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Billboard’s Top 100 Women Artists of the 21st Century Chart, Nos. 100-1

Powerhouse women dominated Billboard's charts over the first 25 years of the century.

Billboard | March 19, 2025

Women artists etched some of the most vaunted records ever on Billboard’s charts over the first quarter of the 21st century, sparking their status among the 100 Top Women Artists of the 21st Century, based on performance on the Billboard 200 albums chart and the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart.

Ahead of 2025’s Women in Music celebration, to be held Saturday, March 29, at the YouTube Theater in Inglewood, California, Billboard has ranked the top-performing artists, albums and songs of the first 25 years of the century since 2000. Below, we’re counting down all 100 Top Women Artists of the 21st Century (including soloists, all-women groups and groups with prominent women’s vocals), to be revealed — 20 per day — on March 13, 14, 17, 18 and 19.

No. 66, Shania Twain

When Twain mania was at its zenith, the Canadian-born singer-songwriter served up Come On Over, which commanded 50 weeks at No. 1 on Top Country Albums in 1997-2000, the longest rule by a woman. The set also hit No. 2 on the Billboard 200. The turn of the century brought new chart heights, as Up! opened atop both rankings in December 2002, marking Twain’s first Billboard 200 leader. Nearly 15 years later, she ruled the all-genre list again with Now.

From Come On Over and Up! combined, Twain rang up 12 Hot Country Songs top 10s. “You can’t rush writing good songs,” she told Billboard in 2017. “I can only speak for myself, but it just felt like, for me, that it just takes longer to make a truly great album, if you want it to be that great.” –J.A.

https://www.billboard.com/lists/top-women-artists-21st-century-chart/