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IN A CLIMATE WHERE launching new female artists is trickier than explaining Bitcoin to your nan over Christmas dinner, 2017 has belonged to Dua Lipa. In August, she became the first woman to score a UK number one single since Adele back in 2015, and last week she was announced as the year’s most streamed female artist in the UK (trailing behind were Rihanna, Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift and someone called… Beyoncé?). An outspoken feminist, her best songs manage to be empowering without being patronising, heralding a new genre which we’re christening ‘self-care bops’. Plus, as party season erupts, her anthemic single New Rules offers a timely reminder not to hook up with your ex while home for the holidays (sample lyric: ‘ If you’re under him, you ain’t getting over him’). PREACH.