Girls Aloud - Cole Hits Number One With Year's Fastest Selling Track

GIRLS ALOUD star CHERYL COLE's debut solo effort has shot straight to the top of the U.K. charts - becoming the fastest selling single of the year (09).

Following her much discussed performance on U.K. talent show The X Factor - where she stars as a judge alongside Simon Cowell - Cole's solo single Fight For This Love shifted almost 300,000 sales in a week.

Last year's (08) X Factor winner Alexandra Burke, who Cole mentored on the series, was knocked into second position with Bad Boys.

Rapper Chipmunk's Oopsy Daisy is at three, while Robbie Williams' comeback song Bodies sits at number four.

Taio Cruz rounds out the top five with Break Your Heart.

But Burke shouldn't feel too bad her track is no longer number one - her debut disc, Overcome, is at the top of the album charts.