An alphabetical list of 50 female lyricists who have penned top 10 hits in the rock music genre:
- Adele Adkins – “Someone Like You,” “Rolling in the Deep”
- Alanis Morissette – “Ironic,” “You Oughta Know”
- Ann Wilson – “Crazy on You,” “Barracuda”
- Bonnie Tyler – “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” “Holding Out for a Hero”
- Carly Simon – “You’re So Vain,” “Nobody Does It Better”
- Carole King – “I Feel the Earth Move,” “So Far Away”
- Chaka Khan – “Ain’t Nobody,” “Through the Fire”
- Chynna Phillips – “Hold On,” “Walking on Sunshine”
- Debbie Harry – “Heart of Glass,” “Call Me”
- Dido – “Thank You,” “White Flag”
- Donna Summer – “She Works Hard for the Money,” “Hot Stuff”
- Dua Lipa – “Levitating,” “Don’t Show Up”
- Dusty Springfield – “Son of a Preacher Man,” “The Look of Love”
- Ellie Goulding – “Lights,” “Anything Could Happen”
- Fiona Apple – “Criminal,” “Shadowboxer”
- Florence Welch – “Shake It Out,” “Spectrum (Say My Name)”
- Gwen Stefani – “Hollaback Girl,” “The Sweet Escape”
- Heart – “Barracuda,” “What About Love”
- Joss Stone – “You Had Me,” “Right to Be Wrong”
- Kate Bush – “Running Up That Hill,” “Wuthering Heights”
- KD Lang – “Constant Craving,” “Miss Chatelaine”
- Kelly Clarkson – “Since U Been Gone,” “Stronger”
- Lauryn Hill – “Doo Wop (That Thing),” “Everything is Everything”
- Lily Allen – “Smile,” “The Fear”
- Lisa Loeb – “Stay (I Missed You),” “Do You Sleep?”
- Madonna – “Like a Virgin,” “Material Girl”
- Mariah Carey – “Fantasy,” “Vision of Love”
- Mary J. Blige – “Family Affair,” “Be Without You”
- Meredith Brooks – “Bitch,” “What Would Happen”
- Missy Elliott – “Get Ur Freak On,” “Work It”
- Nico – “These Days,” “Femme Fatale”
- No Doubt – “Don’t Speak,” “Just a Girl”
- Pink – “So What,” “Just Give Me a Reason”
- Regina Spektor – “Fidelity,” “Us”
- Rita Ora – “Your Song,” “Anywhere”
- Robyn – “Dancing On My Own,” “Honey”
- Sade – “Smooth Operator,” “Sweetest Taboo”
- Sarah McLachlan – “Building a Mystery,” “I Will Remember You”
- Sia – “Chandelier,” “Elastic Heart”
- Siouxsie Sioux – “Peek-a-Boo,” “Cities in Dust”
- Stevie Nicks – “Edge of Seventeen,” “Landslide”
- Taylor Swift – “Blank Space,” “Shake It Off”
- Tina Turner – “What’s Love Got to Do with It,” “Private Dancer”
- Tori Amos – “Cornflake Girl,” “A Sorta Fairytale”
- Tracy Chapman – “Fast Car,” “Talkin’ ‘Bout a Revolution”
- Janis Ian – “At Seventeen,” “Society’s Child”
- Joni Mitchell – “Both Sides, Now,” “Big Yellow Taxi”
- Kate Nash – “Foundations,” “Merry Happy”
- Lisa Stansfield – “All Around the World,” “Change”
- Suzanne Vega – “Luka,” “Tom’s Diner”
