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Miley Cyrus is latest in long line of pop princesses
from: The Columbus Dispatch
by Michael Lisi
She has a hit series, a pair of multimillion-selling albums and a concert tour for which shows sell out in minutes.
At 15, Miley Cyrus is beyond popular.
But she isn't the first pop princess to turn the world on with her smile -- not by a long shot.
Here's a sampling of pop princesses from past to present.
JOAN JETT
- Age of stardom: 17, playing guitar in the seminal 1970s all-girl punk act, the RUNAWAYS.
- Career high: Her cover version of I Love Rock 'n Roll topped the pop charts in 1982, spending seven weeks at No. 1.
- Career low: She played Michael J. Fox's sister in the 1987 film Light of Day.
Brenda Lee
- Age of stardom: 16, when her single Sweet Nothin's became a top-10 hit in 1960.
- Career high: Her single I'm Sorry topped the U.S. pop charts in the summer of 1960 and remained in the top 100 for more than six months. She recorded the Christmas standard Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree as a 13-year-old in 1958; it was rereleased in 1960 and rocketed to the top of the charts.
- Career low: Eclipsed by the British invasion, Lee decided she couldn't beat them, so she joined them. Searching for a hit, she cut a Mersey beat-style song called Is It True? with future Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page in 1964.
Lesley Gore
- Age of stardom: 17, when she topped the pop charts with her first single, It's My Party, in 1963.
- Career high: See above.
- Career low: Quincy Jones -- who produced It's My Party, You Don't Own Me and other Gore hits -- moved on to other projects in the mid-1960s. In the hands of other producers, her career plummeted.
Jem
- Age of stardom: birth. Jem, an MTV-influenced animated series, was a smash upon its 1985 debut. Jem is the glamorous, pink-coiffed pop-singer identity of ordinary girl Jerrica Benton.
- Career high: Jerrica received special star-shaped earrings from her father after he died. The earrings controlled Synergy, a holographic computer system that transformed her into her secret identity: the glamorous pop singer Jem, leader of the band the Holograms.
- Career low: Jem was canceled in 1988.
Debbie Gibson
- Age of stardom: 17, when four singles from her debut album, Out of the Blue, were top-five pop hits; Foolish Beat hit No. 1.
- Career high: Her sophomore effort, Electric Youth, and the album's debut single, Lost in Your Eyes, were No. 1 hits in 1989.
- Career low: She was a contestant on the 2006 Fox reality show Skating With Celebrities.
Tiffany
- Age of stardom: 17, when her self-titled debut album hit No. 1 in 1988, selling more than 4 million copies.
- Career high: Performing at shopping malls helped propel the success of her album, which spawned two No. 1 hits, Could've Been and a cover of I Think We're Alone Now. A cover of the Beatles' I Saw Her Standing There also made the charts.
- Career low: Hard to choose between posing for Playboy magazine in 2002 and starring in VH1's Celebrity Fit Club in 2007.
LeAnn Rimes
- Age of stardom: 13, when her first single, Blue, rocketed up the country and pop charts in 1996, scoring her a top-10 country hit and a top-25 pop hit.
- Career high: Her multimillion-selling debut album, Blue, earned her two Grammy Awards in 1997. Later that year, she reached No. 2 on the pop charts with How Do I Live and No. 4 on the country-singles chart with On the Side of Angels.
- Career low: She filed suit against her father in 2000, claiming he and a partner pocketed $7 million of her earnings and kept thousands of dollars in a safe on her tour bus. They later recon- ciled.
Britney Spears
- Age of stardom: 17, when her debut single, . . . Baby One More Time topped the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1999 and sold 1 million copies.
- Career high: A one-time Mouseketeer, Spears was a pop phenomenon by the time her second album, Oops . . . I Did It Again, was released in 2000. The record made its debut at No. 1; the title track became a top-10 hit.
- Career low: Right about now.
Christina Aguilera
- Age of stardom: 19, when her self-titled debut album sold 1 million copies and the first single, Genie in a Bottle, hit the top of the pop charts.
- Career high: Her debut album, released in 1999, spawned three No. 1 pop singles: Genie, What a Girl Wants and Come on Over Baby. She won the first of her four Grammy Awards in 2000, as best new artist.
- Career low: Another Mouseketeer, Aguilera sued her manager, Steve Kurtz, in 2000, claiming he exerted "inappropriate influence" over her personal and professional life; Kurtz countersued. Stressed by career pressures and failed romances, Aguilera didn't release her third album, the decidedly grittier Stripped, until 2002.
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