Billie Eilish claims her second #1 single with What Was I Made For? which options on the soundtrack for Barbie: The Film, scoring a last-minute victory over Dua Lipa’s Dance The Night time (2). Billie’s earlier chart-topper, No Time To Die (2020) was the theme tune for the James Bond movie of the identical title.
Sisters doing it for themselves – this week marks a significant report for ladies on the Official Chart, as feminine solo artists solely make up the Prime 6 of the Official Singles Chart for the primary time within the chart’s 70-year historical past, the Official Charts Firm can verify.
Becoming a member of Billie and Dua within the Prime 5 are Olivia Rodrigo’s Vampire (3), Taylor Swift’s Merciless Summer time (4), and Peggy Gou’s (It Goes Like) Nanana (5).
Olivia Rodrigo, who isn’t any stranger to a chart report after changing into the primary feminine artist to carry three locations within the Official Chart Prime 5 concurrently again in June 2021, makes a second look, rounding off the record at Quantity 6 with this week’s highest new entry, unhealthy concept proper?
Your complete Prime 8 this week are tracks led by feminine artists, with Barbie World by Nicki Minaj, Ice Spice and Aqua at Quantity 7, and Disconnect by Becky Hill and Chase & Standing at a brand new peak of Quantity 8.
Moreover, the Prime 5 of the year-to-date Official Singles Chart can be dominated by girls, led by Miley Cyrus’s Flowers, the UK’s largest single of the 12 months thus far, which loved a ten-week residency at #1 between January and March.
This week’s chart report happens throughout an enormous Summer time of success for ladies in leisure and sport; Greta Gerwig’s Barbie: The Film has taken over cinemas and our social media feeds, loved the most important opening weekend ever for a female-directed film, and is now the highest-grossing movie of all time by a solo feminine director; Taylor Swift and Beyonce are breaking data with their main world excursions changing into two of the highest-grossing of all time; and naturally England’s The Lionesses are competing within the soccer World Cup for the primary time ever this weekend.
Official Charts stat assault
· Official Chart Report Breaker – Solo feminine artists dominate the Prime 6 of the Official Singles Chart for the primary time ever within the chart’s 70-year historical past.
· The entire of this week’s Prime 8 is dominated by female-led tracks.
· 24 tracks in at present’s Official Chart Prime 40 characteristic are led by, or characteristic, feminine artists.
· The Official Singles Chart on ninth November 1986 was the primary time ever there have been feminine vocalists on every of the Prime 5 singles: Berlin (1), Kim Wilde (2), The Bangles (3), Mel & Kim (4) and Swing Out Sister (5).
· 14 February 1988 noticed the Prime 3 comprising all feminine solo artists for the primary time – led by Kylie Minogue (I Ought to Be So Fortunate), Tiffany (I Suppose We’re Alone Now) and Taylor Dayne (Inform It To My Coronary heart) at Quantity 3.
· In 1998 we noticed an solely feminine Prime 5 led by B*Witched’s To You I Belong, however this included teams akin to B*Witched, The Honeyz and a Mariah & Whitney Houston collaboration.
· The final time there have been six girls within the Prime 6 was the chart revealed on 14 December 2018, however one monitor (Nothing Breaks Like A Coronary heart with Miley Cyrus) was a collaboration with Mark Ronson.
· In June 2021 Olivia Rodrigo made UK chart historical past as the primary feminine to occupy three locations within the Official Singles Chart Prime 5 concurrently.
· Sisters doing it for themselves – this week is the primary time that purely solo girls have dominated all six prime slots on the Official Singles Chart, with not a collaboration in sight.
· Moreover, the 5 largest tracks of the year-to-date on the Official Singles Chart are additionally by, or characteristic, girls too. Miley Cyrus leads the best way because the UK’s largest single of 2023 thus far with Flowers, a monitor that dominated the Official Chart #1 spot for 10 weeks this 12 months.
Dr Jo Twist OBE, BPI Chief Govt, stated:
“It’s nice to see solo girls artists make up the highest six positions on the UK Official Singles Chart for the primary time. This elevated illustration is one thing we hope turns into commonplace reasonably than distinctive. For now it’s a milestone that we should always have a good time, reflecting a 12 months when the market has been dominated by girls artists from the UK and globally representing a number of genres.”
Lauren Kreisler, Director of Model & Digital, Official Charts Firm feedback:
“Who run the world? The summer season of Lady Energy we discover ourselves in suggests there may very well be just one reply to that query.
From Taylor Swift and Beyonce delivering two of the highest-grossing excursions of all time, to Greta Gerwig’s Barbie smashing field workplace data and The Lionesses profitable the World Cup semis, at present’s record-breaking takeover of The Official Chart by solo girls confirms summer season 2023 to be a landmark one on all fronts.
Congratulations to Billie, Dua, Taylor, Olivia and Peggy Gou, let’s hope this momentum continues by way of to Sunday. Come on Lionesses!”
Calvin Harris and Sam Smith rise into the Prime 10 with Need, up three to Quantity 9, whereas former ten-week #1 Sprinter by Dave & Central Cee finishes the week at Quantity 10 after a record-breaking run on the prime.
Fred once more.. earns his highest-charting single to this point with Adore U, which options vocals from Nigerian singer Obongjayar, debuting at Quantity 12, and Doja Cat reaches a brand new peak with Paint The City Crimson, climbing 5 to Quantity 15.
Persevering with the chart resurgence of drum’n’bass, Chase & Standing rise once more to enter the Prime 20 with Baddadan ft. IRAH, Flowdan, Trigga and Takura (20).
Additional down, Asking by Australian home DJ Sonny Fodera & MK ft. vocalist Clementine Douglas jumps ten to Quantity 31, coming into the Prime 40 for the primary time.
20-year-old producer and uni pupil cassö makes his chart debut with Prada (32), a remix of Raye and D-Block Europe’s 2021 collab Ferrari Horses, first made standard on TikTok.
Issey Cross earns her first solo Prime 40 hit with Bittersweet Goodbye (38); rising 9, the drum’n’bass banger samples The Verve’s 1997 Quantity 2 traditional Bitter Candy Symphony.
Lastly, Quick Automobile by US nation singer Luke Combs (39) accelerates six locations, changing into the singer-songwriter’s first UK Prime 40 entry. In his native US, Quick Automobile has peaked at Quantity 2.
