On its first day of UK sales, leona lewis 'Spirit' Album sold over 130,000 copies, which was outselling the rest of the top ten put together. Leona was selling an amazing 200 albums per minute. Industry experts are predicting that the Spirit album could go on to sell over a million copies before the year ends in the UK alone.

Leona's current single "Bleeding Love" held onto the number one spot for the fourth week running, Leona Lewis enjoyed similar success last year with her debut single "A Moment Like This," the biggest selling single of 2006.

Simon Cowell said, "this is Leona's day. I am absolutely thrilled for her."

UK pressing of her 2007 'Spirit' Album features one bonus track: 'A Moment Like This'. Leona was the winner of the 2006 season of the UK's talent show X-Factor and Spirit is the first release under a partnership between the show's creator Simon Cowell and music mogul Clive Davis. Working alongside the world's biggest producers and songwriters, Leona has put together an unrivaled collection of songs. The album plays host to a veritable 'who's who' of writers and producers, with the likes of Dallas Austin, Soulshock and Carlin, Jam and Lewis, Walter Afanasieff And Salaam Remi all having lined up to work with Leona. Each of the tracks on Spirit has the potential to be a single.