"Taking Chances" ALBUM on the charts

[dj4celine]

Early reports suggest that on day 1 sales in the UK, Leona Lewis has outsold the rest of the top 10 combined.

 

OMG!! Leona's like a raging bull with this album There's just no posibility that Celine can debut at #1 now in the UK

[tcherno]

even though, she wont go straight to #1, i hope she stays too long on the charts and will sell a lot. and maybe reach #1 after few weeks, when Leona storm calm down Edited November 12, 2007 at 09:34 PM by tcherno

[CSCfan]

Leona's album trouncing Spice Girls

 

Leona Lewis is outselling the Spice Girls by four to one on the first day of their album chart battle - and challenging for the fastest-selling UK debut of all time.

Copies of her album, Spirit, are flying off the shelves across the UK. The X Factor winner is on course to sell around 100,000 copies by Monday's end, according to industry estimates.

 

The Spice Girls are managing just a quarter of that figure with their Greatest Hits.

 

At HMV stores, Lewis is outselling the rest of the top 10 combined. If sales continue at this rate, she is on target to shift around 350,000 copies by the end of the week. That will put her within touching distance of the record for a UK debut.

 

Arctic Monkeys currently hold that record with Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, which sold 363,735 copies in its first week of release in January 2006.

 

The other big release of the week, Led Zeppelin's Mothership, is at number four, behind Celine Dion's Taking Chances.

 

Lewis, 22, winner of last year's X Factor, is already celebrating after her single, Bleeding Love, became the biggest selling song of the year on Sunday. It has sold 111,978 copies over the last seven days.

 

HMV's Gennaro Castaldo said: "Leona's success is all the more remarkable as this is a huge week for Christmas releases, with heavyweight albums from the likes of the Spice Girls, Led Zeppelin and Celine Dion.

 

"There has been a growing feeling over the past few weeks that this album would be huge, particularly following the success of Bleeding Love and the impact of Leona's appearance on X Factor. But, if anything, Spirit may even go on to exceed these high expectations.

 

"Who could have predicted Leona would have come back from her year away in such dramatic style - that's' some superstar makeover she's been through!"

 

So Céline is at #3 at the moment..

[dj4celine]

#3..Not bad Atleast she's not out of the Top 5

[LVCeline]

Yeah but when Leona can sell 2 albums with over 20 million copies worldwide in a row, she can have bragging rights. This is Celine's 40th album, we can't expect crazy numbers!

[Shaun]

#3 is a fantastic result and genuinely a realistic result. Leona and The Spice Girls were always going to fight it out for the top 2 positions. As we saw with the single last week though sales fell away after the first few days so let's hope sales of the album can be sustained for the week.

[boyblackuk]

#3..Not bad Atleast she's not out of the Top 5

 

This is great news if they reckon Leona is going to sell more than 350 000 copies then celine will sell between 70 & 80, which is more than enough on a normal week to get to number 1.

[boyblackuk]

WORLDWIDE I definately think Celine will be Number 1 think about it these figures are likely

 

USA - 450 000

Uk - 70 000+

Canada - 100 000

France 100 000

 

Once you add all the other countries we are looking at about 750 000 copies in the first week. Watch this space

[Hilda]

i reckon she'll be number 3 - and thats great!! And the spice girls album will drop after a few weeks coz lets face it - everyones heard those songs before. Edited November 12, 2007 at 10:00 PM by Hilda

[chasechunt]

Roger is a tool. Its ok. Hes paid to say what he says. Hes the one Clive Davis had open his mouth about Kelly Clarkson's record and caused it to be dead on arrival. So hopefully it wont take a bashing on Celines sales status for the week, but I dont think it will. Shes had very good promo I think for her. Shes a legend and a lifer in the business so she wont get as much promo as some other newer faces. So I think so far SonyBMG has done fairly well in letting the world know Celines got a new record coming out. Alicia Keys is under Clive Davis, so he may be trying to get his other discovery to top the charts and generate his greedy money hungry #ss some more green. Clive has nothing to do with Celine, so thats why Roger dissed her so much. Just to clear that up. The Kelly Clarkson fans did some intense investigating into this moronic Roger guy. He's almost like a puppet for the music world.

[karatedude317]

Whoever this Leona woman is, I'm sure glad she's not in the U.S. LOL

 

It's one less person we have to worry about competing with Celine!

[thevoice]

TC is at #3 on amazon (u.s) - i'm sure it's all thanks to oprah...

 

i know we can't learn a thing from it regarding her first week numbers in the u.s but i still hope for a miracle somehow...i soooooooooooo want to see her debuts at #1

[felixwhoals]

I shall wait and see for the latest sales this week.

[max24]

"TAKING CHANCES" DEBUTS AT #6 ON THE JAPANESE ALBUMS CHART, SELLING 19,529 COPIES!

[Shamrock_1982]

Midweek U.K. Chart Album

 

1 Leona the Lewis 122k

 

2 Spice Girls 22.5k

 

3 Westlife 19.4k

 

4 Celine 17.3k

 

5 Killers 16.5k

Edited November 13, 2007 at 10:37 AM by Ire23

[salsacolin]

I didnt realise Westlife were out this week - thought they were last week

 

She is close to the Killers too. 2, 3 4 and 5 are all fairly close - a push from Sony for Celine could get her to number 2

[lama]

Midweek ? The album is available since one day !?

[krazy_kool_dude]

darn! come on Sony, do some promo for once!

[Shamrock_1982]

What type of promotion do you want sony uk to do?

 

They created a microsite because we asked for one, the album was album of the week on bbc radio 2 last week, shes already been to the uk tv herself promoting, the advert is on tv, and outside promotion like posters and the torch on the motorway here are about to start promoting the album also.

 

They have done quite well so far regarding the album promotion.

[krazy_kool_dude]

What type of promotion do you want sony uk to do?

 

They created a microsite because we asked for one, the album was album of the week on bbc radio 2 last week, shes already been to the uk tv herself promoting, the advert is on tv, and outside promotion like posters and the torch on the motorway here are about to start promoting the album also.

 

They have done quite well so far regarding the album promotion.

 

well i've seen the album advertised on television once and that was when you told us it would be on around Coronation Street time.

 

I would like a few radio adverts, it takes me around 40 minutes in the car to get to work, then another 40 to get back. So far i haven't heard anything.

 

Maybe some billboards on the roads would be good. etc.

 

As for the website, it's somewhat useless unless the person is actually searching for it!

Edited November 13, 2007 at 11:22 AM by krazy_kool_dude

[Shamrock_1982]

Ive just heard there will be no radio adverts in the uk for the album, but apparently outdoor promotion will now start around the 1st week in december... around the time when ''an audience with celine'' airs, so this will hopefully give the album a huge boost for xmas and could hopefully have celine being the uk no.1 album at crimbo.

 

In a way its quite smart because the competition in the uk this week is probably the hardest she has to compete with in the world...

So in a few weeks when the hype of leona, spice girls and kylie has died down, we will have celine back on uk tv, with billboards and posters and tv ads all over the uk.

[Shaun]

Absolutely Darren.

 

It's quite clear that Sony UK are doing pro-longed promotion with this album and not just during release week like they did with A New Day Has Come, One Heart and Miracle. They are to be commended for that. I just hope the album is also supported in the long term with singles as well as media advertisements, but credit where it's due, Sony UK are doing a good job on UK promo.

[WendyB]

Sales will go up in May 2008 too, when she comes back to the UK.

[salsacolin]

Ive just heard there will be no radio adverts in the uk for the album, but apparently outdoor promotion will now start around the 1st week in december... around the time when ''an audience with celine'' airs, so this will hopefully give the album a huge boost for xmas and could hopefully have celine being the uk no.1 album at crimbo.

 

In a way its quite smart because the competition in the uk this week is probably the hardest she has to compete with in the world...

So in a few weeks when the hype of leona, spice girls and kylie has died down, we will have celine back on uk tv, with billboards and posters and tv ads all over the uk.

 

Cool!! did you not say a few weeks back that there would be TV adverts udring x factor? Will that be this week do you think?

[tcherno]

even though, they will do a long term promotion but the 1st week of sales is important also, if she gets the #1 spot, the people might think once again, OMG celine's album must be good cause it is #1 and might go and buy it

[Shamrock_1982]

Sony are getting back to me this afternoon with the slots that the advert will appear in for the rest of the weeks tv

[Xpresso]

Whoever this Leona woman is, I'm sure glad she's not in the U.S. LOL

 

It's one less person we have to worry about competing with Celine!

 

Leona is the English equivalent of Kelly Clarkson... She's the first winner of XFactor and English people all want her to do well. Same as Kelly Clarkson many years ago. Now she's getting a free ride in terms of promo and music critics, but once the novelty wears off, she will have to work harder to promote and sell her music... Just like Celine now.

 

After so many years, it's still quite impressive if Celine gets a Top 5 debut in the UK, mainly during this REALLY tough week to release an album in the UK. I really wonder why Sony let Celine and Leona release their album during the same week... Seems to me that many people don't want Celine to be successful... but once again she show them!!

[boyblackuk]

TC is at #3 on amazon (u.s) - i'm sure it's all thanks to oprah...

 

i know we can't learn a thing from it regarding her first week numbers in the u.s but i still hope for a miracle somehow...i soooooooooooo want to see her debuts at #1

 

This is great, she is ahead of Alicia for now. PLUS ALL THE WAY is back in at 94 on the Amazon chart. We are looking at top 2 defo I think poss No1

[pepillo90]

At the end of Yesterday, the album was #1 and #2 on iTunes Spain!!!

 

 

[hellmeister]

Today was the US release date for Taking Chances! ahhhhhhhh GO CELINE! She is on top of her game. This goes back toa different topic, about her taking a break... I wish she would rest ... but she is doing so wonderfully! Celine is SUPER WOMAN!