Dua Lipa Becomes Youngest Female Artist to Surpass 1 Billion maoni on YouTube 

‘Rule Breaker’ Dua Lipa Becomes Youngest Female Artist to Surpass 1 Billion Views on YouTube

's got new rules and now a new record under her belt to match.

, the British pop soloist hit an insane breakthrough in her music career this week when

she became the youngest female artist in history to transcend one billion views on a music video on YouTube

. In a little less than a year — 223 days, to be exact — Lipa's girl-powered visualization for "New Rules" reeled in more than one billion watches on the video-sharing program.

Currently, this makes her the youngest female soloist to reach the mark with a stand-alone music video, which also helped launch the singer's subscriber fanbase from 800K to nearly 5 million supporters.

 star couldn't contain her excitement over the news of the recent record she'd just broken: "I picked up the phone and found out I am the youngest female artist to hit 1 BILLION views on a music video #newrules WHAAAAA!!!" Lipa tweeted with glee, signing off her gratitude with a heart.

In reference to the article, as of this Friday (February 16), Lipa's vid, which was first shared to the platform on July 7, 2017, is the 100th video to boast such a record on the website with 1.01 billion views.

The new success puts the musician's bop ahead of other celebrated pop songs like Jack Ü and

's "Where Are Ü Now" (uploaded June 2015) and Pitbull's

-assisted EDM banger "Timber" (uploaded in November 2013).

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