2011 is becoming the year of the women

Female solo artists have topped the Official UK Albums Chart for 25 of the first 29 weeks of 2011, led by Adele but also including Beyonce, Rihanna and Lady GaGa.

Music Week research today shows they have also occupied all of the top-three places on the albums chart 10 times this year - and twice the whole of the top five - something not previously achieved in 55 years of chart history. Five of the six biggest selling albums of ...

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