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Old 18-11-2007, 18:49
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Yep, still there.
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Old 18-11-2007, 18:53
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Well done to her. Fantastic album.
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Old 18-11-2007, 19:02
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Yay!!
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Old 18-11-2007, 19:02
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I've grown to loathe THAT song!
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Old 18-11-2007, 19:03
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That's great! Her song is great and I've asked for the album for Christmas
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Old 18-11-2007, 19:11
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Love Leona
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Old 18-11-2007, 19:19
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awesome.
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Old 18-11-2007, 19:23
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The album is great, especially for a debut LP, from a reality show winner nonetheless.
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Old 18-11-2007, 19:42
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It's phenomental. Stunnig voice, beautiful tracks, powerful, the girl's done good. Spirit is easily one of my most favourite album of the past few years.
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Old 18-11-2007, 19:46
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According to Perez the Spice girls sold 75,787 copies of the GH this week. Thats more than every other artist bar Leona who has made number one on the album charts for the last two months! talk about poor timing.

To add another blow. If the Spices had released the GH on the 5th they would have beaten Westlife who only sold 49,000 copies of Home!
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Old 18-11-2007, 19:49
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Great news for Leona!
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Old 18-11-2007, 20:06
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According to Perez the Spice girls sold 75,787 copies of the GH this week. Thats more than every other artist bar Leona who has made number one on the album charts for the last two months! talk about poor timing.

To add another blow. If the Spices had released the GH on the 5th they would have beaten Westlife who only sold 49,000 copies of Home!
No, it's not.

#1 albums over the past two months:

11/11 Westlife 132,000 *
04/11 The Eagles 143,000
28/10 Hoosiers 55,000
21/10 Stereophonics 49,000
14/10 Sugababes 54,000
07/10 Bruce Springsteen 78,000
30/09 Foo Fighters 136,000
23/09 James Blunt 118,000
16/09 Kanye West 85,000

So, on 6 of 9 occasions, they would not have been number one.

* Last week (11/11) they would have been third behind The Eagles who sold 82,000 copies.

Thanks to Haven forums for the figures.
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Old 18-11-2007, 20:09
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Well done to Leona! Amazing album, well deserved #1.
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Old 18-11-2007, 20:12
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Well done to Leona. Great figures for Spice Girls too. What people are forgetting is that this is a Greatest Hits. If it was a new album things would be different but when your first three albums sell in sales of over 55 million you can't expect everyone who brought those albums to also buy the Greatest Hits!

Plus they are a 12 year old band who have been out the limelight for several years.

The Spice sales should raise once the tour and promo hits the UK.
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Old 18-11-2007, 20:31
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So Leona is No. 1 in both singles and albums.

Big deal.

She's a manufactured, unoriginal poor man's Whitney Houston/Mariah Carey soundalike who's just a money making tool for Simon Cowell.

Nothing to be proud of in my book.
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Old 18-11-2007, 20:36
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Well done Leona, beautiful voice, beautiful young lady, you are where you deserve to be.
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Old 18-11-2007, 20:40
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So Leona is No. 1 in both singles and albums.

Big deal.

She's a manufactured, unoriginal poor man's Whitney Houston/Mariah Carey soundalike who's just a money making tool for Simon Cowell.

Nothing to be proud of in my book.
How rude.
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Old 18-11-2007, 22:07
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Well it's not that big a deal for a talent show winner, Hear'say also sold over 300k in the first week with their debut album and did the double as well.
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Old 18-11-2007, 22:39
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Well it's not that big a deal for a talent show winner, Hear'say also sold over 300k in the first week with their debut album and did the double as well.
But they were the first. It was far easier for them, whereas everyone since hasn't come close and is now tainted by the likes of Steve Brookstein or Michelle McManus.
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Old 18-11-2007, 23:10
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But they were the first. It was far easier for them, whereas everyone since hasn't come close and is now tainted by the likes of Steve Brookstein or Michelle McManus.
the first reality winners didnt have downloads helping them though did they
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Old 18-11-2007, 23:40
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the first reality winners didnt have downloads helping them though did they
Downloads for albums are tiny just now.

Anyway, more records were being sold then. This year has been awful for album sales.
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Old 18-11-2007, 23:43
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the first reality winners didnt have downloads helping them though did they
But people are just buying music via different formats. It's no different. Some of those who used to buy CDs will now be downloading.

Anyway, don't albums sell far, far more physical copies than downloads?
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Old 19-11-2007, 00:35
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Anyway, don't albums sell far, far more physical copies than downloads?
I would think so, seeing as each song totals up to be the price on iTunes. I would think it would be much less to get it as a physical copy.
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Old 19-11-2007, 00:48
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LEONA LEWIS has left the ARCTIC MONKEYS in the cold and claimed the fastest-selling UK debut album of all time.

Spirit sold an incredible 375,872 copies in a week to storm into the No1 spot in yesterday’s chart.


http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...icle478224.ece

Not a big fan but those are some hefty sales.
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Old 19-11-2007, 00:49
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Wow, 14 new albums in the top 40, 7 of which are in the top 10. Not unusual for singles, but for albums
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