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Artist News
Cole on track for year’s fastest selling single
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 21 October 2009
It’s looking pretty certain that Cheryl Cole’s debut solo single, ‘Fight For This Love’, will be the UK’s fastest selling single of the year come Sunday.
The existing record was only set by ‘X-Factor’ winner Alexandra Burke last Sunday, when her second single, ‘Bad Boys (feat. Flo Rida)’, sold just over 187,000 copies. Cole managed to shift over 120,000 copies of her massively disappointing single after just a day on sale (40,000 more than Burke achieved in the same period), proving that if you build your brand well enough, you can put out any old rubbish and people will still buy it
Official Charts Company big boss Martin Talbot said: “This will be second successive week of massive single sales – led by Cheryl. Her first day’s sales are just amazing and put her in pole position to top the Official Singles Chart on Sunday. Together with Alexandra Burke, she is likely to set the sales standard by which everyone will be judged for the rest of the year, in the run-up to Christmas”.
