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Alan Jones
Girls Aloud singer and X Factor judge Cheryl Cole's introductory solo release Fight For This Love storms to the top of the singles chart this week, dethroning reigning X Factor champion Alexandra Burke, who is handsomely compensated by her own convincing debut atop the album chart with Overcome.
Burke's Bad Boys collaboration with Flo-Rida racked up the highest sale of the year to date when it sold 187,100 copies on its debut last week but Fight For This Love scorched past that tally in less than two days and sold 292,846 copies in the week as a whole.
It is the 11th time in the last five years that a sale of more than 250,000 copies has been achieved in a week.
Cole has previously topped the chart four times as a member of Girls Aloud. Their first number one - Sound Of The Underground - provided her previous best one-week sales tally of 213,140. Altogether, Girls Aloud have had 20 Top 10 hits, and...
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