MADONNA.
Madonna is the wealthiest woman in the music business, with an estimated net worth between $590 million to $800 million. She has sold more than 300 million records worldwide. The Guinness World Records acknowledged her as the best-selling female recording artist of all-time. According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), she is the best-selling female rock artist of the 20th century and the second top-selling female albums artist in the United States, with 64.5 million certified albums. Madonna is the most certified artist of all time in United Kingdom, with 45 awards from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) as of April 2013.
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Madonna remains the highest-grossing solo touring artist of all time, with over $1.4 billion earned from her concert tours throughout her career. As of 2016, Billboard Boxscore ranked Madonna as the third highest-grossing touring act of all time, with over $1.31 billion in concert gross since 1990, behind only The Rolling Stones ($1.84 billion) and U2 ($1.67 billion).[244] Madonna also remains the only woman in history with two solo concerts attended by 100,000 people; her Who’s That Girl World Tour’s concert in Parc de Sceaux, Paris, drew over 130,000 audience, while her Girlie Show World Tour’s concert in Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, drew over 120,000 audience. Madonna has also won seven Grammy Awards and twenty MTV Video Music Awards, including the 1986 Video Vanguard Award for which she became the first female recipient.
Madonna holds the record for the most number-ones on all combined Billboard charts, including twelve number-one songs on the Billboard Hot 100 and eight number-one albums on the Billboard 200. With 46 songs topping the Dance Club Songs chart, Madonna became the artist with the most number-one songs on an active Billboard chart, pulling ahead of George Strait with 44 number-one songs on the Hot Country Songs chart. She has also scored 38 top-ten singles on the Hot 100, more than any other artist in history. In 2008, Billboard ranked her at number two, behind the Beatles, on the Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists, making her the most successful solo artist in the chart’s history. In 2016, the magazine listed her as the Greatest Dance Club Songs Artist of All Time. At the 40th anniversary of Germany’s GfK Media Control Charts, Madonna was listed as the most successful singles artist in the chart’s history. – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna_(entertainer)#Achievements
List of Madonna records and achievements
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Madonna_records_and_achievements
Study names Madonna as most influential woman in history, used Wikipedia to analyse influence of global figures.
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Cultural impact of Madonna
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_impact_of_Madonna
60 Times Madonna Changed Our Culture – The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/16/arts/music/madonna-birthday-impact.html