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Lewis blows away Spice Girls
19/11/2007 14:00 - (SA)
Michael Holden
London - X Factor winner Leona Lewis
broke another record as she topped both the British single and
album charts on Sunday, trouncing the newly reformed Spice Girls
in the process.
Lewis's Spirit broke the record for Britain's
fastest-selling debut album notching up 375 000 sales, 12 000
more than previous holders the Artic Monkeys managed last year,
the Official UK Charts Company (OCC) said.
"Leona has secured her place in chart history in terms of
debut albums," said Darren Haynes, OCC Marketing Manager, adding
that she was short of the fastest-selling album of all time, Be
Here Now, by Oasis which sold 813 000 copies in seven days.
Nonetheless, it is the latest success for the 22-year-old
singer, from Hackney in east London, who triumphed in last
year's X Factor TV talent show.
Her debut single, A Moment Like This, broke records when
it was downloaded 50 000 times in the first half hour on release
last December and sold 600 000 copies in its first week.
Last week, her latest single Bleeding Love became the
year's biggest-selling song and is still at number one, its
fourth week in the top spot.
Spice Girls in second place
Lewis completely overshadowed the Spice Girls' Greatest
Hits album, released to mark their comeback, which had to make
do with second place.
Irish boyband Westlife's Back Home dropped from top spot
to third, ahead of Mothership by Led Zeppelin, a collection
coinciding with their reunion gig later this month.
Other new entries in the album chart were Celine Dion in
fifth with Taking Chances, Sawdust from US rock band
Killers in seventh and Vivere by Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli.
There was little change in the singles charts, with reformed
boyband Take That staying second behind Lewis with Rule The
World and Timbaland unchanged in third with Apologize.
Australian pop star Kylie Minogue's 2 Hearts climbed up
eight places to fourth, pushing Valerie by Mark Ronson and
featuring Amy Winehouse down to fifth.
Scottish folk band
American soul star Alicia Keys dropped to sixth with No
One, ahead of Home by Westlife, while indie rockers Bloc
Party debuted in eighth with Flux.
In ninth was Loch Lomond, a new entry from Scottish folk
band Runrig featuring the Tartan Army, released to raise money
for the BBC Children in Need appeal and in the run-up to
Scotland's crucial Euro 2008 soccer match against Italy that
they lost.
British female trio Sugababes were 10th with About You
Now.
- Reuters
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