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Leona Lewis Beats Arctic Monkeys Record For Fastest Selling British Debut Album

by Dave Parrack on November 21st, 2007

X Factor 2006 winner Leona Lewis has broken another record, this time for the fastest selling British début album of all time.

She already held one record previous to this week, after her debut single ‘A Moment Like This’ was downloaded 50,000 times in the first half hour of its release last December and sold 600,000 copies in its first week.

Her new album ‘Spirit’, sold 375,000 copies in its first week on sale, beating former record holders Arctic Monkeys by 12,000. They have held the record for over a year with ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not’.

Lewis is now sitting at the top of both the singles and albums charts, and is set for a bit of a domination of the British charts in the run up to Christmas.

‘Bleeding Love’ is now the best selling single of 2007 with over 500,000 copies sold. I actually wasn’t that impressed on first listen, and its still not exactly grabbing me, but each to their own.

There’s no doubt that Leona has been phenomenally successful since winning ‘The X Factor’ last year, and now looks set to go and grab a similar amount of glory in America.

What’s scary is that absolutely no-one in this year’s series of ‘The X Factor’ comes remotely close to displaying the talent and maturity that Lewis has to now.

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