I'm curious
 

I'm curious, what 5 male artist, 5 female artist and 5 bands is you're favorite of all time?

No haters please. I'm not going to hate on you for who you like so don't do that to me.

Here's my favorite.

Male Artist:

1. Meat Loaf
2. Elton John
3. Stevie Wonder
4. Johnny Cash
5. Michael Jackson

Female Artist:

1. Stevie Nicks
2. Annie Lennox
3. Adele
4. Celine Dion
5. Tina Turner

Bands:

1. Fleetwood Mac
2. Guns N Roses
3. The Killers
4. Pink Floyd
5. Journey

And go

Male: 1. Frank Sinatra 2. Elvis Presley 3. Bob Dylan 4. Meat Loaf 5. Bruce Springsteen Female: 1. Dusty Springfield 2. Aretha Franklin 3. Peggy Lee 4. Amy Winehouse 5. KD Lang. Bands: 1. Rolling Stones 2. Beatles 3. Kinks 4. Doors 5. Clash.

Male Artists:
1. Meat Loaf
2. Bruce Springsteen
3. Phil Collins
4. Billy Joel
5. Bob Dylan ties with Michael Jackson!

Female Artists:
1. Imogen Heap
2. Ingrid Michaelson
3. Janet Jackson
4. Alanis Morissette
5. Pat Benatar
(If there was a 6th female spot I'd go with Germany's Nena)

Bands:
1. Queen (Only with Freddie and some of the posthumous stuff. Brian May solo in 1990s was good too till space and badgers were more important than his music)
2. Dire Straits
3. Roxette
4. De Dijk (Awesome Dutch band. If they had done their stuff in English I reckon they would have been world famous)
5. Tie between Aerosmith, ACDC and GnR

Lucky to have seen most of these artists live!

As bad as this sounds I genuinely don't have any favourite female artists, some of the music I listen to has amazing female vocalists but I wouldn't really say I have any favourites :/

Male Artists
Meat Loaf
Alice Cooper
Neal Morse
Arjen Lucassen
Steven Wilson

Bands
Dream Theater
Pink Floyd
Opeth
Marillion
Genesis

Male:
1. Meat Loaf
2. Elton John
3. Hozier
4. Hayes Carll
5. Glen Campbell

Female:
1. Tina Turner
2. Annie Lennox
3. Bonnie Raitt
4. Stevie Nicks
5. Pat Benetar

Band:
1. Aerosmith
2. AC/DC
3. Journey
4. Rooney
5. Shakey Graves

Male Artist:

1. Meat Loaf
2. Billy Joel
3. Elton John
4. Paul Williams
5. Trace Adkins

Female Artist:

1. Adele
2. Avril lavigne
3. Stevie Nicks
4. Lady Gaga
5. Celine Dion

Bands:

1. The Beatles
2. The Eagles
3. Journey
4. Styx
5. Fleetwood mac

Meat Loaf
Danny Vaughn/Tyketto
Gary Hughes/Ten
Terry Brock/Strangeways
Billy Joel

Females: Pandoras Box ;)

Journey
Toto
Survivor
ABC
Heat (Sweden)

Male:
1. Meat Loaf
2. Justin Bieber
3. Conar Maynard
4. Drake
5. Calvin Harris

Female:
1. Tina Turner
2. Beyonce
3. Katy Perry
4. Lady Gaga
5. Adele

Band:
1. McBusted
2. Abba
3. Boney M
4. Milli Vanilli
5. The Wombels.

Male:

1 Elvis Presley
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2 Meat Loaf
rest: Phil Collins, Joe Cocker, Robbie Williams (in any order)

Female:
1 Adele
2 Tina Turner
3 Cher
4 Celine Dion
5 Taylor Swift

band:
1 Train
2 Queen (with Freddy, obviously)
3 Kensington
4 Bon Jovi
5 Roxette

Male Artist:

1. Meat Loaf
2. Garth Brooks
3. Nilsson
4. Dean Martin
5. Bruno Mars

Female Artist:

1. Cher
2. Donna Summer
3. Alanis Morrisette
4. Lady Gaga
5. Judy Garland

Bands:

1. Beatles
2. Monkees
3. Three Dog Night
4. Beach Boys
5. Paul Revere and the Raiders

Sue K ...

Male:

Bruce Springsteen
Keith Urban
Elton John
Meat Loaf
Peter Frampton

Female:

Stevie Nicks
Grace Potter
Joni Mitchell
Carly Simon
Ann Wilson (Heart)

Bands:

Rush
Pink Floyd
Van Halen
Black Sabbath
Led Zeppelin

Male:
Meat Loaf
Stan Bush
Phil Collins
Elvis Presley
Roy Orbison

Female:
Belinda Carlisle
Cher
Kylie Minogue (Australia)
Bonnie Tyler (UK)
Cyndi Lauper

Bands:
Magnum (UK)
U2 (Ireland)
Heat (Sweden)
Genesis (with Phill Collins as main vocalist)
Go-Go's

Male:
Elton John
Meat Loaf
Billy Joel
Michael Jackson


Female:
Celine Dion
Annie Lennox
Whitney Houston
Bonnie Tyler
Lady Gaga

Bands:
Queen
Foreigner
Journey
Pink Floyd
Van Halen

Hmm interesting one! 5 is not enough lol!!!
Male:
Meat Loaf
Roy Orbison
Billy Joel
Michael Ball
Dave Edmunds


Female:
Bonnie Tyler
Dolly Parton
Cilla Black
Shirley Bassey
Duffy


Band:
The Beautiful South
Eagles
ABBA
Bellowhead
Bon Jovi

These are in no particular order!!!

Male
Tom Jones
Meat
Bryan Adams
Neil Diamond
Kenny Rogers

Female
Taylor Swift
Pink
Dolly Parton
Adele
Elaine Paige

Band
AC/DC
Bon Jovi
Beautiful South
Simon & Garfunkel
ZZ Top

This was tough, plenty of bands missing from the list but I also listen a lot to musicals which don't fit in there.

OK. The definitive list.

Male.
Meat
Springsteen
Billy Joel
Elton John
Rod Stewart

Female
Bonnie Tyler
Tina Turner
Pat Benatar
Adele
Pink

Groups
Rolling Stones
Faces
Fleetwood Mac
Magnum
Gaslight Anthem
(with honourable mentions to AC/Dc, GnR, Motored, Iron Maiden and ZZ Top)

Male:

Meat Loaf
Bruce Springsteen
Nils Lofgren
David Bowie
James Blunt

Female
Patti Russo
Taylor Swift
Bonnie Tyler
Kinda hard one as I don't listen to many female artists

Groups
Gaslight Anthem
REM
Bon Jovi
Aerosmith, Iron Maiden join 4th
Snow Patrol, The Killers, The Cure joint 5th

E-Street Band :P

I have to say first how many of these lists on the male side are pretty much identical which says something about music style and resonance with people.
Anyway...

Male - Meat Loaf, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Bryan Adams, Chris Rea (Johnny Cash needs an honourable mention)
Female - Kate Bush, Katy Perry, Iggy Azlea (somehow considering i hated her after her first couple of singles), Cher, Lady Gaga.
Groups - The Killers, My Chemical Romance, Muse, Bon Jovi, Roxette (although any male vocal group that covers well known songs can jump in there at any time such as Il Divo et al)

Male:

Meat Loaf
Neil Diamond
Elton John
Michael Jackson

Female:

Imelda May
Cher
Adele
Lady Gaga

Groups:

Queen
The Beatles
Snow Patrol
Status Quo

Male
Meat
Ronnie James Dio
Chris Rea
Shakin Stevens

Female
Bonnie Tyler
Gloria Estefan
Suzi Quatro
Pat Benatar

Groups
Magnum (delighted others agree!)
Dream Theater
Saxon
Men at Work

not gonna do favourites, just who ive been listening to an awful lot recently

and in no particular order

duke, foy, meat, for the boys with occasional dabbles into bryan adams, kenny rodgers and garth

the brilliant annie lennox for the girls

def leppard fixation currently for the groups, as in, on constant repeat daily
backed up by the usual suspects, bon jovi, aerosmith, gnr with a few dabbles into the darkness, ugly kid joe, queen

Male Artist:
1. Bruce Springsteen
2. Ryan Adams
3. Bryan Adams
4. Meat Loaf
5. Toby Jepson

Female Artist:
1. Robin Beck
2. Cerys Matthews
3. Pink
4. Paloma Faith
5. Katie Melua

Bands:
1. Bon Jovi
2. Little Angels
3. U2
4. Matchbox 20
5. The Killers