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Artists with the richest timelines →The life story of every artist worth remembering
23,672 artists — each with a dated timeline, a long-formbiography, a full discography and normalised stats you can put head-to-head against any other artist.
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Tier 1 · contemporary stars
819 artists with current streaming demand — the pages that carry the traffic.
Shakira
Spain · Person · born 1977
rock music, pop music, contemporary R&B, pop rock, dance music, folk music, Latin pop, Latin rock, world music
90.8M listeners · 236 wikis
Madonna
United States · Person · born 1958
pop music, contemporary R&B, pop rock, dance music, electronic music, dance-pop, adult contemporary music, jazz, folk music
55M listeners · 193 wikis
Lady Gaga
United States · Person · born 1986
pop music, dance-pop, electronic dance music, art pop, synth-pop, electropop
100.2M listeners · 197 wikis
Taylor Swift
United States · Person · born 1989
pop music, country music
106.5M listeners · 178 wikis
Queen
United Kingdom · Group · 1970–present
rock music, hard rock, pop rock, glam rock, progressive rock, art rock, traditional heavy metal, heavy metal music
51.6M listeners · 190 wikis
Eminem
United States · Person · born 1972
hip-hop, horrorcore, hardcore hip-hop, comedy hip-hop, rap rock, Midwest hip-hop
74M listeners · 175 wikis
Justin Bieber
Canada · Person · born 1994
pop music, contemporary R&B, tropical house, reggaeton, contemporary country
112.8M listeners · 180 wikis
Beyoncé
United States · Person · born 1981
pop music, contemporary R&B, country music
63.9M listeners · 175 wikis
Rihanna
Barbados · Person · born 1988
pop music, contemporary R&B, adult contemporary music, dancehall, electronic dance music
116.1M listeners · 156 wikis
Bob Dylan
United States · Person · born 1941
rock music, folk rock, country music, gospel music, blues, country rock, jazz, folk-pop, American folk music, Christian rock, Americana
14.7M listeners · 184 wikis
Adele
United Kingdom · Person · born 1988
rock music, pop music, soul, rhythm and blues, jazz, blue-eyed soul
59.5M listeners · 136 wikis
Ariana Grande
United States · Person · born 1993
pop music, contemporary R&B, electronic dance music
93.3M listeners · 141 wikis
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Long-form biography
Full life-story articles split into sections, in the artist's own language where one exists, with the revision and licence of every source shown on the page.
Start with the best-documented →Tier 2 · legacy legends
2,690 hall-of-fame careers with deep, one-off biographies.
Michael Jackson
United States · Person · born 1958
87.5M listeners · 322 wikis
The Beatles
United Kingdom · Group · 1960–1970
35.2M listeners · 245 wikis
Elvis Presley
United States · Person · born 1935
23.7M listeners · 216 wikis
ABBA
Sweden · Group · 1970–1982
42.6M listeners · 162 wikis
The Doors
United States · Group · 1965–2013
11.1M listeners · 187 wikis
Carpenters
United States · Group · 1969–1983
7.1M listeners · 195 wikis
Whitney Houston
United States · Person · born 1963
29.1M listeners · 137 wikis
Pink Floyd
United Kingdom · Group · 1964–2014
27.5M listeners · 126 wikis
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