Leona Lewis made staggering amount of money from Christmas single 11 years after release
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Leona Lewis One More Sleep is officially the UK’s most-played modern Christmas song. According to Official Charts, the song has gotten four weeks of continuous airplay on radio and television since its release in 2013. Lewis, 39, became a global sensation when she won The X Factor in 2006 and went on to release her studio album, Spirit, which became one of the best-selling albums of the 2000s, and the lead single, Bleeding Love, was the best-selling single of 2007.
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One More Sleep was also a huge hit, debuting at No. 3 back in 2013. 2013 was a big year for Leona, who became the top British female solo artist with the most Top 5 hits of the year. ‘It’s really special knowing that One More Sleep brings a little joy to people’s Christmases,’ the singer told the organisation of the hit song.
‘The song and the whole album mean so much to me. It’s really beautiful that people connect to it and as an artist that’s all I could hope for.’. Now, the song climbs the charts around Christmas every year, giving Lewis a major financial boon as it enters the top 40 every year since 2018.
This year alone the song was streamed 115,463,031 times on Spotify alone. According to CasinoBee, that streaming number means Lewis has earned £323,296.49 from the song. However, Lewis did miss out on the top Christmas spot this year, with WHAM!’s Last Christmas claiming the spot as UK’s Christmas Number One for a second year running.
