Respect by Aretha Franklin Number 1 female song

Aretha Franklin song Respect which she sang in her 60’s soul album has now been voted as the greatest female song of all time. There has been a poll conducted by alcohol company Hummingbird100, which received 62,000 votes.

After the Triple J Hottest 100 of all time was conducted, not a single female artist made the cut. There was a huge furore over this issue so Hummingbird100 conducted an exclusive greatest female song of all time polls. The poll spanned five glorious decades, from the classics Etta James At Last and Nancy Sinatra’s These Boots Are Made for Walkin to the great Blondie’s Heart of Glass,

The editor in chief of Rolling Stone Mathew Coyte said “we’re excited to see an all-female top 100. It doesn’t make sense that female artists are under-represented on music lists. Some of the greatest – not to mention highest selling – artists of all time are female. We can only assume that these lists are voted by a predominantly male audience.”

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