Dua Lipa is an English and Albanian singer and songwriter. Her accolades include seven Brit Awards and three Grammy Awards. Time magazine included her in its list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2024.
Lipa worked as a model before signing a recording contract with Warner Bros. in 2014. She rose to prominence with her eponymous debut album in 2017, which peaked at number three on the UK Albums Chart and spawned the singles “Be the One”, “IDGAF”, and the UK number-one single “New Rules”.
Lipa’s second album, Future Nostalgia (2020), became her first UK number-one album, and won the Brit Award for British Album of the Year and the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album. Its lead single, “Don’t Start Now”, scored the longest top-ten stay for a British female artist on the UK Singles Chart and ranked in the top five of the Billboard Hot 100 year-end chart of 2020. The album’s success continued with the follow-up singles “Physical”, “Break My Heart”, and “Levitating”, the last of which topped the Billboard year-end Hot 100 chart of 2021 and was certified diamond in the US by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Lipa subsequently scored her third and fourth UK number-one singles with the 2021 Elton John duet “Cold Heart (Pnau remix)” and “Dance the Night” from the soundtrack of the film Barbie (2023), wherein she also made her acting debut.
On 26 May 2023, Dua Lipa released “Dance the Night” as the lead single of the Barbie film soundtrack.[133] Lipa made her acting debut in the movie, portraying Mermaid Barbie.[134] In November 2023, Lipa acquired full ownership of all her songs, music, and publishing rights, in a new deal she completed with her former music publishers, TaP Music. The deal included all of her master recordings from her entire music catalogue, which by February 2024, had reached 40 billion streams!