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| Released = {{flagicon|Ireland}} [[October 19]] [[2007]]<br> {{flagicon|UK}} [[October 22]] [[2007]]<br> {{flagicon|Australia}} [[January 12]] [[2008]]<br /> {{flagicon|US}} [[January 14]] [[2008]]<br>
| Released = {{flagicon|Ireland}} [[October 19]] [[2007]]<br> {{flagicon|UK}} [[October 22]] [[2007]]<br> {{flagicon|Australia}} [[December 17]] [[2007]]<br /> {{flagicon|US}} [[January 14]] [[2008]]<br>
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"'''Bleeding Love'''" is a [[contemporary R&B]] [[ballad (music)|ballad]] written by [[Ryan Tedder]] and [[Jesse McCartney]]<ref name="notes">{{cite album-notes|title= Bleeding Love|bandname = Leona Lewis|year = 2007 |format = CD Single|publisher = Sony BMG|publisherid= 88697175622}}</ref> and produced by Tedder for [[Leona Lewis]]'s debut album, ''[[Spirit (Leona Lewis album)|Spirit]]'',<ref name="popjustice">{{cite news|title=Leona Lewis: Basically a press release presented as "news"|url=http://www.popjustice.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1492&Itemid=9|publisher=Popjustice|date=[[16 August]] [[2007]]|accessdate=2007-08-16}}</ref> on which it is the [[opening track]]. The song is the album's first single (Lewis's official second single following "[[A Moment like This]]") released in the United Kingdom on [[22 October]] [[2007]] and as a [[digital download]] on [[21 October]] [[2007]].<ref name="hear">{{cite news|title=Hear Bleeding Love!|url=http://www.leonalewismusic.co.uk/Pages/NewsList.aspx?pageName=news&NewsID=39|date=[[14 September]] [[2007]]|accessdate=2007-09-14}}</ref> It was also released in the [[Republic of Ireland]] on [[19 October]] [[2007]]. The single will also be released in [[Australia]] on [[12 January]] [[2008]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Leona Lewis' 'Spirit' becomes fastest selling debut album ever|url=http://top40-charts.com/news/Pop-Rock/Leona-Lewis-Spirit-becomes-fastest-selling-debut-album-ever/36931.html|publisher=top-40charts.com|date=[[2007-11-22]]|accessdate=2007-11-23}}</ref> and the [[United States]] on [[14 January]] [[2008]].<ref name="usrelease">{{cite news|title=Leona in high spirits|url=http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/article478224.ece|date=[[19 November]] [[2007]]|accessdate=2007-11-19}}</ref>
"'''Bleeding Love'''" is a [[contemporary R&B]] [[ballad (music)|ballad]] written by [[Ryan Tedder]] and [[Jesse McCartney]]<ref name="notes">{{cite album-notes|title= Bleeding Love|bandname = Leona Lewis|year = 2007 |format = CD Single|publisher = Sony BMG|publisherid= 88697175622}}</ref> and produced by Tedder for [[Leona Lewis]]'s debut album, ''[[Spirit (Leona Lewis album)|Spirit]]'',<ref name="popjustice">{{cite news|title=Leona Lewis: Basically a press release presented as "news"|url=http://www.popjustice.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1492&Itemid=9|publisher=Popjustice|date=[[16 August]] [[2007]]|accessdate=2007-08-16}}</ref> on which it is the [[opening track]]. The song is the album's first single (Lewis's official second single following "[[A Moment like This]]") released in the United Kingdom on [[22 October]] [[2007]] and as a [[digital download]] on [[21 October]] [[2007]].<ref name="hear">{{cite news|title=Hear Bleeding Love!|url=http://www.leonalewismusic.co.uk/Pages/NewsList.aspx?pageName=news&NewsID=39|date=[[14 September]] [[2007]]|accessdate=2007-09-14}}</ref> It was also released in the [[Republic of Ireland]] on [[19 October]] [[2007]]. The single will also be released in [[Australia]] on [[17 December]] [[2007]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Leona Lewis' 'Spirit' becomes fastest selling debut album ever|url=http://top40-charts.com/news/Pop-Rock/Leona-Lewis-Spirit-becomes-fastest-selling-debut-album-ever/36931.html|publisher=top-40charts.com|date=[[2007-11-22]]|accessdate=2007-11-23}}</ref> and the [[United States]] on [[14 January]] [[2008]].<ref name="usrelease">{{cite news|title=Leona in high spirits|url=http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/article478224.ece|date=[[19 November]] [[2007]]|accessdate=2007-11-19}}</ref>


==Track listing==
==Track listing==

Revision as of 01:26, 24 November 2007

Template:Current single

"Bleeding Love"
Song
B-side"Forgiveness"

"Bleeding Love" is a contemporary R&B ballad written by Ryan Tedder and Jesse McCartney[1] and produced by Tedder for Leona Lewis's debut album, Spirit,[2] on which it is the opening track. The song is the album's first single (Lewis's official second single following "A Moment like This") released in the United Kingdom on 22 October 2007 and as a digital download on 21 October 2007.[3] It was also released in the Republic of Ireland on 19 October 2007. The single will also be released in Australia on 17 December 2007[4] and the United States on 14 January 2008.[5]

Track listing

  1. "Bleeding Love" (Ryan Tedder, Jesse McCartney) (4:24)
  2. "Forgiveness"[6] (Kara DioGuardi, Leona Lewis, Salaam Remi)[1] (4:21)

Music video

File:Bleeding Love (video).jpg
Lewis in the music video for "Bleeding Love", wearing a £100,000 Dolce & Gabbana crystal-encrusted dress.

The music video for "Bleeding Love" was shot in a hotel in Los Angeles by director Melina.[7][8] The video is set in an apartment block, featuring six storylines about couples in different stages of relationships: "The video is extremely emotional and shows everything from first love and unbridled passion to heartbreak, loss and anger."[9] Lewis stated that it is "real colourful, very funky, has lots of extras and I get to really perform."[7] Melina explained her meaning of the video in an interview on MTV's Making the Video, saying that she didn't want Lewis or any of the extras to actually bleed, so the water in the video is a metaphor for the tenants' love problems, as if the apartments are bleeding love.

For the video, Lewis wore a £100,000 Dolce & Gabbana crystal-encrusted dress, which weighed forty pounds,[8][10] and reportedly had an entourage of 150 people on set, including five stylists flown out from the UK.[11]

The video first aired on 17 October 2007,[12] and was uploaded to popular video-sharing website YouTube the same day. After two weeks, the video had been viewed over 3 million times, and as of 22 November 2007 it has been viewed over 8 million times.[13]

Promotion

The song's first radio play was on the BBC Radio 1 Chart Show on 16 September 2007,[3] and was quickly followed by an online exclusive streaming by celebrity blogger Perez Hilton.[14] It is reported that over 1.5 million people listened to the song online.[15] The song was also Scott Mills' record of the week from Monday 24 September to Friday 28 September.[16]

Lewis went on a two-day regional radio tour to promote the single and album on 11 and 12 October.[17] This was followed by an appearance on This Morning on 15 October. Lewis performed the song live on the fourth series of The X Factor on 20 October 2007,[18] and also made appearances on several other TV and radio shows such as T4, GMTV and Loose Women.

"Bleeding Love" had its first radio play in the United States on Ryan Seacrest's KIIS-FM show.[19]

Reception

The first critical review of "Bleeding Love" described it as "emotionally fuelled", saying, "this track perfectly showcases Leona's impressive vocal prowess and from the moment she opens her mouth we are instantly reminded about her amazing voice, capable of heart stopping intensity and a playful light touch."[20] Contrastingly, another critic expressed that "the inventive percussion can't stop "Bleeding Love" from sounding dated, like filler on some long-lost, late '90s Mariah Carey album. It's one of those mid-tempo numbers — too slow for the club, too fast for the foxtrot. Actually, with its marching band drum beat, it sounds as much like Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl" as a ballad can." The critic continues to say, "On to the positive: Lewis wisely restrains her vocals, never devolving into those vocal acrobatics that have historically plagued Christina Aguilera."[21]

Digital Spy's review of the song gave it four stars out of five, saying it is "easily the best single to be released by an X Factor star," and describing it as "a brilliantly smart pop record, managing to offer the lovelorn balladry that Lewis' X Factor fans are no doubt craving, while also suggesting a hint of street cred in the form of some beefy, vaguely modish beats."[22]

Sales

On its first day of sales in the UK, "Bleeding Love" sold over 66,000 copies.[23] It was reported to be outselling Take That's "Rule the World" by three-to-one in chain store Woolworths,[24] and Britney Spears' "Gimme More" by ten-to-one.[25] "Bleeding Love" had sold over 126,000 copies by the end of Thursday 25 October,[26] and over 150,000 copies by the end of Friday 26 October.[27] It went on to sell 218,805 copies in its first week, getting the biggest one-week sales in 2007 so far and outselling the rest of the top five combined.[28][29] It had sold around 107,000 downloads and 112,000 CD singles.[30] In its second week, the single sold 158,370 copies,[31] and in its third, it sold 111,978 copies, bringing the total sales to 489,153 and making "Bleeding Love" the biggest selling single of 2007 so far.[32] A further 74,549 in its fourth week bring the total sales to 563,702 overall.

Chart performance

On its first day of release, "Bleeding Love" topped the iTunes Store charts in the UK and Ireland.[25] It entered the UK Singles Chart on 28 October 2007 at number one and has so far stayed at the top for four weeks.[33] This makes Lewis the first contestant from The X Factor to achieve two UK number-one singles. The single has also so far spent four weeks at number one in the Irish Singles Chart.[33][34]

"Bleeding Love" also entered both the UK Official Download Chart and the Irish Downloads Chart at number one.[35][36]

The song also entered the UK Airplay Chart at number seven[37], climbing to number two the following week and reaching number one in the third week.

The B-side, "Forgiveness", also entered the UK Singles Chart at 46, and the Irish Singles Chart at 40, due to download sales. [38]

Chart (2007) Peak
position
Eurochart Hot 100 Singles[39] 4
Euro Digital Tracks[40] 1
Irish Singles Chart[33] 1
Irish Downloads Chart[36] 1
Polish Singles Chart[41] 39
United World Chart[33] 11
UK Singles Chart[33] 1
UK Official Download Chart[35] 1

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  3. ^ a b "Hear Bleeding Love!". 14 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-14. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
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  8. ^ a b "Leona's Dressed To Thrill". Daily Star. 3 October 2007. Retrieved 2007-10-04. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  9. ^ "Leona's new vid is X-rated". The Sun. 3 October 2007. Retrieved 2007-10-03. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
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  18. ^ "Leona Lewis: Leona to perform on The X Factor". Unreality TV. 16 August 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-16. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  19. ^ "On Air Ryan Seacrest". Retrieved 2007-11-11.
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  24. ^ "The 9 O'Clock News – Tues 23 Oct". heatworld.com. 23 October 2007. Retrieved 2007-10-23. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
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  38. ^ "Leona Lewis - Forgiveness". aCharts.us. Retrieved 2007-10-28.
  39. ^ "European Hot 100 Singles". Billboard.com. 10 November 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-02. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  40. ^ "Euro Digital Tracks". Billboard.com. 2007-11-24. Retrieved 2007-11-20. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  41. ^ "Polish National Top 50". 2007-11-18. Retrieved 2007-11-16. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
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