Leona’s Debut Smashes Chart Record
British singing sensation Leona Lewis has set a new record for fastest-selling UK debut album of all time. Lewis’ album ‘Spirit’ sold a staggering 375,872 copies in it’s first week, beating the previous record set by the Arctic Monkey’s 2006 LP ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not’ by some 12,000 copies. ‘Spirit’ now stands as the fourth fastest-selling UK album (not just debut) of all time. The multi-octave singer is set to hit the US early next year. {Source}Honestly speaking, talent like Leona is a rare find on this side of the shores (or anywhere else), so it’s great to see her achieving the success that she is at the moment. I mean, she’s doing US numbers in a much smaller market – already certified Platinum in the process. It’ll be interesting to see if she’s able to take the US by storm too; the album is pretty solid, so I’m guessing she will.
Your thoughts?
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Anonymous
November 19, 2007 at 3:36 pm
You go girl!! I’m in the UK and talent is lacking some dry no talent people getting love and talent ignored,
Like Leona or not girlie can blow, she’s got a great voice and will go far, keep doing your thing,
Anonymous
November 21, 2007 at 12:12 am
She will definitely make it big with the US market. Beautiful voice.
Anonymous
November 21, 2007 at 3:19 pm
Overrated Woman – she’s blatently a poor man’s Mariah Carey.
KidKlassic91
November 23, 2007 at 2:22 pm
damn… big congrats to her! She’s gonna go places further than her voice echoes. 370,000 is good for a brand new solo artist. even tho she was on X-factor… I haven’t heard of any AI winners sellin that much in their first week
Anonymous
November 27, 2007 at 9:21 am
She’s now sold 620,000 copies of the album in the first 15 days of release. That’s probably the equivalent of 2 to 3 million in the States given the population of the UK is 1/5th that of the USA.