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let's go girls they fight for respect
their careers and their men and they do
it all with a twang in their voices
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we're
counting down our picks for the top ten
female country music stars of all time
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number ten Carrie Underwood Carrie
Underwood shot to start him on American
Idol in 2005 and she's one veteran of
that program who definitely deserved the
spotlight audiences love for Underwood's
girl-next-door style is demonstrated by
her worldwide sales of over 25 million
singles and upwards of 15 million albums
with a Guinness world record for female
with the most number one country hit
since 1991
she's an idol around the world not just
in America
number nine Taylor Swift
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ex-boyfriends may see red over being
fodder for many of her songs but hey
that's what coming he's dating a country
music superstar Taylor Swift hit it big
at 16 and has since sold an amazing
number of records twenty-six million and
Counting
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she's already won a slew of Grammys
including album of the year for fearless
so all you're ever gonna be is mean to
think that there aren't more Awards in
her future why you gotta be so number
eight Shania Twain singers from the
United States came to dominate country
music but the artist with the
best-selling country album in history as
Canada's own Shania Twain
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her 1997 effort come on over sold an
astounding 40 million copies across the
globe towering in comparison over the 20
million sold of 1995's
the woman in me she's not called the
queen of country top for nothing that
don't impress me
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number seven Kitty Wells Shania may be
the queen of country pop but the title
of queen of country music goes to Kitty
Wells
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her 1952 breakthrough it wasn't God who
made honky tonk angels made Wells the
first female country music star and
proved a woman could have a successful
country career her willingness to take
risks pave the way for all the other
ladies on this list
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number six Patsy Cline
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if wells paved the way then it was Patsy
Cline who blazed new trails and country
music and demanded respect from the
male-dominated industry Klein's
heartfelt vulnerability and impeccable
phrasing made classics of crazy sweet
dreams and I fall to pieces
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the 1963 plane crash that tragically
claimed her life at age 30 deprived
country-music of one of its most
charismatic performers
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number fun Tanya Tucker Tanya Tucker
burst onto the scene at age 13 after
scoring a top ten country hit with Delta
dawn
unlike the character Delta dawn Tucker
didn't become a faded rose she blossomed
into an adult country music sensation
with ten number-one country hits and
dozens more that zoomed into the top ten
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number four Tammy Wynette
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when Tammy Wynette recorded stand by
your man in 1968 she didn't know it
would become her signature track let
alone one of the most famous songs and
country music history the tomb was just
one of the 20 country number ones for
the artists voted female vocalist of the
year three years running by the Country
Music Association
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ynette died in 1998 at age 55 after
years of health problems but left a body
of work that continues to inspire
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number three reba mcentire did in its
trip the most successful female country
star of the 1980s and 90s Reba McEntire
is tied with Dolly Parton as the female
country artist with the most number one
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down-home yet sexy and clearly nobody's
fool McEntire popularized a more
contemporary view of women that was
typical in country music at the time
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number two Loretta Lynn when I was born
to coal matters water this coal miners
daughter brought the legitimate but not
often discussed concerns of women into
country music
she sang about birth control sexual
double standards the struggles of
motherhood and even tackled the Vietnam
War all on the way to becoming the first
lady of country music
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though she was a country music
phenomenon starting back in the 1960s
Loretta Lynn croup she was still a
powerful force in 2005 when Van Leer
Rose won the Grammy for best country
album
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number one Dolly Parton with a shape
that matches her outsized personality
Dolly Parton is probably the most
recognizable figure and country music
and one of its true legends
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Partin has been a towering presence in
the Nashville Scene almost since her
1967 debut album and it is estimated she
has sold more than 170 million albums
over her career buoyant gutsy charmingly
outspoken and West with a one-of-a-kind
voice there is no doubt we will always
love you dolly
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