"R&B artists such as Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey are some of the best selling music artists of all time, and especially in the 1990s brought Contemporary R&B to a worldwide platform. In the mid-1990s, neo soul, which added 1970s soul influences to the hip hop soul blend, arose, led by artists such as D'Angelo, Erykah Badu, Lauryn Hill, and Maxwell. Lauryn Hill and Missy Elliott further blurred the line between R&B and hip hop by recording both styles. D'Angelo's ""Brown Sugar"" was released in June 1995. Although sales were sluggish at first, the album was"
"release in 1989, Madonna was named artist of the decade by a number of magazines and awards. Whitney Houston was one of the best selling female artists of the decade in the US, behind Madonna and Barbra Streisand. Her eponymous debut studio album became the best-selling debut album by a female artist at the time, and her sophomore album, ""Whitney"", became the first by a female debut at No. 1 in the history of the ""Billboard"" 200. She also became the first and only artist to chart seven consecutive number-one songs on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. Paula Abdul hit it"
"become global mainstream acceptance. TLC remains the best-selling American girl group with 65 million records sold, and their second studio album, CrazySexyCool (1994), remains the best-selling album by a girl group in the United States (Diamond certification), while selling over 14 million copies worldwide. Destiny's Child emerged in the late 1990s and sold more than 60 million records. Despite the dying popularity of girl groups in the US in the mid-2000s, American girl group and dance ensemble the Pussycat Dolls achieved worldwide success with their singles. Following their disbandment, the format became a very minor format with a small number"
"her own material."" According to ""Billboard"" magazine, she was the most successful artist of the 1990s in the United States. At the 2000 World Music Awards, Carey was given a Legend Award for being the ""best-selling female pop artist of the millennium,"" as well as the ""Best-selling artist of the 90s"" in the United States, after releasing a series of albums of multiplatinum status in Asia and Europe, such as ""Music Box"" and ""Number 1's"". She is also a recipient of the Chopard Diamond award in 2003, recognizing sales of over 100 million albums worldwide. Additionally, the Recording Industry Association"
"mainstream American industrial metal bands of the 1990s included Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, White Zombie, KMFDM, Ministry, and Fear Factory. In the 1990s, there was a revival of the singer-songwriter movement of the 1970s. This movement lasted up to about 2004 with artists like Norah Jones, Dido and Sarah McLachlan. Important artists of this movement include Alanis Morissette, Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, Liz Phair, Juliana Hatfield, Edwin McCain, Jewel, Natalie Merchant, Sheryl Crow and Lisa Loeb. Perhaps the most important album of the movement was the multi-platinum 1995 album ""Jagged Little Pill"" by Alanis Morissette as well as Sheryl"
"as the best-selling female artist of the US Nielsen SoundScan era (from 1991) with album sales of 55.2 million. Her albums ""Mariah Carey"", ""Music Box"", ""Daydream"", and ""The Emancipation of Mimi"" are among the top 100 certified albums according to the RIAA. Carey released her self-titled debut album in June 1990; it was certified nine-times Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), denoting shipments of nine million copies in the United States. Additionally, the album spawned four consecutive US number-one singles. Her second album, ""Emotions"", was released a year later and sold eight million copies worldwide. In 1993,"
"Whitney Houston Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was an American singer and actress. She was cited as the most awarded female artist of all time by ""Guinness World Records"" and remains one of the best-selling music artists of all time with 200 million records sold worldwide. She released seven studio albums and two soundtrack albums, all of which have been certified diamond, multi-platinum, platinum, or gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Houston's crossover appeal on the popular music charts—as well as her prominence on MTV, starting with her video for ""How Will"
"Selena Selena Quintanilla-Pérez (; April 16, 1971 – March 31, 1995) was an American singer, songwriter, spokesperson, model, actress, and fashion designer. Called the Queen of Tejano music, her contributions to music and fashion made her one of the most celebrated Mexican-American entertainers of the late 20th century. ""Billboard"" magazine named her the top-selling Latin artist of the 1990s decade, while her posthumous collaboration with MAC cosmetics became the best-selling celebrity collection in cosmetics history. Media outlets called her the ""Tejano Madonna"" for her clothing choices. She also ranks among the most influential Latin artists of all time and is"
"and late-1990s. Many of these careers were short-lived, but several went on to long-lived, profitable careers. The most successful of the new artists were Yearwood, Shania Twain, LeAnn Rimes, Lee Ann Womack, Martina McBride, Kenny Chesney, Collin Raye, Faith Hill, and Tim McGraw, while Lonestar and Dixie Chicks were the most successful new groups. Twain's ""Come on Over"" album became the best-selling album released by a female of any genre. Yearwood became the first woman in more than 25 years to have her debut single top the Billboard Country Singles chart in 1991 with her single ""She's in Love with"
"Sun-Sentinel"" reported that Jackson's tour had become one of the most commercially successful box office attractions for a recording artist. In addition, ""of those women soloists who regularly reach the top of the record charts, only Madonna is doing similar arena business."" Grossing $28.1 million in the United States alone, the tour ranked number five among the best-selling of 1990 within the US, making Jackson the only female artist to place within the top ten. The Rhythm Nation World Tour, with an attendance of over two million patrons, remains the most successful debut tour by any recording artist. Janet Jackson,"
"Christina Aguilera Christina María Aguilera (; born December 18, 1980) is an American singer, songwriter, actress and television personality. Her work has earned her five Grammy Awards, one Latin Grammy Award, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She has sold more than 75 million records worldwide, making her one of the world's best-selling music artists. In 2009, she ranked at number 58 on ""Rolling Stone""s list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time, thereby becoming the youngest and the only artist under 30 to be named. ""Billboard"" recognized her as the 20th most successful artist of the"
"1987's ""Whitney"". It also topped the album charts of several European countries and was certified Platinum by the RIAA. Her albums Whitney Houston, ""Whitney"", """" and """" are among the top 100 certified albums according to the RIAA. According to the RIAA, Houston is the top-selling R&B female artist of the 20th century, and the fourth best-selling female artist in the United States, with shipments of 57 million albums. In addition, until the launch of the RIAA's digital certification program in 2004, she had sold 16.5 million physical singles more than any other female solo artist in history. According to"
"with the highest worldwide digital sales. Swift's studio albums ""Taylor Swift"", ""Fearless"", ""Speak Now"", ""Red"", and ""1989"" have all sold over 4 million copies in the US. She is the third best-selling digital singles artist in the US with a total of 106.5 million equivalent units certified according to Recording Industry Association of America. Taylor Swift Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. One of the world's leading contemporary recording artists, she is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Swift moved"
"of 1990 with ""A Todo Galope"". Beginning in 1992, Tejano music musicians dominated the year-end chart for five consecutive years; with La Mafia having the best-selling album of the year with their critically acclaimed recording ""Estas Tocando Fuego"". Selena had the best-selling album of the year from 1993 to 1996 with ""Entre a Mi Mundo"" and ""Amor Prohibido"" (1994–96). The former became the only recording in the 1990s to have been named the best-selling Regional Mexican Album of the year for three consecutive times. The singer became the only female musician to have a year-end best-seller in the 1990s. Selena"
"What Do I Do with Me"", and ""Two Sparrows in a Hurricane"". In 1990, Tucker was named ""Female Video Artist of the Year"" by CMT. Although by the 1990s, she no longer had number-one hits, many singles came close peaking in the country top five, as well as the top 10. Tucker was one of the most successful female country artists at the time. She became one of the few teen stars to find success in her adult years. Her 1993 album ""Greatest Hits 1990-1992"" rose to number 15, and also went to number 18 on the Top Country Albums"
"was later received by TLC for ""CrazySexyCool"" in 1996, Tony Rich for ""Words"" in 1997, Erykah Badu for ""Baduizm"" in 1998 and Lauryn Hill for ""The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill"" in 1999. At the end of 1999, ""Billboard"" magazine ranked Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson as the first and second most successful artists of the 1990s. Simultaneously, in the second half of the 1990s, The Neptunes and Timbaland set influential precedence on contemporary R&B and hip hop music. R&B acts such as Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Usher and Toni Braxton are some of the best-selling music"
"wealth for the industry. In 1991, Turlington signed a contract with Maybelline that paid her $800,000 for twelve days' work each year. By the mid‑1990s, the new ""heroin chic"" movement became popular amongst New York and London editorial clients. Kate Moss became its poster child through her ads for Calvin Klein. In spite of the heroin chic movement, model Claudia Schiffer earned $12 million. With the popularity of lingerie retailer Victoria's Secret, and the ""Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue"", there was a need for healthier-looking supermodels such as Tyra Banks and Heidi Klum to meet commercial modelling demand. The mid‑1990s also"
"In the early 1990s, female artists also began to emerge in new styles, including Courtney Love and PJ Harvey. Later in the mid-1990s, the term was revived again with the success of Canada's Alanis Morissette and her breakthrough album ""Jagged Little Pill."" Also in the 1980s and 1990s, artists such as Bono, the Edge, Dave Matthews, Jeff Buckley, Richard Barone, Duncan Sheik and Elliott Smith borrowed from the singer-songwriter tradition to create new acoustic-based rock styles. In the 2000s, a quieter style emerged, with largely impressionistic lyrics, from artists such as Norah Jones, Conor Oberst, Sufjan Stevens, David Bazan, South"
"several other artists. It had the effect of setting off disco mania in the United States. the Bee Gees' soundtrack to ""Saturday Night Fever"" became the one best selling album of all time. The Bee Gees and Donna Summer became the genres mega stars. The Bee Gees had 9 number 1 singles, and 12 top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. Donna Summer had 4 number 1 singles, and 8 top 5 hits, 9 top 10s during the second half of the decade. Summer would be the first female artist of the modern era, to have the number"
"artist of the 1990s in the United States, while the World Music Awards honored her as the world's best-selling recording artist of the 1990s. After 11 consecutive years charting a number-one single, Carey parted with Columbia in 2000 and signed a record-breaking $100 million recording contract with Virgin Records. However, following her highly publicized physical and emotional breakdown, as well as the failure of her film ""Glitter"" (2001) and its accompanying soundtrack, her contract was bought out for $50 million by Virgin and she signed with Island Records the next year. After a relatively unsuccessful period, she returned to the"
"Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). TLC also became the first R&B group in history to receive Million certification from the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) for ""FanMail"" (1999). Having sold over 65 million records worldwide, TLC is the best-selling American girl group and second worldwide to the English group Spice Girls. VH1 ranked TLC as the greatest female group, placing them at number 12 on the list of 100 Greatest Women in Music. ""Billboard"" magazine ranked TLC as one of the greatest musical trios, as well as the seventh most successful act of the 1990s. The group's accolades"
"her an Extraordinary Place in American Popular Music."" Keys has been credited with inspiring and influencing many artists, including a younger generation of artists like Adele, Bruno Mars, Rihanna, Janelle Monáe, Emeli Sandé, H.E.R, Jessie Ware, James Bay, Ella Mai, Wyvern Lingo, Anuhea Jenkins, Jorja Smith, Lauren Jauregui, Normani, Alessia Cara, Ruth-Anne Cunningham, Lianne La Havas, Heather Russell, Grimes, and Sophie Delila. Keys is listed on the Recording Industry Association of America's best-selling artists in the United States, selling over 17.8 million albums and 21.9 million digital songs. She has sold over 30 million albums worldwide. Billboard ranked Keys as"
"more pop-oriented country singer in the 1990s, evolving into an outlaw persona in the late 1990s with ""Pull My Chain"" and its follow-up, ""Unleashed"". Female artists such as Reba McEntire, Patty Loveless, Faith Hill, Martina McBride, Deana Carter, LeAnn Rimes, Mindy McCready, Lorrie Morgan, Shania Twain, and Mary Chapin Carpenter all released platinum-selling albums in the 1990s. The Dixie Chicks became one of the most popular country bands in the 1990s and early 2000s. Their 1998 debut album ""Wide Open Spaces"" went on to become certified 12x platinum while their 1999 album ""Fly"" went on to become 10x platinum. After"
"2014, Touch of Seduction in 2015, Glam X in 2016 and Definition in 2017. Christina Aguilera Christina María Aguilera (; born December 18, 1980) is an American singer, songwriter, actress and television personality. Her work has earned her five Grammy Awards, one Latin Grammy Award, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She has sold more than 75 million records worldwide, making her one of the world's best-selling music artists. In 2009, she ranked at number 58 on ""Rolling Stone""s list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time, thereby becoming the youngest and the only artist under 30"
"Lana Turner Lana Turner (; born Julia Jean Turner; February 8, 1921June 29, 1995) was an American actress who worked in film, television, theater, and radio. Over the course of her nearly 50-year career, she achieved fame as both a pin-up model and a dramatic actress as well as for her highly publicized personal life. In the mid-1940s, she was one of the highest-paid women in the United States, and one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's (MGM) biggest stars, with her films earning the studio over $50 million during her eighteen-year contract with them. She is frequently cited as a popular culture icon"
"of the era to sell their music or even have their music heard because of the rise of hip-hop, but some adopted a ""hip-hop"" image, were marketed as such, and often featured rappers on their songs. Newer artists such as Usher, R. Kelly, Janet Jackson, TLC, Aaliyah, Beyoncé, Christina Aguilera and Mary J. Blige, enjoyed success. L.A. Reid, the CEO of LaFace Records, was responsible for some of R&B's greatest successes in the 1990s in the form of Usher, TLC and Toni Braxton. Later, Reid successfully marketed Boyz II Men. In 2004, 80% of the songs that topped the R&B"
"Diana Ross Diana Ross (born March 26, 1944) is an American singer, actress, and record producer. Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, Ross rose to fame as the lead singer of the vocal group the Supremes, which, during the 1960s, became Motown's most successful act, and are the best charting girl group in US history, as well as one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time. The group released a record-setting twelve number-one hit singles on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100, including ""Where Did Our Love Go"", ""Baby Love"", ""Come See About Me"", ""Stop! In the Name of"
"the Boy"". Yearwood's debut album also became the first by a female country act to sell over 1 million copies, eventually going double platinum. Among artists whose success continued from the 1980s, Reba McEntire was the most successful of the female artists, selling more than 30 million albums during the decade, gaining eight number-one hit singles on the U.S. Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart and six number one albums internationally, including her best-selling album, ""Greatest Hits Vol. 2"", which was released in September 1993 and has sold over an international amount of 10 million copies to date. George Strait,"
"included seven international 1980s acts, including Martika, Berlin, Limahl of Kajagoogoo, Paul Lekakis, Katrina from Katrina and the Waves, Men Without Hats and Stacey Q. For her performance at the tour she received rave reviews from the Australian press. Martika resided in Dayton, Ohio for several years with her musician husband, concentrating on married life. Martika Marta Marrero (born May 18, 1969), known as Martika, is an American singer-songwriter and actress, who released two internationally successful albums in the late 1980s and early 1990s, selling over four million copies worldwide. Her biggest hit was ""Toy Soldiers"" which peaked at number"
"Geri Halliwell Geraldine Estelle Horner (; born 6 August 1972) is an English pop singer-songwriter, clothes designer, author, and actress. Halliwell came to international prominence in the 1990s as Ginger Spice, a member of the successful girl group the Spice Girls, the best-selling girl group of all time with over 85 million records sold, of which more than 75 million copies sold with the quintet lineup with Halliwell. In 1998, Halliwell left the Spice Girls to pursue a solo career but later returned to the group when they reunited in 2007. Halliwell reportedly amassed a $40 million fortune during her"
"and canceled the endorsement deal—although Madonna was allowed to retain her US$5 million fee—but the controversy only heightened interest in the single and the album (also titled ""Like a Prayer""). The single became Madonna's seventh US #1 and topped the chart in more than 30 other countries, and the album also went to #1, sold seven million copies worldwide and produced two more US Top 5 singles, establishing Madonna as the most successful female artist of the 1980s and one of the most successful musical performers of all time. In 1989 Time Inc. acquired Warner Communications and merged the two"
"of 150 million albums and singles sold worldwide making her the best-selling female artist among top-selling artists recognized by the Recording Industry Association of America. The RIAA and ""Billboard"" recognize Streisand as holding the record for the most top 10 albums of any female recording artist: a total of 34 since 1963. According to ""Billboard"", Streisand holds the record for the female with the most number one albums (11). ""Billboard"" also recognizes Streisand as the greatest female of all time on its ""Billboard"" 200 chart and one of the greatest artists of all time on its Hot 100 chart. Streisand"
"George Michael's ""Freedom! '90"". By then, Campbell, Turlington, Evangelista, Crawford and Claudia Schiffer formed an elite group of models declared ""supermodels"" by the fashion industry. With the addition of newcomer Kate Moss, they were collectively known as the ""Big Six"". In March 1991, in a defining moment of the so-called supermodel era, Campbell walked the catwalk for Versace with Turlington, Evangelista and Crawford, arm-in-arm and lip-synching the words to ""Freedom! '90"". Later that year, she starred as Michael Jackson's love interest in the music video for ""In the Closet"". In April 1992, she posed with several other top models for"