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After winning The X Factor, Burke released the winner's single and debut single "Hallelujah", which became the current European record holder for single sales over a period of 24 hours, selling 105,000 in one day.[2] The song also became the top-selling single of 2008 in the UK and the UK's Christmas 2008 number one. By January 2009, the single had sold over 2.5 million copies in the UK alone, a first for a British female soloist.[3] Burke went on to release her Debut album, Overcome, in 2009, which debuted at number-one on the UK Album Charts and spawned five number-one singles on the UK Singles Chart and the Irish Singles Chart—"Hallelujah sold 2.5 million records" "Bad Boys", selling over 780,000 in the UK and becoming a Platinum selling single as of January 2012 it has surpass 1.5 million copies" "All Night Long" and "Start Without You"—and the album became one of the most successful albums of that year in the UK, the singles released from the album earned her three BRIT Award nominations.[4] The album also saw the release of UK top 10 hit, "Broken Heels" and "The Silence". In late 2010, Burke decided to release Overcome: Deluxe Edition. Overcome and the six singles released from the album have sold over 17 million record in the UK alone.[5] "Elephant" was released as Burke's comeback single in February 2012, which became a hit single, with a peak position of number three in the UK. "Let It Go" served as the second single and Burke's sophomore album, Heartbreak on Hold, was released in June 2012.[6]