Most important artists
Michael Joseph Jackson was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actor who was called the King of Pop.
He started with his elder brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, and Marlon as a member of the Jackson 5 in 1964, and began his solo career in 1971.
In the early 1980s, Jackson became an important figure in popular music. His music videos for his songs used to break down racial barriers and he popularized some dance techniques such as the robot and the moonwalk.
Thriller is the best-selling album of all time, with sales of 65 million copies worldwide.
Jackson is one of the few artists to have been put into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice. He has won multiple Guinness World Records, 13 Grammy Awards, the Grammy Legend Award, theGrammy Lifetime Achievement Award, 26 American Music Awards and 13 number-one singles in the United States.
He has sold over 400 million records worldwide.
His changing appearance, personal relationships, and behavior, generated controversy and in the mid-1990s, (he was accused of child sexual abuse).
While preparing for his comeback concert series, Jackson died of intoxication on June 25, 2009.
Madonna Louise Ciccone is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman known as the 'Queen of Pop'.
Throughout her career, Madonna has written and produced most of her songs, with many of them reaching number one on the record charts, including "Like a Virgin", "Into the Groove", "Papa Don't Preach", "Like a Prayer", "Vogue", "Frozen", "Music", "Hung Up", and "4 Minutes".
Madonna has sold more than 300 million records worldwide breakind the Guinness World Record of best-selling artist.
Britney Jean Spears is an American singer and actress known as the 'Princess of Pop'.
Spears's first and second albums were very successful but in 2007, Spears's personal issues (behavior and hospitalizations) sent her career into hiatus.
Britney became a pop icon and was one of the artists that influenced the revival of teen pop in the late 1990s.
She also served as a judge during the second season of the American version of The X Factor.
She has won a Grammy Award, 6 MTV Video Music Awards, 9 Billboard Music Awards, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2009, Billboard ranked her as the 8th overall Artist of the Decade.
She has sold over 100 million albums worldwide and over 100 million singles.
The Backstreet Boys (BSB) is an American boy band, formed in 1993 by A. J. McLean, Howie Dorough,Nick Carter, Kevin Richardson, and Brian Littrell.
The group rose to fame with their debut album, Backstreet Boys in 1996.
In 2003 they went on a hiatus but two years later they regrouped.
In 2006, Kevin left the group to pursue other interests but in 2012 the group announced that he had rejoined them permanently.
The Backstreet Boys have sold over 175 million records worldwide, making them the best-selling boy band in history. They are the first group since Sade to have their first nine albums on the top 10 on the Billboard 200, and the only boy band to do so.
Christina María Aguilera is an American singer, songwriter, and actress.
She appeared on the television series Star Search and The Mickey Mouse Club in her early years.
After recording a theme for Disney's film Mulan, Aguilera recorded her debut album.
In 2010 Christina starred alongside Cher in the film Burlesque.
In 2011, Aguilera was featured on Maroon 5's top ten single "Moves like Jagger", which made her even more famous.
She also became a coach on The Voice (U.S).
She is a pop icon; she has earned 5 Grammy Awards, 1 Latin Grammy Award and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter is an American singer-songwriter, and actress.
She performed in some singing and dancing competitions as a child, and became famous in the late 1990s as the lead singer of the girl-group Destiny's Child.
In 2003, they went on a hiatus and in that time Beyoncé's debut album was published, starting like this her solo career. However, she also took an hiatus in 2010 and when she came back she started to be in charge of the management of her career.
She has sold over 118 million records as a solo artist and has won 20 Grammy Awardsand. In 2009, Billboard named her the Top Radio Songs Artist of the Decade, the Top Female Artist of the 2000s and in 2011 their Artist of the Millennium.
Take That are an English pop band formed in 1990. The group consists nowadays of Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, and Mark Owen but when they started Jason Orange and Robbie Williams were also members.
Robbie Williams left the band in 1995 while the four remaining members completed their world tour.
Take That without Williams officially announced a 2006 reunion tour around the UK.
Williams rejoined Take That in 2010 for the band's sixth studio album, Progress. It became the fastest selling album of the 21st century and the second fastest selling album in British history.
The group has had 28 top 40 singles and 17 top 5 singles in the United Kingdom.