Atracting 375,872 buyers, Lewis' album provides the 13th tally of more than 300,000 sales in a week thus far in the 21st century. Of its predecessors, the only ones to sell more were Coldplay's X&Y (464,471), Take That's Beautiful World (443,070) and Dido's Life For Rent (400,351).

Lewis' album wasn't the only one to prosper, as sales reached a new 2007 peak. All of the top five albums sold more than 50,000 copies - a total that no album was ...