Bleeding Love

This was released 10 months after X Factor winner Leona Lewis' UK chart-topping debut single "A Moment Like This." The 22-year-old from Islington took her time over the follow up and accompanying album as she didn't want to rush out a record that might disappoint all her fans who supported her on the show. It was worth the wait as in its debut week the single sold 218,000 copies, the biggest total for any UK single since "A Moment Like This." In it's debut week it outsold the rest of the UK top five put together.

This is the first UK single of the download era to have both A and B-sides on the chart together. CD Track 2 is "Forgiveness," which also appeared in the UK Top 50. Its not clear how this happened as the songs were available together as a "digital bundle."

The track was produced and co-written by OneRepublic frontman Ryan Tedder and was recorded in Los Angeles. At this point, Tedder had also written and produced for the likes of Jennifer Lopez, Lil' Jon, Natasha Bedingfield and Hilary Duff, but this was a big breakthrough for him. The other co-writer was actor and former boy band member Jesse McCartney. Tedder recalled to Billboard magazine: "Jesse had just had a huge hit - 'Beautiful Soul' - and I was going in with him and I felt like I didn't have it. I went back in my room, said, 'I'm gonna be an hour late to the session, what if we just did something simple?' I sat in my apartment in West LA and said, 'What would Prince do?' So I sang over an organ patch and had the entire verse and chorus of the song." "We finished the song, verse and choruses that day," Tedder continued. "His label heard it, and from the top down said, 'It's not a hit.' So we went through three different keys to get it right for Leona Lewis. She killed it, and the rest is history."