Posted November 13, 200717 yr Factor winner Leona Lewis has translated her singles success into album sales, with her debut Spirit selling 130,000 copies in a day. After reigning supreme at the top of the UK singles chart for three weeks with Bleeding Love, Leona's first studio album has proved just as popular with fans, selling as much as the rest of the top ten albums combined. And the young singer could now be set to break the British record for the fastest-selling debut album ever. Sheffield indiekids the Arctic Monkeys sold 363,735 copies of their first release Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not in a week in January 2006, but Leona could top 400,000 sales by the end of this week, according to industry insiders. Gennaro Castaldo, an HMV spokesman, said: "This is proving to be a brilliant week for the UK music industry, with the top ten albums between them looking likely to sell the best part of a million copies. "Leona's success in leading this surge is absolutely remarkable. Many of us expected the album to do really well, particularly following the number one success of Bleeding Love and the impact of Leona's appearance on the X Factor a few weeks ago, but very few people would have expected such phenomenal first day sales." He added: "It's hard luck on the Spice Girls, who any other week would have had a number one album to cap their own return." Spirit easily outsold the Spice Girls' Greatest Hits, as well as new releases from Westlife, Celine Dion, the Killers and Led Zeppelin. "Aside from breaking the Arctic's record for the fastest selling debut album, Leona is already looking a safe bet for the Christmas number one, and is very likely to bank more than a million sales before the end of the year," Mr Castaldo added. The top ten best selling albums this week, according to HMV, are: 1. Leona Lewis: Spirit 2. Spice Girls: Greatest Hits 3. Westlife: Back Home 4. Celine Dion: Taking Chances 5. The Killers: Sawdust 6. Led Zeppelin: Mothership 7. The Eagles: Long Road Out of Eden 8. Andrea Bocelli: Vivere: The Best Of 9. Cliff Richard: Love- The Album 10. Take That: Beautiful World (Souvenir Edition)
November 13, 200717 yr I'm gonna go over the top and say :o Sun/mon >>> 122,000ish (we know this already) so tue/wed >>120,000 thur/fri>>>> 120,000 sat >>>> 140,000 (kids of school) so thats 502,000 :kink: possible :P
November 14, 200717 yr Im going for 397,809 this week, by the end of the year- 1,496,778, altogether, she MAY creep past the 2million mark :o
November 14, 200717 yr If she gets the same ratio from wednesdays midweeks sales to sundays final total as westlife did last week, she'll sell 383,073. She needs to be on about 210,000 after todays(wednesday) sales to be on course to break the AM record. Edited November 14, 200717 yr by Olympus
November 15, 200717 yr Coolies just posted monday-wednesday sales Leona Lewis - Spirit - 229,992!!! Fastest selling album this year already. and still 3 days to go.! I think she may well be challenging Dido now for fastest selling album by a female in the Uk ever! (>400K)
November 15, 200717 yr How much did Dido do on her first week? 400,351 I think it wll be close, but Leona is still on course for this. :)
November 17, 200717 yr i think leona could beat it the only problem with leona's album doing so well is the follow up wont do near as well as they never do and the press will point that out in negative fashion if the times comes
November 17, 200717 yr another snippet She has sold more in 4 days of her debut, than the Beatles did in 5 months of their debut(which was number one album for 25 weeks!) 11 months sales in 1963 gave the Beatles 500,000 of the album 'Please please me' ok, its not really a comparison as albums sold much less in those days than today anyway, but still interesting. :)
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