music · 27 March 2008 · 16 years ago
X Factor winner Leona Lewis became the first British woman to top the US pop chart for more than 20 years with her single Bleeding Love. Kim Wilde was the last UK female to top the Billboard Hot 100 chart, with her 1987 cover version of the Supremes hit You Keep Me Hangin' On. Petula Clark was the first, with her 1965 track Downtown, while Sheena Easton's Morning Train - released in the UK as 9 To 5 followed in 1981.
OnThisDay.net