Solo female artists dominate the Top 6 of the UK Singles Chart for the first time

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Billie Eilish claims her second Number 1 single with What Was I Made For? which features on the soundtrack for Barbie: The Movie, scoring a last-minute victory over Dua Lipa’s Dance The Night (2). Billie’s previous chart-topper, No Time To Die (2020) was the theme song for the James Bond film of the same name. 
 
This week marks a major record for women on the Official Chart, as female solo artists solely make up the Top 6 of the Official Singles Chart for the first time in the chart’s 70-year history, the Official Charts Company can confirm. 

Joining Billie and Dua in the Top 6 are Olivia Rodrigo’s Vampire (3) & bad idea right?(6), Taylor Swift’s Cruel Summer (4), and Peggy Gou’s (It Goes Like) Nanana (5). 

The entire Top 8 this week are tracks led by female artists, with Barbie World by Nicki Minaj, Ice Spice and Aqua at Number 7, and Disconnect by Becky Hill and Chase & Status at a new peak of Number 8.  

24 tracks in today’s Official Chart Top 40 feature are led by, or feature, female artists. 

The last time there were six women in the Top 6 was the chart published on 14 December 2018, but one track (Nothing Breaks Like A Heart with Miley Cyrus) was a collaboration with Mark Ronson. 
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