Leona Lewis' Spirit Debuts at #1 on the Billboard Album Charts
First British people Female Creative person Of all time TO Debut AT #1
Number one Brits Creative person Ever TO Have Low gear Album Debut AT #1
BIGGEST DIGITAL Album Gross sales Calendar week Ever FOR A New Artist
BIGGEST Female Artist Debut Album SINCE 2005
Hit Bingle "Haemorrhage Beloved" Moves Back to #1 on Hoarding Digital Songs
Graph Single Crosses the 1 Gazillion Gross revenue Mark
Newly House of York, April 16 -- British sensation Leona Frederick Carleton Lewis has
continued her record-breaking winner as she conquers the U.S., with her
album Spirit (J Records/SyCo Music) entry the Hoarding album charts at
#1 today with 204, 841 albums sold, according to Carl August Nielsen SoundScan. This is
the first time in music history that a Brits female creative person debuts at #1
on the Hoarding Top 200, and it's the number one clock time ever that a British
creative person overall has debuted on the chart at #1 with a first-class honours degree album. It is
besides the biggest female person artist offset album debut since Carrie Underwood in
2005, and had the biggest digital record album gross sales week always for a freshly creative person.
No stranger to record-breaking success, just iI weeks ago, Leona broke the
Hot one C Chart record, becoming the first British people female solo creative person to cover
the Billboard Hot one C chart in all over 21 long time with her bingle "Bleeding
Love," which to date, has sold o'er 1 one thousand thousand tracks stateside and returns
to the #1 pip this week on the Billboard Digital Songs Chart.
For the first time, Robert Clive Davis and Neil Simon Cowell teamed up to sign
John Llewelly Lewis to J Records/ SyCo Music (Cowell's joint venture with Sony BMG), and
together produced Emotional state. Comments Baron Clive Miles Dewey Davis Jr.: "Leona Lewis testament non be an
overnight esthesis. She is the real number deal and this is just the root of
a long and illustrious vocation." Comments Simon the Canaanite Cowell: "What Leona has
achieved is simply incredible. This is the hardest grocery store to crack and for
her debut album to go in at number 1 is unbelievable."
Leona's introduction to the U.S. grocery began when she performed at
Clive Davis' Pre-Grammy Party in the new artist one-armed bandit in February.
Previously, Davis has presented artists such as Alicia Keys, Maroon 5,
Jennifer Hudson River, and Carrie Undergrowth in this theatrical role, identifying them as the
next important freshly voice in music. Leona performed her worldwide smash hit
"Haemorrhage Love" on the The Oprah Winfrey Show Monday, March 17th and The
Tonight Show with John Jay Leno on Monday, March 24th. The video for "Hemorrhage
Dearest," was selected for the coveted video channel programs MTV's "Let on
and Download" and VH1's "You Oughta Experience," and the cut is the most played
and most requested single at Top 40 and Rhythm Receiving set. Additionally,
"Hemorrhage Sexual love" was #1 most added and greatest weight gainer at Hot AC with the
arcsecond highest bingle debut in Hot AC history, and was #1 nigh added at
Mainstream AC stations its first workweek come out. Online, Leona is the #1 most
viewed creative person of wholly time on Clear Channel's "New!" program. Leona
performed on Good Good morning America, Live with Regis and Grace Kelly, CBS Early on
Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Demo, Jimmy Kimmel Live, MTV's "TRL", all the
calendar week of release and made multiple appearances on Amusement Tonight, The
Insider, Access code Hollywood, Supernumerary!, CNN, and E!. Leona is scheduled to
perform "Bleeding Love" on The Tyra Sir Joseph Banks Show on April 17th and American
Perfection on April 23rd.
Meriwether Lewis, a 23-year-old John Griffith Chaney native and winner of the hit TV show the X
Factor, Neil Simon Cowell's British endowment show, has broken all-time gross revenue
records in that respect with Spirit incoming the album chart at Act 1 and
becoming Britain's fastest-selling debut ever. Spirit has scanned to a greater extent than
a 2.65 meg copies worldwide since its release in November. In addition,
Spirit's lead astray bingle "Bleeding Lovemaking" -- co-written and produced by
OneRepublic frontman Ryan "False name" Tedder -- was the U.K.'s best-selling
bingle of 2007, claiming the Issue One situation for vII weeks. Ushering in
2008, Leona received quaternary prestigious Britt Awarding nominations, the U.K.
equivalent of the Grammy Awards.
Album producers Baron Clive John Davis and Herb Simon Cowell introduced Jerry Lee Lewis to an
all-star roll of collaborators to institute come out of the closet her topper on Liveliness, including
Tedder (presently enjoying his have strike with the ubiquitous "Apologise"),
famed songwriter/producers Akon (Gwen Stefani, T-Pain), Ne-Yo (Rihanna,
Beyonce, Jennifer William Henry Hudson), Dallas Capital of Texas (Virgin Mary, Gwen Stefani, Pink),
Stargate (Rihanna, Beyonce, Ne-Yo), J.R. Rotem (Britney Spears, Sean
Kingston), Easy lay Dino Paul Crocetti (Kelly Clarkson, Britney Spears), and Lukasz "Dr.
Gospel According to Luke" Gottwald (Grace Kelly Clarkson, Avril Lavigne). For the U.S. discharge, Leona
recorded deuce make new tracks for the U.S. release of Look -- "Forgive
Me" by singer/songwriter adept Akon and "Misses Glass" from the cutting
edge producer/writers Madd Scientist and Rock City.
