Are women really on top when it comes to the charts?

This week saw the most successful UK charts run ever enjoyed by female artists. But marketing women in pop hasn't changed much from the poster girls of postwar BritainIt's not often you spot a trend started by Vera Lynn. She might be a mistress of the music hall and soldiers' sweetheart, but fashionably ahead of the curve at 93? You'd hardly bet on it. But, in September last year, Lynn's best of album went to the top of the charts and as Music Week pointed out recently, it was the first of 11...

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