1. Aretha Franklin

2. Tina Turner

3. Janis Joplin

4. Bonnie Raitt

5. Joni Mitchell

6. Billie Holiday

7. Chrissie Hynde

8. Madonna

9. Annie Lennox

10. Carole King

11. Patsy Cline

12. Debbie Harry

13. Ella Fitzgerald

14. Stevie Nicks

15. Patti Smith

16. The Supremes

17. Chaka Khan

18. Gladys Knight

19. Etta James

20. Grace Slick

21. Linda Ronstadt

22. Emmylou Harris

23. Mamas & The Papas

24. Dusty Springfield

25. Marianne Faithfull

26. Bessie Smith

27. Joan Baez

28. Carly Simon

29. Karen Carpenter

30. Rickie Lee Jones

31. Barbra Streisand

32. Joan Jett

33. k.d. lang

34. Dolly Parton

35. Sinéad O'Connor

36. Björk

37. Donna Summer

38. Diana Ross

39. Pat Benatar

40. Heart

41. Patti LaBelle

42. Dionne Warwick

43. Cher

44. Sheryl Crow

45. Roberta Flack

46. Kate Bush

47. The B-52's

48. Dinah Washington

49. Melissa Etheridge

50. Sarah Vaughan

51. Bette Midler

52. Laura Nyro

53. Alanis Morissette

54. Tracy Chapman

55. PJ Harvey

56. Martha & The Vandellas

57. Mavis Staples

58. Cyndi Lauper

59. Joan Armatrading

60. Ruth Brown

61. Whitney Houston

62. Lena Horne

63. Christine McVie

64. The Shirelles

65. Loretta Lynn

66. Sade

67. The Ronettes

68. Hole

69. Sarah McLachlan

70. Abba

71. Tori Amos

72. Queen Latifah

73. Tammy Wynette

74. Anita Baker

75. Exene Cervenka

76. The Go-Go's

77. Janet Jackson

78. Mahalia Jackson

79. Indigo Girls

80. Big Mama Thornton

81. Gloria Estefan

82. Grace Jones

83. Salt-N-Pepa

84. Yoko Ono

85. Petula Clark

86. Laurie Anderson

87. Nico

88. Sheila E.

89. Eartha Kitt

90. Ani DiFranco

91. Kim Gordon

92. Natalie Cole

93. Peggy Lee

94. Liz Phair

95. Olivia Newton-John

96. Siouxsie Sioux

97. Lucinda Williams

98. Kim Deal

99. Tina Weymouth

100. Erykah Badu