LEGENDARY Pop Girl Longevity Status

Singles and album represent the beginning and end of their mainstream chart success regardless of peaks in-between.

ALL LISTED WOMEN HAD MULTIPLE HIT ALBUMS/SINGLES

 

• Teens
  • Cher (Bang Bang, My Baby Shot You Down #2)
  • Janet Jackson (Control 5x platinum; When I Think Of You #1)

 

• 20s
  • Cher
  • Madonna (Madonna 5x platinum; Lucky Star #4)
  • Whitney Houston (Whitney Houston 14x platinum; How Will I Know #1; Greatest Love Of All #1; Saving All My Love For You #1
  • Mariah Carey (Mariah Carey 9x platinum; Love Takes Time #1; Someday #1; I Dont Wanna Cry #1; Vision Of Love #1)
  • Celine Dion (Unison 7x Platinum [Canada]; Where Does My Heart Beat Now #6)
  • Beyonce (Dangerously In Love 6x platinum; Crazy In Love #1, Baby Boy #1)

 

• 30s
  • Cher
  • Tina Turner (Proud Mary #4)
  • Madonna
  • Whitney Houston (The Star Spangled Banner #6)
  • Janet Jackson (Someone To Call My Lover #3)
  • Celine Dion (Taking Chances #9 [Canada]) 

 

• 40s
  • Cher
  • Tina Turner 
  • Madonna
  • Beyonce (RENAISSANCE 2x platinum; Break My Soul #1) and counting....

 

• 50s
  • Cher (Believe 4x platinum; Believe #1)
  • Tina Turner (Foreign Affair 5x platinum; The Best #5 [UK])
  • Madonna (MDNA 2x platinum; 4 Minutes #3)
  • Mariah Carey (AIWFCIY #1)

 

• 60s
  • ???

Edited October 23, 20232 yr by satellites.™

Mariah was in her 50s when AIWFCIY went #1

8 minutes ago, suburbannature said:

Mariah was in her 50s when AIWFCIY went #1

updated

I don't get this list at all 

15 minutes ago, satellites.™ said:

• 60s

• ???

 

Barbra Streisand. 
 

• Love Is The Answer - 9th #1 BB200 album (2009). 

• Partners - 10th #1 BB200 album (2014).

 

She was 66 and 71 years old. 

 

2 minutes ago, John Slayne said:

I don't get this list at all 

Yeah. 

 

Edited October 23, 20232 yr by GoodGuyGoneGhetto

I don't understand this  

Edited October 23, 20232 yr by FolkLover1989

Aretha, Janet, Kylie, Shakira, Taylor?

15 minutes ago, John Slayne said:

I don't get this list at all 

First and most recent hits by age, I believe.

Edited October 23, 20232 yr by suburbannature

Control was not Janet's debut album

 

EDIT: I see the clock starts when they "break through" nvm

The stroke I had trying to decipher this post 

 

 

 

 

 

 

23 minutes ago, suburbannature said:

First and most recent hits by age, I believe.

Like.. whats not clicking.

Female artists who hit #1 after 40

 

Sia - Cheap Thrills (40)

Beyoncé - Break My Soul (41)

Madonna - Music (42)

Bette Midler - Wind Beneath My Wings (43)

Tina Turner - What's Love... (44)

Aretha Franklin - I Knew You Were Waiting for Me (45)

Cher - Believe (53)

Mariah Carey - AIWFCIY (53)

 

A 40+ year-old-woman has never sent two songs to #1 (yet)

I don’t understand the list but I see Mariah twice so I’m fine

Add Rihanna to teens, 20s, and 30s  

Why isn't Mariah in 30s?

Kylie Minogue: 

 

Teens: Global smash hits The Loco-Motion (best selling single of the 80s in Australia by a woman) and I Should Be So Lucky released (best selling song of 1988 in Europe)

 

20s: Global hits Especially For You, Better The Devil You Know, Confide In Me, and Where The Wild Roses Grow

 

30s: Mega-smash with Can't Get You Out of My Head, several other major global hits like Spinning Around, On a Night Like This, Love at First Sight, In Your Eyes, Slow, and I Believe In You

 

40s: Major European hits in the form of All The Lovers, Higher, Wow, and In My Arms, highly successful touring act throughout Europe

 

50s: Consistently high-charting albums, queer anthems like Padam Padam and Tension released

 

Wasn't Madonna 60 when Madame X went to #1 on the BB200?

Dolly Parton

 

20s: first classics (Jolene, I Will Always Love You, Coat of Many Colors)

 

30s: crossover classics (9 to 5, Here You Come Again, Islands in the Stream) and a boatload of country hits

 

40s: collaborative era (AOTY nomination for Trio with Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris; Honkytonk Angels with Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette; #1 country hit “Rockin Years” and minor classic “Romeo”); #1 country hit with minor classic Why’d You Come In Here Lookin’ Like That

 

50s: 25th country #1 with “When I Get Where I’m Going” feature

 

60s: second Oscar nom for trans-affirming “Travelin’ Thru” and campy gay classic “Better Get to Livin’”

 

70s: legendary-diva-collab era: Miley, Pentatonix, Reba, Kesha, random Christian acts, many others; Christmas album with Emmy-winning film tie-in; Rock N Roll Hall of Fame induction and subsequent rock covers and collabs album.

The OP is basically trying to show when an artist got their first hit versus when they got their latest success. But nobody cares if you’re going to use arbitrary terms like “legend” and then be biased about who you want to put.

 

Like Britney had a #1 smash with BOMT in 1998 and her most recent global hit was “Hold Me Closer” (top 10 in 22 official charts) which was released 24 years later. Why would you exclude her

Mariah's first #1 single was released in June 1990

 

Mariah's last #1 single was released in 2008.

 

Mariah's last song to reach #1 was the 1994 released, 2019 #1 peaking AIWFCIY which has subsequently topped the charts in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. 

Okay uhm

Great formatting, beautiful formatting 

4 hours ago, Eternium said:

The OP is basically trying to show when an artist got their first hit versus when they got their latest success. But nobody cares if you’re going to use arbitrary terms like “legend” and then be biased about who you want to put.

 

Like Britney had a #1 smash with BOMT in 1998 and her most recent global hit was “Hold Me Closer” (top 10 in 22 official charts) which was released 24 years later. Why would you exclude her

1. Britney Spears isn't a legend

2. Hold Me Closer isn't a hit

 

Hope that helps 

Edited October 24, 20232 yr by Scott Borchetta

6 hours ago, Maroonx said:

Wasn't Madonna 60 when Madame X went to #1 on the BB200?

If we’re going there, so many more would be added (Janet had a #1 album at 49, Barbra in her 60s, etc). But I think this is sort of based on hit songs.

9 hours ago, Scott Borchetta said:

1. Britney Spears isn't a legend

2. Hold Me Closer isn't a hit

 

Hope that helps 

1. Good luck convincing the GP.

2. Top 10 in 22 countries and eligible for certifications in most countries with a certification system.

 

Grow up and join us in the real world. It’s time