When Rita Ora's latest single, "Let You Love Me" reached the Top 10 last week, it became her 13th UK Top 10 hit, putting her out on her own as the British female artist with the most UK Top 10 singles, a record she previously jointly held with Shirley Bassey and Petula Clark. (Although born in Kosovo, she is regarded as naturalised British).
Here are the three ladies' Top 10 hits listed in full
13 - Rita Ora (20 hits)
Hot Right Now - Number 1 2012 (DJ Fresh featuring Rita Ora)
RIP - Number 1 2012 (featuring Tinie Tempah)
(How Do We) Party - Number 1 2012
Shine Ya Light - Number 10 2012
I Will Never Let You Down - Number 1 2014
Black Widow - Number 4 2014 (with Iggy Azalea)
Doing It - Number 8 2015 (Charli XCX featuring Rita Ora)
Poison - Number 3 2015
Your Song - Number 7 2017
Lonely Together - Number 4 2017 (Avicii featuring Rita Ora)
Anywhere - Number 2 2017
For You (Fifty Shades Freed) - Number 8 2018 (with Liam Payne)
Let You Love Me - Number 6 2018
12 - Shirley Bassey (33 hits)
The Banana Boat Song - Number 8 1957
Kiss Me, Honey Honey, Kiss Me - Number 3 1959
As I Love You - Number 1 1959
As Long As He Needs Me - Number 2 1960
You'll Never Know - Number 6 1961
Reach For The Stars/Climb Ev'ry Mountain - Number 1 1961
I'll Get By (As Long As I Have You) - Number 8 1961
What Now My Love? - Number 5 1962
I (Who Have Nothing) - Number 4 1963
Something - Number 4 1970
For All We Know - Number 6 1971
Never, Never, Never (Grande, Grande, Grande) - Number 8 1973
12 - Petula Clark (28 hits)
The Little Shoemaker - Number 7 1954
Suddenly There's A Valley - Number 7 1955
With All My Heart - Number 4 1957
Alone - Number 8 1957
Sailor - Number 1 1961
Romeo - Number 3 1961
My Friend The Sea - Number 7 - 1961
Downtown - Number 2 1964
My Love - Number 4 1966
I Couldn't Live Without Your Love - Number 6 1966
This Is My Song - Number 1 1967
Downtown '88 - Number 10 - 1988
However, if we include all female artists, Rita is currently joint 15th on the list of most UK Top 10 singles, and , as you can see, she has a long way to go to catch the female artist with the most Top 10 UK hits, Madonna with 62.
Here are the female artists with more than 13 Top 10 solo hits.
62 - Madonna
34 - Kylie Minogue
30 - Rihanna
24 - Mariah Carey
23 - Britney Spears
21 - Diana Ross
19 - Beyoncé
19 - Pink
17 - Christine Aguilera
17 - Whitney Houston
17 - Janet Jackson
17 - Jennifer Lopez
15 - Katy Perry
14 - Celine Dion
So well done to Ms Ora, and here is her record breaking track, "Let You Love Me".
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