Mary J. Blige
AGE: 36
OCCUPATION: Singer, songwriter, producer and actress
NUMBER OF TIME COVERS: 0
PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE TIME 100: 0
PRO: Made a season sweep of the "big three" music awards—the American Music Award, the Billboard Music Awards, and the Grammys—for her 2005 album The Breakthrough, which chronicled her victory over drug and alcohol abuse.
CON: Her latest album, the 2006 retrospective Reflections, peaked at number nine in the U.S. charts reaching only 40 in the U.K. as compared to The Breakthrough, which debuted at No. 1.