After the release of '' Back to Black '' , record companies sought out more experimental female artists . Adele and Duffy were the second wave of artists with a sound similar to Winehouse 's . A third wave of female musicians that has emerged since the album was released are led by V V Brown , Florence and the Machine , La Roux and Little Boots . During the nearly three-year period since '' Back to Black '' was released , Dan Cairns of '' The Sunday Times '' noted that there was a " notion by A&R executives , radio playlisters and the public that women are the driving commercial force in pop " . In March 2011 , the '' New York Daily News '' ran an article attributing the continuing wave of British female artists that have been successful in the United States to Winehouse and her absence . '' Spin '' magazine music editor Charles Aaron was quoted as saying , " Amy Winehouse was the Nirvana moment for all these women ... They can all be traced back to her in terms of attitude , musical styles or fashion . " According to Keith Caulfield , chart manager for '' Billboard '' , " Because of Amy , or the lack thereof , the marketplace was able to get singers like Adele , Estelle and Duffy ... Now those ladies have brought on the new ones , like Eliza Doolittle , Rumer and Ellie Goulding . " Linda Barnard of '' The Toronto Star '' finds Winehouse to be amongst " the British women who claimed chart-topping ownership ... with powerful voices " and that her " impressive " five Grammy wins for '' Back to Black '' put her at the " pinnacle of pop music " . In 2012 , '' Rolling Stone '' ranked the album at number 451 on its list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time . The album was also included in the book '' 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die '' . In a retrospective review for '' Rolling Stone '' in 2010 , Douglas Wolk gave the album four-and-a-half out of five stars and referred to it as " an unlikely marvel , a desperately sad and stirring record whose hooks and production ( by Remi and Mark Ronson ) are worthy of the soul hall-of-famers she namedrops — ' Tears Dry On Their Own ' is basically ' Ai n't No Mountain High Enough ' recast as self-recrimination "
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