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Originally posted by Hard Candy
And she has ZERO efforts as a recording artist (fact).
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Aside from the the 1 million + copies of her debut single that she sold in the UK, that gave her the highest selling single for a female artist of any nationality in the UK charts.
It also gave her the highest selling single from any UK female in UK chart history.
She broke serious records in the UK with that single. Her album will have 9 months worth of pre-orders and is expected to have one of the best selling albums of the year in the UK. I can't speak about how she'll likely do in the rest of the world, but I can say that there is very good reason to think that she'll easily dwarf the sales Jamelia had (or will have) in the UK.
Even if we only talk about their likely future sales in the UK, Jamelia has almost no chance of selling as well as Alexandra's debut album. With her pre-orders, and the hype she already has, plus the added hype of performing on X-Factor before she releases....Jamelia cannot compete with that.
Which is why I'm saying it's more realistic, in every sense, to look at Alesha as the competition (Alesha has sold 300,000 copies of her album so far in the UK. Alexandra might do more than that in her first week alone in the UK). Because in the UK, Alexandra should sell very, very big. Even you said, she's got a much bigger machine behind her in Simon Cowell.