Dua Lipa arrived in style in 2015 with her self-titled, chart topping debut album which eclipsed 4 million sales worldwide with single sales reaching over 40 million. Dua Lipa is also officially the most streamed album by a female artist in Spotify history. The video for her breakout global #1 hit "New Rules" made her the youngest female solo artist to reach one billion views on YouTube, and the track became the first to spend a record 45 weeks on the Billboard Pop Songs Chart. Dua made BRIT Award history in 2018 by becoming the first female artist to pick up five nominations, with two wins for British Breakthrough Act and British Female Solo Artist, all while selling out tours around the world. In early 2019, she received two Grammy awards for Best New Artist and Best Dance Recording. Her newest single "Don't Start Now" debuted at #1 on the worldwide iTunes Chart and was the #1 trending video on YouTube upon its release.
Dua Lipa became the first female artist to receive five nominations in a single year at the Brit Awards and won 3 Brit Awards for time being.
She’s officially bigger than Ariana Grande and Rihanna, not to mention Beyoncé and Taylor Swift. The upstart British pop star Dua Lipa has just been named the most streamed woman of 2017 in the UK,
according to Spotify’s year-end figures, an achievement that makes her No 1 song New Rules seem very aptly named.
Young female solo artists have struggled to breakhrough this year but Lipa, at the age of 22, is already being seen as an authentic voice of young British womanhood: independent, cool and in command of her own sexuality.