London, UK (Top40 Charts/ SONY BMG
Music Entertainment) - Today Syco
Music are celebrating holding the No.1 spot in three of the UK sales charts. They have the top 3 albums in the artist album chart with
Leona Lewis,
Shayne Ward and Westlife. They are also numbers 1 and 3 in in the DVD charts with the X Factor DVD and
Shayne Ward longform DVD, and they have
Leona Lewis now with a six week reign at No.1 in the singles chart in the UK.
Leona Lewis' record breaking Spirit album sold a further 164,433 copies last week. Shayne Ward made a fantastic debut at no.2 with sales of 95,801 for the Breathless album, and Westlife had another massive sales week with 83,692 copies sold of Home.
In the singles chart Leona Lewis achieved a sixth week at No.1 with Bleeding Love, which has now sold 662,225 copies, continually extending its lead as the year's biggest single. Further to this, SonyBMG had four of the top ten singles last week and in total 17 of the top 40.
"This is an historic achievement for Syco and my congratulations go out to Leona, Shayne, Westlife and of course, Simon Cowell, Sonny Takhar and the whole Syco team," says Ged Doherty, Chairman and CEO, SonyBMG Music Entertainment UK & Ireland. "Their drive and ambition have once again delivered a great result for the entire company at the busiest time of the year."
