Midweek Charts: X Factor's Arthur races past Little Mix

Paul Williams

X Factor 2012 winner James Arthur has taken little more than two days to beat the entire first-week sales of 2011 champs Little Mix's debut single.

Impossible, which was released by Syco immediately after Arthur was crowned the winner last Sunday night, had sold 254,713 copies by the end of business on Tuesday, according to the Official Charts Company. That compares to Little Mix's winner's single Cannonball shifting 210,129 copies across its entire first week.

Arthur now has in its ...

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