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The following is a list of the best-selling female music artists in the United Kingdom, based solely on sales units published by reliable music industry-related organizations, including the British Phonographic Industry, the Official Charts Company, Music Week and Record Mirror.
Bias towards older artists. There is a broader genre spectrum of music to listen to now which limits the number of listeners. Bias towards modern artists. Comparatively fewer successful pre-modern artists will have sold more records, as both global spending power and population have increased.
Carpenter also set several records, including becoming the female solo artist with the most combined weeks at number-one in a calendar year, with 21 in total. Benson Boone had the second biggest selling single of 2024 with "Beautiful Things", which spent two weeks at number-one and lasted 17 consecutive weeks in the top 10.
Girl groups have been popular at least since the heyday of the Boswell Sisters beginning in the 1930s, but the term "girl group" also denotes the wave of American female pop singing groups who flourished in the late 1950s and early 1960s between the decline of early rock and roll and the British Invasion, many of whom were influenced by doo-wop ...
At the time of publication, there were twelve artists with more than ten million UK singles sales with Paul McCartney the only artist to achieve this both as part of a group and as a solo artist. [1] Many of the artists in the list below have both streaming and sales included in their totals. Coldplay (33,400,000) [2] Eminem (30,000,000) [3]
The highest-selling single by a solo female artist is "All I Want For Christmas Is You" by Mariah Carey – released in October 1994, it has combined sales of over 4 million in the UK. [5] The best-selling single not to top the UK Singles Chart is "Mr Brightside" by The Killers, which reached number 10 in 2004. [6]
3/5 Laura Knight and Artemisia Gentileschi feature among a vast array of little-known female artists in this expansive survey at Tate Britain, but some of the work on display only underlines the ...
The following list of best-selling music artists includes musical artists from the 20th century to the present with claims of 75 million or more record sales worldwide. The sales figures are calculated based on the formula detailed below.