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Well, the first midweeks are in and there's a battle raging for the albums number one spot. At present, the first Dido CD in half a decade, Safe Trip Home, is ahead of the 'Deluxe Edition' of Leona Lewis's Spirit by fewer than 500 copies. It's looking very close, but the Hackney lass has an ace up her sleeve.
On Saturday she sang her version of Snow Patrol's 'Run' on The X Factor - a performance for which the term "spine-tingling" might have been invented. But if you'd wanted to download Leona's 'Run' after the performance, you wouldn't have been able to. At the moment it's only available on the reissued edition of Spirit, a tactic that seems to be paying off.
Meanwhile, things are just as tight at the top of the singles chart. Beyoncé is currently poised to dethrone the X Factor finalists with 'If I Were A Boy', but again there are fewer than 500 units between them. This means Simon Cowell could be celebrating a chart double come the end of the week - but equally he could be left sobbing into Sinitta's bosom. Let's see what sort of mood he's in on Saturday night, shall we?
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Full Midweeks
Top 40 Singles Only
Singles
01 Beyonce 500 copies ahead
02 X Factor
03 Killers
04 T.I.
05 Alesha
Top 10
Katy Perry
9 Leona Lewis - FM
Top 15
Duffy
Akon
Top 20
Nickelback
Kings Of Leon (US)
Top 30
Bellamy Bros
Snow Patrol - Run
Katy Perry - IKAG
Rihanna
Delirious?
Top 40
35 Sugababes
PCD - WIGU
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Albums
01 Dido 500 copies ahead
02 Leona Lewis
03 Stereophonics
04 Nickelback
05 N-Dubz
Top 10
08 Beyonce
Top 15
Simply Red
Top 20
Katy Perry
Top 30
Russell Watson
Rod Stewart
Top 40
Rihanna
Tom Jones
Beyonce #1 in singles
Leona #2 (500 copies from #1) in albums!
Beyonce's album only #8 on midweeks! I know #8 isn't bad, but 'IIWAB' is massive, I'm majorly surprised!
Wow, exciting week!
Leona holding the download of 'Run' until 1st December is working perfectly!
Seriously I'm so surprised! Especially with the original selling 2 million already.