Music Women by 
Robert Anton Wilson 
MUSIC BY FEMALE ARTISTS
Oftentimes we think of women in music as singers and this chart does sway in that direction. However, to me it is important that an artist write her own song or play an instrument. This chart is clearly not a top 40 or top selling female artists chart.
In order to prevent ranking hell and aberrations, I have created sub-groups within the chart (ordered by personal preference within):
[Actual numbers will change as the chart is completed]
The Top 50 are actual personal favorites
Starting at about 49 [to 58] are albums/bands that have hit a nerve with me and belong, but that I have not yet given the proper listening time or attention to be certain of where they belong in my personal canon.
[60-64] The Grande Dame, ladies and queens of blues, soul and jazz (Aretha, Billie, Ella, ...) including the pioneers (Big Mama Thornton, Memphis Minnie, ...)
[66-68] The contemporary blues -usually girls with guitars (Johanne Shaw-Taylor, Ana Popovic, Susan Tedeschi, ...)
[69-76] The French singers, mostly from Quebec or France (Isabelle Boulay, France D'amour, Luce Dufault, ...)
[77-86] The obligatory hit makers and mainstream artists I can stand and appreciate (The Bangles, The Go-Go's, ...)
[88 to end of chart] - The artists who made the chart on the strength of an exceptionally strong song or album (Babe Ruth, 4 Non Blondes, Alannah Myles, ...)
Ok. I am stuck and I am sure I am missing some critical entries. Hence, I leave it up to your perusal, I am hoping you will make some discoveries or that some of those choices resonate with your own favorites.
Open for suggestions with the following caveats
Top 40 female artists such as Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Ariana Grande or Beyonce => I don't go there
The missing stratospheric divas: Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion => I don't go there
No disco or hip-hop
Anyway, you should get hints from my current choices of what I may go for or not
Artists I know I am missing, but do not know what to do about it yet: Nina Hagen, No Doubt, Melissa Auf der Maur (I love her but can't stand the other one! Sorry). Bands that do not come across well as "female artists" even though one of their member is, e.g. Talking Heads, Crash Test Dummies.
- Chart updated: 07/15/2023 03:15
- (Created: 02/17/2022 01:19).
- Chart size: 93 albums.
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Classic top notch Dutch neo prog with a female singer and bassist (at times). I got to see Anneke in my hometown in some sleazy miniscule dive opening up for a metal band. This lady can sing metal as well as opera and she keeps alternating between the sweet and the hard, the mainstream pop and the specialized crowd projects (prog/prog metal). She is the artist that is the most often repeated on this list -yeah, I may have cheated a little there. She gets brownie points for being such a good and frequent collaborator.
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Singer, lyricist and composer for the bands The Gathering and Vuur; solo albums as Agua de Annique or under her own name; she collaborated with Ayreon, Anathema, John Wetton and many more. An amazing voice. When this album was coming I was fearful because it was advertised as a mostly acoustic break-up album. Well, as far as acoustic break-up albums go, it rocks quite a lot and is an amazing listen.
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Anneke van Giersbergen on this chart for a third entry. This time in the guise of a collaboration project spearheaded by her and Arjen Anthony Lucassen (Ayreon). This is good neo prog. One very unique feature of this project is that it is a double CD album showcasing two different versions of the same songs and conceptual tale each on its own CD. The "Gentle" CD includes acoustic, softer, folk-oriented versions while the "Storm" CD includes symphonic progressive rock versions. The concept album is not dead yet.
[First added to this chart: 02/16/2022]
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Music Women composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 2 | 2% | |
| 1960s | 3 | 3% | |
| 1970s | 8 | 9% | |
| 1980s | 14 | 15% | |
| 1990s | 25 | 27% | |
| 2000s | 20 | 22% | |
| 2010s | 15 | 16% | |
| 2020s | 6 | 6% |
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| Lee Aaron | 2 | 2% | |
| Go-Go's | 1 | 1% | |
| Anneke Van Giersbergen | 1 | 1% | |
| She & Him | 1 | 1% | |
| Big Mama Thornton | 1 | 1% | |
| Fiona Apple | 1 | 1% | |
| Rosalie Cunningham | 1 | 1% | |
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43 | 46% | |
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18 | 19% | |
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11 | 12% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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3 | 3% | |
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3 | 3% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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Music Women chart changes
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 2 from 91st to 93rd Alannah Myles by Alannah Myles |
| New entries |
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 Call Of The Wildby Lee Aaron |
| Witchy Activities And The Maple Death by Monika Roscher Bigband |
| Ding Dong. You’re Dead. by Hedvig Mollestad Trio |
| Leavers |
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 Powerline: The Best Of Lee Aaronby Lee Aaron |
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