Simon Cowell
A community portal about Simon Cowell with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Simon Philip Cowell is an artist and repertoire executive for BMG in the UK, but is best known as a judge on the television programmes Pop... [more]
A community portal about Simon Cowell with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Simon Philip Cowell is an artist and repertoire executive for BMG in the UK, but is best known as a judge on the television programmes Pop Idol, American Idol, and The X Factor, where he is notorious for his unsparingly blunt and often controversial criticism of the contestants. He is known for combining activities in the television and music industries, having produced singles and records for various television characters such as the Power Rangers. Cowell would later find pop acts who had acted on television shows. Live on the X Factor on the 18th November 2006, Simon stated that he was 50% Scottish as he was being targeted by fellow judges as anti-Scottish. The week before he said he was 25% Scottish.
Record-breaker Leona Lewis
Leona Lewis has become the first British solo artist to top the US album charts with a debut record.The 23-year-old singing sensation - whose debut single ‘Bleeding Love’ topped The Billboard Hot 100 chart three weeks ago - has gone straight to number one of The Billboard 200 after her album sold 205,000 copies in its first week.
The last British solo act to top the US album charts was Rod Stewart in 2006 with his LP ‘Still the Same… Great Rock Classics Of Our Time’. Sade was the last British female to claim the number one slot with her second album ‘Promise’ in 1986.
Leona shot to fame when she won hit UK reality TV show ‘The X Factor’ in 2006. She was subsequently signed to judge Simon Cowell’s record label, and her debut UK single ‘A Moment Like This’ reached number one in the Christmas charts.
The London-born singer’s follow-up track ‘Bleeding Love’ also went straight to the top of the charts when it was released in October 2007.
Her album ‘Spirit’, released a month later, became the fastest-selling debut album in UK chart history, shifting 375,000 copies in its first week.
Leona’s bid to break America began when she signed with J Records boss Clive Davis, who launched the careers of Whitney Houston, Alicia Keys and Justin Timberlake.
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