tacky videos like some awful pop art era throwback pastiche novelty singer? Ergh she's awful. And her twitter meltdown a few months ago was beyond embarrassing.

You can easily tell when somebody is trying too hard to be different. Marina reeks of such. I was really interested in hearing her material but it just sort of went downhill from there :lol:

Anywhowoos

 

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42= 21 Natasha Bedingfield 182

42= 37 Whitney Houston 182

42= 52 Delta Goodrem 182

45 46 Beverley Knight 179

46 32 Alanis Morissette 177

 

Delta Goodrem was one of the first singers I ever grew attached to back in 2003. She's one of an endless slew of singers to make their name from Australian soap opera Neighbours and according to someone I met a few weeks back from good ol' Oz, she's every bit the 'sweetheart' to the people down under as Cheryl Cole (well formerly was) to us Brits. That said, her first two albums were exceptional, especially 2004's 'Mistaken Identity' which took the piano driven, romantic, sugary ballads of her record shattering debut to darker territories. Naturally, a highly publicised relationship with former Westlife douche Brian McFadden, a disappointing third album and the fourth record which has yet to materialised have sort of ruined her once beautiful appeal to me. That and the fact she's blatantly getting banged by a Jonas Brother :/ WTF Delta seriously?

 

Natasha Bedingfield is another artist who could've had it all. Basking in her massively successful 'Unwritten' era in 2004, she had to ruin it by deserting us for the US and releasing a second album that was beyond BLAND. Many would disagree with me as I remember arguing with Aly about the quality of 'NB' at the time. She's still trying to get her name out there though as evident by new material which surfaced last year and a recent collaboration with pop-rock outfit Simple Plan. Only Australia took note of the lyrical hot mess that was 'Jet Lag' though. I implore you look it up :heehee:

 

Whitney Houston, the drug dealer of the pop world. What can I say? She had a smashing run of hits in the 80s and 90s but since then has been a cautionary tale as to why drugs can ruin your career faster than Abi Titmus at a Bachelor party. Beverley Knight has been plodding away since the mid 90s trying to gain some level of massive success. I'm not a fan myself but she is one of the most consistant female singers out there and surely as they say - every dog has their day? Beverley's should be about 2038 at this rate.

 

Alanis Morissette may have lost her angsty spark on subsequent albums but 'Jagged Little Pill' remains my favourite album of all time. There is not a bad track on the CD and anybody who can make a Black Eyed Peas song listenable surely deserves a trophy right?

 

Over all the best group to crop up so far and all worthy of top 40 in my opinion. Shame on you Buzzjack!

 

42-100

 

 

42= 21 Natasha Bedingfield 182

42= 37 Whitney Houston 182

42= 52 Delta Goodrem 182

45 46 Beverley Knight 179

46 32 Alanis Morissette 177

47 48 Ciara 176

48 NE Janelle Monae 171

49= 41 Shania Twain 162

49= 20 Anastacia 162

 

51 63 Marina Diamondis 161

52 69 Alison Goldfrapp 149

53 31 Amy Winehouse 147

54 42 Carrie Underwood 143

55 74 Brandy 142

56 38 Taylor Swift 138

57= NE Diana Ross 136

57= NE Aaliyah 136

59= NE Selena Gomez 135

59= 75 Paloma Faith 135

 

 

61 53 Little Boots 133

62 25 Hayley Williams 132

63 58 Bat For Lashes 131

64 96 Tina Turner 130

65 91 Gabrielle 125

66 NE Nerina Pallot 121

67 68 Keri Hilson 118

68 34 Miley Cyrus 117

69 45 Jordin Sparks 116

70 57 Shirley Manson 112

 

71 NE Barbra Streisand 106

72= 60 Annie Lennox 103

72= NE Alexis Jordan 103

74 90 Alesha Dixon 102

75 67 Gabriella Cilmi 100

76 86 Lykke Li 99

77 65 Jennifer Hudson 96

78 NE PJ Harvey 92

79 27 Cheryl Cole 90

80 NE JoJo 89

 

81 NE Jamelia 86

82 78 Santigold 80

83 71 Dusty Springfield 74

84 NE Inna 73

85 NE Nadine Coyle 72

86 NE Natalie Horler 70

87= NE Mutya Buena 68

87= NE Katy B 68

89 92 Beth Gibbons 64

90 71 Mary J Blige 63

 

91 NE Laura Marling 59

92 NE Wynter Gordon 56

93 96 Colbie Caillat 53

94 79 Sheryl Crow 47

95 NE Christina Milian 40

96 NE Natalia Kills 37

97 NE Alison Moyet 36

98 NE Cassie 30

99 NE Shingai Shoniwa 25

100 NE Shontelle 16

101 NE Agnes 11

 

I personally feel Natasha's debut is exceptionally dated and aside from the four singles and Frogs & Princes it really has nothing interesting to offer. It's definitely the weak link in her back cat for me. The 2.5 albums which followed were much better and all varying shades of great. Shame she couldn't make the top 30 of this countdown.

 

Delta hasn't done too badly to say she's not released anything in two years but again I disagree (although I'm in the minority here) - her third album is my favourite by far. I found the first one bland and typical of the uber-dull 'singer songwriter' craze of the early 00s and the second just a bit joyless.