charts discussion CSPC: Top 10 Female Eras from each decade (1980s-2020s)

[alestevens]

1980s:
#9 Madonna - Like A Virgin
#11 Madonna - True Blue
#19 Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston
#22 Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
#23 Whitney Houston - Whitney
#27 Madonna - Like A Prayer
#30 Barbra Streisand - Guilty
#35 Sade - Diamond Life
#37 Enya - Watermark
#43 Madonna - Madonna

 

 

#48 Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation 1814

#56 Janet Jackson - Control
#57 Sade - Promise
#69 Cher - Heart Of Stone

 

1990s:
#2 Whitney Houston - The Bodyguard
#4 Celine Dion - Lets Talk About Love
#6 Shania Twain - Come On Over
#7 Celine Dion - Falling Into You
#8 Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
#10 Mariah Carey - Music Box
#12 Britney Spears - Baby One More Time
#14 Mariah Carey - Daydream
#17 Spice Girls - Spice
#30 Celine Dion - The Colour Of My Love

 

 

#34 Madonna - Ray Of Light

#37 Mariah Carey - Mariah Carey
#38 Cher - Believe
#39 Destiny's Child - The Writing's On The Wall
#40 TLC - CrazySexyCool
#41 Mariah Carey - Merry Christmas
#42 Janet Jackson - Janet.
#43 Enya - Shepherd Moons
#46 Shania Twain - The Woman In Me
#48 Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill
#49 Christina Aguilera - Christina Aguilera
#51 Spice Girls - Spiceworld
#53 Dido - No Angel
#55 Sade - Love Deluxe
#56 Whitney Houston - My Love Is Your Love
#58 Celine Dion - These Are Special Times
#63 TLC - FanMail
#65 Mariah Carey - Butterfly
#67 Mariah Carey - Emotions
#69 Enya - The Memory Of Trees
#70 Celine Dion - D'Eux
#71 Madonna - I'm Breathless
#72 Ayumi Hamasaki - Loveppears
#73 Jennifer Lopez - On The 6
#74 Whitney Houston - I'm Your Baby Tonight
#75 Madonna - Bedtime Stories

 

2000s:
#1 Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster
#5 Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
#6 Britney Spears - Oops I Did It Again
#7 Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
#10 Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad
#14 Taylor Swift - Fearless
#16 Avril Lavigne - Let Go
#18 Beyoncé - I Am... Sasha Fierce
#23 Beyoncé - Dangerously In Love
#25 Shakira - Laundry Service

 

 

#26 P!nk - M!ssundaztood

#27 Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway
#30 Enya - A Day Without Rain
#34 Destiny's Child - Survivor
#35 Alicia Keys - Songs In A Minor
#37 Adele - 19
#40 Beyoncé - B'Day
#41 Madonna - Music
#42 P!nk - Funhouse
#44 Shania Twain - Up!
#46 Britney Spears - Britney
#47 Fergie - The Dutchess
#48 Christina Aguilera - Stripped
#49 Madonna - Confessions On A Dancefloor
#50 Britney Spears - In The Zone
#55 Norah Jones - Feels Like Home
#56 Jennifer Lopez - J.Lo
#61 Carrie Underwood - Some Hearts
#63 Dido - Life For Rent
#64 Gwen Stefani - Love. Angel. Music. Baby
#66 Alicia Keys - The Diary Of Alicia Keys
#67 Celine Dion - A New Day Has Come
#69 Katy Perry - One Of The Boys
#70 Ayumi Hamasaki - I Am?
#71 P!nk - Im Not Dead
#72 Kylie Minogue - Fever
#73 Mariah Carey - The Emancipation Of Mimi
#75 Taylor Swift - Taylor Swift

 

2010s:
#1 Adele - 21
#2 Adele - 25
#6 Taylor Swift - 1989
#7 Katy Perry - Teenage Dream
#11 Taylor Swift - Red
#17 Rihanna - Loud
#18 Lana Del Rey - Born To Die
#19 Dua Lipa - Dua Lipa
#20 Billie Eilish - WWAFAWDWG
#27 Lady Gaga - Born This Way

 

 

#29 Katy Perry - PRISM

#30 Ariana Grande - My Everything
#36 Taylor Swift - Speak Now
#37 P!nk - The Truth About Love
#41 Rihanna - Unapologetic
#44 Rihanna - Talk That Talk
#45 Billie Eilish - Dont Smile At Me
#50 Taylor Swift - reputation
#59 Lorde - Pure Heroine
#61 Beyoncé - 4
#62 Rihanna - ANTi
#64 Beyoncé - Beyoncé
#65 Taylor Swift - Lover
#67 Lady Gaga - A Star Is Born
#69 Ariana Grande - thank u, next
#75 Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman

 

2020s:
#1 Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
#5 Olivia Rodrigo - Sour
#9 Taylor Swift - Folklore
#10 BLACKPINK - The Album
#12 Doja Cat - Planet Her
#14 Adele - 30
#18 Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever
#20 Ariana Grande - positions
#23 Halsey - Manic
#24 Taylor Swift - evermore

 

 

#25 Ava Max - Heaven And Hell

#26 Karol G - KG0516
#27 Tones And I - Welcome To The Madhouse
#36 Lady Gaga - Chromatica
#47 Selena Gomez - Rare
#61 Miley Cyrus - Plastic Hearts
#68 Katy Perry - Smile

 

TOTAL ENTRIES ON THE TOP 10 FEMALE ERAS OF EACH DECADE END CHARTS:
5 - Taylor Swift (2000s: 1; 2010s: 2; 2020s: 2)
4 - Madonna (1980s: 4)
3 - Adele (2010s: 2; 2020s: 1)
3 - Celine Dion (1990s: 3)
3 - Whitney Houston (1980s: 2; 1990s: 1)
2 - Beyoncé (2000s: 2)
2 - Billie Eilish (2010s: 1; 2020s: 1)
2 - Britney Spears (1990s: 1; 2000s: 1)

2 - Dua Lipa (2010s: 1; 2020s: 1)
2 - Lady Gaga (2000s: 1; 2010s: 1)
2 - Mariah Carey (1990s: 2)
2 - Rihanna (2000s: 1; 2010s 1)

 

Source: https://chartmasters.org/2017/10/best-selling-artists-albums-and-singles-of-all-time/11/

Edited September 20, 2022 by alestevens

[PopKills]

No Loose no accuracy 

[idkwiam]

Taylor's consistency is something else. Midnights will probably be bigger than Folklore (maybe Folklore will re-surpass it in the long run).

[Dingdong123]

Source? I’m surprised how Back to Black is so high, and EOM and Breakaway are not higher than Bey and Shak’s records?!

[badgirlriri]

Billie

[HeWolf]

Where is Shakira in the 2010s?

[Solaria]

Dua  when all is said and done FN will likely still be top 5 biggest female albums of the 2020s 

[nathanspears]

Taylor wow

 

[lcylcy]

4>anti 

[Taylena]

Quote

1990s:
#17 Spice Girls - Spice

 

2020s:
#10 BLACKPINK - The Album

 

BLACKPINK the biggest group since the Spice Girls. 

[SwiftLover]

Globalore 

 

Blackpink 

 

the main girls are winning 

[UnusualBoy]

Planet Her above 30? Wasn’t PH around 3 million while 30 is way past the 5 million mark?

[Aethereal]

Born to Die being 7th in 2010s. Deserved even more.

[Aspookykid]

1 hour ago, alestevens said:

2010s:
#1 Adele - 21
#2 Adele - 25

The slayage 

[istan4badgalriri]

1 hour ago, lcylcy said:

4>anti 

Anti will surpass 4 by the end of this year though

 

4 - 9,466,000 (+0.9K daily)

Anti - 9,366,000 (+2.9K daily)

[Hot Volcano]

13 minutes ago, istan4badgalriri said:

Anti will surpass 4 by the end of this year though

 

4 - 9,466,000 (+0.9K daily)

Anti - 9,366,000 (+2.9K daily)

A mess at one of Rih's biggest album having less points than Bey's "flop" album

 

 

Gaga appearing in 00s and 10s

[Scars]

2 hours ago, PopKills said:

No Loose no accuracy 

This list only includes albums from artists studied by Chartmasters - which isn't the case for Nelly. They estimated it's pure sales at 7,3M though (here).

[MingYouToo]

Taylor being from the 2000s, 2010s and now dominating the 2020s

[LosingHimWasBlue]

As usual, they always combined two albums into 1 

you know what i mean 

 

Taylor, her consistency in 3 decade 

not being One Hit era wonder

[Zaram]

4 minutes ago, LosingHimWasBlue said:

As usual, they always combined two albums into 1 

you know what i mean 

 

Taylor, her consistency in 3 decade 

not being One Hit era wonder

Be happy or you would see that one album appear twice on that list

[lcylcy]

1 hour ago, istan4badgalriri said:

Anti will surpass 4 by the end of this year though

 

4 - 9,466,000 (+0.9K daily)

Anti - 9,366,000 (+2.9K daily)

congrats on surpassing that flop album in only 6 years

[brenda-walsh]

4 hours ago, Dingdong123 said:

Source? I’m surprised how Back to Black is so high, and EOM and Breakaway are not higher than Bey and Shak’s records?!

Back to Black was a massive era and IASF is easily bigger than any kelly clarkson record. breakaway is probably close to DIL and Laundry Service tho

[lcylcy]

1 hour ago, Fnooky said:

 

 

The lack of self awareness.  

 

According to CM, Bey’s 4 moved more units than Gaga’s last 6 projects and only the collaborative soundtrack with solos from other artists has a chance to ever surpass 4.

 

None of Gaga’s studio albums even come close. They struggle to cross the five million mark, let alone 4’s nine million units.

 

ASIB w Bradley - 9.1m

Artpop - 4.5m

Joanne - 3.2m

Chromatica - 3.2m

Cheek To Cheek w Tony - 1.7m

Love For Sale w Tony - <1m

 

I don’t remember mentioning Gaga?

I said 4>Anti

Which part exactly did you miss?

 

[TROJAN]

#1. The Fame Monster

#27. Born This Way

[Hot Volcano]

4 hours ago, Fnooky said:

 

 

The lack of self awareness.  

 

According to CM, Bey’s 4 moved more units than Gaga’s last 6 projects and only the collaborative soundtrack with solos from other artists has a chance to ever surpass 4.

 

None of Gaga’s studio albums even come close. They struggle to cross the five million mark, let alone 4’s nine million units.

 

ASIB w Bradley - 9.1m

Artpop - 4.5m

Joanne - 3.2m

Chromatica - 3.2m

Cheek To Cheek w Tony - 1.7m

Love For Sale w Tony - <1m

 

What does Gaga have to do with anything

 

The insecurity jumped out, had to deflect to the first topic you thought about, and ofc, as always, it was Lady Gaga

 

Also, since you brought up Gagz, her numbers havent been updated in nearly 2 years unlike Bey's which were updated 2 months ago