Yeah, that would be funny!

its going to be an interesting week - its goona be tight but as flagpole says it looks like Lil Wayne is getting downloads from somewhere else so Leona will need a bigger lead than she would otherwise.

Idol could do it though

I liked Crank That. The Travis Barker remix anyways.

But Soulja Boy - Yahhh is awful.

And yup .. winning that competition would be a dream come true.

Ohh right..emm..cant say I've heard it..or want too!
I never want to inflict Yahhh on my ears. Ever. Ever.

I might take a look and enter...I have no luck like that but still doesn't kill to try!

On the plus side Leona has now shifted over 1.3 million copies of BL in the states

Looks like its going to be Leona vs. Lil Wayne battling at the top of the Hot 100 for the next month possibly!

excellent

Isn't there a nice sequence about her digital sales chart run?

2-1-3 - 2-1-3

Any chance it'll go 2-1-3 over the next 3 weeks as well?

Also, whenever she's been #1 on sales she's claimed the Hot 100 top spot - lets hope she can repeat the feat!

Final official album sales from the Billboard 200:

-- 1 CAREY*MARIAH E=MC2 462,971 999 1,214 464,212
1 2 LEWIS*LEONA SPIRIT 94,842 -54 204,841 300,232
31 3 MONTANA*HANNAH/CYRUS*MILEY BEST OF BOTH WORLDS CONCERT 47,297 162 18,057 191,268

(thanks to bks at Pulse)

That's a nice surprise, Leona selling 4k more than on HDD.

at Mariah selling even less than 475k.

Thanks for those flagpole

So her album leaked the week before it was released?

204,841 + 94,842 ≠ 300,232

And how come it shows Mariah having sold 1,214 copies last week when it was only released this week?

thanks

Think it was mentioned last week - something like 500 or so copies sold early, happens with all major albums.

Is that just retailers putting it out early(ier) than they should be? (Nothing malicious)?

Oh brilliant, nice to see the little increase on album sales!

5k off thats great, close enough to 100k.

And lol mariah didnt sell 500k like people said- i thought that prediction was out when the updates were coming through.

Top 20 Albums of 2008

1 Rockferry - Duffy 501,000
2 All the Right Reasons - Nickelback 341,000
3 Back to Black (Deluxe Edition) - Amy Winehouse 287,000
4 19 - Adele 282,000
5 Scouting for Girls - Scouting for Girls * 278,114 - (427,908)
6 Spirit - Leona Lewis * 277,232 - (1,827,271)
7 Life in Cartoon Motion - Mika 262,000
8 This is the Life - Amy MacDonald 252,000
9 Call me Irresponsible (Special Edition) - Michael Bublé 214,000
10 Raising Sand - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss 207,000
11 Beautiful World - Take That 204,000
12 Good Girl Gone Bad - Rihanna 192,000
13 Version - Mark Ronson 189,000
14 Thriller 25 - Michael Jackson 181,000
15 Sleeping through the Static - Jack Johnson 178,000
16 Hand Built by Robots - Newton Faulkner 171,000
17 In Rainbows - Radiohead 155,000
18 The Trick to Life - Hoosiers 148,000
19 Back to Black - Amy Winehouse 142,000
20 Deaming Out Loud - One Republic 139,000



Leona could hit the #3 spot next week

Fantastic! Thanks Spiidey! Last weeks impressive sales certainly worked wonders!

brilliant

And this week's impressive sales should do likewise

Indeed! When is next update for UK charts?

brill.....

Well she's #3 in the albums and #13 in singles - we'll hopefully get some sales news on the album today which will confirm whether she's holding steady with sales this week or whether Sunday has had a disproportionate effect on this week's sales.

All will become clear very soon!

Dunno if this was ever posted (I didn't see it but it might have been):

From Haven (thanks to Fresh):

Jesus christ - you have to sell next-to-nothing to hit #1 in France And they're the 5th biggest market in the World according to Wikipedia

Nice, Leona sells 4K ahead of HDD projections and Mariah even less lol. It will be interesting next week, if she can keep shifting around 100K a week that would be awesome.

Oh yea saw the position..just wondering sales! Hopefully some news on that front at some stage to see if she closes gap with Kooks!