Miley Cyrus, SZA, Taylor Swift Lead as Women Rule U.K. Music Chart
variety.comNaman Ramachandran 2023 was the year of the woman in the U.K. music business. Women artists spent the most weeks at No.1 on the Official Singles Chart in a calendar year since the countdown launched in 1952, according to analysis of Official Charts data by BPI, the trade body of the U.K.
recorded music industry. Led by Miley Cyrus’s 10-week chart-topper “Flowers,” the year’s biggest hit with 198 million streams, women spent 31 weeks at No.1 on the chart in 2023, their longest chart-topping run in a calendar year since the countdown launched in 1952.
Based on combined streaming and sales activity, four of 2023’s five biggest tracks and seven of the year’s Top 10 were by women, with Cyrus joined by hits from fellow U.S.
stars SZA (“Kill Bill”) and Taylor Swift (“Anti-Hero”), Cameroonian-American singer Libianca (“People”) and the U.K.’s Ellie Goulding (“Miracle with Calvin Harris”), PinkPantheress (“Boy’s A Liar”) and RAYE (“Escapism” ft 070 Shake).
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