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Madonna's emergence occurred during the advent MTV, and, according to Chris Nelson from The New York Times, "with its almost exclusively lip-synced videos, ushered in an era in which average music fans might happily spend hours a day, every day, watching singers just mouth the words." The symbiotic relationship between the music video and lip-syncing led to a desire for the spectacle and imagery the music video to be transferred to live stage shows. Chris Nelson The New York Times reported, "Artists like Madonna and Janet Jackson set new standards for showmanship, with concerts that included not only elaborate costumes and precision-timed pyrotechnics but also highly athletic dancing. These effects came at the expense live singing." Thor Christensen the Dallas Morning News commented that while Madonna earned a reputation for lip-syncing during her 1990 Blond Ambition World Tour, she has subsequently reorganized her performances by "staying mostly still during her toughest singing parts and leaves the dance routines to her backup troupe ... rather than try to croon and dance up a storm at the same time." To allow for greater movement while dancing and singing, she was one the earliest adopters hands-free radio-frequency headset microphones, with the headset fastened over the ears or the top the head, and the microphone capsule on a boom arm that extended to the mouth. Because her prominent usage, the microphone design came to be known as the "Madonna mic".
Legacy
According to Rolling Stone, Madonna "remains one the greatest pop acts all time". She has achieved multiple Guinness World Records, including world's top-selling female recording artist and the most successful female recording artist all time. On March 10, 2008, Madonna was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Fame in her first year eligibility. Billboard magazine ranked her as the most successful solo artist (second overall, behind only The Beatles) on the "Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists". She has also scored many hits on major international charts, including 13 number-one singles in the United Kingom, 11 in Australia, and 23 in Canada—more than any other female artist. Madonna is featured in the book 100 Most Important Women the 20th Century, published by Ladies' Home Journal in 1998. In July 2003, she ranked seventh on VH1 and People magazine's list the "200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons All Time." In 2006, a new water bear species, Echiniscus madonnae, was named after her. The paper with the description E. madonnae was published in the international journal animal taxonomy Zootaxa in March 2006 (Vol. 1154, pages: 1–36). The Zoologists commented: "We take great pleasure in dedicating this species to one the most significant artists our times, Madonna Louise Veronica Ritchie."