Billie Eilish has scored her second UK Quantity One single in a record-breaking week for feminine solo artists.
The singer’s new single ‘What Was I Made For?’, from the Barbie soundtrack, turns into her second UK chart-topper after her 2020 James Bond single ‘No Time To Die’.
It additionally tops a record-breaking week on the charts for feminine artists, with all the high six positions on the singles chart occupied by feminine solo artists for the primary time ever.
At Quantity Two this week is Dua Lipa with one other Barbie monitor, ‘Dance The Night time’, whereas Olivia Rodrigo is each at Quantity Three with ‘Vampire’ and Six with ‘Dangerous Concept Proper?’, whereas Taylor Swift is at 4 with the resurgent ‘Merciless Summer season’ and Peggy Gou at 5 with ‘(It Goes Like) Nanana’.
The Prime Eight can also be rounded out by songs led by feminine artists, with ‘Barbie World’ by Nicki Minaj, Ice Spice and Aqua at Quantity Seven, and ‘Disconnect’ by Becky Hill and Chase & Standing at Eight.
This week’s Official Singles Chart is a record-breaker! https://t.co/zuNbMrJIs8
— Official Charts (@officialcharts) August 18, 2023
Elsewhere, Eilish lately opened up about what’s modified within the artistic course of as she works on her third album.
The singer was talking on the brand new episode of Dua Lipa‘s At Your Service podcast when she defined the “large soar” between the ages of 18 and 21, and the way she needed to persuade herself she hadn’t “misplaced it”.
Eilish’s debut album ‘When We All Fall Asleep, The place Do We Go?‘ got here out in 2019, adopted up by ‘Happier Than Ever‘ in 2021. She’s now engaged on her third, confirming again in November that she and her brother/collaborator Finneas had lately “began the method of creating an album”.
