[Red Moon]

Leona's album trouncing Spice Girls

Leona Lewis is outselling the Spice Girls by four to one on the first day of their album chart battle - and challenging for the fastest-selling UK debut of all time.

Copies of her album, Spirit, are flying off the shelves across the UK. The X Factor winner is on course to sell around 100,000 copies by Monday's end, according to industry estimates.

The Spice Girls are managing just a quarter of that figure with their Greatest Hits.

At HMV stores, Lewis is outselling the rest of the top 10 combined. If sales continue at this rate, she is on target to shift around 350,000 copies by the end of the week. That will put her within touching distance of the record for a UK debut.

Arctic Monkeys currently hold that record with Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, which sold 363,735 copies in its first week of release in January 2006.

The other big release of the week, Led Zeppelin's Mothership, is at number four, behind Celine Dion's Taking Chances.

Lewis, 22, winner of last year's X Factor, is already celebrating after her single, Bleeding Love, became the biggest selling song of the year on Sunday. It has sold 111,978 copies over the last seven days.

HMV's Gennaro Castaldo said: "Leona's success is all the more remarkable as this is a huge week for Christmas releases, with heavyweight albums from the likes of the Spice Girls, Led Zeppelin and Celine Dion.

"There has been a growing feeling over the past few weeks that this album would be huge, particularly following the success of Bleeding Love and the impact of Leona's appearance on X Factor. But, if anything, Spirit may even go on to exceed these high expectations.

"Who could have predicted Leona would have come back from her year away in such dramatic style - that's' some superstar makeover she's been through!"

Source: Mid Sussex Times

[Jackie]

Leonas album is so much better than the spice girls.And the spice girls are no longer appealing to the young!No one wants to listen to them anymore.

[Callum]

I'm so glad. Leona's album is apsolutely amazing. The Spice Girls are old news now, they're still good but they don't really fit into the music scene any more.

[Spike]

Go Leona, she is much better than the Spice Girls.

[Wasted]

I'm glad she's doing so well!

[Dan_]

First day sales are meant to be:
Leona-123,000
Spice Girls.22,500

[Matt]

I'm pleased for Leona, she has ten times the talent of all the Spice Girls put together

[Retroman]

Im not a major fan of hers, and even if I was...that type of music doesn't appeal to me.

But after seeing her on the Paul O'Grady Show earlier, I think she's slowly but surely gaining more confidence.

As long as that confidence turns into a nice, assertive personality then she may become a long term star.

Lets just hope over exposure to fame doesn't make her arrogant, as it has done with so many people before >_<

My opinion on the spice girls is at an all time low...
They were best off left as an iconic memory, when everyone loved them and they shot to stardom.

They'll never reclaim that level of fame ever again, the legendary people they met wouldn't even want to go near them these days.

[Wasted]

Originally posted by Dan_
First day sales are meant to be:
Leona-123,000
Spice Girls.22,500

Thanks for those! She's pretty much almost guaranteed #1 then!

[XxShortyxX]

Yay go Leona

She desevers it, best singer around.

[001steven]

the spice girls are really DONG REALLY Bad in the sales and flopping a bit....they should of released the Greatest hits NEXT monday and maybe we would of seen better sales OR Bring it out the week before they kick of there world tour imo