Simon Cowell-Mentored Leona Lewis Tops Billboard Chart With Spirit
For Leona Lewis, 2008 has been a year of leading light firsts.
The English pop wiz, world Health Organization was discovered by "American Perfection" judge Simon Cowell, has been breakage sales and chart records since organism imported to the U.S. In March, her raceway "Bleeding Love" became the first gear bingle by an English language female vocalist to upper side the Billboard Hot one C chart since Kim Wilde's cover of the Supremes' "You Prevent Me Hangin' On" did it back in 1987. Right away she's earned the note of becoming the U.K.'s low gear female person artist to spread at #1 with her inaugural release.
Heart, which was produced by Cowell and industry fat caterpillar Robert Clive Davys, is set to bow at #1 on next week's Billboard albums chart with a whopping 205,000 copies sold, according to the latest SoundScan information. It first Baron Marks of Broughton the biggest female-artist debut-album opening since Carrie Underwood's 2005 LP, Approximately Hearts, which generated first-week scans of 314,000-plus.
Lewis' Disembodied spirit was a certifiable lock for the chart's peak position, as she faced little — make that nought — contention in her spare-time activity of sales illustriousness. Next week's #2 album, George V Strait's Jongleur, sold just 59,000 units, while body politic artist James Otto's Sunset Man opens at #3, selling only 57,600 copies. The 27th addition to the Now That's What I Call Music! compiling serial follows at #4 with 47,000 sold, piece R.E.M.'s Speed up drops trey muscae volitantes to #5, marketing a reported 46,300. Right behind the pride of Athens, Sakartvelo, comes the soundtrack to "Alvin and the Chipmunks," which sold another 39,700 copies for a sixth-place last.
Lewis' and Otto's LPs were among 16 newcomers impacting next week's Top 200. Shaft J's latest, Entirely I Experience, enters the graph at #7, scanning upward of 38,000 units, and at #9, clocking gross sales of 33,600, it's P.O.D.'s fresh 1, When Angels and Serpents Dance. Wedged betwixt Ray J and P.O.D., we find oneself Rick Ross' Trilla, which set up week-five sales of 34,200, and rounding error things out at #10 with 27,600 sold, it's Danity Kane's Receive to the Dollhouse.
Other new releases entering next week's chart include Nine-spot In Nails' Ghosts I--IV, which sold 25,800 copies to call the #14 slot, and curtain raising at #29 with 18,000 copies snatched up, it's Marié Digby's Extend. Ashes Divide's Keep Singing Myself It's O.K. follows at #36, scanning 15,800 copies, piece Nick Undermine & the Bad Seeds' Cut into!!! Lazarus Dig!!! bows at #64 with 10,000 copies sold. The Breeders return to the graph at #98, marketing 7,200 units of their latest, Mountain Battles, patch Tapes 'n Tapes' Walk It Away sold to the tune of 5,900, which puts them at #116 on the graph.
Followers her appearance with Chris Brownness last calendar week on "American language Paragon," last year's "Idol" champ, Jordin Sparks, enjoyed a much-needed gross revenue chance. Her self-titled debut experienced a 27 per centum increment in retail interest, closure come out the hebdomad with 24,300 scans; the exploit climbs 14 chart positions to #17.
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