Ladies First
In honor of Women's History Month | take a look at some of the ladies who made set some records with their firsts.
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Mariah Carey - Back in 1995, Mariah Carey became the first female artist to have a single debut at #1 on the Billboard Top 100 Singles chart with "Fantasy."
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Aretha Franklin - Aretha Franklin is the first female recording artist to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
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Ashanti - Ashanti was the first female artist to have her debut album sell over 500,000 copies in its first week out.
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Whitney Houston - Whitney was the first female artist to debut at #1 on Billboard's Top 200 album charts.
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Beyonce - She's got a lot of firsts (this last Grammy Awards show, she broke the record for most Grammys by a female artist with 6 wins in one night) , but in 2007, Bey became the first female artist ever to win the International Artist Award at the AMAs.
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Queen Latifah - Queen Latifah became the first rapper to get her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Lauryn Hill - Remember when Lauryn took over the Grammys! At the 1999 Grammy Awards, Lauryn was the first female artist to be nominated 10 times and the first one to take home 5 Grammys.
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Alicia Keys - Keys is the first female R&B artist to debut with three consecutive #1 albums with "Songs In A Minor," "The Diary of Alicia Keys" and her "Unplugged" album.
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Missy Elliott - Missy Elliott is the fourth rapper to go platinum (behind Da Brat, Lil' Kim and Foxy Brown), but she is the first artist to perform on the Lilith Fair tour.
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Leona Lewis - Leona Lewis is the first British female artist to debut at #1 on Billboard's Top 200 charts in the United States.
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Janet Jackson - Janet is the first and only female artist in history to have 5 back-to-back #1 albums on the Billboard Top 200 charts.