Brit Award for British Female Solo Artist won by Annie Lennox the most times, with six wins and have received the most nominations, with nine, followed by Kate Bush with eight. Brit Award for British Female Solo Artist The Brit Award for British Female Solo Artist is an award given by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), an organisation which represents record companies and artists in the United Kingdom. The accolade is presented at the Brit Awards, an annual celebration of British and international music. The winners and nominees are determined by the Brit Awards voting academy with over one-thousand members, which comprise record labels, publishers, managers, agents,
Spirit (Leona Lewis album) entered the UK Singles chart at number one with sales of 218,000 copies, which was the biggest first-week sales of 2007 to date. It stayed at number one for seven weeks in the UK, and reached number one in a further thirty-three countries, including the United States, where Lewis became the first British solo female to reach number one since Kim Wilde's "You Keep Me Hangin' On" in 1987. Written by Jesse McCartney and Ryan Tedder, the song was planned for McCartney's third solo album, but his record label did not like it, so Tedder rearranged the song to fit