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Girls Aloud's Cheryl Cole set for fastest-selling single of 2009?

First-day sales of solo single 'Fight For This Love' beats Alexandra Burke's 'Bad Boys'

Cheryl Cole could be heading for the fastest-selling single of the year with her debut solo effort.

'Fight For This Love' sold more on its first day available (October 19) than Alexandra Burke's 'Bad Boys' did last Monday (October 12), according to the Official Charts Company.

The 'X Factor' winner's track is currently the fastest-selling single of the year, but it's believed Cole's track, taken from her debut solo album, '3 Words', out October 26, could break Burke's record.

Official Charts Company Managing Director Martin Talbot explained: "This will be second successive week of massive single sales – led by Cheryl. Her first day's sales are just amazing and put her in pole position to top the Official Singles Chart on Sunday. Together with Alexandra Burke, she is likely to set the sales standard by which everyone will be judged for the rest of the year, in the run-up to Christmas."

Cole performed 'Fight For This Love' on last week's 'X Factor' in front of around 13million viewers.
 

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Brock C 

Oct 21, 2009

GOD HELP US

hlou95 

Oct 21, 2009

oh god please no. what imbeciles buy this shit?

EddieG 

Oct 21, 2009

Pathetic, and a clear indicator of why the charts mean absolutely nothing these days.

RoCreighton 

Oct 21, 2009

But who buys singles these days? No1 but 12 year old girls... Of course the likes of Alexandra Burke and Cheryl Cole will be fastest selling records, and they'll probably be beaten by the new x factor winner. Singles charts mean nothing anymore.

madmax2b 

Oct 21, 2009

how can new music have a chance?when we got all the young people just want to sing covers,after 10 years of this rubbish we have a nation of kareoke singers.if just one of these xfactor contestent could auctaly write a song we might produce some talented bands,thank you simon cowell for destorying uk music

hness 

Oct 22, 2009

Pop music has always been bought by 12 year old girls...Beatles ..T rex..Duran Duran etc etc all started off in the charts thanks to kids. It's pointless to criticise the whole scenario, do you think some little kid wants to listen to boringRadioHead type stuff? Im not a fan of Cheryl Cole's music and would love to live in a world where great bands ruled the charts but cast your mind back over the decades...this isn't anything new.

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