Double award winner Dua Lipa certainly is Hotter Than Hell
This year’s best selling female musician has come a long way since her first single release back in 2016
Dua Lipa is having a major moment – after picking up two Brit Awards the London-born Kosovan has been crowned the best-selling female musician of the year so far.
The 22-year-old singer - who is set to play two sold-out shows in Dublin next week - is celebrating after her debut self-titled album, released last June, has shifted 95,000 copies in 2018.
It is the fifth biggest-selling record of the year as it stands, according to new data from the UK’S Official Charts Company.
Her single IDGAF is in sixth place, having notched up 509,000 combined sales, and is the highestplaced single by a female artist on the Official Charts Company’s top 10 list for the year.
Lipa, who won the British female solo artist and British breakthrough act gongs at the Brits in February, is also in the top 10 on the singles chart for the first quarter of the year.
Since the release of her first hit Hotter Than Hell in 2016 and the follow up singles, Blow Your Mind (Mwah) and Be the One, Lipa has clocked up hundreds of millions of online and radio plays.
Meanwhile, Scared to Be Lonely has garnered more than 345 million streams.
The ambitious singer, who has been cultivating her career since she was 14, recently opened up about sexism in the music business.
She told GQ magazine that she believes female artists have to work harder for success than their male counterparts.
“For a female artist, it takes a lot more to be taken seriously if you’re not sat down at a piano or with a guitar, you know?” she said.
“For a male artist, people instantly assume they write their own music, but for women, they assume it’s all manufactured.”
The star, who has split with onoff-again boyfriend Paul Klein wrote power anthem New Rules as a guidebook for getting over your ex.
But Dua admitted she struggles to listen to her own advice: “I always tend to be the person really good at giving advice but I never listen to my own.”
But the heartache is the inspiration behind her forthcoming tear-jerking album.
“It is a pop album that you’re going to be able to dance to.”
“It kind of sucks that that’s the thing that triggers my creativity but happy things don’t seem to do it for me.”
The sultry singer returns to Ireland next week after her blistering set at the Longitude Festival last summer and Irish fans are excited to welcome her back.
So much so that tickets for her shows on April 9 and 10 sold out in minutes and were being sold on a resale website for 19 times the original price.