Five times the Queen
Last week Rolling Stone did some number crunching based on data from 2010 and 2011, and created their own Queen Of Pop Index.
There were a few eyebrows raising at the list, and they decided to listen to all the fan feedback, and poll their readers so they could name their own queen of pop.
You don’t really need to ask yourself who tops the list (but you can read it in full further below), but we loved a few comments on the web about this.
“For some strange reason, I guess, there was some doubt as to who sits atop the throne of popdom but, well, there you have it. Unsurprisingly, the ONLY Queen of Pop was voted the winner so there’s really no news there…”, www.babelogs.net writes.
Rolling Stone Readers Poll: The Queen of Pop
1) Madonna
2) Lady GaGa
3) Britney Spears
4) Tina Turner
5) Beyoncé
6) Aretha Franklin
7) Katy Perry
8) Cher
9) Elton John
10) Mariah Carey
“To say that Madonna won this poll in a landslide would be like saying that she was a kind of popular pop singer in the 1980s,” the online website of the Music bible says.
“It wouldn’t even begin to explain the scope of the situation. She received five times as many votes as Lady Gaga, who landed in second place by a very comfortable margin. The only persistent criticism that Gaga has dealt with in recent years is that she’s too much like Madonna. It’s a hard shadow to escape. Madonna is a musical icon without peer. Her run of hits over the past 30 years is simply astounding, and when she hits the road, tickets sell like it’s a Led Zeppelin reunion tour. Sure, her last few albums didn’t match up to the classics. Nobody cares. She’s Madonna. Lady Gaga has accomplished more in recent years than any artist of her era, but she’s still got a long climb until she reaches Madonna level. It’s very likely that no other artist will ever reach it though. Her manager Guy Oseary recently tweeted that she’s started recording her 12th studio album, so clearly she has no intention of slowing down anytime soon.”
From RollingStone.com.