Janis was known to fused her rock with the Blues, giving it far more depth. Janis was also widely regarded for her ‘electric’ stage presence and though she died young, she still remains one of the top-selling musicians in the United States. Despite having only released three albums before her untimely death, Janis Joplin is arguably one of the most prominent female rock stars of all time and certainly the biggest of her era. In 1995, she was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Described as having "a devastatingly original voice" and a presence that was both "overpowering and deeply vulnerable", news of her death shook the music world which was still processing the loss of Jimi Hendrix sixteen days earlier.