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TIL Kate Bush topped the UK charts at just 19 y/o with her debut single 'Wuthering Heights', the first female artist to do so with a self-written song, and in 2016 she had 8 albums in the UK Top 40 simultaneously, the third-most for any artist, behind only Elvis and the Beatles.

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