Leona bags record-breaking top spot

Leona Lewis made history when sales of her new number one single Run became the fastest-selling digital release ever.

The song, a Snow Patrol cover version which Lewis never planned to release as a single, stormed straight to the top of the Official Singles Chart.

Knocking Take That's Greatest Day off the top spot gave the former X Factor winner her third UK number one single.

Fans fell in love with the track after she performed it in Radio 1's Live Lounge in November 2007. It was the high demand for the song that led to a last-minute decision to release it as a single.

Run became available, as a download only, from midnight on November 30 and in its first two days sold 69,244 units.

The previous record for the biggest-selling digital-only number one was held by American Boy, by Estelle featuring Kanye West, which sold 51,857 units in a week.

Lewis's chart-topper exceeded this figure in just two days. Run has now sold 131,593 copies, according to Official Charts Company data.

Despite their single falling to number two, Take That also had cause to celebrate after their fifth studio album, The Circus, became one of the fastest selling albums ever. Fans snapped up 432,000 copies in its first seven days on release last week, the Official Charts Company said.

This represented the third biggest first-week sales total in history, after Oasis's 1997 album Be Here Now and Coldplay's 2005 release X&Y.

Take That said in a statement: "It's just an incredible feeling to have the new album do what it's done this week. We set out to make a record that each of us was really proud of and we did that. To then have it fly off the shelves like it did this week has been just amazing."