Hallelujah! Alexandra Burke

Burke released the winner’s single “Hallelujah”, which became the European record holder for the most singles sold over a period of 24 hours, selling 105,000 in one day, and became the top-selling single of 2008 in the UK and the UK’s Christmas 2008 number one. By January 2009, the single had sold over one million copies in the UK alone, a first for a British female soloist.

In 2009, Burke released her debut album, Overcome, which debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart and spawned four number-one singles on the UK Singles Chart and the Irish Singles Chart—”Hallelujah”, “Bad Boys”, “All Night Long” and “Start Without You”—and the album became one of the most successful albums of that year in the UK. The singles released from the album earned her three BRIT Award nominations. Bio