Less than five percent, probably. Most rock bands don't have female singers. I have a couple of Janis Joplin albums, Natalie Merchant, 4 Non-Blondes, some bluegrass, some new agey stuff, and that's about it. I like women's voices as much as mens, it's just that almost all rock bands, whether I like them or not, have a male singer. Most female singers do singer-songwriter kinds of stuff which I don't care for that much. I like instrumental stuff more than singing anyway.
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What percentage of your music collection features female vocalists?
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Hmm. 16(ish)% of my music (arranged by artists) has a female singer. That's 40 groups out of 249 artists. Then again, 500(ish) of my songs are sung by women, out of 1765 songs, so that takes the females up to around 30% of my music. But if you consider the percentage of female-sung songs in my top rated and most played songs, it's closer to 50% 
I can't even to begin to fathem how many artists/groups feature femal vocalists. 30-40%? I don't really know. Can I also include certain CBC Radio 3 podcasts
The main ones that I know of the best are: bjork, le tigre, bikini kill, tegan and sara, ambulette, anna oxygen, asobi seksu, beangrowers, be your own pet, bedtime for toys, bratmobile, broen social scene, butchies, the arcade fire, a suny day in glasgow, the kindness kind, the knife, persephone's bees, paris motel, boyskout, css, tralala, controller.controller, the diaboliks, the fitness, architecture in helsinki, the hot springs, hot hot heat, amy correia, m.i.a., noisettes, visqueen, new pornographers, pretty girls make graves, schoolyard heroes, sara hepburn, shinny toy guns, camille, the carrots, el perro del mar, metric, the trucks, surferosa, the reputation, magneta lane, prototypes, the soviettes, ursula 1000, sleater kinney, excuse 17, pony up!, the muffs, stereo total, the catch, cirque du soleil, the gossip, the hangovers, gravy train!!!, immaculate machine, kleenex/liliput, kristin allen-zito, mates of state, the charlets, the organ, the von bondies, bangs, cibo matto, garbage, the fading collection, hole, mon frere, smoosh, thee emergency, tracy + the plastics, yeah yeah yeahs, butchies, the donnas, mocket, sugarcubes, lederhosen lucil, and plenty more.
The main ones that I know of the best are: bjork, le tigre, bikini kill, tegan and sara, ambulette, anna oxygen, asobi seksu, beangrowers, be your own pet, bedtime for toys, bratmobile, broen social scene, butchies, the arcade fire, a suny day in glasgow, the kindness kind, the knife, persephone's bees, paris motel, boyskout, css, tralala, controller.controller, the diaboliks, the fitness, architecture in helsinki, the hot springs, hot hot heat, amy correia, m.i.a., noisettes, visqueen, new pornographers, pretty girls make graves, schoolyard heroes, sara hepburn, shinny toy guns, camille, the carrots, el perro del mar, metric, the trucks, surferosa, the reputation, magneta lane, prototypes, the soviettes, ursula 1000, sleater kinney, excuse 17, pony up!, the muffs, stereo total, the catch, cirque du soleil, the gossip, the hangovers, gravy train!!!, immaculate machine, kleenex/liliput, kristin allen-zito, mates of state, the charlets, the organ, the von bondies, bangs, cibo matto, garbage, the fading collection, hole, mon frere, smoosh, thee emergency, tracy + the plastics, yeah yeah yeahs, butchies, the donnas, mocket, sugarcubes, lederhosen lucil, and plenty more.
I'd probably say around 20-30% for me. My favorite artist is female, Tanya Stephens. Amazing voice, great writing.
