Leona Lewis's latest release, that cover of Snow Patrol's 'Run', has become the fastest selling digital-only track ever in the UK. The song, which was never intended to be a single release, was downloaded close to 70,000 times in its first two days on sale, beating the previous record held by Estelle, whose bestselling track 'American Boy' sold 31,857 downloads in its first week.
The singer first performed the Snow Patrol track, originally a number 5 hit, on Radio 1's Live Lounge, and the response to that, and a subsequent performance of the song on 'The X-Factor' (which caused a boom in sales of the Snow Patrol original), persuaded Lewis's label to issue it as a single.