TIME MAGAZINE’S ULTIMATE RANKING OF POP STARDOM
Take the gloves off because Mariah Carey can officially add something else to her “Number One’s”.
She has been named Time Magazine’s “Ultimate Pop Star of All Time.”
Don’t shoot the messenger!
I know, I know.
Don’t get it twisted, I’m a writer but I blog for a “loving”…I don’t get high on my own supply…
So coming from a chronic fame-unfazed unworldly girl myself, it all seems so redundant rather than redeeming these days; America’s fascination with lists and awards (to an almost robotic, annual, and unnatural fault).
But like I said, I blog…so, it’s not always about me…it’s about YOU and what YOU like…American Popular culture is obsessed with it-so..here it goes!
AFTER MARIAH, HERE ARE YOUR FAVES-IN THIS ORDER:
- Rihanna
- Usher
- The Beatles
- Madonna
- Janet
- Whitney Houston (#RIP)
- Michael Jackson (#RIP)
- Katy Perry
- Boyz II Men
- Elton John
- Stevie Wonder
- Diddy
- Ludacris
- Beyonce
- Kanye West
- Bruno Mars
- 50 Cent
- Alicia Keys
- The Supremes
- The Bee Gees
- The Rolling Stones
- Eminem
- Justin Timberlake
- The Black Eyed Peas
- Elvis Presley (#RIP)
- Lady Gaga
- Jay-Z
- Akon
- Jennifer Lopez
- R.Kelly
- T-Pain
- Donna Summer (#RIP)
- Olivia Newton-John
- Chris Brown
- Christina Aguilera
- Lionel Richie
- Phil Collins
- Celine Dion
- Barbara Streisand
- Snoop Dogg
- Maroon 5
- Lil Wayne
- The 4 Season
- Toni Braxton
- Cher
- Marvin Gaye (#RIP)
- Santana
- Taylor Swift
- Britney Spears
- Miley Cyrus
HOW THE LIST WAS DETERMINED:
Methodology
Data comes from the Billboard archives. Points are awarded by placement in the Top Ten, from ten points for a number-one hit to one point for a number-10 song. All artists listed by name on a track are given full points for its chart performance, but groups with members who later had solo careers are still counted as separate entities. (Beyoncé, for example, gets points for “Telephone,” a Lady Gaga song in which she is featured, but does not receive points for songs attributed to Destiny’s Child, the trio that launched her career.) Points for songs are assigned to the year in which the song debuted in the top ten, even if its popularity runs into the next calendar year (cont’d)
