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Here are the biggest Billboard chart achievements and most iconic moments of the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin’s career.

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Nothing but respect to the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin. Today, we celebrate the iconic diva and look back at some of her biggest moments in our pop culture.

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Aretha Franklin placed 20 singles atop Billboard’s R&B and Hip-Hop songs chart during her career that began in the 1950s. Her catalog quite frankly is the soul of American music with two of her hits reaching the top of the Billboard Hot 100. Franklin earned a Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Medal of Arts in 1987, she became the first female inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and who could forget when she brought the house down at Kennedy Center in 2016, and even had President Obama in tears.

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We lost Aretha in August of 2018. Her life was celebrated in a biopic starring Jennifer Hudson simply titled ‘Respect.’ This has been in your pop culture rewind.

Here are the most successful Christmas songs that have gone to No. 1 on the Billboard charts.

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Oh, it’s definitely that time of the year as Mariah reminded us, but even though everybody increases the spirits on their Yuletide playlist every year during the holidays, only three Christmas tracks have topped the Billboard Hot 100. We tell you who in this week’s Pop Culture Rewind.

In 1958, “The Chipmunks Song” by The Chipmunks with David Seville spent four weeks on top beginning that December. It actually kicked off what would become the multimillion dollar Alvin and the Chipmunks brand and went on to win three Grammy Awards.

When you say Queen of Christmas, only one name comes to mind. Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” first topped the chart in 2019.

It was her record-extending 19th No. 1 song, the most for any solo artists.

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Thank you to everyone who’s allowed this song to be part of their holiday soundtrack each year.

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And just this year, only the third holiday song has ever reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100, and it was Brenda Lee with “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree.” “Christmas Tree” has come 65 years after the songs released in 1958. And with Brenda 78 years young, she’s become the senior most artist to top the chart. Cheers, Mrs. Lee!

We’ll have another huge moment for you next week in our Pop Culture Rewind.

Nicki Minaj celebrates her 41st birthday with the release of her much anticipated album Pink Friday 2, and Billboard is taking a look back at everything Nicki achieved when she broke through and released her debut album Pink Friday.

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Only an icon can give out gifts on their birthday. And that’s the queen of rap Nicki Minaj

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And from her “boom ba da boom bass” to it being Pink Friday yet again, we’re celebrating Nicki’s 41st birthday in this week’s pop culture rewind.

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It’s a monster moment in pop culture we’ll never forget. Nicki Minaj was killing the features early in her career, but her first album Pink Friday was full of massive hits.

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None bigger than “Super Bass.”

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A pop culture moments if we ever saw one.

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The album went No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and spawned the follow up Pink Friday…Roman Reloaded, another No. 1. Is the third time also a charm for Nicki’s December 8th birthday? She’s releasing Pink Friday 2 and as teased us with track “Last Time I Saw You.” The rapper has three Hot 100 No. 1 hits “Say So” with Dojo Cat, “Trollz” with 6ix9ine and her solo hit “Super Freaky Girl.”

Evan Burke
Which chart will her loyal Barbs help her top as a birthday gift back? We can’t wait to see. We’ll have another huge moment for you next week in our Pop Culture Rewind.

Billboard takes a look back at when the Left Shark from Katy Perry’s 2015 Super Bowl performance went viral and turned into a huge internet meme.

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We heard her “Roar” and fireworks lit the sky. But we’ll give you one guess at which part cemented Katy Perry’s Super Bowl halftime show into our minds forever. We take you to that moment in this week’s Pop Culture Rewind.

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It was Super Bowl XLIX, and while the Patriots were battling the Seahawks, Katy Perry was on top of her game for her Pepsi halftime show. She arrived in a big way on a tiger and ran through all her hits, like “I Kissed a Girl” with Lenny Kravitz, “California Gurls,” and she even invited Missy Elliott, who also went through her epic catalog including “Work It,” but it was during “Teenage Dream” when one of her two backup dancing sharks lived his best life. So much so, everybody named him “Left Shark” and the memes and Halloween costumes were born. The guy behind the shark later said he just forgot the choreo — iconic! We’ll have another huge moment for you next week in our Pop Culture Rewind.

British girl group The Spice Girls cemented their global success in the 90s with the success of their second album and their feature film ‘Spice World,’ it’s been 25 years since the initial release and the group celebrated with new renditions of the album and exclusive merch.

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If you want to be my lover you better like the Spice Girls. The queens of Girl Power are one of the best-selling girl groups of all time, and their second album ‘Spice World’ cemented them as a pop culture phenomenon. We take you to that day in this week’s pop culture rewind

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The day was November 1 1997. And after releasing their first album with hits like “Wannabe,” and “Say You’ll Be There.” Spice Girls drop “Spice Up Your Life” with ‘The Spice World.’ They performed the lead single at our 1997 BBMAs. The mega album has fan-favorite hits like “Too Much.” And “Stop” and you can’t talk about the ‘Spice World’ album without talking about the Spice World movie. Scary, Baby, Ginger, Posh, and Sporty just celebrated the 25th anniversary of the album last year with new versions of the project and an exclusive line of merchandise. Viva forever indeed. We’ll have another huge moment for you next week in our pop culture rewind.