English singer Leona Lewis has done what her Grammy-laden countrywoman could not: score a No. 1 album on the Billboard 200. In doing so, Lewis becomes the first British female solo act to top the ...

BMG’s J Records is getting a jump on Nielsen SoundScan, announcing that Leona Lewis’ “Spirit” will be the first-ever album by a British female artist to debut at No. 1 and will post the highest ...

Leona Lewis has become the first ever British female artist to debut at number one on the US album chart. Her Spirit album, already a chart-topper in the UK, Australia and Germany, sold 205,000 copies ...

When Simon Cowell, the famously caustic judge of "American Idol," described Leona Lewis as "the best voice ever," he set the bar dauntingly high for the aspiring ...

LONDON (Billboard) - Violence and theft. Not words one would normally associate with Leona Lewis, the squeaky-clean winner of "The X Factor," who went on to stunning worldwide success with her debut ...