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This is a list of girl groups of all musical genres. Girl groups are musical groups that only contain female vocalists. This is distinct from all-female bands, wherein the members themselves perform the instrumental components of the music (see List of all-female bands). This is not a list of solo female musicians or singers.
The Overlanders are the earliest British group to be classed as a one-hit wonder. [10] The Crazy World of Arthur Brown: 17 August 1968 "Fire" The group's debut self-titled album reached number two on the album chart, but neither the band nor Arthur Brown in his own right managed to secure another placing on either the singles or album chart. [11]
Pages in category "English girl groups" The following 66 pages are in this category, out of 66 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. The 411; B.
Girls Aloud (pictured in 2005) an example of a girl group.. A girl group is a music act featuring three or more female singers who generally harmonize together. The term "girl group" is also used in a narrower sense in the United States to denote the wave of American female pop music singing groups, many of whom were influenced by doo-wop and which flourished in the late 1950s and early 1960s ...
The artists of the 1970s produced so many chart-topping hits we compiled a list. It includes bands and singers such as Stevie Wonder, ABBA, and Redbone. ... of the '60s and late '70s, the song ...
A genre of music from the early 1960s United States, when pop-soul groups made up entirely of women found a large audience, especially among teens; these girl groups were closely associated with a few record labels and producers, especially Phil Spector and his Wall of Sound technique.
Girl groups have been popular at least since the heyday of the Boswell Sisters beginning in the 1930s, but the term "girl group" also denotes the wave of American female pop singing groups who flourished in the late 1950s and early 1960s between the decline of early rock and roll and the British Invasion, many of whom were influenced by doo-wop ...
In The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, music journalist Wayne Jancik defines a one-hit wonder as "an act that has won a position on [the] national, pop, Top 40 record chart just once." [1] Billboard magazine defines a U.S. one-hit wonder as an "artist that cracks the top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 and never makes it back to that position." [2]