[Locke.]

Leona Lewis continued her remarkable success last night as she picked up two prize at the World Music Awards.

The 23-year-old former X-Factor contestant was among a host of other British talent to scoop awards at the ceremony in Monte Carlo.

The young star was named Best Pop Female at the event, which honours the best selling acts of the year.

She was also named Best New Act.

She capped a fine night for British acts with Coldplay, Amy Winehouse and Ringo Starr also scooping awards.

Coldplay were handed the gong for Best Rock Act while Winehouse won Best Pop Rock Female.

And Ringo Starr collected the Diamond award on behalf of the Beatles for their contribution to music.
When collecting his award at the end of the night, the former Beatle said: "I'd like to thank my three buddies George, Paul and John.

"I had a lot of help I couldn't have done it on my own. Peace and love."

British singer Sophie Ellis Bextor also attended the event, dressed in a stunning chartreuse dress.
Last week the 29-year-old announced that she and her husband, The Feeling bassist Richard Jones, were expecting their second child.
She is expecting in April and said she was 'delighted' that her four-year-old Sonny will have a brother or sister to play with.

For London-born Miss Lewis, the night was a remarkable achievement considering that only two years ago she was an unknown amateur singer.

Following her win in the third series of the X-factor she has gone on to break a host of records.

Her second single, Bleeding Love was the biggest selling single of 2007 in the UK and topped the charts in thirty countries.

Her first album, Spirit became the fastest selling debut album of all time in the UK.
Other winners at the ceremony included Mariah Carey, who won the Lifetime Achievement award.

Beyonce Knowles, who sang on stage to open the show, was also had a successful night when she won Best International Female.

The event was hosted by Desperate Housewives star Jesse Metcalfe.

However, the only problem for organisers came when actress Denise Richards, due to co-host the awards missed her flight and was left stranded in the US.

Stars arrived on the red carpet at what is considered one of the most glamorous fixtures in showbusiness.

http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/tvshow...cks-gongs.html

[xDramatick]

Win a reality TV show and have other people write/create your songs, warble over them and you could win awards too.

Congrats to Sophie Ellis-Bextor, I read she was pregnant a while ago =] She's lovelyy.

[XxShortyxX]

yay, well done to Leona bless her, she is lovely and such an amazing, talented singer.

[KKBL]

Originally posted by Darenn
Win a reality TV show and have other people write/create your songs, warble over them and you could win awards too.

the titles of the awards are "worlds best selling female pop artist" and "worlds best selling new artist".the title of the awards prove most of the music-buying public dont give a **** if the artist wrote the album or won a reality show.if it was the grammys then i might agree with you.this is Leonas first studio album she co-wrote half of the songs..fine not amazing but Leona siad in an iterview about 2 weeks ago that her second album wont feature songs "given" to her by other writers.oh and as for "have other people write/create your songs" if you go into youtube and listen to all Leonas songs(id say theres about 50) you will find that Leona wrote(not co-wrote) more then half of the songs

[MarkWaldorf]

Originally posted by KKBL

the titles of the awards are "worlds best selling female pop artist" and "worlds best selling new artist".the title of the awards prove most of the music-buying public dont give a **** if the artist wrote the album or won a reality show.if it was the grammys then i might agree with you.this is Leonas first studio album she co-wrote half of the songs..fine not amazing but Leona siad in an iterview about 2 weeks ago that her second album wont feature songs "given" to her by other writers.oh and as for "have other people write/create your songs" if you go into youtube and listen to all Leonas songs(id say theres about 50) you will find that Leona wrote(not co-wrote) more then half of the songs