Leona Lewis’s album tops US chart

Spirit sells 205,000 copies to take No1 spot

Wednesday, 16 April 2008

Leona Lewis’s debut record has topped the US album charts.

Spirit had sales of 205,000 copies in its first week.

It means The X Factor winner is the first British solo artist to go straight to No1 in America with a debut album.

Leona, 23, trounced the opposition - her nearest rival George Strait only sold 59,000 copies of his record Troubadour, reports the BBC.

It comes 3 weeks after Bleeding Love took the top spot in the American singles chart.

The last British woman to have a US No1 album was Sade with Promise in 1986.

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