Fonte: Acclaimed Music — que contabiliza listas de críticos (fim de ano, década, all-time etc.)
Critério: apenas artistas femininas, grupos femininos ou bandas com vocais principais exclusivamente femininos.
(O número entre parênteses indica a posição na lista geral, que inclui artistas masculinos.)
2024
- Chappell Roan | Good Luck, Babe! (#2)
- Charli XCX, Lorde | girl, so confusing (#3)
- Waxahatchee | Right Back to It (#5)
- Sabrina Carpenter | Espresso (#6)
- Billie Eilish | Birds of a Feather (#7)
2023
- Lana Del Rey | A&W (#1)
- Boygenius | Not Strong Enough (#2)
- PinkPantheress, Ice Spice | Boy’s a Liar Pt. 2 (#3)
- Olivia Rodrigo | Vampire (#5)
- Big Thief | Vampire Empire (#6)
2022
- Beyoncé | Break My Soul (#2)
- Rosalía | Saoko (#4)
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Spitting Off the Edge of the World (#5)
- Taylor Swift | Anti-Hero (#6)
- Ethel Cain | American Teenager (#7)
2021
- Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen | Like I Used To (#1)
- Japanese Breakfast | Be Sweet (#2)
- Caroline Polachek | Bunny Is a Rider (#4)
- Wet Leg | Chaise Lounge (#5)
- Olivia Rodrigo | Good 4 U (#7)
2020
- Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion | WAP (#1)
- Megan Thee Stallion, Beyoncé | Savage (Remix) (#2)
- Phoebe Bridgers | I Know the End (#5)
- Phoebe Bridgers | Kyoto (#7)
- Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande | Rain on Me (#10)
2019
- Billie Eilish | Bad Guy (#1)
- Sharon Van Etten | Seventeen (#2)
- FKA twigs | Cellophane (#3)
- Lizzo | Juice (#4)
- Big Thief | Not (#5)
2018
- Janelle Monáe | Make Me Feel (#2)
- Ariana Grande | thank u, next (#3)
- Rosalía | Malamente (#4)
- Mitski | Nobody (#6)
- Cardi B | I Like It (#8)
2017
- Lorde | Green Light (#1)
- Cardi B | Bodak Yellow (#2)
- St. Vincent | New York (#8)
- Charli XCX | Boys (#9)
- SZA | Love Galore (#11)
2016
- Beyoncé | Formation (#1)
- Solange | Cranes in the Sky (#2)
- Mitski | Your Best American Girl (#3)
- Rihanna | Work (#4)
- Angel Olsen | Shut Up Kiss Me (#7)
2015
- Courtney Barnett | Pedestrian at Best (#5)
- Carly Rae Jepsen | Run Away With Me (#7)
- Grimes | REALiTi (#15)
- Grimes | Flesh Without Blood (#18)
- Julia Holter | Feel You (#21)
2014
- FKA twigs | Two Weeks (#2)
- Sia | Chandelier (#5)
- Alvvays | Archie, Marry Me (#6)
- Taylor Swift | Blank Space (#8)
- St. Vincent | Digital Witness (#9)
2013
- Lorde | Royals (#1)
- SOPHIE | Bipp (#8)
- HAIM | The Wire (#13)
- Beyoncé | Drunk in Love (#17)
- Courtney Barnett | Avant Gardener (#22)
2012
- Grimes | Oblivion (#1)
- M.I.A. | Bad Girls (#3)
- Sky Ferreira | Everything Is Embarrassing (#5)
- Solange | Losing You (#7)
- Beach House | Myth (#11)
2011
- Lana Del Rey | Video Games (#1)
- Azealia Banks | 212 (#3)
- Rihanna | We Found Love (#5)
- Carly Rae Jepsen | Call Me Maybe (#7)
- Nicki Minaj | Super Bass (#9)
2010
- Robyn | Dancing on My Own (#1)
- Adele | Rolling in the Deep (#3)
- Janelle Monáe | Tightrope (#9)
- Katy Perry | Teenage Dream (#11)
- Crystal Castles | Not in Love (#21)
2009
- Bat for Lashes | Daniel (#7)
- Lady Gaga | Bad Romance (#8)
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Zero (#10)
- La Roux | Bulletproof (#14)
- La Roux | In for the Kill (#18)
2008
- Beyoncé | Single Ladies (#5)
- Santigold | L.E.S. Artistes (#6)
- Portishead | Machine Gun (#9)
- Portishead | The Rip (#10)
- Estelle | American Boy (#14)
2007
- M.I.A. | Paper Planes (#1)
- Rihanna | Umbrella (#3)
- Feist | 1234 (#12)
- Robyn | With Every Heartbeat (#15)
- M.I.A. | Jimmy (#42)
2006
- Amy Winehouse | Rehab (#2)
- Amy Winehouse | Back to Black (#10)
- Lily Allen | Smile (#11)
- Cat Power | The Greatest (#13)
- The Pipettes | Pull Shapes (#19)
2005
- Gossip | Standing in the Way of Control (#5)
- Amerie | 1 Thing (#6)
- Madonna | Hung Up (#8)
- Cansei de Ser Sexy | Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death from Above (#11)
- Robyn | Be Mine! (#12)
2004
- Kelly Clarkson | Since U Been Gone (#6)
- M.I.A. | Galang (#11)
- Annie | Heartbeat (#16)
- Gwen Stefani | Hollaback Girl (#22)
- Gwen Stefani | What You Waiting For? (#25)
2003
- Beyoncé | Crazy in Love (#2)
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Maps (#5)
- Britney Spears | Toxic (#7)
- Kelis | Milkshake (#10)
- Alicia Keys | You Don’t Know My Name (#25)
2002
- Missy Elliott | Work It (#10)
- Sugababes | Freak Like Me (#29)
- Norah Jones | Don’t Know Why (#37)
- t.A.T.u. | All the Things She Said (#41)
- Christina Aguilera | Beautiful (#47)
2001
- Missy Elliott | Get Ur Freak On (#1)
- Kylie Minogue | Can’t Get You Out of My Head (#2)
- Alicia Keys | Fallin’ (#15)
- Mary J. Blige | Family Affair (#23)
- Aaliyah | We Need a Resolution (#24)
- Björk | Pagan Poetry (#28) (incluí porque seria um absurdo deixar ela de fora)
2000
- Aaliyah | Try Again (#9)
- Madonna | Music (#13)
- Destiny’s Child | Independent Women Pt. I (#23)
- Peaches | Fuck the Pain Away (#27)
- Goldfrapp | Lovely Head (#28)
