Diana Vickers is on course for No 1 single

By Patrick McLennan
( What's on TV )
published

Diana Vickers is on course for No 1 single
Diana Vickers is on course for No 1 single (Image credit: PA Archive/Press Association Ima)

Diana Vickers is heading for No 1 with her debut single. The X Factor finalist has pushed past her closest rival Chipmunk and the rapper's duet with Dutch singer Esmee Denters, according to midweek figures, with her new track Once. The Official Charts Company said Cheryl Cole's former protege is selling 40 per cent more copies of her single than Until You Were Gone, the Chipmunk track. Diana, 18, caught the headlines after getting close to fellow contestant Eoghan Quigg on the 2008 X Factor and was even compared to Marmite on the show before being beaten by Alexandra Burke. She releases her debut album Songs From The Tainted Cherry Tree on May 3. The UK's current No 1, Usher and Will.I.Am's OMG, is expected to topple from the top spot while Paul Weller's latest record Wake Up Nation, is tipped for No 1 in the album charts on Sunday.

Patrick McLennan
Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.