Billboard has named Beyoncé the Greatest Pop Star of the 21st Century. Billboard said, “You can watch her on stage for half a minute and instantly recognize that she’s an all-timer . . .Her inherent combination of dazzling beauty, impeccable fashion, captivating staging, otherworldly physicality and simultaneously earthy and skyscraping vocals all speaks for itself. Few artists this period can match her in any of the most critical basic categories of pop stardom: commercial success, performance abilities, critical acclaim and accolades, industry influence, iconic cultural moments. And absolutely no one can equal her in all of them. Even Taylor Swift, the lone artist who really challenged Beyoncé for the top spot on these rankings . . . simply hasn’t been around for long enough to be able to match the expansiveness of her quarter-century of dominance.”
Let’s not forget before she went solo Beyoncé got her start in Destiny’s Child!
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