Cheryl Cole has stormed straight to the top of the charts with her new single Call My Name.
The singer achieved the fastest-selling single of the year, with 152,000 copies of her track in its first week of release being sold to propel her number one, ending the two-week reign of Diamond Jubilee anthem Sing by Gary Barlow and his Commonwealth Band.
Cole surpassed the previous record of 142,000 copies set last week by the Take That frontman, the Official Charts Company said.
Call My Name, written and produced by Calvin Harris, is the Girls Aloud star's first single under the name of simply Cheryl and marks her third solo number-one single - after Fight For This Love and Promise This.
Barlow's single Sing, co-written by Andrew Lloyd Webber, fell to number three while US rapper Flo Rida was a non-mover at number two with his single Whistle.
There was more reason for Cole to celebrate today when she was named as the female celebrity with whom most straight women would like to share a kiss.
The singer topped a poll of 2,000 women which was carried out to mark the DVD release of the second series of lesbian TV drama Lip Service.
She finished ahead of Angelina Jolie, the Duchess of Cambridge, Rihanna and Jennifer Aniston, who made up the top five.
In this week's album charts, the Jubilee album Sing stayed in the top spot for its third week.
Barlow, who received an OBE in the Queen's birthday honours list this week, finished ahead of Scottish singer Amy MacDonald with her new album Life In A Beautiful Light, the highest new entry at number two.
US star Usher reached number three in the charts with his new album Looking 4 Myself. Just 1,000 copies separated the artists in the top three.
A new Fleetwood Mac collection, 25 years - The Chain, reached number nine in the album charts, less than two weeks after former band member Bob Welch, 66, was found dead at his home in Nashville.
