A lot of the inclusions on this list is to put it simply... ridiculous. Let's break this down from the top down (and note I am a fan of a lot of the acts I will breakdown):
Madonna and Mariah I will agree with on the top 2. However the rest of the top 5 needs to be re-examined. Beyonce may have had hits under her belt, but she is nowhere near the status of others below her expecially Whitney, Celine, Gloria, Janet, among others. Then we have Adele and Lady Gaga, neither of which has started on their 3rd albums, yet somehow because they are hot tickets right now, they are given a huge bump to the list, knocking down much more deserving acts.
Christina and Mary J are a bit of a stretch, but still need to be lower. Pink should not even be in the top 20, let alone in the top 10.
Jennifer Lopez and Katy Perry do not belong in this side of the list either, and no way in hell should Rihanna be ranked above Celine.
Celine at #21 is a joke. I won't even go down her track record, and to see several of these so high while she hangs out here is atrocious. If Carrie Underwood is going to be so high, she needs to flip with Shania. When Carrie gets 2 diamond albums, then we'll talk.
Jennifer Hudson, give her a few years she may earn her position, but she's not there yet. I'd say top 40.
I'm sorry, but Amy Winehouse does not deserve to be that high. If she were still alive, she'd barely be in the top 60.
You also have the nerve to tell me that 30 acts on this list are greater than Cher? For real?
And in the wtf were they smoking moment, just one spot below Cher is that god-awful Fantasia, who is more known for sleeping with a married man than she is for anything else she has done. She is not hot, she is a hot mess.
Norah Jones is another that is too high.
How in the hell is Shakira ranked 20 spots higher than Gloria Estefan???
Nicki Minaj. wow. Talk about a joke. Another example of what happened with Lady Gaga and Adele. To see her above Lil' Kim or Eve is a disgrace.
If we're going to push Adele and Gaga so high, why not throw Taylor Swift there too? I would even go on to say this is probably where the previous two should have been.
Lil' Kim despite being ranked lower than Nicki is still way too high. 90s would be generous for her.
Who in their right mind would rank Gloria so low? She needs to be in the top 20 at worst.
Speaking of the worst, why is Ke$ha even in consideration for a list like this? To have her included is bad enough, but to say she's only 1 notch lower than Gloria is a disgrace to the industry.
We have all these jokers on the list, but where is Enya (who is pretty much her own genre)? Where is Reba? Where is Martina McBride? Amy Grant? Vanessa Williams?
That's about as far as I'm gonna go, you can't get worse than that. Skimming the latter half, LeAnn Rimes and the Spice Girls should be higher. If this were truly done correctly, it would be Madonna, Mariah, Whitney & Celine as the top 4.