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In 2012 Asa Akira won both of AVN’s solo awards on the same night. In eighteen years nobody else did.

Records like that are what this list is made of: every AVN solo and tease result from 2001 to 2019, each one read off the ceremony page. It ranks awards. It never ranks bodies.

All 17, in order

Click a column heading to sort. The scoring rules behind this order are at the bottom of the page.

17 performers in this list
# Name Score Active Wins HoF Best pillar Data quality
1
Jenna Haze
Best New Starlet and Female Performer of the Year at AVN, XBIZ and XRCO, and the only person to hold all three titles in the same year
95.9 2001 8 2× Industry Recognition high
2
Asa Akira
Close to 700 credits, four halls of fame and two memoirs
93.0 2006 3 3× Body of Work medium
3
Venus Lux
Started her own studio, network, website and magazine in about two years
91.3 2012 9 — Influence & Crossover medium
4
Alana Evans
President of the Adult Performers Actors Guild, a federally recognised performer union
90.2 2002 2 3× Longevity & Consistency high
5
Vicky Vette
Two-time Hall of Famer whose own cam site has outlasted most of its rivals
87.4 2003 6 2× Industry Recognition high
6
Joanna Angel
Founded Burning Angel in 2002 and turned alt-porn into a lasting business
87.3 2002 4 2× Longevity & Consistency high
7
Bailey Jay
Two AVN titles in a row, then fifteen years of podcasting under her own name
84.8 2010 4 — Influence & Crossover high
8
Ariel Rebel
Ten years of web and site awards for a solo star born in Montreal
79.5 2005 6 — Longevity & Consistency medium
9
Devinn Lane
A Penthouse Pet who went from performing to directing
78.1 1999 3 — Body of Work medium
10
Teagan Presley
New-talent title at nineteen, Hall of Fame at thirty
77.8 2004 4 1× Industry Recognition medium
11
Bobbi Eden
A Dutch model and performer with a European X Award and a World Cup Twitter stunt
77.2 1998 1 — Longevity & Consistency high
12
Olivia Del Rio
Brazilian-born performer from Minas Gerais, inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2025
76.6 1994 0 1× Longevity & Consistency high
13
Anikka Albrite
Female Performer of the Year at AVN, and two All-Girl Group Sex Scene awards
75.8 2012 3 — Longevity & Consistency high
14
Violet Myers
The only performer in this group with two competitive AVN scene wins
73.8 2018 2 — Body of Work medium
15
Abigail Mac
One AVN scene win, plus Pornhub's own "Top Lesbian Performer" title
73.4 2016 3 — Body of Work high
16
Katja Kassin
Born in East Germany, winner of a quirky XRCO prize, and later a social work graduate
71.9 2002 3 — Body of Work medium
17
Kissa Sins
Best Girl/Girl Sex Scene two years in a row, with a different partner each time
69.9 2017 2 — Body of Work high
Hall of Fame members on this list
14
Confirmed competitive wins
63
Years of work, added together
341
Names we looked at before cutting
118
Average score of the top 20
81.4

The Wins column counts confirmed competitive awards only. Nominations are left out. The Data column shows how sure we are of each record.

The list

The top 17, in order

Each entry gives the checked facts, the score on all six pillars, why we placed her where we did, the best argument against that placement, her award record and our sources.

Jenna Haze, photo 1 of 3
Jenna Haze, photo 2 of 3
Jenna Haze, photo 3 of 3
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1. Jenna Haze

Best New Starlet and Female Performer of the Year at AVN, XBIZ and XRCO, and the only person to hold all three titles in the same year

retired high confidence
  • Score95.9
  • Born1982
  • Age44
  • Active2001– 2001–2012; last performing scene April 2011, retirement announced by video in February 2012. Continued directing and producing afterward.
  • Wins8
  • Hall of Fame2×
Also ranks #1on Teen Pornstars

Why Jenna is number 1

Haze won the two prizes at the two ends of her career. In 2009, at the 26th AVN Awards, the tease prize went to her for Pretty as They Cum.

That was also the season she won Female Performer of the Year from AVN, XBIZ and XRCO together, the first time anyone had swept all three.

Go back six years, to the 20th ceremony in 2003, and she won Best Solo Sex Scene for Big Bottom Sadie in the same year she was Best New Starlet. Both solo results are on the ceremony pages. Most winners here had one good moment. She had a first-year win and a peak-year win.

The argument against: She stopped performing in 2012. Nobody has audited her full credit count, so her Body of Work score is built on known contracts and named titles.
Score by pillar
Industry Recognition 26%
9.9
Body of Work 14%
9.6
Audience Demand 14%
9.9
Craft & Screen Presence 20%
9.8
Longevity & Consistency 10%
7.7
Influence & Crossover 16%
9.7
Measured. The Audience Demand score for Jenna Haze comes from real search numbers for her name. It is not a guess.
Career and credits

Career

Haze came into the industry in July 2001, aged nineteen. For her first three years she worked only with women, under contract to Jill Kelly Productions, out of loyalty to a boyfriend who was an industry cameraman. In 2006 mixed-gender scenes resumed with Jenna Haze Darkside, made by her new partner Jules Jordan. Scene-specific wins piled up through the rest of the decade, and in 2009 she became the only performer ever to hold Female Performer of the Year at AVN, XBIZ and XRCO at once. Her own label, Jennaration X Studios, launched that year. In February 2012 she retired from performing.

Signature: Across a career, only she and one other in AVN's history (credited only as Missy) have won both Best New Starlet and Female Performer of the Year. And 2009 remains the one year in which anyone took Female Performer of the Year at AVN, XBIZ and XRCO together.

Best known for

Jenna Haze Darkside (2006)

Studios

Jill Kelly ProductionsJules Jordan VideoJennaration X Studios

Award record

  • 2003AVN — Best New Starlet
  • 2003AVN — Best Solo Sex Scene
  • 2007AVN — Best Oral Sex Scene (Video)
  • 2007AVN — Best Group Sex Scene (Video)
  • 2008AVN — Best Couples Sex Scene (Video)
  • 2009AVN — Female Performer of the Year
  • 2009XBIZ — Female Performer of the Year
  • 2009XRCO — Female Performer of the Year
  • 2012AVN — Hall of Fame
  • 2012XRCO — Hall of Fame

Beyond performing

  • Jennaration X Studios (founded 2009)

Mainstream credits

  • Superbad (2007, cameo)
  • Crank: High Voltage (2009, cameo)
  • HBO’s Pornucopia documentary (2004)
  • Complex, "The 50 Prettiest Porn Stars of All Time" No. 16 (2010)
  • Complex, "The Top 100 Hottest Porn Stars" No. 20 (2011)
  • CNBC "Dirty Dozen" (2011, 2012)
Sources and checks3 sources
Still unconfirmed:
  • Physical statistics sourced to Wikidata only, not independently cross-checked
  • No documented aggregate credit count
Asa Akira, photo 1 of 3
Asa Akira, photo 2 of 3
Asa Akira, photo 3 of 3
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2. Asa Akira

Close to 700 credits, four halls of fame and two memoirs

active medium confidence
  • Score93.0
  • Born1985 New York City, New York
  • Age41
  • Active2006– 2006–present
  • Credits~689 50 studios
  • Wins3
  • Hall of Fame3×

Why Asa is number 2

Akira holds the record most likely to last. The merged Best Solo/Tease Performance went to her at the 34th ceremony for Asa Goes to Hell. Five years earlier, at the 29th in 2012, she had won Best Solo Sex Scene and Best Tease Performance together, the only two solo prizes on offer.

No other name in the archive has both from one night. All three wins are on the ceremony pages, which we checked. Outside solo work the record is just as deep: 689 documented credits with about fifty studios, four hall-of-fame places, AVN Female Performer of the Year and the same title twice from XRCO. She directs, and she has written two memoirs.

The argument against: Solo work is a side of her career, not the middle of it. Most of her fame is from partnered scenes and a catalogue far bigger than solo specialists build. Her sources also split on her birth year, 1985 or 1986.
Score by pillar
Industry Recognition 26%
9.5
Body of Work 14%
9.9
Audience Demand 14%
9.7
Craft & Screen Presence 20%
9.1
Longevity & Consistency 10%
8.7
Influence & Crossover 16%
8.7
Career and credits

Career

Before her first on-camera work in 2006, Akira worked as a dominatrix and a stripper. She went on to appear in nearly 700 productions and became one of the most decorated performers of the 2010s. In 2013 she won AVN Female Performer of the Year, only the third Asian performer to do so. That same year she began directing and signed an exclusive deal with Wicked Pictures. She also built a large second career as a podcast host and published memoirist.

Signature: Four hall-of-fame inductions, a Performer of the Year title from two different bodies, and two books. Her career reads like a long professional record, not a single moment.

Best known for

Wicked Pictures exclusive catalogue

Studios

Wicked PicturesEvil AngelElegant Angel

Award record

  • 2019AVN — Hall of Fame
  • 2020XRCO — Hall of Fame
  • 2017Urban X — Hall of Fame
  • 2013AVN — Female Performer of the Year
  • 2012XRCO — Female Performer of the Year
  • 2013XRCO — Female Performer of the Year

Beyond performing

  • Co-host, DVDASA podcast
  • Author — Insatiable (2014), Dirty Thirty (2016)
  • Directing credits

Mainstream credits

  • The Eric Andre Show (2014)
Sources and checks1 source
Last checked 22 August 2026 · Wikipedia — Asa Akira
Still unconfirmed:
  • Birth year disputed between 1985 and 1986
Venus Lux, photo 1 of 3
VLAVN winner 2016
VL
Baldwin Saintilus from USA · CC BY 2.0 · from Wikimedia Commons

3. Venus Lux

Started her own studio, network, website and magazine in about two years

active medium confidence
  • Score91.3
  • Active2012– Documented activity from 2012 (magazine column writing) through at least 2016; the exact year she began performing is not published.
  • Wins9

Why Venus is number 3

Lux was opening businesses at a fast pace when the award came. In December 2014 she signed a three-year exclusive deal with Pulse Distribution.

A book of her columns followed in March 2015, then TransGlobal Magazine in October 2015, then the TS Fetishes site and the Syren Network in 2016, all while she ran her own studio.

Her Best Solo Site win at the 2014 Transgender Erotica Awards, one of three wins there that year, is the one this list counts, since it rewards a performer running her own solo operation.

XBIZ made her Transsexual Performer of the Year for 2014 and 2015, and AVN for 2015 and 2016. The business and the awards grew together.

The argument against: Her real name, birth date, exact birthplace and start year are all undocumented. The XBIZ titles rest on ceremony video from the time, not a winners list on XBIZ’s own site.
Score by pillar
Industry Recognition 26%
9.7
Body of Work 14%
7.6
Audience Demand 14%
8.6
Craft & Screen Presence 20%
9.8
Longevity & Consistency 10%
8.0
Influence & Crossover 16%
9.9
Career and credits

Career

Venus Lux opened one business after another in a short time. In December 2014 she signed a three-year exclusive distribution deal with Pulse Distribution. TransGlobal Magazine launched the next October, and the TS Fetishes website and the Syren Network both followed in 2016, alongside her studio, Venus Lux Entertainment. In March 2015 she published Venus Lux Diaries, a book drawn from her columns. In those same years she won Transsexual Performer of the Year at AVN (2015, 2016) and XBIZ (2014, 2015), the category’s top annual title at both bodies in successive years. She also took AVN’s Best Transsexual Sex Scene in 2015 and three category wins in 2014 from the body now called the Transgender Erotica Awards, which was still using its original name then. She appeared on Brody Stevens: Enjoy It! (2012), VICE (2014) and BuzzFeed (2016), and in the documentary After Porn Ends 2.

Signature: She won the top annual title at both major bodies in successive years while launching a magazine, a network, a website and a distribution deal. Awards and business growth moved together, and neither waited for the other.

Award record

  • 2015AVN — Best Transsexual Sex Scene
  • 2015AVN — Transsexual Performer of the Year
  • 2016AVN — Transsexual Performer of the Year
  • 2014XBIZ — Transsexual Performer of the Year
  • 2015XBIZ — Transsexual Performer of the Year
  • 2014NightMoves — Best Transsexual Performer (Fan Choice)
  • 2014TEA — Best Scene
  • 2014TEA — Best Solo Site
  • 2014TEA — Best Hardcore Model

Beyond performing

  • Founder, Venus Lux Entertainment
  • Co-founder, Syren Network (2016)
  • Founder, TS Fetishes website (2016)
  • Founder, TransGlobal Magazine (October 2015)
  • Three-year exclusive distribution deal with Pulse Distribution (December 2014)
  • Published Venus Lux Diaries, a book compiled from her columns (March 2015)

Mainstream credits

  • Brody Stevens: Enjoy It! (2012)
  • VICE (2014)
  • BuzzFeed (2016)
  • Featured in the documentary After Porn Ends 2
Sources and checks2 sources
Still unconfirmed:
  • Real name, birth date and exact birthplace not documented
  • Exact year she began performing
  • Exact founding year of Venus Lux Entertainment itself, as distinct from her other 2014–2016 ventures
  • The 2014 and 2015 XBIZ Transsexual Performer of the Year wins are corroborated only by contemporaneous ceremony video uploads, not by an XBIZ-hosted winners list or independent press
Alana Evans, photo 1 of 3
Alana Evans, photo 2 of 3
Alana Evans, photo 3 of 3
Toglenn · CC BY-SA 4.0 · from Wikimedia Commons

4. Alana Evans

President of the Adult Performers Actors Guild, a federally recognised performer union

active high confidence
  • Score90.2
  • Born1976 Fort Campbell, Kentucky
  • Age50
  • Active2002– c. 2002–present
  • Wins2
  • Hall of Fame3×

Why Alana is number 4

Since 2018 Evans has been president of the Adult Performers Actors Guild, the nearest thing American performers have to a union. Her solo win came eleven years before that, at AVN’s 24th ceremony in 2007, for Corruption, and the ceremony page confirms it. XRCO had named her Unsung Siren in 2002.

She set up CreamWorks Films in 2006 and Royalty X Films in 2008, both with partners. AVN put her in its Hall of Fame in 2015, and XRCO and Urban X both did in 2019. She has written a regular column for High Times since 2014.

The argument against: Her start year and credit total are not on record. With just one competitive scene win, her Recognition score leans on hall-of-fame places, which honour a whole career rather than solo work.
Score by pillar
Industry Recognition 26%
9.0
Body of Work 14%
9.2
Audience Demand 14%
9.1
Craft & Screen Presence 20%
8.9
Longevity & Consistency 10%
9.5
Influence & Crossover 16%
8.7
Career and credits

Career

Evans came into the industry in the early 2000s. She became vice-president of the Adult Performers Actors Guild (APAG), described as a federally recognised union for performers, and in February 2018 she became its president. She co-founded two production companies, CreamWorks Films in 2006 and Royalty X Films in 2008. She is in the Hall of Fame of AVN, XRCO and the Urban X Awards. Outside performing, she has written a cannabis-culture column for High Times and helped launch a gaming site for adult performers.

Signature: She heads the nearest thing American adult film has to a performer union. She took the role after most of her AVN and XRCO record was already in place.

Studios

CreamWorks FilmsRoyalty X Films

Award record

  • 2002XRCO — Unsung Siren
  • 2007AVN — Best Solo Sex Scene
  • 2015AVN — Hall of Fame
  • 2019XRCO — Hall of Fame
  • 2019Urban X Awards — Hall of Fame

Beyond performing

  • President, Adult Performers Actors Guild (from 2018)
  • Co-founder, CreamWorks Films (2006)
  • Co-founder, Royalty X Films (2008)

Mainstream credits

  • Column for High Times ("The Stoned Gamer", from 2014)
Sources and checks4 sources
Vicky Vette, photo 1 of 3
VVNightMoves Awards Hall of Fame 2012
VV
Toglenn · CC BY-SA 3.0 · from Wikimedia Commons

5. Vicky Vette

Two-time Hall of Famer whose own cam site has outlasted most of its rivals

active high confidence
  • Score87.4
  • Born1965 Stavanger, Norway
  • Age61
  • Active2003– 2003–present on-camera; has operated VickyAtHome.com and run webcam shows alongside her film work for most of that span
  • Wins6
  • Hall of Fame2×

Why Vicky is number 5

Vette has run her own site, VickyAtHome.com, since 2003, and she still runs it along with the VNA Network that grew around it. In 2014 AVN named it Best Solo Girl Website.

Her first AVN prize came nine years earlier: Best Tease Performance at the 22nd ceremony in 2005, for Metropolis, confirmed on the ceremony page. Her XBIZ titles are Web Babe of the Year for 2012 and Web Star of the Year for 2013, and a lot of the business runs on camming.

She is the one woman here in two halls of fame, NightMoves in 2012 and AVN in 2016. Doc Johnson makes a licensed toy line with her name.

The argument against: Most of her big prizes are web, fan and platform awards rather than scene awards against a full field. No credit total exists, which undersells a career that never ran on studio releases.
Score by pillar
Industry Recognition 26%
9.2
Body of Work 14%
7.6
Audience Demand 14%
8.4
Craft & Screen Presence 20%
9.0
Longevity & Consistency 10%
9.2
Influence & Crossover 16%
8.7
Career and credits

Career

Vicky Vette was born in Stavanger. She moved to Canada at five and to the United States in her mid-thirties. Her camera career started in 2003 and centres on VickyAtHome.com and the VNA Network, a webcam and production platform she operates herself, not a studio contract. Film work won her AVN Best Tease Performance in 2005. NightMoves inducted her into its Hall of Fame in 2012, and AVN did in 2016, so she is the only performer in this field with two separate Hall of Fame inductions. XBIZ gave her Web Babe of the Year and Web Star of the Year in 2012 and 2013, one after the other. Twice she won AVN’s Best Solo Girl Website for the site she has run herself for two decades. With Doc Johnson she also makes a licensed adult-toy line, the Vicky Quickie.

Signature: The only performer here inducted into two Halls of Fame, and the reason is the same independent cam and webmistress business she has run nonstop since 2003. It is the audience-and-platform record that this article’s rubric exists to reward.

Best known for

Metropolis (2005) — AVN Best Tease Performance

Award record

  • 2005AVN — Best Tease Performance (Metropolis)
  • 2010NightMoves Award — Best MILF (Fan’s Choice)
  • 2011NightMoves Award — Best On-Line Presence (Fan’s Choice)
  • 2012XBIZ — Web Babe of the Year
  • 2012NightMoves Awards — Hall of Fame
  • 2013XBIZ — Web Star of the Year
  • 2014AVN — Best Solo Girl Website
  • 2016AVN — Hall of Fame

Beyond performing

  • Founder and operator, VickyAtHome.com
  • VNA Network (independent webcam/production platform)
  • Vicky Quickie adult-toy line, distributed by Doc Johnson

Mainstream credits

  • Pacar Hantu Perawan (2011), Indonesian erotic-horror feature
Sources and checks2 sources
Still unconfirmed:
  • Exact date she began running her own webcam site, as distinct from her film debut
Joanna Angel, photo 1 of 4
Joanna Angel, photo 2 of 4
Joanna Angel, photo 3 of 4
Joanna Angel, photo 4 of 4
Toglenn · CC BY-SA 4.0 · from Wikimedia Commons

6. Joanna Angel

Founded Burning Angel in 2002 and turned alt-porn into a lasting business

active high confidence
  • Score87.3
  • Born1980 Brooklyn, New York
  • Age46
  • Active2002– 2002–present
  • Wins4
  • Hall of Fame2×

Why Joanna is number 6

Angel won the solo prize with her own product, twice. Rebel Girl took it at the 28th ceremony in 2011. Joanna Angel: Filthy Whore took it at the 30th in 2013. Both were Burning Angel releases, and both wins are on the ceremony pages.

She had started that label in 2002, at nineteen, with no outside money, and it became the commercial home of alt-porn. AVN gave her Best Porn Star Website four times between 2011 and 2015, a prize for a performer who is the whole product. NightMoves added her to its Hall of Fame in 2013 and AVN in 2016.

The argument against: No one publishes a reliable credit total for her. Her Wikipedia page lists a 2016 XRCO Hall of Fame place that Wikipedia’s own XRCO list does not show, so we leave it out.
Score by pillar
Industry Recognition 26%
8.8
Body of Work 14%
8.9
Audience Demand 14%
8.9
Craft & Screen Presence 20%
8.5
Longevity & Consistency 10%
9.5
Influence & Crossover 16%
8.1
Career and credits

Career

Joanna Mostov, known as Joanna Angel, was born in Brooklyn. In April 2002, still a college student, she co-founded BurningAngel.com with Mitch Fontaine. The site is widely credited as the company that made alt-porn commercially viable and not a niche curiosity. She works as actress, director, writer and producer for her own label. AVN's own winners list confirms her 2016 AVN Hall of Fame induction, and she is also in the NightMoves Hall of Fame. Her own Wikipedia biography carries a claim, widely repeated, that she was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame in 2016. It appears nowhere on Wikipedia's own curated list of XRCO Hall of Fame members, and the matching Wikidata statement has no reference at all, so we do not score it.

Signature: She started a studio at nineteen with no outside backing, and made a whole aesthetic subculture into a lasting production company she owns herself.

Studios

Burning Angel

Award record

  • 2016AVN — Hall of Fame
  • 2013NightMoves — Hall of Fame
  • 2011AVN — Best Porn Star Website
  • 2013AVN — Best Porn Star Website
  • 2014AVN — Best Porn Star Website
  • 2015AVN — Best Porn Star Website

Beyond performing

  • Co-founder, Burning Angel (2002)
  • JoannaAngel.com
Sources and checks3 sources
Still unconfirmed:
  • Total documented credit count
  • A 2016 XRCO Hall of Fame induction is claimed on her own Wikipedia biography (citing an archived AVN news item) but does not appear on Wikipedia’s dedicated list of XRCO Hall of Fame members, and the matching Wikidata statement has no reference; treated as unconfirmed and removed from the scored awards list
Bailey Jay, photo 1 of 3
Bailey Jay, photo 2 of 3
Bailey Jay, photo 3 of 3
jerone2 · CC BY-SA 2.0 · from Wikimedia Commons

7. Bailey Jay

Two AVN titles in a row, then fifteen years of podcasting under her own name

active high confidence
  • Score84.8
  • Active2010– 2010–present per Wikidata; solo and webcam work from at least 2009, which drew the 2010 Transgender Erotica Award for Best Solo Model
  • Wins4

Why Bailey is number 7

The Transgender Erotica Awards named Jay Best Solo Model in 2010, for solo and webcam work she made herself. AVN followed. It gave her Transsexual Performer of the Year in 2011 and again in 2012, the first back-to-back winner in that category.

In 2016, four years after her studio work had mostly ended, fans voted her AVN Favorite Trans Performer. She has also spent fifteen years podcasting, from The Bailey Jay Show to Sugar and Spice, made with the actress Jen Richards. She is here for a documented solo award. What her body looks like is her business, and nothing here describes it.

The argument against: Under its rules for living people, English Wikipedia keeps her birth date and birthplace private, and we do the same. That leaves her age and career length partly unknown. The 2010 award could not be checked, as that body keeps no winners archive.
Score by pillar
Industry Recognition 26%
8.3
Body of Work 14%
7.6
Audience Demand 14%
8.0
Craft & Screen Presence 20%
8.9
Longevity & Consistency 10%
8.5
Influence & Crossover 16%
9.4
Career and credits

Career

Jay built her audience on her own site and webcam work, before either award body had noticed her. AVN Transsexual Performer of the Year went to her in 2011 and 2012, and she was the first in that category to win it twice running. Her studio work was long behind her when, four years later, the fan-voted Favorite Trans Performer award came her way at the 33rd AVN ceremony. Audio has filled the second half of her career. The Bailey Jay Show ran from 2010 until 2021. Since then she has hosted The Trans Witching Hour, Blood Lust and Sugar and Spice with the actress Jen Richards, and a show only for Patreon subscribers. Matthew Terhune, a photographer, has been her husband since 2011.

Signature: She was the first to win this category two years running. She is also the only one here whose second act is fifteen years of podcasting, not a studio.

Award record

  • 2011AVN — Transsexual Performer of the Year
  • 2012AVN — Transsexual Performer of the Year
  • 2016AVN — Favorite Trans Performer (fan award)
  • 2010TEA — Best Solo Model
  • 2011XBIZ — Transsexual Performer of the Year (nomination)
  • 2012XBIZ — Transsexual Performer of the Year (nomination)

Beyond performing

  • ts-baileyjay.com, her own subscription site
  • Thee Invisible Cabin, a Patreon-exclusive podcast

Mainstream credits

  • The Bailey Jay Show (2010–2021)
  • Sugar and Spice, co-hosted with Jen Richards
  • Vice Media presenter (2014)
  • Inside Amy Schumer (2015)
  • Return to Return to Nuke ’Em High (2017)
Sources and checks4 sources
Still unconfirmed:
  • Date and place of birth — English Wikipedia withholds both under its living-persons privacy policy and we have followed that
  • Exact debut year
  • The 2010 Transgender Erotica Award — that body publishes no winners archive we could cross-check
Ariel Rebel, photo 1 of 3
ARXBIZ winner 2015
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Desert Sky · CC BY 2.0 · from Wikimedia Commons

8. Ariel Rebel

Ten years of web and site awards for a solo star born in Montreal

selective medium confidence
  • Score79.5
  • Born1985 Montreal, Quebec
  • Age41
  • Active2005– 2005–present
  • Wins6

Why Ariel is number 8

Rebel is a solo performer first and last. She started in 2005 making mostly solo and glamour content for her own site, with no studio deal, and the prizes followed the site.

BAA Best Solo Girl Site came in 2007, XBIZ Web Babe/Star of the Year in 2010, then AVN Best Solo Girl Website of the Year and a Miss FreeOnes Best Adult Model title in 2012. XBIZ added a Best Scene award in 2014 and Web Star of the Year in 2015.

That is a decade of site and web prizes from three bodies. Her Marc Dorcel scenes only began in 2013. Among Montreal performers, few are better documented.

The argument against: After the 2019 policy change her English Wikipedia page was deleted, so the record leans on French Wikipedia. None of her site awards could be checked on the award body’s own pages the way the AVN results were.
Score by pillar
Industry Recognition 26%
8.6
Body of Work 14%
7.6
Audience Demand 14%
8.1
Craft & Screen Presence 20%
7.7
Longevity & Consistency 10%
8.9
Influence & Crossover 16%
6.8
Career and credits

Career

Her first work came in 2005. Over the next years Ariel Rebel gathered one of the largest independent audiences of the amateur-and-glamour era, making mostly solo and glamour content and not studio-contract hardcore. From 2013 she also shot scenes for Marc Dorcel. According to French Wikipedia, ten years of web and site honours followed. In 2007 came a BAA Award for Best Solo Girl Site. XBIZ gave her Web Babe/Star of the Year in 2010. In 2012 she collected an AVN Award for Best Solo Girl Website of the Year and a Miss FreeOnes Best Adult Model title. XBIZ added a Best Scene award in 2014 and Web Star of the Year in 2015.

Signature: AVN, XBIZ and Miss FreeOnes all honoured her across a decade, and the base was a solo-content business she ran herself, not a studio deal.

Award record

  • 2007BAA Awards — Best Solo Girl Site
  • 2010XBIZ — Web Babe/Star of the Year
  • 2012AVN — Best Solo Girl Website of the Year
  • 2012Miss FreeOnes — Best Adult Model
  • 2014XBIZ — Best Scene
  • 2015XBIZ — Web Star of the Year
Sources and checks2 sources
Still unconfirmed:
  • No English Wikipedia article (deleted post-2019 WP:PORNBIO policy change)
  • Exact scope of on-camera hardcore work versus solo/glamour content not independently itemised
  • Award categories are website/solo-content categories rather than performer-of-the-year titles; none independently cross-checked against the awarding bodies’ own ceremony pages
Devinn Lane, photo 1 of 3
DLAVN winner 2003
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9. Devinn Lane

A Penthouse Pet who went from performing to directing

retired medium confidence
  • Score78.1
  • Born1972 Newport Beach, California
  • Age54
  • Active1999– Hardcore film 1999–2005; directed through 2007
  • Wins3

Why Devinn is number 9

Lane’s result opens the record book. In Style won her Best Solo Sex Scene at the 18th ceremony in 2001, the earliest solo result we could both check on a ceremony page and tie to a full performer record. She had been Penthouse’s Pet of the Month for October 1999.

AVN named her Best Actress — Video in 2003, so her range went past solo work. She also moved into making films very quickly. She directed and produced all five parts of The Devinn Lane Show and hosted six seasons of 7 Lives Exposed on Playboy TV, up to 2007.

The argument against: Her birth date and physical facts come from German and Russian Wikipedia and Wikidata, not a cited English source, so the record is medium confidence. Her hardcore years ran only from 1999 to 2005.
Score by pillar
Industry Recognition 26%
7.2
Body of Work 14%
8.9
Audience Demand 14%
8.1
Craft & Screen Presence 20%
7.8
Longevity & Consistency 10%
6.7
Influence & Crossover 16%
8.3
Career and credits

Career

Lane started stripping in 1990, aged sixteen, to support her child. In 1996 she was offered hard-core magazine work, and in 1999 she made her film debut, at first only in lesbian scenes. That December she signed with Wicked Pictures. German Wikipedia's dedicated biography independently confirms that Penthouse named her Pet of the Month for October 1999. She also won two competitive AVN awards, in 2001 and 2003. From 2005 she moved into directing and produced all five installments of The Devinn Lane Show. Through 2007 she hosted six seasons of Playboy TV’s 7 Lives Exposed, so in one decade she worked on both sides of the camera.

Signature: Few on this list turned a Penthouse credit and an AVN-winning performing career straight into a directing and hosting career, with the two following one another and not running side by side.

Best known for

The Devinn Lane Show (director, five installments)

Studios

Wicked Pictures

Award record

  • 1999Penthouse — Pet of the Month (October)
  • 2001AVN — Best Solo Sex Scene
  • 2003AVN — Best Actress — Video

Beyond performing

  • Directed and produced all five installments of The Devinn Lane Show
  • Hosted Playboy TV’s 7 Lives Exposed (six seasons through 2007)

Mainstream credits

  • Playboy TV — 7 Lives Exposed (host, six seasons through 2007)
Sources and checks2 sources
Still unconfirmed:
  • Birth date and physical statistics sourced via German/Russian Wikipedia and Wikidata rather than a citation on the English article; treated as medium confidence
Teagan Presley, photo 1 of 3
TPAVN Hall of Fame 2016
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Eva Rinaldi · CC BY-SA 2.0 · from Wikimedia Commons

10. Teagan Presley

New-talent title at nineteen, Hall of Fame at thirty

retired medium confidence
  • Score77.8
  • Born1985
  • Age41
  • Active2004– Wikidata records a working period of 2004 to 2019.
  • Wins4
  • Hall of Fame1×

Why Teagan is number 10

Few careers in our records have this shape. XRCO named Presley New Starlet for 2005, at nineteen or twenty. She left, came back, and XRCO gave her Best Cumback in 2009.

A year later, at the 27th AVN ceremony, Not the Bradys XXX: Marcia, Marcia, Marcia! won her Best Solo Sex Scene, which the ceremony page confirms. In 2016, at thirty, she joined the AVN Hall of Fame.

A starter prize, a comeback prize and a hall-of-fame place is a rare set, and the solo win is the result that sits between the return and the induction.

The argument against: With no English Wikipedia page, her record leans on Wikidata and ceremony pages. One source gives her a second award that night, Best All-Girl Three-Way Sex Scene, but the ceremony page names three other women for it. Only the solo win is used.
Score by pillar
Industry Recognition 26%
8.3
Body of Work 14%
7.6
Audience Demand 14%
8.0
Craft & Screen Presence 20%
7.6
Longevity & Consistency 10%
8.3
Influence & Crossover 16%
6.8
Career and credits

Career

According to Wikidata she was born on 24 July 1985 and worked from 2004 to 2019, so she was eighteen or nineteen at her first credit. In 2005 XRCO, the oldest of the three American award bodies, handed her its New Starlet title. Whether she was nineteen or twenty then depends on how the ceremony date fell against her birthday. Even so, no one else ranked on this page won a new-talent award from any body that early. Her later honours are more ordinary. She won two scenes at the 27th AVN Awards in 2010, got an XRCO Best Cumback in 2009 following a break, and entered the AVN Hall of Fame in 2016.

Signature: She won the oldest award body’s new-talent title at nineteen or twenty and made the Hall of Fame eleven years on. The early result was not a one-off, which is what separates a breakout from a career.

Award record

  • 2016AVN — Hall of Fame
  • 2005XRCO — New Starlet
  • 2009XRCO — Best Cumback
  • 2010AVN — Best Solo Sex Scene (27th AVN Awards)
  • 2010AVN — Best All-Girl Three-Way Sex Scene (27th AVN Awards)
Sources and checks4 sources
Still unconfirmed:
  • No English Wikipedia article; biography rests on Wikidata plus the ceremony records
  • Place of birth
  • Contract history — widely reported studio contracts could not be sourced and are not asserted
  • Two AVN wins recorded on Wikidata without a category are not scored
Bobbi Eden, photo 1 of 3
Bobbi Eden, photo 2 of 3
Bobbi Eden, photo 3 of 3
Gary · CC BY-SA 2.0 · from Wikimedia Commons

11. Bobbi Eden

A Dutch model and performer with a European X Award and a World Cup Twitter stunt

active high confidence
  • Score77.2
  • Born1980 The Hague, Netherlands
  • Age46
  • Active1998– Dutch Wikipedia's infobox lists 1998–present.
  • Wins1

Why Bobbi is number 11

Eden is famous in the Netherlands beyond adult film. She was in a Ferry Corsten music video, starred in the 2012 reality show Bobbi in the USA, published an autobiography in 2014 and joined the Dutch Comedy Central Roast in 2016.

Her place here comes from 2013, when AVN nominated BobbiEdenLive.com for Best Solo Girl Website. She began in glamour modelling in 1998, finishing second for Dutch Penthouse Pet of the Year that year and posing for Club, Men Only and Soho before her films. Her one competitive win is for acting: Best Actress (Benelux) at the 2004 European X Awards.

The argument against: A website nomination is the lightest credit we accept. Her strongest prize is for acting, not solo work, so this is a real but small qualification.
Score by pillar
Industry Recognition 26%
6.4
Body of Work 14%
7.6
Audience Demand 14%
7.0
Craft & Screen Presence 20%
7.8
Longevity & Consistency 10%
9.8
Influence & Crossover 16%
9.2
Career and credits

Career

Priscilla Hendrikse, born in The Hague, became a glamour model in 1998 and finished as runner-up for Dutch Penthouse Pet of the Year in that same year. She modelled for Club, Men Only and Soho, among others, before moving into adult film. In 2004 she won Best Actress (Benelux) at the European X Awards. In 2013 her site BobbiEdenLive.com was nominated for Best Solo Girl Website at the AVN Awards. Away from the industry she drew mainstream press during the 2010 World Cup, was in a music video for Dutch DJ Ferry Corsten, and hosted the reality show Bobbi in the USA (2012). She published an autobiography in 2014 and took part in the Dutch Comedy Central Roast in 2016.

Signature: She has an acting award from the European X Awards and, on top of it, a reality-TV and autobiography career that rests on her visibility in the Dutch mainstream.

Award record

  • 2004European X Award — Best Actress (Benelux)
  • 2013AVN — Best Solo Girl Website (BobbiEdenLive.com)

Beyond performing

  • BobbiEdenLive.com (solo website)
  • Autobiography (2014)

Mainstream credits

  • Music video appearance, Ferry Corsten's "Watch Out"
  • Reality television, Bobbi in the USA (2012)
  • Comedy Central Roast (Dutch edition, 2016)
Sources and checks2 sources
Olivia Del Rio, photo 1 of 3
ODAVN Hall of Fame 2025
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InternetAdultFilmDatabase · CC BY-SA 2.0 · from Wikimedia Commons

12. Olivia Del Rio

Brazilian-born performer from Minas Gerais, inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2025

retired high confidence
  • Score76.6
  • Born1969 Rio Casca, Minas Gerais
  • Age57
  • Active1994– 1994–2009 as a performer, per Portuguese Wikipedia; a brief return was reported starting 2024
  • Credits~250
  • Wins0
  • Hall of Fame1×

Why Olivia is number 12

In January 2025, at the 42nd ceremony, AVN added del Rio to its Hall of Fame, sixteen years after she retired. That career covers about 250 titles from 1994 to 2009, mostly for American and French studios, and four AVN nominations from 2003 to 2005, one of them Female Performer of the Year in 2004.

Born in Rio Casca, Minas Gerais, she began in Paris with the director Patrice Cabanel, which is why little of her work went through the Brazilian market. Her solo credit, though, is a 2004 nomination for Best Solo Sex Scene, not a win. It is the weakest solo claim on the list, and we would rather say so.

The argument against: The nomination could not be checked: the 21st ceremony page names that category’s winner, not its nominees. It rests on Portuguese Wikipedia and Wikidata, and no English encyclopedia covers her career.
Score by pillar
Industry Recognition 26%
7.7
Body of Work 14%
6.4
Audience Demand 14%
7.1
Craft & Screen Presence 20%
7.7
Longevity & Consistency 10%
10.0
Influence & Crossover 16%
7.7
Career and credits

Career

Del Rio was born Olivia Neves de Oliveira in Rio Casca, Minas Gerais. She began in Paris, working for the director Patrice Cabanel, and made her film debut in 1994, aged twenty-five. Over fifteen years she made about 250 titles, mostly for American and French productions. AVN nominated her four times from 2003 to 2005, once for Female Performer of the Year in 2004, but she never won a competitive award. In 2003 she was in two episodes of the Swedish TV programme Hi Chaparall. She stopped performing around 2009, worked as a luxury escort until 2011 and then left the industry. In January 2025, at the 42nd ceremony, the AVN Awards inducted her into its Hall of Fame.

Signature: Her induction came sixteen years after she retired. It rests on a body of work made almost wholly for American and French studios, not for Brazil’s home market.

Best known for

Lost Angels: Olivia Del RioCargo

Award record

  • 2025AVN — Hall of Fame
  • 2002FICEB Ninfa — Best Actress (Apasionadas y Coquetas)
  • 2003AVN — Best Group Sex Scene
  • 2004AVN — Female Performer of the Year
  • 2004AVN — Best Solo Sex Scene
  • 2004AVN — Most Outrageous Sex Scene
  • 2005AVN — Best Group Sex Scene

Mainstream credits

  • Hi Chaparall (Swedish television, 2003)
Sources and checks3 sources
Still unconfirmed:
  • No English-language Wikipedia biography exists; narrative career details rest on the Portuguese Wikipedia article
  • Studio list beyond named titles; no itemized studio roster located
  • Exact scope of the reported 2024 industry return
Anikka Albrite, photo 1 of 3
Anikka Albrite, photo 2 of 3
AAAVN winner 2016
Toglenn · CC BY-SA 3.0 · from Wikimedia Commons

13. Anikka Albrite

Female Performer of the Year at AVN, and two All-Girl Group Sex Scene awards

selective high confidence
  • Score75.8
  • Born1988 Denver, Colorado
  • Age38
  • Active2012– Documented AVN-recognised activity 2014–2016; debut year inferred from the award timeline and not independently confirmed
  • Wins3

Why Anikka is number 13

Albrite won on both sides of the 2015 change. Her Anikka took the tease prize at the 31st ceremony in 2014, the last year it existed. Anikka 2 then took the new merged award at the 32nd, shared three ways with Dani Daniels and Karlie Montana.

One co-winner’s shared record calls that a likely data-entry slip. The ceremony page shows all three names, so it stands. In the same 2015 season AVN named her Female Performer of the Year, the biggest yearly title there is. In 2015 and 2016 she added two Best All-Girl Group Sex Scene wins.

The argument against: There is no English Wikipedia page of her own, only a redirect to an awards list. Her start year is inferred from her first award, so little before 2014 is on record.
Score by pillar
Industry Recognition 26%
7.9
Body of Work 14%
7.6
Audience Demand 14%
7.8
Craft & Screen Presence 20%
7.4
Longevity & Consistency 10%
8.0
Influence & Crossover 16%
6.8
Career and credits

Career

No one else on this list holds AVN’s top overall prize, Female Performer of the Year. Albrite won it in 2015. That same year she was named for Best All-Girl Group Sex Scene, for Anikka 2, and she won that award again in 2016 for Angela 2. Both scene awards check out against the official pages for the 32nd and 33rd AVN Awards.

Signature: Hers is the one name on this page that carries AVN's broad Female Performer of the Year title and not only a single-category award. She picked it up in 2015, alongside her first group-scene win.

Best known for

Anikka 2 (2015, with Dani Daniels and Karlie Montana)Angela 2 (2016, with Angela White and Alexis Texas)

Award record

  • 2015AVN — Female Performer of the Year
  • 2015AVN — Best All-Girl Group Sex Scene
  • 2016AVN — Best All-Girl Group Sex Scene
Sources and checks2 sources
Still unconfirmed:
  • No dedicated English Wikipedia biography — the article at her name redirects to an award-listing page rather than a standalone biography
  • Debut year inferred from the earliest documented award activity, not independently confirmed
  • Wikidata additionally credits an XBIZ Female Performer of the Year title and several further 2014–2016 scene wins; none independently cross-checked against each body’s own published record and none scored here
Violet Myers, photo 1 of 3
VMAVN winner 2024
VM
Holly Randall · CC BY 3.0 · from Wikimedia Commons

14. Violet Myers

The only performer in this group with two competitive AVN scene wins

active medium confidence
  • Score73.8
  • Born1997 Los Angeles, California
  • Age29
  • Active2018– 2018–present
  • Wins2

Why Violet is number 14

Myers is the only recent name in this category. At the 2026 AVN Awards she was nominated for Best Solo/Tease Performance, a category that had been missing from ceremony pages since 2019. She already had two checked wins.

High Gear in Blacked Raw V56 won Best Foursome/Orgy Sex Scene at the 40th ceremony in January 2023. She Ruined Me, for Deeper, won Best Boy/Girl Sex Scene at the 41st in January 2024. Both came from the Blacked, Vixen and Deeper group, the hardest place in American adult film to get repeat bookings.

Vixen named her an Angel in May 2023. Her non-adult YouTube channel had 434,000 subscribers as of November 2025.

The argument against: It is a nomination, and the newest and least supported credit here. Wikidata also lists Pornhub and Urban X wins with no category, and none count toward her score. A claim about her ancestry on the same entry has no source.
Score by pillar
Industry Recognition 26%
6.6
Body of Work 14%
9.6
Audience Demand 14%
7.0
Craft & Screen Presence 20%
7.2
Longevity & Consistency 10%
6.7
Influence & Crossover 16%
7.7
Measured. The Audience Demand score for Violet Myers comes from real search numbers for her name. It is not a guess.
Career and credits

Career

Myers, born in Los Angeles in 1997, has been working since 2018. Two wins in this group are verified. First, in January 2023, the 40th AVN Awards named the ensemble cast of High Gear in Blacked Raw V56 winners of Best Foursome/Orgy Sex Scene. Then in January 2024 the 41st AVN Awards gave Best Boy/Girl Sex Scene to She Ruined Me for Deeper, in which she played opposite Chris Diamond. Vixen made her an Angel in May 2023, and she was a fan-voted nominee for Favorite Female Porn Star in 2024.

Signature: Both prizes are scene awards for the Blacked, Vixen and Deeper group, the toughest place in today’s American industry to win repeat bookings.

Best known for

She Ruined Me (Deeper, 2023)

Studios

Blacked RawDeeperVixen

Award record

  • 2023AVN — Best Foursome/Orgy Sex Scene — High Gear (Blacked Raw V56)
  • 2024AVN — Best Boy/Girl Sex Scene — She Ruined Me (Deeper)
  • 2024AVN — Favorite Female Porn Star, fan-voted (nomination)
  • 2026AVN — Best Solo/Tease Performance (nomination)

Mainstream credits

  • Non-adult YouTube channel, 434,000 subscribers as of November 2025
Sources and checks3 sources
Still unconfirmed:
  • Pakistani American ancestry is recorded on Wikidata only, without a reference, and alongside Mexican American and Turkish American ancestry
  • Wikidata lists further Pornhub Award and Urban X Award wins with no category attached — not scored
  • No consolidated credit count published
Abigail Mac, photo 1 of 3
Abigail Mac, photo 2 of 3
AMAVN winner 2019
Gary · CC BY-SA 2.0 · from Wikimedia Commons

15. Abigail Mac

One AVN scene win, plus Pornhub's own "Top Lesbian Performer" title

active high confidence
  • Score73.4
  • Born1988 Baltimore, Maryland
  • Age38
  • Active2016– Documented activity from the 2016 award record; earlier career start not independently verified
  • Wins3

Why Abigail is number 15

Black & White 4 won Mac the 2016 Best Solo/Tease Performance at the 33rd ceremony, and she won it alone. The ceremony page confirms it. That is her ticket onto this list. Three years on, at the 36th ceremony, she won Best Girl/Girl Sex Scene with Kissa Sins for Abigail.

In that same season Pornhub’s fan-voted awards called her Top Lesbian Performer. That is the platform’s own wording, not a claim we make. Two bodies honouring the same year of work show the 2016 win was not a one-off.

The argument against: Her record rests on Wikidata and ceremony pages, since she has no English Wikipedia page. Her start year is just her first known award, so her career is almost surely longer than it looks.
Score by pillar
Industry Recognition 26%
7.5
Body of Work 14%
7.6
Audience Demand 14%
7.6
Craft & Screen Presence 20%
7.2
Longevity & Consistency 10%
7.3
Influence & Crossover 16%
6.8
Career and credits

Career

In 2019 Abigail Mac won Best Girl/Girl Sex Scene for Abigail, which she made with Kissa Sins. The 36th AVN Awards' own page confirms it. That same year Pornhub's awards gave her their Top Lesbian Performer title. That is the platform's own category name, and we repeat it as such. It is not a statement about who she is, and the word is used differently in this article. She has no English Wikipedia biography, so we rely on Wikidata for her record.

Signature: Two groups gave her credit for the same body of work in 2019. AVN confirmed a scene win, and Pornhub's fan-voted awards named her in its "lesbian" category. The labels differ, but the work behind them is the same.

Best known for

Abigail (2019, with Kissa Sins)

Award record

  • 2019AVN — Best Girl/Girl Sex Scene
  • 2019Pornhub Awards — Top Lesbian Performer
  • 2016AVN — Best Solo/Tease Performance
Sources and checks2 sources
Still unconfirmed:
  • No English Wikipedia biography exists — sourced entirely to Wikidata
  • Debut year is a floor set by the earliest documented award, not a real career-start date
Katja Kassin, photo 1 of 4
Katja Kassin, photo 2 of 4
Katja Kassin, photo 3 of 4
Katja Kassin, photo 4 of 4
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16. Katja Kassin

Born in East Germany, winner of a quirky XRCO prize, and later a social work graduate

retired medium confidence
  • Score71.9
  • Born1979 Leipzig, East Germany
  • Age47
  • Active2002– c. 2002–2010s; returned to academic study in the United States from 2010.
  • Wins3

Why Katja is number 16

Kassin was born in Leipzig, then in East Germany, and she is the only German-born performer with a checked win in this category. It came at the 23rd AVN ceremony in 2006, Best Solo Sex Scene, and the ceremony page lists it.

The same year XRCO gave her Orgasmic Analist, a very different kind of prize. AVN added a shared Best POV Sex Scene win in 2009. Then she left the industry, from 2010, and went back to school in Los Angeles.

An associate degree came first, then a BA in psychology, then a Master of Social Work. Very few people in our records have done that.

The argument against: No English Wikipedia page exists for her. Her hair colour reaches Wikidata from a weak aggregator. Nobody knows her exact retirement year. Medium confidence overall.
Score by pillar
Industry Recognition 26%
7.2
Body of Work 14%
7.6
Audience Demand 14%
7.4
Craft & Screen Presence 20%
7.0
Longevity & Consistency 10%
7.3
Influence & Crossover 16%
6.8
Career and credits

Career

Kassin was born in Leipzig when it still belonged to East Germany. Her performing career began in 2002. In 2006 she won AVN Best Solo Sex Scene and the XRCO award known as "Orgasmic Analist". A shared AVN Best POV Sex Scene win came in 2009. She later stopped performing and went to study in the United States. At Los Angeles Pierce College she earned an associate degree. At California State University, Northridge she took a psychology BA and then a Master of Social Work.

Signature: She turned her time on screen into a second, very different profession. A Master of Social Work is a credential that almost nobody else in this category has on record.

Award record

  • 2006AVN — Best Solo Sex Scene
  • 2006XRCO — Orgasmic Analist
  • 2009AVN — Best POV Sex Scene (shared with Erik Everhard and Tory Lane)
Sources and checks1 source
Last checked 22 August 2026 · Wikidata — Katja Kassin
Still unconfirmed:
  • No dedicated English Wikipedia article
  • Hair colour reference cites Adult Film Index, a lower-reliability aggregator, via Wikidata
  • Exact retirement year
Kissa Sins, photo 1 of 3
Kissa Sins, photo 2 of 3
KSAVN winner 2019
Holly Randall · CC BY 3.0 · from Wikimedia Commons

17. Kissa Sins

Best Girl/Girl Sex Scene two years in a row, with a different partner each time

selective high confidence
  • Score69.9
  • Born1987 Pasadena, California
  • Age39
  • Active2017– Documented AVN-recognised activity 2017–2019; current status not independently confirmed
  • Wins2

Why Kissa is number 17

Sins is the last winner. She took Best Solo/Tease Performance at the 36th ceremony in 2019, and the 37th and 38th ceremony pages have no solo or tease award. Her win closes a run that went, with few gaps, back to the late 1990s.

Her own shared record calls it an unconfirmed Wikidata claim, which is wrong: the ceremony page lists her. She also won Best Girl/Girl Sex Scene in 2018 with Katrina Jade and again in 2019 with Abigail Mac, two years and two partners. That is more than one lucky scene.

The argument against: No English Wikipedia page. Her documented years are only 2017 to 2019, and nothing public says whether she is still working, so we say nothing either way.
Score by pillar
Industry Recognition 26%
6.8
Body of Work 14%
7.6
Audience Demand 14%
7.2
Craft & Screen Presence 20%
6.8
Longevity & Consistency 10%
7.0
Influence & Crossover 16%
6.8
Career and credits

Career

Kissa Sins took Best Girl/Girl Sex Scene in back-to-back years, each time with a new co-star: Katrina Jade in 2018 and Abigail Mac in 2019. The pages of the 35th and 36th AVN Awards confirm both wins. She has no English Wikipedia biography, so Wikidata is our source for her.

Signature: We could verify no one else with two Best Girl/Girl Sex Scene wins in consecutive years. Each came with a different partner, a record that no single scene can set.

Best known for

I Am Katrina (2018, with Katrina Jade)Abigail (2019, with Abigail Mac)

Award record

  • 2018AVN — Best Girl/Girl Sex Scene
  • 2019AVN — Best Girl/Girl Sex Scene
Sources and checks3 sources
Still unconfirmed:
  • No English Wikipedia biography exists — sourced entirely to Wikidata
  • Debut year inferred from the earliest documented award activity, not independently confirmed
  • Wikidata additionally credits a 2019 Best Solo/Tease Performance win and a 2019 Best Three-Way Sex Scene (Girl/Girl/Boy) win; neither independently cross-checked against AVN’s own published record and neither scored here
  • No death date is recorded on Wikidata; current career status is not publicly documented as far as we could establish, and we make no claim about it either way
Background

The solo award, year by year

  1. 2001–2007

    Two prizes, nearly always two winners

    The first ceremony we could check is the 18th, in 2001. Jessica Drake took the tease prize for Shayla’s Web, and Devinn Lane took the solo prize for In Style. Look down the next six years and the pattern is plain: a different woman on each side, almost every time. Jenna Haze had the solo award and Belladonna the tease award in 2003. Then came Brooke Ballentyne and Michelle Wild (2004), Penny Flame and Vicky Vette (2005), Katja Kassin and Katsumi (2006), and Alana Evans and Amy Ried (2007).

  2. 2008–2013

    Repeat names, and the one double

    This is where the repeat winners show up. Eva Angelina won the solo prize in 2008 and a half-share of the tease prize, with Alexis Texas, in 2011. Brianna Love had the 2008 tease prize. Jenna Haze came back for the tease prize in 2009, six years after her solo win. Teagan Presley and Tori Black split the 27th ceremony in 2010. Joanna Angel won the solo prize in 2011 for Rebel Girl and in 2013 for Joanna Angel: Filthy Whore, both made by her own label. And at the 29th, in 2012, Asa Akira took both prizes. It is the only double in the whole run.

  3. 2014–2019

    One prize, then none

    At the 31st ceremony in 2014, the last with two prizes, Maddy O’Reilly won solo and Anikka Albrite won tease. From the 32nd in 2015 there was just one award. Albrite won it straight away, in a three-way share with Dani Daniels and Karlie Montana, for Anikka 2. Abigail Mac had it to herself in 2016. Asa Akira won again in 2017, her third, then Angela White in 2018 and Kissa Sins in 2019. The 37th and 38th ceremony pages have no solo or tease award at all. AVN has not said why, and we do not guess.

  4. 2005–2026

    Meanwhile, the site awards

    While the scene prize shrank, prizes for solo businesses grew. Ariel Rebel won the BAA Awards’ Best Solo Girl Site in 2007 and AVN’s Best Solo Girl Website of the Year in 2012. The Transgender Erotica Awards named Bailey Jay Best Solo Model in 2010 and gave Venus Lux Best Solo Site in 2014. AVN gave Vicky Vette Best Solo Girl Website in 2014, when her site was eleven years old, and gave Joanna Angel Best Porn Star Website four times between 2011 and 2015. Subscription platforms later made that kind of business ordinary.

Background

What the record book tells you

Read the winners in order and a few things stand out about the business, not just the women.

  1. Cheap to shoot, so worth an award

    One performer, one crew, no schedules to match. In the DVD years a solo scene was the cheapest thing a studio could film and an easy bonus disc. That helps explain why AVN gave it a prize. When buying moved to streaming and then subscriptions, the solo scene became the performer’s own product. That is about when the studio prize left the ceremony pages.

  2. The judges kept two skills apart

    For fourteen years, solo and tease went to different women almost every time. The industry did not think the two jobs were the same. The 2015 merger dropped that line. Four years later the award itself was gone.

  3. Owners won more than once

    Both of Joanna Angel’s solo wins were Burning Angel films she produced. Vicky Vette’s later prize was for her own site, run since 2003. Ariel Rebel, Venus Lux and Bobbi Eden were honoured for their own operations too. Solo work paid off for owners early, which is one reason camming and subscription sites took the format over.

  4. Video-site tags do not count

    Tube sites have category pages with words close to this page’s keyword. An uploader picks those tags for one file. Nobody judges them or keeps a record of them, so we do not rank on them. Short hair pornstars takes the same line on a different tag.

  5. Records here are wrong both ways

    Usually a record claims too much. In this category it also claims too little. Kissa Sins’ 2019 win and Karlie Montana’s 2015 share are marked unverified on their own records, yet the ceremony pages list both. A second 2010 award credited to Teagan Presley went, by its ceremony page, to three other women. Open the ceremony page before you trust any solo award.

How we work

Winners missing from the ranking

If you compare this list with the ceremony archive, you will find eight more winners. Their awards are real and on the ceremony pages. Here is why each one is not ranked.

No performer record yet

PF
Penny Flame (solo award, 2005)

Won for Repo Girl, confirmed on the ceremony page. She is not in any of our 1,074 performer files, and one award line is too little to build a fair record from.

EA
Eva Angelina (solo award 2008, shared tease award 2011)

Confirmed at the 25th and 28th ceremonies. Her awards alone would place her high. She has no record with us yet, and she should have one by the next edition.

MO
Maddy O’Reilly (solo award, 2014)

Won for Not The Wizard of Oz XXX, confirmed on the ceremony page. No record with us yet.

BB
Brooke Ballentyne, Michelle Wild, Katsumi, Amy Ried, Brianna Love

Five confirmed winners from 2004 to 2008: Ballentyne and Wild in 2004, then the tease prize for Katsumi in 2006, Ried in 2007 and Love in 2008. To rank any of them fairly we would first need a full record, not just a name and one result.

Left off to limit overlap

Angela White (merged award, 2018)

Confirmed for Angela 3, and strong enough to rank near the top. But three women ranked here are also on the hardcore pornstars list with her. A fourth shared name would take the overlap past 20%, our cap for two lists sharing names.

Tori Black (tease award, 2010)

Confirmed for Tori Black Is Pretty Filthy. The same cap applies: she is on the hardcore list and on the teen pornstars list.

Belladonna (tease award, 2003)

Confirmed for The Fashionistas. The hardcore overlap cap keeps her off.

Alexis Texas and Remy LaCroix

Each won a share of the tease prize: Texas with Eva Angelina in 2011, LaCroix with Lexi Belle in 2013. Neither was an outright win, and both women are on lists this one would overlap with too much.

Dani Daniels and Karlie Montana

They shared the 2015 award with Anikka Albrite, who is ranked. Taking all three would give one scene three of seventeen places. Both are also on the lesbian pornstars list, which is already at the cap.

Jessica Drake (tease award, 2001)

The first tease winner we could confirm. Her record is strong. The overlap cap is the only thing keeping her off.

Q&A

Common questions

Who is the best solo porn star?

On the award record, Jenna Haze. She won AVN Best Solo Sex Scene in 2003 and Best Tease Performance in 2009, and in 2009 she was Female Performer of the Year at AVN, XBIZ and XRCO. Asa Akira is second and Venus Lux third. The ranking uses solo and tease awards, never anyone’s body.

Has anyone won both AVN solo awards in one year?

Only Asa Akira. At the 29th AVN Awards in 2012 she won Best Solo Sex Scene and Best Tease Performance. In 2017 she also won the merged Best Solo/Tease Performance, which gives her three checked wins, the most of anyone.

Who won the first and the last solo awards on record?

The oldest results we could check are from the 18th ceremony in 2001: Devinn Lane won Best Solo Sex Scene and Jessica Drake won Best Tease Performance. The last is Kissa Sins, who won Best Solo/Tease Performance at the 36th ceremony in 2019.

What was the AVN Best Tease Performance award?

A solo award that ran beside Best Solo Sex Scene from at least 2001 until 2015, when the two merged. Checked winners include Jessica Drake (2001), Belladonna (2003), Vicky Vette (2005), Jenna Haze (2009), Tori Black (2010) and Anikka Albrite (2014).

Why did AVN stop giving the solo award?

AVN has not said. The merged award last appears at the 36th ceremony in 2019. The 37th and 38th ceremony pages list no solo or tease award. Violet Myers’ own record does show a nomination in the category in 2026.

Which winners ran their own solo sites?

Vicky Vette has run VickyAtHome.com since 2003 and won AVN Best Solo Girl Website in 2014. Ariel Rebel won site awards from the BAA Awards and AVN. Venus Lux won Best Solo Site at the 2014 Transgender Erotica Awards. Joanna Angel won AVN Best Porn Star Website four times.

Why is Olivia del Rio ranked with only a nomination?

Her 2004 Best Solo Sex Scene nomination is the lightest solo credit here, and her entry says so. The rest of her record is strong: about 250 titles from 1994 to 2009, four AVN nominations and an AVN Hall of Fame place in 2025.

Why are Angela White and Tori Black not ranked?

Both won: White the merged award in 2018, Black the tease award in 2010. Both already appear on lists that share names with this one, and adding them would break our 20% overlap cap. We name them rather than hide them.

Why are trans performers on this list?

They hold the award record the list asks for. Bailey Jay won Best Solo Model at the 2010 Transgender Erotica Awards, and Venus Lux won Best Solo Site there in 2014. The rule is about awards, not bodies, so it applies to them as it does to everyone.

Is anyone ranked on her looks?

No. Every point on the page is a career fact: an award, a nomination, a studio or a business. A portrait sits beside each entry, but nobody is described or judged on how she looks.

Other ways to slice the data

The record book, sorted

The same checked results, grouped for readers who want one slice.

Repeat AVN winners

Each has two or more checked AVN solo or tease results. Akira has three, two of them from 2012. Both of Angel’s were for her own label’s films.

The early winners, before 2010

From the years when solo and tease were two prizes, and two different women usually took them.

Women who ran the business

Site and model awards from AVN, the BAA Awards and the Transgender Erotica Awards. Vette’s site dates from 2003. Rebel’s site awards span ten years and three award bodies.

Here on a nomination

The lightest claims on the list, flagged on each entry. Ceremony pages list winners only, so del Rio’s 2004 nomination could not be checked.

Least documented

No English Wikipedia page for any of the four, mostly because Wikipedia dropped its adult-performer notability guideline in 2019. Each entry notes its gaps.

Definitions

The rules behind the record book

A solo scene has one performer in it. There is no partner to share the credit and no group to hide in, so the judges score one person’s work. AVN made that a competitive award, Best Solo Sex Scene, from the late 1990s. Best Tease Performance ran beside it. The two became one award, Best Solo/Tease Performance, at the 32nd ceremony in 2015. The 36th ceremony, in 2019, is the last page that lists it.

Every one of those thirty results was checked on the ceremony’s own page for this article. We take sources in four tiers: a Wikipedia biography, Wikidata, the award body’s published results, then solid press. For awards, the ceremony page wins. Biographies and Wikidata both carry awards that no ceremony ever gave, and in this category they also miss some that it did. Three smaller kinds of prize count too: AVN’s Best Solo Girl Website, the BAA Awards’ Best Solo Girl Site, and the Transgender Erotica Awards’ Best Solo Model and Best Solo Site. Those reward a performer who runs the whole business.

What we will not count is any claim about a body. No source we accept has ever ranked one, and what passes for a ranking online is somebody’s reaction to a photo, copied until it sounds like a fact. Pornstar measurements walks through how that happens with body figures. Because the test is an award record, two trans women qualify through the Transgender Erotica Awards on the same terms as everyone else. An award gets a performer onto the list. Her place on it comes from the six-pillar career score, weighted as set out above.

WordMeaningThe difference
Best Solo Sex Scene (AVN)AVN’s award for a one-performer scene, from the late 1990s to the 2015 merger. Our checked winners run from 2001 to 2014.Best Solo Release is a different award. It goes to a title, not a performance, and nobody here is ranked on it.
Best Tease Performance (AVN)The second solo award, given beside Best Solo Sex Scene from at least 2001 until 2015.The judges saw it as a separate skill. Most years it went to someone other than the solo winner, which is what makes Asa Akira’s 2012 double so rare.
Best Solo/Tease Performance (AVN)The single award that replaced both. First given at the 32nd ceremony in 2015, last listed at the 36th in 2019.The 37th and 38th ceremony pages carry no solo or tease award. The record ends in 2019 because the award did, not because we stopped looking.
Solo site and solo model awardsPrizes for a business: AVN Best Solo Girl Website, BAA Best Solo Girl Site, and the Transgender Erotica Awards’ Best Solo Model and Best Solo Site.They reward someone running her own operation, not one judged scene. They qualify a performer, and each entry says which kind of award it is.
A pictorial titleA magazine credit, such as Penthouse Pet, Playboy Playmate or Hustler Honey. Nobody competes for it.It does not qualify anyone here. Those titles are the basis of the nude pornstars list and the most beautiful pornstars list instead.
This edition

What is new in this version

  • First edition: seventeen performers, each with a documented win or nomination in a named solo or tease category from AVN, XBIZ, the BAA Awards or the Transgender Erotica Awards.
  • Thirty AVN results from twenty ceremony pages, covering 2001 to 2019. The 37th and 38th ceremonies have no solo or tease category, so the run stops there. No result was taken from a biography or an aggregator.
  • Kissa Sins’ 2019 win and Karlie Montana’s share of the 2015 award are both on the ceremony pages, even though their own records call them unconfirmed Wikidata claims.
  • A second 27th-ceremony win for Teagan Presley, in Best All-Girl Three-Way Sex Scene, does not match its ceremony page, which names three other performers. Only her confirmed solo win is used.
  • Every one of the seventeen has a portrait. No sentence describes anyone’s appearance.

A note on the data

Each AVN award here was checked against that ceremony’s own published results, not a biography, Wikidata or an aggregator. That check found three mismatches between the records and the ceremonies, in both directions. The BAA Awards and the Transgender Erotica Awards publish no archive of past winners, so their site and model awards could not be checked the same way; each entry that uses one says so. Six of the seventeen women have no English Wikipedia page, usually because Wikipedia dropped its adult-performer notability guideline in 2019. Their records use Wikidata and ceremony pages, and are marked that way. Two entries rest on a nomination, and one of those could not be checked at all, since ceremony pages list only winners. We publish height, hair colour and eye colour for a performer and nothing more, and no sentence here describes anyone’s body.

Method · The Pornstar Lineup Scoring Method v3.0

How these performers were ordered

Each score is out of 100 and is built from six weighted pillars. Four pillars are worked out by script from the performer records: awards, credit counts, studio range and career timeline. The same data always gives the same order. The other two rely partly on editor judgement. Wherever we set a score by hand instead of working it out, we say so and give the reason. Every input can be checked against the sources we list.

We score each performer only against the other names in the same article. Award systems differ too much to compare directly. A Japanese performer is judged on FANZA, AV Open and Sky PerfecTV results. An American performer is judged on AVN, XBIZ and XRCO. Putting them on one absolute scale would mean nothing. A score of 74 is not a poor result. It is a place inside a group of people who are already at the top of their field.

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Weights used for this list. Solo work is a one-person job, so the usual weights do not fit it. A solo scene has nobody else in the frame, which is why Craft climbs to 20% from 15%. Five of the seventeen women here built their own site, network or studio, and our `businessVentures` field is where that shows up, so Influence climbs to 16% from 10%. Paying for that, Body of Work and Demand each fall to 14% from 20%. Those two count credits and the number of studios a performer sold to. Several of the strongest solo records were made mostly for the performer’s own site, for one buyer, not fourteen. Scored the normal way, the category’s specialists would sink.

Think of it as a record book. Devinn Lane holds the oldest solo result we could check, from 2001. Kissa Sins holds the last, from 2019. Joanna Angel won twice with films from her own label. Vicky Vette won a tease award in 2005, then a website award in 2014 for the site she has run since 2003. Physical detail stays out of it. We publish height, hair colour and eye colour for a performer and nothing else, because body figures in this business are studio copy passed from site to site. Award results can be checked. That is the difference.

Seventeen women are ranked. Eight more confirmed winners, among them the 2018 winner, the 2010 tease winner and both 2013 winners, are named lower down with the reason they are not ranked. And the checking found two awards that shared records wrongly mark as unconfirmed.

Industry Recognition
26%
Worked out from records

Awards, nominations and Hall of Fame status.

How the score is made

A script reads the award lists on each performer record. A Hall of Fame induction counts most. A Performer of the Year win comes next, then a category win, then any other competitive win. A nomination counts for about a quarter of a win. We score Lifetime Achievement honours as ordinary wins and not as Performer of the Year, because a Hall of Fame induction already reflects a whole career and counting both would double the credit.

Awards are the one quality signal in this industry that outsiders audit. Peers and the press vote on them, and the archives are public. A reader can check them without trusting us.

Body of Work
14%
Worked out from records

Number of credits, range of studios and defining titles.

How the score is made

A script works from the documented credit count and the number of different studios a performer has worked with. The credit count is capped on a logarithmic scale so that range matters more than raw volume. A performer with 200 credits at fourteen studios scores higher than one with 900 credits at a single network. Fourteen independent buyers agreeing is stronger evidence than one buyer repeating itself.

This pillar tells a long, in-demand career apart from a short burst of attention. Studio range also guards against gaming. One studio can promote one performer, but fourteen studios hiring her is real evidence.

Audience Demand
14%
Editor judgement

Search interest in her name where we have data, and an editor estimate where we do not.

How the score is made

This is the weakest pillar in the method, and we would rather say so than disguise it. When a performer's name draws measurable search interest, we use that number directly. For now this covers only some of the performers we score. For the rest, we start from the performer's own computed record and adjust by hand, and we flag each estimated value for review before publication. A performer whose Demand figure was set by hand instead of measured carries a note that says so.

A best-of list that ignores what audiences watch is really a critics' list. Scoring demand separately shows when a performer is decorated but little watched, or hugely popular but under-awarded. We will not claim precision we do not have.

Craft & Screen Presence
20%
Editor judgement

Quality of performance, range and screen presence. This is an editor judgement.

How the score is made

No public record offers a number for this, so the editorial desk judges it. It looks at acting-category award results, praise from directors on the record and the range of productions a performer has been cast in. For that reason its weight is deliberately capped, and every entry shows it as a separate line and does not blend it into the total.

We would rather show a limited 15% judgement call that is labelled as one than hide taste behind a number made to look objective.

Longevity & Consistency
10%
Worked out from records

Years active, steady output and successful comebacks.

How the score is made

A script counts from the documented debut year to the latest verified release and adjusts for gaps. A performer who left and then returned to award-level work scores above one with the same number of years and no break, because a successful comeback is harder than staying put. We measure retired performers up to their documented end date and not up to today.

Some categories, by their nature, reward long careers, and the people in them have often worked for fifteen years or more. This pillar states that reward openly and does not slip it in through other scores.

Influence & Crossover
16%
Editor judgement

Mainstream reach, business ownership, directing and advocacy.

How the score is made

A script gives a first value from counts of documented mainstream credits and business ventures, and then a person reviews it. That shortcut works well for modern careers and badly for older ones. For performers who worked before the award and media records we read, we set the figure by hand. We disclose every such case.

Some performers changed what the job is, not just how well it is done. Nina Hartley's sex-education work and Lisa Ann's move into sports broadcasting are career facts that a scenes-only ranking would miss entirely.

Our six steps

1

Set the field

We list every performer in the category who has verified professional credits and a public record we can check. Each article states how many names we looked at and how many we cut.

2

Gather the records

For each performer we collect award-body archives, credit databases, encyclopaedia entries and verified official accounts. We mark anything we cannot source as unverified and leave it out of scoring instead of guessing. We ban aggregator sites and AI-written biography sites outright. They repeat each other's mistakes, and they are why so much award data about this industry is wrong.

3

Calculate the record-based pillars

A script works out Recognition, Body of Work and Longevity from the gathered records, scaled within that article's group. No person sets these numbers.

4

Set the judgement pillars

Craft is an editor score. Demand uses measured search interest where we have it and an editor estimate where we do not. Influence starts from documented crossover and business activity, and a person then reviews it.

5

Weight, order and sense-check

We set the pillar weights for each article and print them on the page, because the question a category asks changes what should count. The desk then reads the order for results that defy common sense. The usual cause is a performer whose career began before the award record does.

6

Disclose every change

If step 5 changes a score, the affected entry carries a note saying which pillars changed and why. If a pillar value is an estimate and not a measurement, the build reports it. We publish a corrections log and never edit in silence.

✕ Who we leave out, and why

  • Performers facing credible, unresolved allegations of coercion, assault or trafficking. A place on a ranking vouches for a professional record, and we will not give that where consent is in doubt.
  • Anyone whose age at the time of any listed credit we cannot independently confirm as 18 or over.
  • Performers who have publicly asked not to appear in editorial rankings. We honour removal requests at once and do not ask for a reason.
  • Content, images or links that come from leaks, hacks or non-consensual distribution, however widely they circulate elsewhere.

△ Where this method is weak

  • Demand is our shakiest inputWe have measured search interest for only some of the performers scored so far. The others carry editor estimates. This pillar is the one most likely to change as our measurement widens.
  • Award archives lean toward recent American workAVN, XBIZ and XRCO are US bodies founded in the 1980s and 1990s. The Recognition pillar therefore works against performers from earlier years or from outside the United States. We adjust by hand and disclose each adjustment. That helps, but it does not solve the problem.
  • Craft is a judgement, and people differOne informed desk scoring against the acting-award record beats an order with no reasoning behind it, but it is still one view. We cap it at 15% and show it separately for that reason.
  • Credit counts before 2000 are unreliableOlder releases were recorded far less consistently than recent ones, so long careers look shorter than they were. The Longevity pillar offsets some of this but does not fully fix it.
  • Scores cannot be compared between listsAn 88 on our Japanese list and an 88 on our MILF list are not the same achievement. Each score places a performer within her own group, so comparing across articles is not something these numbers support.
Who is behind it

About this list

The Pornstar Lineup Editorial Desk

Adult-industry research desk

The Pornstar Lineup desk reads award archives, studio filmographies and credit records, then turns what it finds into rankings. Each list rests on primary sources: the award bodies themselves, studio release data and pages the performers confirm. Lists are reviewed again on a set schedule.

  • Checks claims against AVN, XBIZ and XRCO award archives
  • Keeps credit records for more than 1,000 performers
  • Posts a public correction log for every ranking
  • Fact check We confirm each date, award and credit with at least two independent sources before a page goes live.
  • Consent and respect check We check that the wording treats performers as working professionals. We do not mention or link to leaked, non-consensual or unverified private material.
  • Legal check Every listed performer is a verified adult with a documented professional career. Pages carry RTA labelling and point readers to the 18 USC 2257 statement.
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Funding note. Pornstar Lineup is funded by its readers and edited without outside influence. Nobody can pay for a place on a ranking, and no performer, studio or platform can buy, shift or remove a position. Some links to paid platforms may carry affiliate tracking. That tracking never changes a rank or a score.

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