Too long demeaned and treated as playthings by executives, female artists are finally getting the attention they deserve<\/p>\n
Madonna, Beyonc\u00e9, Britney, Whitney: if you think about the most iconic names in mainstream pop history, you\u2019ll probably come up with a list of women. And this week, we have solid confirmation of female artists\u2019 dominance. British audiences listen to more female musicians than male, according to the latest industry figures for 2023.<\/p>\n
It was the most successful performance for women on the UK singles chart since it began in 1952, the British Phonographic Institute (BPI) found<\/a>. This included artists such as Raye and PinkPantheress, both of whom saw their music proliferate on TikTok this year, and those global heavy hitters you\u2019d probably expect: Miley Cyrus \u2013 whose single Flowers stayed at No 1 for 10 weeks <\/strong>on the UK chart \u2013 Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo et al.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Too long demeaned and treated as playthings by executives, female artists are finally getting the attention they deserve Madonna, Beyonc\u00e9, Britney, Whitney: if you think about the most iconic names in mainstream pop history, you\u2019ll probably come up with a list of women. And this week, we have solid confirmation of female artists\u2019 dominance. British … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}