May 19, 20178 yr Gabrielle = She's had some great stuff back in the day and still enjoy listening to her greatest hits from time to time 'Dreams', 'Going Nowhere', 'Give Me A Little More Time', 'Sunshine', 'Rise', 'When A Woman' & 'Out Of Reach' are to name a few, such an amazing singer whose had a great career, shame we don't hear from her anymore. Tina Turner = Another fantastic singer with an amazing voice and really enjoyed 'What's Love Got To Do With It' the movie about her life and always admired her strength and how she pulled herself through and made one of the most successful comebacks in music history and really showed that you don't have to be 20 something to get big hits, those were the days. 'Private Dancer', 'The Best', 'What's Love Got To Do With It', 'Steamy Windows' & 'Typical Male', all fantastic.
May 19, 20178 yr Random post but definitely think some of my personal 00's favourites have missed out now. Dido :cry:
May 20, 20178 yr Author 26. KIM WILDE (3,293,000) 30 HITS 1981-1996 BIGGEST HIT: KIDS IN AMERICA Her debut hit remains her biggest but oddly Wilde remains one of the highest females on this list never to hit the top of our charts. Odder still that she went to No 1 in the US, but as the daughter of 60s pop star Marty Wilde she was the 4th best selling female act of the 80s with eight top 10 singles, her highest peaking tracks both made No 2 held off by Shakin Stevens in 1981 and Berlin in 1986. Discography abbU-o8GXh8 Personal highlight kR1Y9NVWkHQ
May 20, 20178 yr Author 25. AMY WINEHOUSE (3,446,000) 14 HITS 2003-2011 BIGGEST HIT: VALERIE Her death at age 27 ensured that Winehouse’s reputation as cultural icon would remain for some time to come. Of course shortly after “Back To Black” was released she became equally famous for her erratic personal life and her battles with drink and drugs which all played out in the public eye. The sales and the hits continued to accrue and of course post death she has continued to sell healthy amounts of her back catalogue. Discography Tf3auC8TAck Personal highlight TJAfLE39ZZ8
May 20, 20178 yr Author 24. CHERYL COLE (3,483,000) 8 HITS 2008-2012 BIGGEST HIT: FIGHT FOR THIS LOVE After shifting over 3 million singles with Girls Aloud, Cole went solo with a feature on Will.i.am’s “Heartbreaker” before going fully solo with “Fight For This Love”. Helped by her judge status on “X Factor” (then at its height really) it was a golden time for her when she became the “Nation’s sweetheart” apparently and sold a million singles in both 2009 and 2010 while the tabloids filled with her failed marriage to Ashley Cole and various dalliances since. Still you can’t argue with a million seller. Discography RIP7u_nC7jI Personal Highlight qr1bkbWKevE
May 20, 20178 yr Cheryl, for all the criticism she gets, has always done safe, on-trend pop pretty well with few missteps. Not many ex-group members have that kind of consistency. (with certain very obvious exceptions, but then they were top-tier from the off)
May 20, 20178 yr Fight For This Love, Parachute, Promise This, Call My Name, Under The Sun and Crazy Stupid Love are all darn fine pop records. Cheryl's got her limitations as a singer, yes, but she's a hell of a performer and with such consistent output (though never reaching Girls Aloud's heights in my view) it's no surprise she turned into such a successful solo act.
May 20, 20178 yr Be interesting to see how Cheryl fairs when she comes back with new music in the streaming age.
May 20, 20178 yr I can't really see radio eating up a new Cheryl single. She'll never get a hit ever again.
May 20, 20178 yr I can't really see radio eating up a new Cheryl single. She'll never get a hit ever again. She's a mom now.
May 20, 20178 yr I can't really see radio eating up a new Cheryl single. She'll never get a hit ever again. I actually think she'll get the usual support from Radio 1 and Capital when she returns, but if the song isn't up to scratch then I can see them dropping her pretty quickly. She is still a big name draw and there will be 'hype' around her return as it will be her first release since becoming a mum, which the media will of course run with.
May 20, 20178 yr I suppose Liam Payne fans will buy it too It will have some connection to him I bet, he will either write it, be featured on it or it be about him. Cheryl's career is about selling not about a passion for making music.
May 21, 20178 yr Author 23. ALICIA KEYS (3,647,000) 17 HITS 2001-2012 BIGGEST HIT: EMPIRE STATE OF MIND Always a bigger star in the US than she has been here (Her first single “Fallin” spent 6 weeks at No 1 there, making No 3 here), and whilst she had a middling career here until 08 until her duet with Jack White on “Another Way To Die” commenced her most consistently successful period. She scored 6 top 10 singles on the trot and a million selling album as the UK finally seemed to “get” her. Discogaphy quZ2pkhqY6k personal highlight srMBZiqNMaM
May 21, 20178 yr Author 22. ELLIE GOULDING (3,869,000) 13 HITS 2009-2013 BIGGEST HIT: BURN Another “Sound Of” winner who’s earned her accolade, surely Goulding will be up there with the best sellers of the decade in a few years’ time. In her first 4 years she’d scored eight top 20 hits, though only “Burn” had gone all the way, got the gig of performing the John Lewis advert song and performed the first dance at the royal wedding of Kate and William. Discography _XPaU6kYPcs Personal highlight rNpBahr49mA
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