Top Country Female Billboard List

Someone on the Olivia board posted the following(on the Village green section) so i thought it s definitly of interest for this board.

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Okay – here is the latest update as of 2005 of the TOP female country artists on Billboard Singles chart

1. Dolly Parton
2. Reba McEntire
3. Loretta Lynn
4. Tammy Wynette
5. Tanya Tucker
6. Kitty Wells
7. Crystal Galye
8. Barbara Mandrell
9. Lynn Anderson
10. Anne Murray
11. Dottie West
12. Emmylou Harris
13. Patty Loveless
14. Martina McBride
15. Connie Smith
16. Janie Fricke
17. Trisha Yearwood
18. Faith Hill
19. Kathy Mattea
20. Lorrie Morgan
21. Jean Shepard
22. Charly McClain
23. Shania Twain
24. The Judds
25. Donna Fargo
26. Skeeter Davis
27. Rosanne Cash
28. Pam Tillis
29. Dixie Chicks
30. Wynonna


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Yep, MARTINA IS 14TH, AHEAD OF FAITH AND SHANIA, YES SIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


-Claude

I can only assume this is an all time list, and I would say she is in some Pretty HIGH COTTEN there

hehehe as it should be. and look whos second i love Reba

I own a copy of that lists and others like it... it's for all-time thru mid-2005 or before "Rose Garden" charted for Martina.

thats great for Martina..

I just cant believe where Faith and Tricia was in the list- they had a lot of airplay for females in our markets. (All county Females except for a select few seem to get the short end of the stick on airplay up here)..

I'm very happy M is ahead of those other ladies, but the list seems a bit strange-Faith & Shania's single have both done better-they've had more Top 10's and more number 1's.

The poster posted another post a week ago, in which the 1st chart(not the one i posted) hadn t been updated in a while. He expained that Billboards came up with a points system on singles on the country chart. For instance, here what he said about Shania and Lynn Anderson for instance:

"Actually, Shania's singles on the country charts have done well but they have not accumulated enough points to get in the Top 10. Take for instance, Lynn Anderson, she charted 60 singles at #9. Shania has not charted anything close to that. Plus songs in the 50s, 60s and 70s stayed on the charts longer than from the 80s forward. "

I posted his updated chart which includes Martina, Shania and Faith. Also Reba is lot higher that in the 1st chart.

Thank you Claude!
That is pretty nice to see.

The only women on the list that I hear on the radio anymore are Faith Hill and Dixie Chicks.