I listen to mostly male singers and female singers of rock bands .. diva - is generally not my thing, but I love some of the songs

1. Do you love music divas?
2. Who are your favorite divas?
3. Who is "the supreme diva" for you?

some tips

* Mariah Carey

Top Five Hits
2005 - "We Belong Together" - #1
1995 - "Fantasy" - #1
1993 - "Dreamlover" - #1
1993 - "Hero" - #1
1990 - "Vision Of Love" - #1

* Cher

Top Five Hits
1998 - "Believe" - #1
1971 - "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves" - #1
1973 - "Half-Breed" - #1
1974 - "Dark Lady" - #1
1966 - "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" - #2

* Celine Dion

Top Five Hits
1996 - "Because You Loved Me" - #1
1998 - "I'm Your Angel" - #1
1993 - "The Power of Love" - #1
1998 - "My Heart Will Go On" - #1
1996 - "It's All Coming Back To Me Now" - #2
* Aretha Franklin

Top Five Hits
1967 - "Respect" - #1
1967 - "Chain of Fools" - #2
1971 - "Spanish Harlem" - #2
1973 - "Until You Come Back To Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)" - #3
1985 - "Freeway of Love" - #3

* Whitney Houston

Top Five Hits
1992 - "I Will Always Love You" - #1
1986 - "Greatest Love Of All" - #1
1987 - "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) - #1
1990 - "All The Man That I Need" - #1
1987 - "Didn't We Almost Have It All" - #1

* Janet Jackson

Top Five Hits
1993 - "That's The Way Love Goes" - #1
2001 - "All For You" - #1
1989 - "Miss You Much" - #1
2000 - "Doesn't Really Matter" - #1
1990 - "Escapade" - #1

* Madonna

Top Five Hits
1994 - "Take a Bow" - #1
1984 - "Like a Virgin" - #1
2000 - "Music" - #1
1990 - "Vogue" - #1
1989 - "Like a Prayer" - #1

* Diana Ross

Top Five Hits
1980 - "Upside Down" - #1
1970 - "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" - #1
1976 - "Love Hangover" - #1
1973 - "Touch Me In the Morning" - #1
1975 - "Theme From Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To)" - #1
* Barbra Streisand

Top Five Hits
1976 - "Love Theme From A Star Is Born (Evergreen)" - #1
1980 - "Woman In Love" - #1
1973 - "The Way We Were" - #1
1980 - "Guilty" - #3
1979 - "The Main Event" - #3

* Donna Summer

Top Five Hits
1979 - "Bad Girls" - #1
1979 - "Hot Stuff" - #1
1978 - "MacArthur Park" - #1
1979 - "Dim All the Lights" - #2
1975 - "Love To Love You Baby" - #2

Don't forget these 2:

* Chaka Khan

Top Five Hits
1984 - I Feel For You - #3

1974 - Tell Me Something Good - #3

1975 - Sweet Thing - #5

1975 - Once You Get Started - #10

* Patti Labelle

Top Five Hits
1986 - On My Own - #1

1974 - Lady Marmalade - #1

1962 - I Sold My Heart To The Junkman - #15

1985 - New Attitude - #17

1964 - You'll Never Walk Alone - #34

I'm a big fan all the ones listed plus the two I added except Barbra and Diana. Mariah definetly has the complete complete diva package as far as I'm concerned. She's got the voice, the clothes, the attitude, and she buys crazy expensive stuff for no reason

The only female pop artists I like are,

Lady Gaga

Céline Dion

Janet Jackson

Madonna

.. in that order. Though I think all of the people listed so far are decent.

Top 5 from each music diva:

Janet:

Again

Love Will Never Do Without You

Nasty

Pleasure Principle

If

Mariah:

Can't Let Go

Fantasy

Breakdown

Never Too Far

For the Record

Madonna:

Like a Prayer

Express Yourself

Where's the Party

Spotlight

Open Your Heart

honorable mention: I'll Remember

Diana Ross:

Missing You

My Old Piano

Muscles

Love Hangover

Mirror Mirror

Lady Gaga:

Eh Eh

Bad Romance

Poker Face

Money Honey

Just Dance

Jody Watley:

Most of All

Some Kind of Lover

I'm the One You Need

Looking For a New Love

Still a Thrill

honorable mention: Learn To Say No

Toni Braxton:

Let It Flow

He Wasn't Man Enough

Spanish Guitar

Breathe Again

You're Making Me High

Whitney Houston:

I Learned From the Best

Higher Love remake

How Will I Know

Greatest Love Of All

I Wanna Dance With Somebody

Brandy:

Sittin Up In My Room

Full Moon

1st & Love

He Is

Finally

Honorable mention: Best Friend

Aaliyah:

The One I Gave My Heart To

Try Again

More Than a Woman

U Got Nerve

What If

Beyonce:

Crazy in Love

Naughty Girl

If I Were a Boy

Broken Hearted Girl

Love on Top

Celine Dion:

Because You Loved Me

Beauty & The Beast

That's the Way It Is

Touched By An Angel

I'm Alive

Mary J. Blige:

Everything

All That I Can Say

I'm Goin Down

No More Drama

Be Without You

And someone who think she's a diva but I dig her I guess....

Latoya Jackson:

Fill Your Cup

Night Time Lover

Aint Nobody Loves You Like I Love You

I Don't Play That

If you Feel the Funk

[Edited 12/27/12 2:33am]

People use the word Diva so loosely now and days.

These artists ARE Divas: It takes alot more than popularity to be a Diva.

Aretha Franklin

Barbara Streisand

Diana Ross

Donna Summer

Madonna

Cher

Celine

Patti

Janet Jackson

Whitney Houston

Chaka Khan

edit: Mariah

and I will come back and do my list for each one later

[Edited 12/27/12 7:32am]

I love every diva in this thread except LaToya. I'm just a casual fan of Brandy and Aaliyah but love everyone else mentioned.

1. Janet

2. Madonna

3. Mariah

4. Whitney

5. Diana

6. Donna

7. Tina

8. Linda Ronstadt

9. Cher

10. Bette Midler

Hey someone had to be ironic, so I threw in Latoya, I don't think I would put her in my top 100 artists though

yes, i love the pop diva's. as i call them mostly.. hehe

Madonna is my no. 1!

but i love them all really. but i think i prefer male/bands more, if i make a top 20 favorite artists, it will be mostly (male) bands.

but Madonna is my no. 1 and she is a pop diva so.. and my second favorite female artist, and also in my top 20 favorite artists... Kylie Minogue!!

love almost all of them. especially the ''newer'' ones too. like P!nk, Shakira, Gaga, Marina & The Diamonds (bit unknown but still), Robyn (same as Marina, but all pop music), Beyoncé, Lana Del Rey... etc.

and oldies ofcourse Diana Ross, Donna Summer, Cher, Tina, Janet...etc

but i don't like Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, Barbara Streisand etc.

I forgot Donna

Queen Is Back

She Works Hard For the Money

I Feel Love

Hot Stuff

On The Radio

Let me ask some of yall (serious question).... What is a Diva to YOU? Because it seems that people are just posting their favorite female artists Thats okay but I dont know what definition of Diva yall are going by.

I always thought that the term "diva" meant something negative. I used to see it describing women (and sometimes men) who were difficult to work with like Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. So I don't see how it's related to just someone being a singer, unless the singer is self-important.

NO, I (and most people ) used the word "diva" in the sense of musical goddess ...
and yes, they usually have a very bad temper

MickyDolenz said:

I always thought that the term "diva" meant something negative. I used to see it describing women (and sometimes men) who were difficult to work with like Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. So I don't see how it's related to just someone being a singer, unless the singer is self-important.

Thats kinda what I thought as well

But I guess people have their own opinion of the word based on these opinions

There is Whitney.

Then there's everybody else.

Deal with it.

MickyDolenz said:

I always thought that the term "diva" meant something negative. I used to see it describing women (and sometimes men) who were difficult to work with like Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. So I don't see how it's related to just someone being a singer, unless the singer is self-important.

I always thought that, too, but then I looked it up online, and 'diva' is defined as a female pop singer.

CrabalockerFishwife said:

MickyDolenz said:

I always thought that the term "diva" meant something negative. I used to see it describing women (and sometimes men) who were difficult to work with like Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. So I don't see how it's related to just someone being a singer, unless the singer is self-important.

I always thought that, too, but then I looked it up online, and 'diva' is defined as a female pop singer.

Diva is a loosely based term that has two different meanings: diva meaning prima donna bitch and diva meaning powerful and sassy female singer.

I'm personally getting tired of many of the "divas" and only listen to Chaka, Aretha, Phyllis, Whitney and Diana in terms of the "divas". Stopped listening to the others mentioned recently. Listen to Donna on occasion though.

mjscarousal said:

Let me ask some of yall (serious question).... What is a Diva to YOU? Because it seems that people are just posting their favorite female artists Thats okay but I dont know what definition of Diva yall are going by.

I used to ask everyone if they actually knew what it meant too after pop up video defined it a mere two decades ago but it's still a fun topic for what it is

alphastreet said:

mjscarousal said:

Let me ask some of yall (serious question).... What is a Diva to YOU? Because it seems that people are just posting their favorite female artists Thats okay but I dont know what definition of Diva yall are going by.

I used to ask everyone if they actually knew what it meant too after pop up video defined it a mere two decades ago but it's still a fun topic for what it is

Yea I realized that