Max Liron Bratman - Legacy

Legacy

Aguilera has been given several pop culture titles, including, "Queen of Reinvention", "Princess of Pop" and the "Voice of her Generation" becoming an international pop culture icon following her debut. She has been named one of the best vocalists in the world and one of the greatest singers of all time. Aguilera has sold over 50 million albums worldwide, and her singles "Genie in a Bottle", "Lady Marmalade" and "Moves Like Jagger" are found among the best-selling singles of all time worldwide. "Genie in a Bottle" was listed at number 38 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the 90s. "Beautiful" was listed at number 52 on Rolling Stone's top 100 songs of the 2000s and number 18 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of '00s list. "Lady Marmalade" was listed at number 47 on the same ranking. In 2011, Aguilera became the second female to achieve a number-one single in the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s, the fourth female artist to top the Hot 100 in three consecutive decades, and eighth overall. Her debut album ranks fifth for female albums with most number-ones on the US Billboard Hot 100. Alongside Britney Spears, Aguilera became one of the most successful teenage singers of the late 1990's and early 2000's. She continued her success becoming one of the top selling artists of the decade and the top selling female artist of 2000 and 2003. She was ranked the 20th Artist of the 2000–09 decade by Billboard and became the second top selling single artist of the 2000s, behind Madonna. Additionally, she appears on the Billboard Hot 100 50th Anniversary Charts top Latin songs with four singles. Her only Latin album, Mi Reflejo, is one of the best selling Latin albums of all time in the United States and worldwide. The album topped the Latin Charts for 20 weeks holding the record for longest stay at number one for a debut album by a female artist. She remains the first and only artist in history to have number one debuts with an English and Spanish album.

Aguilera's television and music video impact has also been acknowledged in pop culture. In a 2012 article by The New York Times, critic Jon Caramanica says, "Aguilera will be remembered for her glamour, her scandalous take on femme-pop and her Brobdingnagian voice. But she will also be remembered as the person who almost single-handedly reshaped music-competition reality programming". Aguilera was ranked number eight in VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Music and was listed at number 14 on VH1's "50 Greatest Women of the Video Era". She was named the Best Latino Singer of All Time by Latina magazine and was one of Time's 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2013. Aguilera was honored with a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and being the first honoree on The Abbey's Gay Walk of Fame for her contributions to gay culture. The music video for "Beautiful" earned Aguilera a GLAAD Media Award for its positive portrayal of the LGBT Community. The UK LGBT rights charity Stonewall named "Beautiful" the most empowering song of the decade. Aguilera has won four Grammy Awards, at the age of 19, she received her first, the Grammy Award for Best New Artist making her the second youngest recipient behind LeAnn Rimes and fourth overall. Her performance at the 2007 Grammy Awards ceremony was named the 3rd Greatest Grammy Moment and is featured in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Aguilera is also included on the "Women Who Rock" exhibition by the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

During the opening of the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards Aguilera joined Madonna, Britney Spears, and Missy Elliott. MTV listed the performance as the number-one opening moment in the history of the ceremonies. Consistently, she is ranked on Maxim and FHM Hot 100 list, in 2003 was voted as the Sexiest Woman of the Year by Maxim, and her second cover became, and remains, the biggest-selling issue to date. VH1 listed her at number 19 on its 100 Sexiest Artists list. Aguilera has been noted for her music videos, most notably "Dirrty", which MSN, FHM and several other pop culture publications voted and named as the sexiest female music video of all time. She has won two Video Music Awards including Video of the Year and has been nominated seventeen times including Best Director making her one of the few artists to ever be nominated for this award. Aguilera was featured several times in People and People en Español lists of Most Beautiful People in the World. A wax figure of Aguilera can be found at Madame Tussauds wax museum in London and New York City. Various contestants and winners from The Voice, The X Factor and American Idol have been influenced by Aguilera including Cassadee Pope, Chris Mann, Leona Lewis, Alexandra Burke, Kelly Clarkson, Jordin Sparks, Candice Glover, Jennifer Hudson, Jessica Sanchez, Adam Lambert and Katharine McPhee. Her work has influenced many artists including Demi Lovato, JoJo, Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga, Inna, Ariana Grande, Ashley Tisdale, Rebecca Ferguson, Jessie James, former girl group Danity Kane, American figure skater Johnny Weir, American swimmer Dana Vollmer and more. Aguilera has been praised by artists Celine Dion, Etta James, Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, Cher, Justin Timberlake, Patti Smith, Patti LaBelle, Tony Bennett, and The Rolling Stones and its frontman Mick Jagger.