X Factor judge Cheryl Cole’s debut solo single, has entered the charts at number one.

Fight For This Love, which was released last Sunday, sold over 292,000 copies and is the fastest selling single – excluding charity and reality TV winner’s singles – since 2001. Cheryl knocked Alexandra Burke’s ‘Bad Boys’ from the number one spot.

OCC managing director Martin Talbot said earlier in the week that Cole’s “amazing” first-day sales put her in “pole position to top the official singles chart on Sunday”.

“She is likely to set the sales standard by which everyone will be judged for the rest of the year in the run-up to Christmas,” he added.