Leona lights up the Christmas charts with momentous number one

11 April 2012
The Weekender

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X Factor winner Leona Lewis has bagged the coveted Christmas number one spot, knocking Take That off the prime position.

The 21-year-old's debut single A Moment Like This was far and away the favourite to top the festive charts.

Watch Leona sing her single at the X Factor final below

Take That's comeback single Patience was pushed into the number two spot - and the veteran boyband may have even contributed to Lewis's runaway success, after they sang with her in the X Factor final.

Download copies of Leona's debut track A Moment Like This were being snapped up by fans and hit 200,000 last week. One million advance copies of the single had also been ordered.

And the craze for Leona shows no sign of abating. America's biggest record companies, Sony and J Records, have been bombarding the London singer's mentor Simon Cowell with phonecalls, begging him to let them represent Leona Stateside - which is unprecedented for a UK singer

In the album charts, Take That kept the top spot with Beautiful World, leaving their boyband rivals Westlife in second position with The Love Album.

Top 10 singles

One: Leona Lewis, A Moment Like This

Two: Take That, Patience

Three: McFly, Sorry's Not Good Enough

Four: Girls Aloud, I Think We're Alone Now

Five: Cascada, Truly Madly Deeply Six: Pogues, Fairytale of New York

Seven: Cliff Richard, 21st Century Christmas / Move It

Eight: Booty Luv, Boogie 2Nite

Nine: Akon ft Eminem, Smack That

10: Chris Cornell, You Know My Name

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