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An all-female band is a band which has consisted entirely of female musicians for at least three-quarters of its active career. This article only lists all-female bands who perform original material that is either authored by themselves or authored by another musician for that band's use. Therefore vocal groups (girl groups) are not included.
The Spice Girls (here in 2008) are the best-selling girl group in history. [1][2] A girl group is a popular music act featuring several female singers who generally harmonize together. 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 ...
All-female band. An all-female band is a musical group in popular music that is exclusively composed of female musicians. This is distinct from a girl group, in which the female members are solely vocalists, though this terminology is not universally followed. [1] While all-male bands are common in many rock and pop scenes, all-female bands are ...
Having sold over 65 million records worldwide, TLC is the best-selling American girl group of all time. [5] [6] VH1 ranked TLC as the greatest female group, placing them at number 12 on the list of 100 Greatest Women in Music. [7] Billboard magazine ranked TLC as one of the greatest musical trios, [8] as well as the seventh-most-successful act ...
Usher accumulated the most number-one entries (seven) and the most weeks atop the chart (42 weeks) throughout the 2000s. Beyoncé spent 36 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 with five entries, including the number-one song of 2007, "Irreplaceable". Rihanna accumulated five number-one singles, spending 19 weeks atop the chart.
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.
An all-women musical group is one where the members are women who sing and who play their own instruments. Vocalists and vocal groups are not included here. Such groups can be included under Category:Girl groups or under an appropriate subcategory of Category:Vocal ensembles. See also: Category:Women's orchestras.
The Go-Go's are an American all-female rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1978. [1] Except for short periods when other musicians joined briefly, the band has had a relatively stable lineup consisting of Charlotte Caffey on lead guitar and keyboards, Belinda Carlisle on lead vocals, Gina Schock on drums, Kathy Valentine on bass, and Jane Wiedlin on rhythm guitar.