Curated playlist

British feminist musicians

Spice GirlsThe Spice Girls fired their manager the morning they won an MTV award. They then ran their own tour.
AdeleA friend posted Adele's three-song class demo on Myspace, and a record label phoned.
Dua LipaIn the week beginning the 15th of May 2020, Dua Lipa's album Future Nostalgia sat at number one on the UK chart with only 7,317 sales. No chart-topping album this century has sold fewer copies in a single week. That modest number belongs…
Charli XCXCharli XCX once drew about 37,000 RSVPs to a single club set in Brooklyn, and only 400 of those people were allowed inside. The set was called PARTYGIRL, and it took place on the 22nd of February 2024. It was her second Boiler Room set…
M.I.A. (rapper)M.I.A. arrived in London as an eleven-year-old refugee speaking no English. She later became a Grammy and Oscar nominee.
Annie LennoxAnnie Lennox stepped into the 1983 music video for "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" with cropped orange hair, a man's lounge suit and a cane. The video made her a household name. The BBC later wrote, "all eyes were on Annie Lennox, the…
Mel BMel B performed with the Spice Girls at the closing ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, and the reunion set a record of its own. Twitter users sent more than 116,000 messages a minute during the show, making it the most tweeted…
Rita OraRita Ora broke a 30-year-old record in 2018, when her single "Let You Love Me" became her thirteenth top-ten song in the UK. No British female solo artist had reached that number before her. Shirley Bassey and Petula Clark had jointly held…
Harry StylesHarry Styles ran the Berlin Marathon in 2:59:13, a personal best, while entered under the pseudonym Sted Sarandos. The singer, songwriter and actor, born in 1994, also finished the Tokyo marathon in 2025, completing two of the six World…
Olivia DeanOlivia Dean, an English singer and songwriter born in 1999, once stood in front of a primary school competition crowd with her back turned. She was singing "Tomorrow" from the musical Annie and was too nervous to face the audience. She…