The 12 Top Selling Female Artists Of All Time (2 of 4)

Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga Award, Smile, Dress, Fashion, Eyewear, Lipstick, Eyelash, Waist

Best-Selling Album: The Fame

Sales: 124 million

No. 1 Singles Billboard: Poker Face, Rain on Me, Just Dance, Born This Way

Lady Gaga is quite popular for her eccentric style, grand performances, and absolute amazing voice, but her career began when she got work as a songwriter. She became a singer only after she signed with Akon’s KonLive Distribution, and became a popular name.

Albums Success

Her debut was with the album The Fame, which bought her a lot of fame and recognition around the world. She later released Joanne, Artpop, Born This Way, Cheek to Cheek, Chromatica, and A Star Is Born.

Her first album The Fame was triple platinum-certified, and she followed it up with another three top chart albums, making her the first female singer to have four top chart albums in the 2010s. Talking of remixes, she has one of the highest-selling remixes of all time, The Remix.

Single Successes

Her song Born This Way garnered over a million downloads in just a week, making it the best-selling song on iTunes back in 2011. She also tasted international success and ended up being on the first spot in over nineteen countries.

She has five songs that held the numero uno position on the Billboard, including Shallow, Just Dance, Bad Romance, and Poker Face. Her 2020 collab with Ariana Grande, Rain on Me, was the first female collab that gained the top spot on Billboard.

Other Ventures

Apart from being one of the highest-paid artists in the world, Lady Gaga has also won numerous awards, including the Grammys. She has won the Grammys 12 times and holds a few Guinness World Records!

Lady Gaga is also focusing on her new entrepreneurial journey as she has just launched a vegan cosmetic brand called Haus Laboratories, as well as a fashion brand called Haus of Gaga.

 

 

Katy Perry

Dancer, Microphone, Purple, Artist

Best-Selling Album: One of the Boys

Sales: 143 million

No. 1 Singles Billboard: Firework, I Kissed a Girl, Last Friday Night, California Girls, Roar, Teenage Dream, Dark Horse, Part of Me, E.T.

Perry started with singing gospels and released her first album Katy Hudson back in 2001, which was a failure. However, she didn’t let that failure dictate her career, as she soon became one of the best female artists on the scene.

Albums Success

The failure of Katy Hudson didn’t stop Katy Perry from achieving success, and she announced her arrival on the big stage with the popular hit I Kissed a Girl with her album One of the Boys back in 2008. Teenage Dream, Katy Perry’s third album, was even a big hit – second only to MJ’s Bad. It had five songs that topped the Billboard Hot 100 list, which included Last Friday Night, Teenage Dream, California Girls, and E.T.

Prism, Katy’s fourth album also was a huge success, with Dark Horse and Roar being the leading singles. She became the first female to have more than one video with over a billion views on Vevo. Her next two releases Smile and Witness also went on to break multiple records.

Singles Success

Katy Perry has a total of nine smash hits including Part of Me and California Girls.

One of the Boys included her popular hits like Hot n Cold and I Kissed a Girl were quintuple platinum certified by RIAA. From the album Prism, Dark Horse, Firework, and Roar were also certified as diamond, which made her the first person to achieve the rare feat. Perry also holds the world record for having sold almost six million songs worldwide.

Other Ventures

Katy has won a total of five Billboard Music Awards, has been included four times in the Guinness World Records, and is also on the list of highest-earning females for the last ten years.

Her most career-defining moment came in the 2016 Super Bowl Half-Time, which was quite popular.

 

 

Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand Singing, Microphone, Public address system, Musician, Music, Music artist

Best-Selling Album: Guilty

Sales: 150 million

No. 1 Singles Billboard: No More Tears, The Way We Were, You Don’t Bring Me Flowers, Woman in Love

Barbra Streisand is a legend when it comes to the music industry, having been in the business for well over five decades. She has been a part of multiple movies, performed on Broadway, and also released a ton of popular albums throughout her career. She began in the 1960s and became a popular star with the success of The Barbra Streisand Album, which was also adjudged the winner of Grammys including one for the best album that year.

Albums Success

Barbra has recorded well over eighty albums in her career, and eleven have been at the top of Billboard 200, which makes her the only woman artist to have done so. Only Elvis Presley is ahead of her – she has 31 platinum albums and 52 gold albums in her career!

Barbra happens to be the only artist who has had a top spot album in each decade of her career, which is quite an astonishing feat in itself. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that she is ranked as the highest-certified woman artist with close to 70 million album pieces in the United States.

Singles Success

Right from the 1960s when her career began, Barbra has been on the top of the Hot 100 for five times. The songs for which she was ranked one include Evergreen, Woman in Love, and The Way We Were to name a few. The Way We Were, in fact, was the first song by a woman artist to have claimed the top spot in the US.

Other Ventures

Barbra is the record seventh best-selling woman artist of all time, and is one of the special artists to have won the Academy Awards (twice), Emmys, Grammys (eight times!), Tony Awards, and the Golden Globes. She also won the Presidential Medal of Freedom.