For years, British pop stars have needed to battle to match the document gross sales of their American counterparts.
However evidently the tide has nicely and really turned as home-grown musicians accounted for the whole High 10 best-selling singles of 2022 within the UK for the primary time ever.
Harry Types, Kate Bush and Ed Sheeran are among the many artists who gave the Brits their first clear sweep of the High 10 since information started over 50 years in the past.
High spot: Harry Types’ smash hit As It Was was essentially the most listened to single of the yr within the UK. It was streamed 180.9million occasions and spent ten consecutive weeks at No1 within the UK
As It Was by Types, 28, was essentially the most listened to single of the yr within the UK, based on the British Phonographic Business (BPI), primarily based on its evaluation of Official Charts Firm information.
It was streamed 180.9million occasions and spent ten consecutive weeks at No1 within the UK and 15 weeks on the high spot on the US Billboard Sizzling 100 – a document for a British artist.
Sheeran, 31, bagged the second and third spots on the listing together with his singles Dangerous Habits and Peru, a collaboration with Fireboy DML. He additionally secured the fifth spot together with his tune Shivers.
Spectacular: Ed Sheeran, 31, bagged the second and third spots on the listing together with his singles Dangerous Habits and Peru
London-born singer Cat Burns’ single Go is in fourth place after it went viral on TikTok, whereas Miss Bush’s 1985 basic Operating Up That Hill is in sixth place after it made a stunning chart return when it featured in Netflix present Stranger Issues.
Oxford-based Glass Animals sleeper hit Warmth Waves was seventh and former Britain’s Received Expertise contestant Calum Scott’s collaboration with Belgian artist Misplaced Frequencies on The place Are You Now completed eighth.
The High 10 is rounded off by Scottish duo LF System’s Afraid To Really feel and singer Sam Fender’s Ivor Novello-winning tune Seventeen Going Beneath.
This success by British artists comes as UK recorded music consumption elevated for the eighth consecutive yr in 2022, with annual audio streaming figures breaking via the 150billion mark for the primary time within the UK.
‘At a time when streaming has created unprecedented competitors coming from each nook of the globe, it’s astonishing that in 2022 British artists had been concerned in the entire High 10 calendar yr’s largest hits within the UK,’ mentioned BPI’s Leon Neville.
‘This excellent achievement is a testomony to the wealthy music expertise that continues to emerge from throughout the UK’s nations and areas, fuelled by the eagerness, funding and expertise of UK document labels.’
Return to the charts: Kate Bush’s 1985 basic Operating Up That Hill is in sixth place
37 years on: Kate’s hit made a stunning chart return when it featured in Netflix present Stranger Issues (pictured)
