Leona Lewis

UK's top sensation, Leona Lewis, finally launched her critically acclaimed and highly promoted debut album "Spirit" in the US last week, after gaining worldwide success. Cracking the US music industry is never easy for British act but after months of preparation, promotion and last minute editing to the final tracklisting for the US version, Leona Lewis bowed at the top spot in the US Billboard Top 200 chart. She is the first British artist to have a debut album at the number 1 slot, and the first UK female artist to have an album atop since 1986! Also, her first single "Bleeding Love" becomes the first song from a brit to achieve number one on the US chart in 21 years. This girl has go on to break so many record! Although it's hard for a british artist to have hits in the US, i personally would be shocked if this girl didn't achieve success. Afterall, she's signed to two highly respectable people in the music industry - Simon Cowell and music mongul, Clive Davis - nothing could go wrong with these two working together! And furthermore, she's achieved so much more exposure compared to other artist. She has went on to appear on almost all highly viewed and rated show. Oprah, Ellen, Tyra Show, Jimmy Kimmel and she'll also make an appearance on next week's American Idol result show. See, it would be a disastrous if she didn't managed to crack the US industry, although it's normal for other UK's act not to. Of course, she's also crazily talented to be so sought after. I'm just so happy for her because her album is REALLY REALLY good. I think everyone should just buy her album, haha. Her ballads are really the album's standout and i just hope at least a couple would be released as singles. They should really stop with "Bleeding Love", it's getting a tad annoying. Not that it's a bad song or anything, but it has been released for close to 6 months now! I'm so looking forward to seeing her perfrom her other tracks but since she is just only recently launched in the US, she gotta promote that song all over again. Thinking of it, i think we're kinda lucky to be living in Singapore, where we get to enjoy music that both countries got to offer. Not that people there are not that lucky, that's not what i'm saying. They have much more music to listen to that i wish were played in Singapore, like COUNTRY MUSIC! Hahaha. But when it comes to mainstream music, i guess we're more exposed to it. I like. Hahaha. Anyhow, i'm just so glad that Leona Lewis made it in the US!