For half a century, British pop stars have been among the many largest sellers worldwide, however that every one modified final 12 months.
BBC News reports that, for the first time since 2003, no British music artist has made it into the worldwide annual chart of the 12 months’s high 10 bestselling singles or albums, as revealed by the annual report from international music trade physique IFPI.
The bestselling music of 2024, as reported by the IFPI, was American singer Benson Boone’s Lovely Issues. The bestselling album was Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Division.
Boone’s music topped the charts within the UK, Australia, Canada, Norway, France, Germany, Eire and New Zealand. It additionally grew to become his first music to enter the highest 5 on the US Billboard chart, reaching quantity two.
Swift’s album was launched on the peak of her record-breaking Eras tour, benefitting from fevered fan hypothesis as to which of her ex or present boyfriends impressed which music on the longplaying album.
The BBC experiences that the highest-ranked British entry on the listing was singer and producer Artemas, in 15th place with the music I Just like the Manner You Kiss Me.
Charlie XCX – the main nominee at subsequent week’s Brit Awards, rewarding the perfect in British music – didn’t make the minimize, together with Coldplay and Dua Lipa, who each launched new materials this 12 months.
Nor did British artists maintain any of the highest 10 hottest singles even within the UK charts, the primary time of this occasion for at the least 20 years.
