111 Songs by Girls Who Run the World

Beyoncé answered the question "Who run the world?" best — girls.

This week's edition of Music Monday is girls only. It is impossible to incoporate all of music's powerful, talented women into one playlist, but we tried to scratch the surface. The result: This fabulous and massive playlist packed with girl power spanning genres and decades (it's also tied for the most songs in a Music Monday playlist).

Jump from the '90s Riot Grrrl feminist punk movement with Bikini Kill and Sleater-Kinney to the golden days of Studio 54 with late queen of disco Donna Summer to the modern independent music scene reigned by the likes of Grimes, St. Vincent, Sharon Van Etten and Savages to the '70s women's liberation movement with Helen Reddy's iconic "I Am Woman" — and finally back to today with 16-year-old soulful newcomer Lorde, who is poised to take over pop music in the very near future. Read more...