"Bleeding Love" has charted on the UK Singles Chart in three different years: in 2007 it peaked at number one 2008 at number at number 97. The song achieved a similar feat in the United Kingdom where it was the best-selling single of 2007, selling 788,000 copies. It was named the 17th most successful song in the US from 2000–2009, on the Billboard Hot 100 Songs of the Decade. S., where it was the best-selling digital song there in 2008.
The video first aired on 17 October 2007, and was uploaded to YouTube on the same day, on which it now has over 161 million views."Bleeding Love" has sold more than one million copies in the United Kingdom, and over 4 million digital downloads in the U. The single reached number one in 35 countries, including Japan, Germany and the United States, making it only the second song in history to achieve this feat, Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997" being the first. After the single's release, it became a major international hit, and was the best-selling single of 2008 worldwide.
Debuting at number one on the UK Singles Chart and the Irish Singles Chart, "Bleeding Love" became the best-selling single of 2007 in both countries. It was released in the United Kingdom and Ireland in October 2007. Jointly composed by American singers and songwriters Jesse McCartney and Ryan Tedder, and produced by Tedder, the song is the album's lead single officially, it was Lewis's official second single, and followed "A Moment Like This".
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The full list of the UK’s 123 million selling singles, and the stories behind them, feature in a new Official Charts Company book, entitled The Million Sellers which is published by Omnibus Press (you can purchase it online from Amazon here, or get the Kindle edition here."Bleeding Love" is a song performed by British singer Leona Lewis, who released it from her 2007 debut studio album, Spirit. By the end of 2007, it had officially become the biggest selling track of the year.īleeding Love has now sold over 1.04 million copies in the UK alone, and Simon Cowell has credited Leona with “saving the X Factor.” Leona Lewis had become the first X Factor contestant to score two consecutive Number 1 singles, and Bleeding Love continued to top the chart for a further six weeks. A week later, and it went straight in at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart, selling nearly 220,000 copies in its first week on sale. Penned by OneRepublic vocalist Ryan Tedder (who had just topped the US charts with his band’s single, Apologize) and US singer/songwriter Jesse McCartney, Leona debuted Bleeding Love live on X Factor on October 20, 2007.
With Simon Cowell’s US colleague, chairman of RCA Records, Clive Davis, likening Leona to a “young Whitney Houston” (as the man who discovered the I’m Every Woman star, he should know), her next single needed to be something pretty special indeed. And, not only did it take the coveted Christmas Number 1 spot, it also became the then fastest selling single by a female artist in Official Charts history.
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There are only 123 million selling singles in the 60 years of the Official Singles Chart, and Leona Lewis’ Bleeding Love is part of this very elite club.Īfter winning Series 3 of the X Factor in 2006, Leona hit Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart with A Moment Like This, which had also been a hit in the US for American Idol’s inaugural winner, Kelly Clarkson. To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Official Singles Chart, Leona Lewis chats about her million selling single Bleeding Love.
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