Women outperformed men in the UK music charts in this past year thanks to an era-defining crop of female artists headed by Taylor Swift.

Six of the top 10 albums were by women, who also topped the singles chart for a record-breaking 33 weeks of the year.

Swift’s album, The Tortured Poets Department, sold 783,000 copies, of which 111,000 were on vinyl and 195,000 were on CD – a sign that the market for physical albums remains buoyant.

The remaining figure was made up of audio streams, which are calculated as 1,000 streams equating to one album sale.

Swift topped the vinyl chart, followed by Oasis with their 30th anniversary release of Definitely Maybe.