VH1 100 Greatest Women Of Rock And Roll 1999 Added July 16, 1999

An article at USA Today Online and in the July 16, 1999 printed edition of the newspaper list the VH1 100 Greatest Women Of Rock And Roll and Tori made #71 on the list. Aretha Franklin was #1. VH1 designated July 26- August 1, 1999 as 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll Week and had a TV special about it. Below you can see the full list. While VH1 placed Tori at #71 on their official list, they had an online poll at the VH1.com web site where you could vote for your favorite women. Tori made #5 on that list! (Stevie Nicks was #1.)

1. Aretha Franklin
2. Tina Turner
3. Janis Joplin
4. Bonnie Raitt
5. Joni Mitchell
6. Billie Holiday
7. Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders)
8. Madonna
9. Annie Lennox
10. Carole King
11. Patsy Cline
12. Deborah Harry
13. Ella Fitzgerald
14. Stevie Nicks
15. Patti Smith
16. The Supremes (Diana Ross)
17. Chaka Khan
18. Gladys Knight
19. Etta James
20. Grace Slick
21. Linda Ronstadt
22. Emmylou Harris
23. The Mamas & the Papas (Cass Elliot, Michelle Phillips)
24. Dusty Springfield
25. Marianne Faithfull
26. Bessie Smith
27. Joan Baez
28. Carly Simon
29. Karen Carpenter
30. Rickie Lee Jones
31. Barbra Streisand
32. Joan Jett
33. k.d. lang
34. Dolly Parton
35. Sinead O'Connor
36. Bjork
37. Donna Summer
38. Diana Ross (solo)
39. Pat Benatar
40. Heart (Ann and Nancy Wilson)
41. Patti LaBelle
42. Dionne Warwick
43. Cher
44. Sheryl Crow
45. Roberta Flack
46. Kate Bush
47. The B-52's (Cindy Wilson, Kate Pierson)
48. Dinah Washington
49. Melissa Etheridge
50. Sarah Vaughan
51. Bette Midler
52. Laura Nyro
53. Alanis Morissette
54. Tracy Chapman
55. PJ Harvey
56. Martha & the Vandellas (Martha Reeves)
57. Mavis Staples
58. Cyndi Lauper
59. Joan Armatrading
60. Ruth Brown
61. Whitney Houston
62. Lena Horne
63. Christine McVie (Fleetwood Mac)
64. The Shirelles
65. Loretta Lynn
66. Sade (feat. Sade Adu)
67. The Ronettes (Ronnie Spector)
68. Hole (Courtney Love)
(tie) Sarah McLachlan
70. ABBA (Agnetha Faltskog, Frida Lyngstad)
71. Tori Amos
72. Queen Latifah
73. Tammy Wynette
74. Anita Baker
75. Exene Cervenka (X)
76. The Go-Go's (Belinda Carlisle)
77. Janet Jackson
78. Mahalia Jackson
79. Indigo Girls (Amy Ray, Emily Saliers)
80. Big Mama Thornton
81. Gloria Estefan
82. Grace Jones
(tie) Salt-N-Pepa
84. Yoko Ono
85. Petula Clark
86. Laurie Anderson
87. Nico
88. Sheila E.
89. Eartha Kitt
90. Ani DiFranco
91. Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth)
92. Natalie Cole
93. Peggy Lee
94. Liz Phair
95. Olivia Newton-John
96. Siouxsie Sioux (Siouxsie & the Banshees)
97. Lucinda Williams
98. Kim Deal (Breeders, Pixies)
99. Tina Weymouth (Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club)
100. Erykah Badu

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