17.8 m singles make Madonna the Queen of the UK charts
The Official Charts Company celebrates 60 years of the Uk’s Official Singles Chart by revealing the Top 10 Biggest Selling Female Singles Artists Of All Time.
Less than a month before the chart’s 60 anniversary, the company today crowned Madonna as the female artist with the most UK singles sales – a stunning total of 17.8 million.
The Queen Of Pop made her debut in the British chart in January 1984 with “Holiday“, which peaked at # 6, but it too her another year to reach the Top of the chart with “Into the Groove,“.
The 1985 hit from Desperately Seeking Susan was not only the first UK # 1 Madonna single, but it’s also her biggest selling track to date among her 59 Top 10 hits as a lead artist.
Top 10 Biggest Selling Female Singles Artists Of All Time in the UK are:
01 Madonna 17.8m
02 Rihanna 11.4m
03 Kylie Minogue 10.2m
04 Whitney Houston 8.5m
05 Lady Gaga 7.329m
06 Britney Spears 7.324m
07 Beyonce 6.9m
08 Celine Dion 6.7m
09 Mariah Carey 6.62m
10 Olivia Newton-John 6.61m