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‘World domination is a big thing for me’: pop superstar Becky Hill on raving to the top – and her new album’s dark past


She’s won two Brits and rivalled Dua Lipa and Adele for streams, but the public is still getting to know the ex-reality TV singer. She explains why snobbery has held her back, but trauma won’t

She has two Brit awards and 12 Top 20 singles to her name, an almost sold-out arena tour in the pipeline and some incredible listening stats (in 2021, she was the third-most streamed British female solo artist after Adele and Dua Lipa). She turns out to be a gift of an interviewee: funny, direct and fiercely unfiltered – unwilling to gloss over any of the grim or entertainingly bizarre details of her decade-long slog towards dance music dominion. She spent the months after her appearance crashing at a fellow contestant’s council house in Harrow, north-west London, where she slept on the bottom bunk in their child’s bedroom, while looking for a manager.

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