No. 15 Lady Gaga
Fusing the brazenness of Grace Jones with the accessibility of Madonna–while also adding a dash of Annie Lennox’s unabashed weirdness–the vocalist is one of the defining pop superstars of the last five years. She almost single-handledly brought hard Eurodance sounds and aesthetics into the pop mainstream, and her outlandish image has made her one of the biggest recording artists in the world.
