.Beyonce's Renaissance is the first 2022 album by a female artist to top the Billboard200 .
— but none credited to exclusively female or female-fronted groups, or female solo artists.What might account for such a long run on the Billboard 200 without a female artist at No. 1? Well, a lot of it is basic timing. Of the eight female artists who had previously topped the chart since the beginning of 2020 — Selena Gomez, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Olivia Rodrigo, Billie Eilish, Summer Walker and Adele — none have yet released official LPs in 2022.
And in their stead… not a ton of breakthrough artists have emerged. That goes for artists of any gender, really: We’vethis year about how the top tier of the Hot 100 has badly lacked for brand-new blood, and it’s probably telling that the biggest breakout hit for an artist this summer has been the 37-year-old “Running Up That Hill ” — which, sadly, the long-inactive Kate Bush is unlikely to capitalize on with a new album anytime soon.
Really, if you were to look at the albums released by female artists in 2022 and ask for which it could be consideredthat it did not reach the No. 1 spot, you might only come up with one plausible answer: Lizzo’s , released in July.
Will Beyoncé’s No. 1 bow be the beginning of a long-overdue renaissance for female artists at the top of the chart? Well, with no obvious blockbusters coming up on the release calendar, that may depend on if some of those previously mentioned stars finally decide to drop some of their long-anticipated new sets — or if an Olivia Rodrigo-type breakout artist comes crashing in from an unexpected corner of the pop world.
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