100 Pop Records by Women I Highly Recommend

[BluVelvUnderground 1,754]

Also, I guess, my favorites, but I extended a lot of my considerations/choices here on the idea you pretty much don't waste your time listening to any of them! To keep it varied, I had a one album per artist/band rule. Most of these artists have made many other albums I've loved, but I've settled on these as my favorites, I guess. When it came to defending 'pop', it was too much of a pseudo intellectual headache, so I just went to RateYourMusic.com and used whatever they labeled as pop. lol Their genres are here, so please don't @ me with those, and sorry for being all presumptive beforehand. 

 

(I'll eventually edit Spotify links in here, I just spent so much doing this already that I'm gonna rest a bit lol)

 

Billie Holiday - “Billie Holiday” (1947) [Traditional Pop]

 

Judy Garland - “Alone” (1957) [Traditional Pop]

 

Lesley Gore - “I’ll Cry If I Want To” (1960) [Teen Pop]

The Supremes - “Where Did Our Love Go” (1964) [Girl Group, Pop Soul]

The Shangri-Las - “Shangri-Las-65!” (1965) [Girl Group]

Laura Nyro - “Eli and the Thirteenth Confession” (1968) [Pop Soul, Progressive Pop]

Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood - “Nancy & Lee” (1968) [Country Pop]

Peggy Lee - “Is That All There Is?” (1969) [Traditional Pop]

Dusty Springfield - “Dusty in Memphis” (1969) [Pop Soul]

 

Dionne Warwick - “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again” (1970) [Pop Soul]

Carpenters - “Carpenters” (1971) [Baroque Pop]

Bette Midler - “The Divine Miss M” (1972) [Pop]

Cher - “Dark Lady” (1974) [Pop]

Dolly Parton - “Jolene” (1974) [Country Pop]

Minnie Riperton - “Perfect Angel” (1974) [Pop Soul]

Janis Ian - “Between the Lines” (1975) [Folk Pop]

Joni Mitchell - “The Hissing of Summer Lawns” (1975) [Vocal Pop]

Fleetwood Mac - “Rumours” (1977) [Pop Rock]

Blondie - “Parallel Lines” (1978) [Pop Rock]

Rickie Lee Jones - “Rickie Lee Jones” (1979) [Jazz Pop]

 

Go-Go’s - “Beauty and the Beat” (1981) [Power Pop]

Yoko Ono - “Season of Glass” (1981) [Pop Rock]

Laurie Anderson - “Big Science” (1982) [Art Pop, Experimental, Electronic]

Cyndi Lauper - “She’s So Unusual” (1983) [Pop Rock]

Cocteau Twins - “Treasure” (1984) [Dream Pop]

Kate Bush - “Hounds of Love” (1985) [Art Pop, Progressive Pop]

Grace Jones - “Slave to the Rhythm” (1985) [Art Pop, Dance-Pop]

Janet Jackson - “Control” (1986) [Dance-Pop]

Sinéad O’Connor - “The Lion and the Cobra” (1987) [Art Pop, Pop Rock]

Suzanne Vega - “Solitude Standing” (1987) [Pop Rock]

Julee Cruise - “Floating Into the Night” (1989) [Ambient Pop, Dream Pop]

 

Mariah Carey - “Mariah Carey” (1990) [Pop]

Cranes - “Wings of Joy” (1991) [Dream Pop]

Annie Lennox - “Diva” (1992) [Sophisti-Pop]

Sade - “Love Deluxe” (1992) [Sophisti-Pop]

Slowdive - “Souvlaki” (1993) [Dream Pop, Shoegaze]

Everything but the Girl - “Amplified Heart” (1994) [Sophisti-Pop]

Milla - “The Divine Comedy” (1994) [Folk Pop, Art Pop]

Selena - “Amor Prohibido” (1994) [Latin Pop]

TLC - “CrazySexyCool” (1994) [Contemporary R&B]

That Dog. - “Totally Crushed Out!” (1995) [Power Pop]

Ani DiFranco - “Dilate” (1996) [Jazz Pop]

Donna Lewis - “Now in a Minute” (1996) [Pop]

Mazzy Star - “Among My Swan” (1996) [Dream Pop]

Spice Girls - “Spice” (1996) [Dance-Pop]

Missy Elliott - “Supa Dupa Fly” (1997) [Pop Rap]

Shania Twain - “Come On Over” (1997) [Country Pop]

Tori Amos - “From the Choirgirl Hotel” (1998) [Art Pop]

Lauryn Hill - “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” (1998) [Contemporary R&B]

Madonna - “Ray of Light” (1998) [Art Pop]

Dido - “No Angel” (1999) [Pop]

Kelis - “Kaleidoscope” (1999) [Contemporary R&B]

 

Poe - “Haunted” (2000) [Pop Rock]

Aaliyah - “Aaliyah” (2001) [Contemporary R&B]

Björk - “Vespertine” (2001) [Art Pop, Electronic]

Lily Chou-Chou - “Kokyuu” (2001) [Dream Pop]

Kylie - “Fever” (2001) [Dance-Pop]

Norah Jones - “Come Away with Me” (2002) [Jazz Pop]

Avril Lavigne - “Let Go” (2002) [Pop Rock]

Jennifer Lopez - “This Is Me... Then” (2002) [Pop]

Goldfrapp - “Black Cherry” (2003) [Electropop]

Gwen Stefani - “Love.Angel.Music.Baby.” (2004) [Dance-Pop]

Antony and the Johnsons - “I Am a Bird Now” (2005) [Chamber Pop]

Nelly Furtado - “Loose” (2006) [Dance-Pop]

Charlotte Gainsbourg - “5:55” (2006) [Dream Pop, Art Pop]

Amy Winehouse - “Back to Black” (2006) [Pop Soul]

M.I.A. - “Kala” (2007) [Electropop]

Róisín Murphy - “Overpowered” (2007) [Electropop, Dance-Pop]

Britney Spears - “Blackout” (2007) [Dance-Pop]

Lykke Li - “Youth Novels” (2008) [Indie Pop, Art Pop]

Santogold - “Santogold” (2008) [Electropop]

St. Vincent - “Actor” (2009) [Art Pop]

 

Robyn - “Body Talk” (2010) [Electropop, Dance-Pop]

Sleigh Bells - “Treats” (2010) [Noise Pop]

Lady Gaga - “Born This Way” (2011) [Dance-Pop, Electropop]

Fiona Apple - “The Idler Wheel is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More That Ropes Will Ever Do” (2012) [Art Pop]

Grimes - “Visions” (2012) [Synthpop]

Sky Ferreira - “Night Time, My Time” (2013) [Synthpop, Noise Pop]

Haim - “Days Are Gone” (2013) [Pop Rock]

Lana Del Rey - “Ultraviolence” (2014) [Dream Pop, Art Pop]

Miley Cyrus - “Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz” (2015) [Psychedelic Pop]

Julia Holter - “Have You in My Wilderness” (2015) [Art Pop, Chamber Pop]

Carly Rae Jepsen - “E-MO-TION” (2015) [Dance-Pop, Synthpop]

Lemon Meringue Die - “Nobody Wouldn’t See Good Things” (2015) [Noise Pop, Bedroom Pop]

Beyoncé - “Lemonade” (2016) [Contemporary R&B]

Katie Dey - “Flood Network” (2016) [Hypnagogic Pop]

Rihanna - “ANTI” (2016) [Contemporary R&B]

Solange - “A Seat at the Table” (2016) [Art Pop]

Kesha - “Rainbow” (2017) [Pop Rock]

Lorde - “Melodrama” (2017) [Synthpop, Art Pop]

Patricia Taxxon - “Paul” (2017) [Ambient Pop, Bedroom Pop]

Mitski - “Be the Cowboy” (2018) [Art Pop]

Janelle Monáe - “Dirty Computer” (2018) [Art Pop]

SOPHIE - “Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides” (2018) [Hyperpop]

FKA twigs - “Magdalene” (2019) [Art Pop, Glitch Pop]

Weyes Blood - “Titanic Rising” (2019) [Baroque Pop, Art Pop]

 

Charli XCX - “How I’m Feeling Now” (2020) [Electropop, Hyperpop]

Taylor Swift - “Folklore” (2020) [Folk Pop]

kendall :3 - “dirt” (2021) [Art Pop, Glitch Pop]

Magdalena Bay - “Mercurial World” (2021) [Synthpop]

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1 hour ago, BluVelvUnderground said:

Judy Garland - “Alone” (1957) [Traditional Pop]

Cher - “Dark Lady” (1974) [Pop]

Dolly Parton - “Jolene” (1974) [Country Pop]

Mariah Carey - “Mariah Carey” (1990) [Pop]

Avril Lavigne - “Let Go” (2002) [Pop Rock]

Gwen Stefani - “Love.Angel.Music.Baby.” (2004) [Dance-Pop]

Amy Winehouse - “Back to Black” (2006) [Pop Soul]

Britney Spears - “Blackout” (2007) [Dance-Pop]

Lady Gaga - “Born This Way” (2011) [Dance-Pop, Electropop]

Lana Del Rey - “Ultraviolence” (2014) [Dream Pop, Art Pop]

Miley Cyrus - “Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz” (2015) [Psychedelic Pop]

Carly Rae Jepsen - “E-MO-TION” (2015) [Dance-Pop, Synthpop]

Kesha - “Rainbow” (2017) [Pop Rock]

Taylor Swift - “Folklore” (2020) [Folk Pop]

I love these albums

[Alison by Slowdive 26,016]

nancy & lee, cocteau twins, slowdive, lana, blackout, and love angel music baby ugh the best there ever was