Who was the first female solo singer to enter the UK charts at number one
"in the autumn. On 10 December German Dance Group Cascada enter the top 10 with ""What Hurts The Most"" (which peaked at #10) after entering at #16 on downloads alone. This was also their 4th top ten single. On 16 December, singer/songwriter Katie Melua earned her first UK number one single with a duet with Eva Cassidy. It's a cover of Louis Armstrong's classic ""What a Wonderful World"". All proceeds from the single will go to the Red Cross charity. The song was only available from supermarket chain Tesco. Christmas spirit also returned to the charts as Mariah Carey got"
"Lynsey de Paul Lynsey de Paul (born Lynsey Monckton Rubin; 11 June 1948 – 1 October 2014) was an English singer-songwriter. She had chart hits in the UK and Europe in the 1970s, starting with the UK top 10 single ""Sugar Me"", becoming the first British female artist to achieve a number one with a self-written song (in Belgium, Spain and The Netherlands). She represented the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest, scoring another chart topping hit in Switzerland and had a successful career as an Ivor Novello Award-winning composer, actress and television celebrity. Lyndsey Monckton Rubin was born to"
"important that things are flawed ... That's what makes a piece of art interesting sometimes – the bit that's wrong or the mistake you've made that's led onto an idea you wouldn't have had otherwise"", and reiterated her prioritisation of her family life. Kate Bush Catherine Bush (born 30 July 1958) is an English singer-songwriter, musician, dancer and record producer. Bush came to notice in 1978 when, aged 19, she topped the UK Singles Chart for four weeks with her debut single ""Wuthering Heights"", becoming the first female artist to achieve a UK number one with a self-written song. She"
"was interred with a Humanist funeral at Hendon Cemetery. She is listed on the official Grammy website under ""remembering the music people we lost in 2014–2015"". Lynsey de Paul Lynsey de Paul (born Lynsey Monckton Rubin; 11 June 1948 – 1 October 2014) was an English singer-songwriter. She had chart hits in the UK and Europe in the 1970s, starting with the UK top 10 single ""Sugar Me"", becoming the first British female artist to achieve a number one with a self-written song (in Belgium, Spain and The Netherlands). She represented the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest, scoring another"
"the most weeks on the charts is Queen's ""Greatest Hits"", which has spent over 1000 weeks on the chart by January 2018. See List of albums which have spent the most weeks on the UK Albums Chart for full details. In 1980, Kate Bush became the first British female artist to have a number-one album in the UK with ""Never for Ever"", as well as being the first album by any female solo artist to ""enter"" the chart at number 1. In August 2014 she became the first female artist to have eight albums in the Official UK Top 40"
"You Heard?"", ""Come What May"", ""That Old Feeling"", ""Too Marvelous for Words"" and ""The Mama Doll Song"". Lita Roza Lita Roza (14 March 1926 – 14 August 2008) was an English singer whose 1953 hit record ""(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?"" made her the first British solo singer to top the UK Singles Chart. Born Lilian Patricia Lita Roza in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, she was the eldest of seven children. and began work at an early age to support the family. She owed her sultry looks and passion to her father, an amateur accordionist who also played"
"Winifred Atwell Una Winifred Atwell (27 February or 27 April 1910 or 1914 – 28 February 1983) was a Trinidadian pianist who enjoyed great popularity in Britain and Australia from the 1950s with a series of boogie-woogie and ragtime hits, selling over 20 million records. She was the first black person to have a number-one hit in the UK Singles Chart and is still the only female instrumentalist to do so. Atwell was born in Tunapuna in Trinidad and Tobago. She and her parents lived in Jubilee Street. Her family owned a pharmacy and she trained as a pharmacist herself"
"Lita Roza Lita Roza (14 March 1926 – 14 August 2008) was an English singer whose 1953 hit record ""(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?"" made her the first British solo singer to top the UK Singles Chart. Born Lilian Patricia Lita Roza in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, she was the eldest of seven children. and began work at an early age to support the family. She owed her sultry looks and passion to her father, an amateur accordionist who also played piano in Liverpool nightclubs. Her father was of Filipino ancestry. At the age of 12, she saw"
"solo artist (13) and most top ten albums by any artist (53). Madonna has the most number one albums (12) by a female artist in the UK, though this includes the ""Evita"" film soundtrack which was a cast recording and not strictly a Madonna album. Adele is the female solo artist with the most weeks at number one, with a total of 37 weeks. Queen's ""Greatest Hits"" is the best-selling album in UK chart history with 6 million copies sold as of February 2014. Previous first-place holder The Beatles' ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"" is now in third-place after"
"Kate Bush Catherine Bush (born 30 July 1958) is an English singer-songwriter, musician, dancer and record producer. Bush came to notice in 1978 when, aged 19, she topped the UK Singles Chart for four weeks with her debut single ""Wuthering Heights"", becoming the first female artist to achieve a UK number one with a self-written song. She has since released twenty-five UK Top 40 singles, including the top-ten hits ""The Man with the Child in His Eyes"", ""Babooshka"", ""Running Up That Hill"", ""Don't Give Up"" (a duet with Peter Gabriel) and ""King of the Mountain"". She has released ten studio"
"the United Kingdom. The final number one on the UK Singles Chart to be based on sales alone was ""Gecko (Overdrive)"" by Oliver Heldens featuring Becky Hill. On Sunday 6 July 2014, the Official Charts Company announced that Ariana Grande had earned a place in UK chart history when her single ""Problem"" featuring Iggy Azalea became the first number-one single based on sales and streaming data. On 7 December 2014, Ed Sheeran's ""Thinking Out Loud"" became the first single to reach number one as a direct result of streaming inclusion. Despite Union J's ""You Got It All"" topping the Sales"
"female to obtain a chart topper at the age of 15 (Helen Shapiro being the youngest – 14 years old) and became the youngest solo female to enter at Number One. She had received a recording contract after appearing in an advertising campaign for Smash Hits magazine. Her debut single ""Because We Want To"" and follow up ""Girlfriend"" both topped the UK charts, each for one week. On the other end of the range, Cher at 52 years of age became the oldest solo female to top the UK charts. ""Believe"" topped the charts for 7 weeks, becoming the longest"
"in the top two of the UK singles chart for over 6 years. Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera both headed their careers and released their début singles. February saw Britney start a phenomenon, her début single, ""...Baby One More Time"" sold 1.45 million copies in the UK, becoming the second largest selling single by a female solo artist and also the fastest selling single by a female solo artist, with 0.46 million copies shifted in its first week of sale. She became the youngest female artist to début at #1 on the singles and albums chart in the US. Her"
"Seaforth. She is buried beside husband Lew Levisohn in South Gundurimba Private Cemetery in northern New South Wales, just outside Lismore. In 1969 she was awarded Trinidad and Tobago's national award, the Gold Hummingbird Medal, for her achievements in music. Winifred Atwell Una Winifred Atwell (27 February or 27 April 1910 or 1914 – 28 February 1983) was a Trinidadian pianist who enjoyed great popularity in Britain and Australia from the 1950s with a series of boogie-woogie and ragtime hits, selling over 20 million records. She was the first black person to have a number-one hit in the UK Singles"
"of the singles chart. Following in the footsteps of her former colleague, Kelly Rowland, Beyoncé Knowles managed to reach the top of the UK charts with a solo release. After making an appearance in the third ""Austin Powers"" movie, ""Austin Powers in Goldmember"", Beyoncé put herself back in the public eye and then released her debut solo single from the movie, ""Work It Out"" which managed to make No. 7 on the UK singles chart. Her debut album, ""Dangerously in Love"" topped the charts a week before she received her first (third, including her career with Destiny's Child) number one"
"achievement Adele became the first female British solo singer in the history of the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 to have two number ones from the same album. In July 2011, it became the first single of the decade to sell a million units in the UK and it was certified 3× Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), as well as being certified 6× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in the US. As of 2018, Someone Like You has sold over 17 million copies worldwide making it one of the best-selling digital single of all-time. An accompanying"
"reached number one on the UK singles chart making Aaliyah the first female deceased artist to reach number one on the UK singles chart. ""More than a Woman"" was replaced by George Harrison's ""My Sweet Lord"" which is the only time in the UK singles chart's history where a dead artist has replaced another dead artist at number one. In July 2001, she allowed MTV's show ""Diary"" behind-the-scenes access to her life and stated ""I am truly blessed to wake up every morning to do something that I love; there is nothing better than that."" She continued, ""Everything is worth"
"Turn to You"", Melanie C achieved her tenth number-one UK single as a songwriter, equalling the record set by former bandmate Geri Halliwell. In addition, it made her the first woman to top the UK charts as part of a quintet, quartet, duo and as a solo artist. With ""Holler"", the Spice Girls' final UK number one, Melanie C became the first female songwriter to write at least 11 UK number-one singles. Melanie C held this record alone until Madonna achieved her eleventh number one with ""Hung Up"" in 2005, and then lost it when Madonna achieved her twelfth number"
"Anne Murray Morna Anne Murray (born June 20, 1945), known professionally as Anne Murray, is a Canadian singer in pop, country, and adult contemporary music whose albums have sold over 55 million copies worldwide. Murray was the first Canadian female solo singer to reach No. 1 on the U.S. charts, and also the first to earn a Gold record for one of her signature songs, ""Snowbird"" (1970). She is often cited as the one who paved the way for other international Canadian success stories such as k.d. lang, Céline Dion, and Shania Twain. She is also the first woman and"
"featuring rapper Tinie Tempah which served as the lead single from her fourth studio album ""Only Human"", became Cheryl's fourth number one single on the UK Singles Chart, tying her with Geri Halliwell and Rita Ora as the third British female to achieve four solo number ones. Months later, second single ""I Don't Care"" also debuted at number one. In doing so, Cheryl achieved her ninth number-one single (including those from Girls Aloud), and fifth as a solo artist, therefore becoming the British female artist with the most solo UK number ones, overtaking previous record sharers Halliwell, Ora and Cheryl"
"Glynne scored three UK number-one singles and two from the previous year, tying here with Cheryl Fernandez-Versini as the British women with the most UK number-one singles. In December, Justin Bieber's songs ""Sorry"" and ""Love Yourself"" claimed the top 2 spots on the singles chart during the same week, marking the first time this was accomplished since Madonna in 1985. ""Love Yourself"" went on to replace ""Sorry"" in the top position, making Bieber the first artist since Elvis Presley in 2005 to knock themselves off the top spot. ""Love Yourself"" became the first song in the history of the UK"
"Marianne Faithfull Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull (born 29 December 1946) is an English singer, songwriter and actress. She achieved popularity in the 1960s with the release of her hit single ""As Tears Go By"" and became one of the lead female artists during the British Invasion in the United States. Born in Hampstead, London, Faithfull began her career in 1964 after attending a Rolling Stones party where she was discovered by Andrew Loog Oldham. After the release of her hit single ""As Tears Go By"", she became an international star. Her debut album ""Marianne Faithfull"" (1965) (released simultaneously with her"
"was the first number one single in the U.S charts by a British solo female artist since Kim Wilde in 1987. The 2000s also saw the reunion of Take That, who went on to achieve new stardom by the end of the decade. In the early 2010s, the British boy and girl bands, The Wanted, One Direction, and Little Mix have experienced worldwide success, charting highly in Britain as well as North America. British soul in the 2000s was dominated by female singers, many of them white, including Natasha Bedingfield, Joss Stone, Amy Winehouse, Estelle, Adele and Duffy, all of"
"Cilla Black Priscilla Maria Veronica White OBE (27 May 1943 – 1 August 2015), better known as Cilla Black, was an English singer, television presenter, actress, and author. Championed by her friends in the Beatles, Black began her career as a singer in 1963, and her singles ""Anyone Who Had a Heart"" and ""You're My World"" both reached number one in the UK in 1964. She had 11 Top Ten hits on the British charts between then and 1971, and an additional eight hits that made the top 40. In May 2010, new research published by BBC Radio 2 showed"
"at number nine. With that, Rihanna became the fourth artist in UK chart history to make this achievement. On December 19, 2010, the song reached a new peak of number two, where it remained for three weeks before reaching number one on January 9, 2011. As a result, Rihanna became the first female artist in UK chart history to have a number-one single in five consecutive years and only the second artist overall to do so; the first was Elvis Presley, who posted number-one singles from 1959–63. It is also Rihanna's fourth number-one single in the UK. It was also"
"the UK Singles Chart for two weeks the following month. At 18, Sonia became one of the youngest female British singers to achieve this feat. The single also topped the Irish chart and reached the Top 10 of the US dance chart. Sonia's debut album, ""Everybody Knows"", was released in April 1990. The album peaked at number 7 in the UK, and was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry. All five singles released from the album became top 20 hits in the UK, making Sonia the first British solo female artist to achieve this. Sonia achieved a sixth top"
"Debbie Harry Deborah Ann Harry (born Angela Trimble; July 1, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter, model and actress, known as the lead singer of the new wave band Blondie. Her recordings with the band reached the number-one charts place in the United States and the United Kingdom on many occasions through 1979 to 1981 (plus a sixth UK number-one in 1999). Blondie's song ""Rapture"" is considered the first rap song to chart at number one in the US. Harry also achieved success as a solo artist before reforming Blondie in the late 1990s. Her acting career includes credits in"
"Nielsen SoundScan. Throughout her career, the singer has spent a record 79 weeks at the number one position on the Hot 100, becoming the artist with the most weeks at number one in US history. Overall, she has 24 top-ten singles in the UK and 28 top-ten songs on the US chart, placing her in fifth place for the most top tens since its inception. Mariah Carey singles discography American singer and songwriter Mariah Carey has released sixty-three official singles, six promotional singles, and has made eight guest appearances. Carey's self-titled debut album in 1990 yielded four number-one singles on"
"Sexiest Women list, she was voted No. 45 in 2010, No. 31 in 2011, No. 12 in 2012 and No. 7 in 2013. Lott is a supporter of the Penny for London charitable initiative. Pixie Lott Victoria Louise ""Pixie"" Lott (born 12 January 1991) is an English singer, songwriter, and actress. Her debut single, ""Mama Do (Uh Oh, Uh Oh)"", was released in June 2009 and went straight to number one in the UK Singles Chart. Her second single, ""Boys and Girls"", also topped the UK Singles Chart in September 2009. She made her film debut in the 2010 movie"
"and number-seven, respectively. Collectively, the albums included ten singles, five of which – ""Fight for This Love, ""Promise This"", ""Call My Name"", ""Crazy Stupid Love"" and ""I Don't Care"" – reached the top position on the UK Singles Chart. Cheryl became the first British female solo artist to have five number-one singles in the UK, and held the record for the British female solo artist with the most UK number-one singles until 2018. Nadine Coyle and Nicola Roberts also released solo material. Coyle released her debut album ""Insatiable"" through a partnership with Tesco in November 2010, while Roberts released ""Cinderella's"
"solidarity, friendship, independence, love, loss of virginity, sex, contraception, the relationship with parents during adolescence, vulnerability and fame. Many of these themes were carried out even during her solo career, but with a more mature writing, intense style and in some songs a more raw and direct language. Added to these were social issues such as homelessness, and introspective themes. Having co-written 11 UK number 1s, more than any other female artist, she remains the only female performer to top the charts as a solo artist, as part of a duo, quartet and quintet. With 12 UK Number 1 singles,"
"British female solo artist to have a number one single since the Sugababes topped the chart in January 2006; it stayed at number one for five weeks. It also reached number one in Switzerland, Norway, Belgium and the Netherlands. In Spain, the single reached number two on the Spanish Singles Chart by PROMUSICAE. It was certificated Platinum with sales over 40,000 units. ""Bleeding Love"" was a hit on radio stations around the world, reaching number one in the airplay charts of the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Luxembourg, Slovakia, Latin America, Estonia and Japan. In the Greek Airplay"
"Sarah Harding Sarah Nicole Harding (born Sarah Nicole Hardman; 17 November 1981) is an English singer-songwriter, dancer, model, and actress. She rose to fame in late 2002 when she auditioned for the reality television show """" on ITV. The programme announced that Harding had won a place as a member of the girl group, Girls Aloud. The group has achieved massive success, having twenty consecutive top ten singles (including four number ones) in the UK, six studio albums have all been certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), two of which went to number one in the UK, and"