Female artists featured on 31 out of 52 weeks on the UK singles chart, spending most weeks at number one since records began in1952.

Flowers was Miley Cyrus’s first number one since 2014, who had the biggest song of the year, with the break-up anthem attracting 198 million streams. The Weeknd’s two-year-old greatest hits compilation. The Highlights was at the number one , with Taylor Swift’s 2022 album Midnights in second place.

According to data from the British Phonographic Industry Miley Cyrus’s Flowers was the only song released in 2023 to be certified double platinum, racking up 1.2 million chart units.