As of June 2008, including her work with Eurythmics, Lennox had sold over 80 million records worldwide. In June 2013 the Official Charts Company called her "the most successful female British artist in UK music history". She has been named "The Greatest White Soul Singer Alive" by VH1 and one of The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time by Rolling Stone. In 2004, she received the Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Original Song for " Into the West", written for the soundtrack to the feature film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. In 2002, Lennox received a Billboard Century Award the highest accolade from Billboard. She has also collected four Grammy Awards and an MTV Video Music Award. With eight Brit Awards, which includes being named Best British Female Artist a record six times, Lennox has been named the "Brits Champion of Champions". To date, she has released six solo studio albums and a compilation album, The Annie Lennox Collection (2009). Her 1995 studio album, Medusa, includes cover versions of songs such as "No More 'I Love You's '" and " A Whiter Shade of Pale". The same year, she performed " Love Song for a Vampire" for Bram Stoker's Dracula. Lennox embarked on a solo career in 1992 with her debut album, Diva, which produced several hit singles including " Why" and " Walking on Broken Glass". Subsequent hits with Eurythmics include " There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)", " Love Is a Stranger" and " Here Comes the Rain Again". Appearing in the 1983 music video for " Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" with orange cropped hair and wearing a man's business suit, the BBC states, "all eyes were on Annie Lennox, the singer whose powerful androgynous look defied the male gaze". After achieving moderate success in the late 1970s as part of the new wave band the Tourists, she and fellow musician Dave Stewart went on to achieve international success in the 1980s as Eurythmics. Ann Lennox OBE (born 25 December 1954) is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist.
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