Pop Culture Rewind: Remembering the Most Iconic Moments of Aretha Franklin's Career | Billboard News - video Dailymotion

Here are the biggest Billboard chart achievements and most iconic moments of the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin's career.

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00:00 Nothing but respect to the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin.

00:03 ♪ R-E-S-P-E-C-T ♪

00:05 ♪ We're not what it means to me ♪

00:07 Today we celebrate the iconic diva and look back at some of her biggest moments in our Pop Culture Rewind.

00:13 [music]

00:21 ♪ I said it'll break for you ♪

00:23 Aretha Franklin placed 20 singles atop Billboard's Hot R&B and Hip-Hop Songs chart during her career that began in the 1950s.

00:31 ♪ My doctor said take it easy ♪

00:33 Her catalog, quite frankly, is the soul of American music, with two of her hits reaching the top of the Billboard Hot 100.

00:40 ♪ Do you wait for me? ♪

00:42 Franklin earned a Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Medal of Arts.

00:46 In 1987, she became the first female inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

00:51 And who could forget when she brought the house down at Kennedy Center in 2016 and even had President Obama in tears.

00:58 [crowd cheering]

01:04 We lost Aretha in August of 2018.

01:07 Her life was celebrated in a biopic starring Jennifer Hudson simply titled "Respect."

01:12 ♪ Baby, baby ♪

01:14 This has been your Pop Culture Rewind.

01:16 [music]

01:21 (whooshing)