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Topic Started: Dec 3 2007, 12:34 PM (204 Views)
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Leona Lewis remains number one

Monday December 3, 2007

By Alan Jones

As this year’s X Factor heads rapidly to its conclusion, reigning champion Leona Lewis continues to top the singles and albums charts.

Recording double-digit gains for the sixth week in a row, album sales reached a new 2007 high last week, at 4,332,590. That’s a 22.2% increase over the previous week, and is more than were sold in some two week periods earlier in the year but its well over a million down on the comparable week’s sales of 5,537,721 recorded exactly two years ago.

Remaining atop the artist album chart for a third week, third season X Factor winner Leona Lewis’ Spirit easily deflects the challenge of second season victor Shayne Ward’s new album. Although Lewis’ album failed to beat the first week sales of Life For Rent it is now ahead of same stage (20 day) sales of the Dido album (721,795), and should beat its record as the fastest million-seller by a female solo artist

Lewis and Ward’s albums are both on Simon Cowell’s Sony BMG imprints Syco, and third place on the chart is occupied by his other imprint, S, courtesy of Westlife. The Irish group’s Back Home increases sales week-on-week by 54.1% to 83,692, even as it slips 2-3.

Kylie Minogue chalks up her second new hit albums in a year, thanks to X, which debuts this week at number four on sales of 82,370. Minogue’s 14th hit album – all but 1991’s Let’s Go To It made the Top 10 – it follows January’s live Showgirl: Homecoming Live In Sydney, which debuted at number seven on sales of 17,265, and also eclipses the 68,866 first week sales of her last new studio album, Body Language, which debuted and peaked at number six in 2003, and subsequently sold 398,035 copies. 2 Hearts, the first single from X, dips 8-9 on sales of 13,651.

Tracks from Lewis, Ward and Westlife’s current albums are all included on Now That’s What I Call Music! 68, which outsells all three and continues to occupy pole position on the compilation chart. Now! 68 sales were off 32.7% week-on-week at 188,586, taking its 13 day tally to 468,801. At the same stage, this year’s two previous Now! releases – Now! 66 and Now! 67 – had sold 389,397 and 340,485 copies, respectively.

While albums flounder, singles continue to do well. Sales slipped by 3% last week but remain buoyant, at 1,618,527.

Although Leona Lewis’ Bleeding Love is, understandably, running out of steam a little on its sixth week at the top, it sold a further 40,530 copies – a 30.1% decline - while T2’s bassline/speed garage hit Heartbroken continues at number two, with sales off a mere 3.4% at 31,768. It managed to overcome a challenge for runners-up spot from Girls Aloud, who have to settle for third place with Call The Shots, on sales of 31,457 – that’s the third highest for silver medal position this year.

Andy Williams celebrates his 80th birthday today (3rd) and celebrates by scoring his 23rd hit with The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year, which debuts at number 43 on sales of 3,038 downloads. The track, which dates back to 1963, has never charted before and owes its impetus to its use in Marks & Spencer Christmas TV advertisement.

Williams isn’t the only artist to secure a hit from a commercial this week, Ernie K-Doe is number 71 with Here Come The Girls. The 1970 track, written for K-Doe by fellow New Orleans legend Allan Toussaint, was downloaded 2,109 times last week, following its use as the music bed for the current TV advertising campaign for Boots The Chemist. It was previously fairly obscure, and didn’t even make the US Hot 100 or R&B charts at the time. It’s the first hit for the 15 year old reissue label, Soul Jazz.

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Singles

01 Leona 40.530
02 T2 31.768
03 Girls Aloud 31.457

09 Kylie Minogue 13.651
18 Soulja Boy 8.401
23 Mariah Carey 5.132
32 Sean Kingston 4.343
39 Christina Aguilera 3.376
43 Andy Williams 3.038
71 K-Doe 2.109

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Albums

01 Leona 164.433
02 Shayne Ward 95.801
03 Westlife 83.692
04 Kylie 82.370 oops, so close
05 Eagles 57k

13 Girls Aloud 38.323
14 Russell Watson 36.156
35 Connie Talbot 21.226
38 Paul Potts 19.506
40 John Barrowman 16.902
75 Enrique 4.819
200 George Michael 1.387


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Some Kind Of Bliss
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Very nice sales for Kylie :grin

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Jason
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Girls Aloud beaten by 311 copies :(
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Ruan
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Now Kylie has to release the real stuff from that stunning album of hers and the sales will go through the roof!
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agreed - kylie's sales will only rise if she releases some of the great tracks of that album ie "like a drug" and "the one"
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