Thought it about time a thread was made for our Superstar in the making :D

Looks like shes gonna do well stateside:

Leona on Oprah
http://www.mrpaparazzi.com/post/2230/Leona...ah-Winfrey.aspx


Actually a nice interview where she projects some personality. I bet Simon had her well coached beforehand.

i love you princess leona!!!!!!!

Billboard - Hot 100
(21) 8 Leona Lewis "Bleeding Love"

Billboard - Hot Digital Songs
(12) 2 Leona Lewis "Bleeding Love" 120461 103 59196 317824

*VOMITS*

^

*plays 'bleedin love'*

'Bleeding Love' is great, as is the Shania cover 'For a Moment Like This.' :shock:

One hit wonder. :bradleh:

:grin: YAY

AMAZING :alexz:

Altogether now...."WOOOOOAH Bodyform, body formed for yoooouuu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" :srkisrle2:

:lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

One hit wonder? No chance.

well done leona, this week's number one in the hot 100!

She's the first UK female in over 20 years to get #1 on Billboard Hot 100, last one being Kim Wilde in 1987!

No way?! what about donna lewis- i love you always forever ? wasnt she a Brit that hit number one? or Billie Myers - Kiss The Rain -where did that get to?

That Donna Lewis song stalled at #2 on the Hot 100! "Kiss The Rain" reached #15.

Nikki French?

Natasha Bedingfield?

neither of those topped the hot spot?

Nikki French got to #2.

Natasha Bedingfield's highest charting single on the Hot 100 to date is "Unwritten" which reached #5.

Any more names you want to throw at me?

Chanelle from "Big Brother" is a racing CERT to top the Billboard charts with her upcoming "feministic" dance track.

Incidentaly, getting to number 2 in America as Donna Lewis did is hardly "stalling", Mr Wide. I LOVED that song, incidentally. T'was pure gorge.

I was merely pointing out that it peaked at #2, as Johnno thought it had reached #1!

And I shall merely point out the door marked "Exit" and escort you through it should I get any more of the back chat.

*storms off in a huff and starts posting at MNation*

I would pay good money to see the reaction over there if you did. :lol2:

That would really be something to behold alright.

Cunt? irish wanker? Fatso?

I feed you the lines, don't I? :worried:

No, you just feed like a grazing heffer, my son.

Woooo well done Leona! I cant see them releasing Better in Time over there next thou! Lets hope not.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7316521.stm

US chart triumph for Leona Lewis

Singer Leona Lewis has become the first British woman to top the US pop chart for more than 20 years with her single Bleeding Love.

The track, which was last year's best-selling single in the UK, was released in the US six weeks ago.

Kim Wilde was the last UK female to top the Billboard Hot 100 chart, with her 1987 cover version of the Supremes hit You Keep Me Hangin' On.

Lewis wrote on her website that it was her "dream" to break America.

"I'm so excited to be able to spend some time in the US and showcase my music to everyone here," the former receptionist from east London said.

"Its been a dream of mine since I was a little girl and I can't wait."

Last year her manager Simon Cowell negotiated a £5m contract with US mogul Clive Davis, the man who discovered Whitney Houston.

At the time, Cowell, who also judged the 22-year-old on ITV1 talent show The X Factor, said: "We'll do everything in our power to make her an international star."

Last week the pair appeared on Oprah Winfrey's talk show together to promote the single.

It is thought download and mobile phone track sales soared after her appearance, while the Hot 100 chart also counts radio airplay.

Meanwhile, a spokesperson has denied reports that Lewis is considering undergoing throat surgery to end recurring bouts of tonsillitis.

He said: "She has got a pretty bad throat. She just can't shake it off at the moment but I don't think she needs to have an op."

Lewis is the third UK solo female artist to reach number one in the Hot 100 with her debut hit.

Petula Clark was the first, with her 1965 track Downtown, while Sheena Easton's Morning Train - released in the UK as 9 To 5 - followed in 1981.


LEONA'S RAPID RISE
Won The X Factor in 2006
Debut single A Moment Like This downloaded 50,000 times in 30 minutes
It was the 2006 UK Christmas number one
Spirit became Britain's fastest-selling debut album ever
Bleeding Love was number one for seven weeks
Signed a £5m US music deal in 2007
Nominated for four Brit Awards in 2008

Did the Spice Girls never have a US number 1?

"Wannabe" hit #1 in the US, but in terms of solo female acts, apparently Lewis is the first since Kim Wilde.

what about Su Pollard?
Lisa Scott lee?
Lolly? Surely Lolly had a top ten hit there?

Peter Robinson salutes Team Leona's 'What Would Madonna Do?' strategy

Saturday April 5, 2008
The Guardian

The last six months have provided a fascinating insight into what happens when an entire record company actually believes in an artist. Any idiot (ie Leon Jackson) can score a No 1 single off the back of The X Factor, but it would take the meanest of spirits to suggest that Leona Lewis has not been accepted around the world as a genuine vocal talent. The jewel in the crown of Leona's phenomenal success is Bleeding Love, a future standard destined to dominate The X Factor auditions 20 years from now, written by Ryan Tedder: OneRepublic frontman, Timbaland cohort and songwriter behind hits for a variety of other singers. In other words, the song chosen for Leona's launch single was not just a UK No 1 - and anyone can fluke a UK No 1 single - but one written by a man finely in tune with the habits of US radio programmers and record buyers. A clever decision, but only the tip of a marketing iceberg so immense that you could mistake it for a third pole.

From the start, the Team Leona worked on a "what would Madonna do?" principle. The idea was that, if Leona was presented as a superstar from the word go, people would treat her like one. So it would be a firm no, for example, to an appearance on CBeebies and having an egg thrown up her arse by a man dressed as a toaster. But it was a yes to a multipage fashion shoot in Harper's Bazaar. It's been remarkable to watch a record label treat a British pop singer like a superstar instead of a hapless stooge to be sent on a humiliating string of miserable assignments. While her predecessors may have been dispatched to pop's equivalent of the hardware store in search of a new bubble for Simon Cowell's spirit level, Leona has been treated like the boss's daughter. The public have responded well: rather than seeing Leona as the town bike offering handjobs round the back of Zavvi, she's unobtainable, and infinitely more attractive. It's amazing how rarely this trick - presenting someone as a down to earth superstar - is employed in pop; odd, considering how well this conceit has played out for most US urban artists.

They've played a similar game in the States, with Lewis's ascent to No 1 boosted hugely by an appearance on Oprah. This money-can't-buy opportunity included a live performance, video package and interview, including Simon Cowell using his role as one of America's most recognised faces to endorse his new star. It's rare for Cowell to use his profile in this way, but his appearance is typical of the entire campaign: everyone, everywhere pulling out all the stops. You've got to feel sorry for SonyBMG's other UK signings, being shown what support they'd get if more than eight people at the company thought they were half decent.

Some commentators are so desperate not to be impressed by record-breaking album sales and a US No 1 that they are choosing to ignore the phenomenon unfolding before their eyes and are already asking how Lewis's second album will fare. From where I'm sitting, the whole shebang deserves a standing ovation.

The song is played ad nauseam in Spain. Ugh, i find that song so annoying and overrated!

By the way, is she sinking as a one hit wonder of is she having success with her second single? (prays for the one hit wonder answer)

FANTASTIC! :alexz:

He wrote this ages ago on popjustice.

Bleeding Love has thus far earned 8,049,000 points to date!