They are all rare musical talents, but the drama surrounding these women has never cooled down.
Posted by Thu HoangApril 22, 2023shareShare FacebookPinterest
The top 20 most famous singers in the world are all names that when mentioned, you can immediately name how many hits they have, all the hits have broken billions of views on YouTube and billions of streams on platforms. boulder. Their career spanned several decades, but new hits continued to appear.
1. Taylor Swift, number 1 singer in the world
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Taylor Swift is the number 1 singer in the world today. Debuting in 2004, she has now won more than 500 awards, including 12 Grammy awards. She also set 92 Guinness records.
Taylor’s assets are currently around $570 million in 2022, according to Forbes. Throughout his career, Taylor has had a close girlfriend, Selena Gomez, and a nemesis, Katy Perry. These are also two musical geniuses who are among the world’s famous singers.
2. Katy Perry
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Katy Perry was once infamous for snatching 3 dancers who were on tour with Taylor Swift. Taylor then wrote the song Bad Blood to slander her “betrayal”. After winning a Grammy with this song, Taylor placed the award right next to the lyrics of the song Bad Blood to mock Katy for never having had a Grammy.
Two years later, Katy Perry counterattacked with the song “Swiss”. The conflict between them was resolved when Taylor invited Katy to participate in his 2019 MV You Need To Calm Down .
Since her debut in 2001, Katy Perry’s career has exploded with a series of hits such as Hot n Cold, Teenage Dream, Firework, Roar, Part of Me… Katy Perry’s halftime performance at Super Bowl 2015 is still is the most watched halftime performance ever.
3. The most famous singers in the world: Selena Gomez
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Selena Gomez is one of the most successful Disney princesses ever with a career spanning 20 years. As the queen of Instagram with 412 million followers, Selena Gomez shocked the world with the masterpiece We don’t talk anymore in collaboration with Charlie Puth, along with many hits such as Hands to Myself, Kill em with kindness, Love you like a love song, Good for you…
In recent years, Selena has struggled with Lupus, causing her to have a kidney replaced and unable to control her weight. But Selena’s collaborations still continue to be hits, typically the song Taki Taki in collaboration with Cardi B, DJ Snake and Ozuna reached 2.4 billion views on YouTube.
4. Miley Cyrus
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Besides Selena Gomez, Disney also trained a disobedient genius, Miley Cyrus. Famous from the series Hannah Montana, Miley only really emerged after losing weight and following a sexy path. The album Bangerz with two hits We can’t stop, Wrecking Ball in 2013 gave birth to a completely new Miley Cyrus, rebellious, fierce and more sexy than ever.
The song Malibu marks her love with her “on-off” husband Liam Hemsworth. However, after getting married, Miley’s career suddenly lost direction and went downhill. She divorced and then embarked on a gay relationship. It wasn’t until early 2023 that Miley revived her name with the song Flowers.
5. Most famous singer in the world: Nicki Minaj
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Nicki Minaj once scolded Miley Cyrus on the live show of the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards. Throughout her illustrious rap career, Nicki Minaj has “raped” countless colleagues, including Travis Scott, Taylor Swift, Lil’Kim… She also said she wanted to shoot Mariah Carey because the two of them had a fierce conflict when they were judges on the 12th season of American Idol.
The climax was the wig-falling fight between Nicki and her nemesis Cardi B at the Harper’s Bazaar ICONS party within the framework of New York Fashion Week 2018. Considering the current time, Nicki seems to be in trouble. have to step back from their juniors in the music market.
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6. Cardi B
In Vietnam, Cardi B is jokingly called the “people’s artist” by netizens because of her slanderous performances of all kinds of things. That’s why she was invited to the position of Creative Director of Playboy magazine in 2022.
Since Cardi B emerged in 2018, Nicki Minaj’s career has also gone down. The album Invasion of Privacy helped Cardi B become the first and only female artist to win the Best Rap Album Grammy as a solo artist.
Although not afraid of anyone, Cardi B greatly respects her sister Beyoncé. On her birthday last year, when Beyoncé gave her a vinyl album Renaissance, Cardi B happily showed it off to her fans and said she would put it in laser-tinted glasses to preserve the gift.
7. The most famous singers in the world: Beyoncé
Beyoncé debuted at the same time as famous artists in the 1990s such as Backstreet Boys, Spice Girls, Britney Spears… Her career spanned three decades with 88 Grammy nominations and 32 wins. She is the most successful and admired R&B artist of all time. The song Cuff It on her album Renaissance just won the Best R&B Song award at the 2023 Grammys. Before that, Beyoncé had countless hits such as: Halo, Single Ladies, Crazy in Love, Run The World, If I were a Boy…
As the idol of all idols, Beyoncé’s family life is not very smooth. Her father was addicted to sex and had an affair with his own child, leading to the couple’s divorce. Her husband, rapper and producer Jay Z, often has rumors of having affairs with countless women. One of the people rumored to be a minor is Rihanna.
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8. Rihanna
Rihanna is Jay Z’s “favorite girl”. She joined his Roc Nation Records in 2010. This company also helped Rihanna organize a halftime performance at Super Bowl 2023 last February.
At the time Beyoncé and Jay Z temporarily broke up, there were many rumors that Rihanna was the reason. However, Rihanna has denied this, and Beyoncé has never spoken out.
Currently, Rihanna has become a self-made female billionaire thanks to the fashion and beauty brand Fenty. Busy with business, Rihanna has not released an album for 6 years, making fans wait for a long time. In 2022, she successfully returned with the song Lift me up, opening the soundtrack album Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. The song climbed countless top hit charts and received many important award nominations.
Rihanna can be said to be one of the best female singers with all the hits such as: Bitch better have my money, We found love, Where have you been, Diamonds, Umbrella, Love on the rain, Love the way you lie, stay, take a bow…
9. The most famous singers in the world: Lady Gaga
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Lady Gaga is an eccentric female singer who is successful in both the music and film markets. She starred in two films, A Star is Born and House of Gucci , both of which received positive feedback from critics. Although she did not win the Best Actress award at the Oscar or Golden Globe, the soundtrack album A Star Is Born won 4 Grammy awards. The song Shallow helped Lady Gaga become the first female artist to win the Best Soundtrack award at both the Oscar, Golden Globe, BAFTA and Grammy in the same year.
In recent years, Lady Gaga has followed a rustic, simple style. In particular, she kept her face bare and dressed simply when performing the song Hold my Hand at the 2023 Oscars. At the peak of her career, Lady Gaga was a monster with avant-garde outfits from MVs to red carpet, on stage to everyday life. It can be said that she is the artist who invests the most in costumes, with huge fashion MVs such as: Bad Romance, Telephone, Paparazzi…
10. Adele
Adele is also the idol of idols, her hits are memorized by millions of people around the world such as: Hello, Rolling in the Deep, Someone Like You, Send my Love, Set fire to the Rain… Adele is also an idol. The female singer has the purest musical performance style. She can wear only one outfit for the entire 2-hour show, no dancers, and a colorless stage.
People know about Adele only through her music, no scandals, no tabloid news. Another admirable thing about her is her determination to lose weight. Within 2 years , she lost up to 45kg so she could wear clothes that showed off her waist.
After losing weight, she returned to music with the song Easy on Me, which was a huge commercial success. The song broke the record for most streams in a day on Spotify with 19.7 global streams. Adele has won 16 Grammy Awards out of 25 nominations.
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11. Jennifer Lopez
Although she was only nominated for a Grammy twice, Jennifer Lopez is still the most successful Latin female singer of all time with her explosive stage performances. She also earns a lot of money in private events.
For example, just earlier this year, Jennifer was paid $1.75 million for just 40 minutes of performing at a birthday party in Macau. Previously, she received 1.5 million USD to perform 3 songs at an event organized by China National Petroleum Corporation. Another time, Jennfier received a salary of 1.2 million USD to perform at an event of Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko. He also spent 800,000 pounds for her and her crew to move to London.
Jennifer is also a rare female singer with a quite serious acting career. Her typical works include: The Wedding Planner 2001, Maid in Manhattan 2002, The Back-up Plan 2010…
In 2020, Jennifer Lopez collaborated with Shakira on the Super Bowl stage. Their 15-minute performance was extremely fiery and very impressive, but two years later in her documentary Halftime , Jennifer said that she was not satisfied with the way the organizers paired her with Shakira, and that it was “ worst idea.”
12. Most famous singer in the world: Shakira
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The Colombian singer is also the top Latin artist in the world. She is especially loved for two World Cup songs: Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) 2010 and La La La (Brazil 2014). Shakira has won 3 Grammy awards and 12 Latin Grammy awards. The songs that made her name include: Whenever Wherever, Hips Don’t Lie, She Wolf, Beautiful Liar…
Recently, she has been in the media spotlight because of her scandalous breakup with famous player Gerard Piqué after 12 years of being together. After that, she released the song Shakira Bzrp Music Sessions 53 to criticize her ex-boyfriend and younger sister. In this song there is a line: “I traded my Ferrari for a Twingo. I exchanged Rolex for Casio”, criticizing Piqué’s new love for cheap products like Twingo and Casio. Suddenly being ridiculed helped Casio earn 70 million USD based on Media Impact Value (MIV), while Rolex also earned a profit of 40.5 million USD.
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13. Pink
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Among the most famous female singers in the world, Pink is probably the one with the most perfect marriage. She is happy with her husband, off-road racer Carey Hart, and two children.
Pink pursues pop-rock music with the most unique musical style compared to the female singers on this list. Her outstanding performance characteristic is swinging on a rope while singing. Her music videos are quite disruptive and rebellious. However, after becoming a mother, the female singer became more gentle even though her rock quality remained intact.
Her hit songs span three decades such as: Get the party started, So What, Who Knew, Try, Raise your Glass, Stupid Girls, Pleave don’t leave me, Sober, Cover me in Sunshine… In Vietnam , the song Just Give me a Reason duet with Nate Ruess has become one of the most replayed songs of 2012 and to this day.
14. World famous singers: Ariana Grande
Ariana Grande in MV 34+35 in sci-fi style.
Ariana Grande is called the “show star” because of her close-in show cancellations, leaving the audience unable to react in time. The explanation for this is that the female singer suffered psychological trauma after the bombing of her concert in Manchester in 2017, which killed 22 people.
However, this little girl also had many scandals that left stains on her career. Typically, in 2015, she and her ex-boyfriend licked and spit on donuts in a store in California. She also said: “I hate Americans. I hate America.” This action, along with her unapologetic attitude, caused her to lose the opportunity to perform in front of the President at the White House gala.
In 2019, Ariana Grande continued to be “naughty” when she refused to appear at the Grammy Awards because the organizers did not let her choose the song she wanted. She later apologized and said that she had prepared a gorgeous dress for the ceremony.
But scandals still cannot drag down her career. In addition to billion-view songs such as: 7 Rings, Side to Side, No Tears Left to Cry… Ariana Grande is also famous for her trendy makeup style, leading the trend. She also launched her own beauty brand “rem beauty” at the end of 2021.
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15. Camila Cabello
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Camila Cabello became famous with the group Fifth Harmony since The X Factor in 2012. After going solo, she pursued Latin Pop music and made a breakthrough with the song Havana in 2017. This is a most downloaded song highest on Spotify as of June 2018 with 888 million streams.
However, her biggest success is her collaboration with Shawn Mendes in the song Señorita, which reached 1.5 billion views on YouTube. In addition to the catchy melody, this song attracted attention partly thanks to countless images of the two singers openly in love and holding hands on stage. However, in 2021, they announced their separation after 2 years of passion. But recently at the 2023 Coachella Music Festival, the two were caught “lip-locking” even though they still insisted they were just friends.
16. Sia, the most famous singer in the world
Sia is also a number 1 hit-making talent today. Like Alan Walker, Sia often hides her face because she “doesn’t like being famous”. The image of a girl with short hair dancing contemporary has become a specialty in her MVs.
Sia has many hit songs such as: Unstoppable, Chandelier, Titanium, Dusk Till Dawn… However, few people know that she is the person behind many hit songs by other artists such as: Diamonds by Rihanna, You lost me by Christina Aguilera, Flashlight by Jessie J, Pretty Hurts by Beyoncé…
In 2021, she caused controversy when she personally directed a musical film about people with severe autism. The film is called Music, which was highly appreciated by experts and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. However, the autism community believes that it is incorrect for her to choose a neurologically normal person to play the autistic role.
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17. Britney Spears
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Britney Spears is the first generation Pop princess. She is the goddess who gave birth to an era of explosive pop music with the successive appearances of “princesses” such as Christina Aguilera, Jessica Simpson, Mandy Moore… The image of a young 18-year-old girl dancing extremely hard with the song hit Baby One More Time shook the world.
But throughout her career, Britney Spears has always been criticized for being a bad singer with a realistic level of lip-syncing. Fame comes with controversy. After breaking up with Justin Timberlake, she got married briefly for only 55 hours then divorced. Next, Britney snatched someone else’s husband while his wife was pregnant. As a result of this love affair with her husband, Britney gave birth to two sons but fell into severe depression, had to shave her head, and lived under the supervision of her biological father.
Currently, Britney is temporarily happy with her husband, fitness trainer Sam Asghari, but she often has unstable behavior. Britney often posts nude photos and clips online, causing her children to speak up.
18. Christina Aguilera
Christina Aguilera comes from the same Mickey Mouse Club as Britney. The two competed fiercely in 1998-1999, but Christina seemed to be the winner when she won the Best New Artist Grammy in 1999. It was only five years later that Britney won her first and only Grammy. for the song Toxic.
Regarding side movies, Britney Spears had the love movie Crossroads which was badly criticized, while Christina Aguilera was quite successful with the musical movie Burlesque.
Christina Aguilera is the most powerful vocalist among singers of her time with a powerful, soaring voice that is hard to match. She sings well, dances well and is talented at composing. Her hits include: Genie in the bottle, Dirty, Fighter, Car Wash, Candyman, I Turn to you…
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19. Meghan Trainor
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Meghan Trainor won the 2016 Grammy Award for Best New Artist with the song All About That Bass reaching 2.5 billion views on YouTube. She also has other hits such as: Like I’m Gonna Lose You (ft John Legend), Marvin Gaye (ft Charlie Puth), Dear Future Husband, Me Too…
However, in recent years, Meghan Trainor’s career has gone downhill, and her next three albums all became flops. She had a conflict with the record company and had to have laryngeal surgery, then got married and had children.
At the end of 2021, Meghan’s old song Title 7 years ago suddenly became a trend. Seizing the opportunity, she released the MV for this song and released her 5th studio album. Returning to the doo-wop genre that brought her fame and fortune 8 years ago, Meghan Trainor officially reappeared with the song Made You Look is loved by beauty enthusiasts.
20. Billie Eilish
Billie Eilish became famous at the age of 18 with the hit song Bad Guy reaching 1.5 billion views on YouTube. She is the musical phenomenon that opened the 10X generation era with explosive stages. Even though she is very young, she has won 7 Grammy awards with her debut album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?. In particular, she is the youngest artist in Grammy history to win all four award categories at the same time: Best New Artist, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Album of the Year.
Starting her career with a tomboy style and disruptive personality, Billie Eilish has recently been diligently wearing bikinis, corsets and princess dresses that fans are not used to.
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Other world famous singers
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In addition to the 20 most famous female singers in the world, the music market also has hundreds of other female artists with addictive hits, reaching hundreds of millions of views on YouTube and hundreds of millions of streams on platforms. Below is a list of 30 world-famous female artists who are still very active:
21. Doja Cat (hits: Say So, Best Friend, Woman, Kiss Me More… )
22. Lana Del Rey ( Sumbertime Sadness, Blue Jeans, Born to Die, High by the Beach… )
23. Dua Lipa ( News Rules, Levitating, Love Again, Cold Heart… )
24. Rita Ora ( Let You Love Me, For You, Anywhere, Body on Me, Black Window ft Iggy Azalea… )
25. Iggy Azalea ( Fancy ft Charlie XCX, Kream ft Tyga, Pretty Girls ft Britney Spears… )
26. Kelly Clarkson ( Stronger, Because of You, Since U Been Gone… )
27. Bebe Rexha ( Say My Name ft David Guetta & J Balvin, No Broken Hearts fit Nicki Minaj, I Got You, In the Name of Love ft Martin Garrix … )
28. Clean Bandit ( Solo ft Demi Lovato, Symphony ft Zara Larsson, Rockabye ft Sean Paul & Anne-Marie, Rather Be ft Jess Glynne… )
29. Demi Lovato ( Heart Attack, Échame La Culpa ft Luis Fonsi, Sorry not Sorry, Give Your Heart a Break… )
30. Norah Jones ( Don’t Know Why, Come Away With Me, Waiting, You’ve Ruined me… )
31. Zara Larsson ( Lush Life, Ain’t My Fault, Uncover… )
32. Elle Goulding ( Burn, Love me Like you do, Outside ft Calvin Harris, On My Mind… )
33. Becky G ( Sin Pijama ft Natti Natasha, Shower, Sola… )
34. Charli XCX ( Boom Clap, Boys, Break the Rules… )
35. Lorde ( Royals, Team, Green Light… )
36. Halsey ( Without Me, Closer ft The Chainsmokers, Bad at Love… )
37. Anne-Marie ( Friends ft Marshmello, 2002, Ciao Adios… )
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38. Ava Max ( So Am I, Kings & Queens, Sweet but Psycho… )
39. Hailee Steinfeld ( Starving ft Zedd & Grey, Love Myself, Rock Bottom… )
40. Olivia Rodrigo ( Good 4 you, Drivers License, Déjà vu… )
41. LP ( Lost on You, When We’re High, Muddy Waters… )
42. Pamola Faith ( Only Love can Hurt Like This… )
43. Aurora ( Runaway, Into the Unknown, Cure for Me… )
44. Normani ( Wild Side ft Cardi B, Dancing with a Stranger ft Sam Smith, Love Lies ft Khalid… )
45. Lauren Daigle ( You Say… )
46. Cala Rey Jaspen ( Call Me Maybe, I Really Like You… )
47. Ke$ha ( Tik Tok, Timber, Die Young… )
48. Gayle ( abcdefu… )
49. Lizzo ( Truth Hurts, Good As Hell, About Damn Time… )
50. Tove Lo ( Habits, Talking Body, Cool Girl… )
Life would be lacking without the presence of the world’s most famous female singers and their attractive music. Above are the 50 most famous female singers of all time, have you listened to all their music?
