Great. Might do even better next week.

Excellent news.

It'll be higher next week as that will be the chart that relates to the iTunes positions we've tracked over the last couple of days.

If it goes top 5 I'll be happy, anything higher is a bonus

Have you guys seen this? Leona got a present on X Factor last night: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo6BqGV208I

*rushes home to find out*

Thanks for that! Aw that was sweet, they were the winners who handed her that. Wish I could speak Italian and could understand them.

BIT debuts at #39 in France:

http://www.disqueenfrance.com/classe...chargement.asp

Hopefully it rises - it's #28 on French iTunes at the moment. They were never as enthusiastic as other countries though, BL did go to #1 but only for one week and it fell quite quickly. Spirit didn't debut really high either. (#21)

thanks Ravane! it looks like she was barefoot when she wore the blue dress

For some reason the French aren't showing Leona much love, they have such a skewed taste in music

Oh, that's nice.

She'll be running out of wall space.

It's strange how she seems to have caught on better in Italy than in France.

Simon ought to pay her extra as an ambassador for the X Factor.

She's caught on better in loads of countries, France just seems a bit indifferent. Oh well, can't win them all. They can be left out the tour.

BIT has jumped two places to #6 in Italy this week btw:

http://www.fimi.it/classifiche.asp?i...&archivio=true

This is before the XF effect too so hopefully it'll rise even more next week.

Yes. The only reason I made the comparison is because of the similarity of the two languages.

Thanks for the info Ethereal. You've been very busy.

That was really cute. Bet she didn't have a clue what that chap was saying to her

Lol someone on LLF posted the France link and the Switzerland and Italy peaks I noticed on Wikipedia. Here are it's worldwide peaks to date now:

Better in Time

#1 - Bulgaria
#2 - UK
#3 - Poland
#4 - Ireland
#5 - Denmark
#6 - New Zealand
#6 - Australia
#6 - Austria
#6 - Italy
#8 - Europe
#8 - Switzerland
#13 - Finland
#16 - Netherlands
#18 - Romania
#19 - Norway
#20 - Sweden
#23 - World
#24 - Canada (digital downloads prior to release)
#32 - Belgium
#39 - France
#45 - US Pop (digital downloads prior to release)
#62 - US Hot (digital downloads prior to release)

I noticed that. The french are weird....boo to them

did she any promo over there and how high did BL chart?

BIT has done brilliant

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...ostcount=40481

Yes she did promo over there a bit; NRJ show and concert, few radio interviews.

Great.

And some of those are still rising. Also, hopefully, Germany to add soon. Really good for a second single.

^ its really strange then that her album only peeked at #21. Duffy and mika both had high selling albums on france esp mika!

Well i guess if they catch on to later singles there is still alot of scope for big sales of singles and the album.

The initial French promo was in mid-January and BL wasn't released until around 20th March.

Anyway the French are still topping the Spanish who hate Leona with a passion

Again, weird cos their neghbours, the Portuguese seem to like her.

Wasn't she due to go to Spain at some point this summer?

Hate with a passion? That's a bit strong. It has a new peak of #4 on this Spanish chart:

http://www.los40.com/actualidad/listas/lista40.html

Spirit went in at #26 there too. Not amazing but not disastrous.

Maybe their just slow to catch on. I mean, Apologise is only just on its way down.

And they did download some copies of FITS a few weeks ago.

Ta Ethereal

Right, now I'm confused, because the link that had been posted before for French charts was this:

http://acharts.us/france_singles_top_100

And BIT isn't on that. Although this link is a week behind, it still doesn't reconcile to the first link if you look at the 'last week' positions in the first link.

Which chart is official?
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