Dido's album fastest selling in UK for six years

Dido’s Life For Rent has become the fastest selling British album in six years, figures showed today.

It has sold 255,000 copies since its release on Monday, the highest first week sales since Be Here Now by Oasis.

Record bosses expect it to have sold at least 350,000 by Monday.

If so it will overtake The Beatles’ greatest hits collection, 1, which sold 319,000 copies in its first week in 2000.

Life For Rent, Dido’s second album, will top the chart this Sunday.

It has trounced its closest rival, Robbie William’s Live At Knebworth.

Oasis broke records in 1997 when Be Here Now, their third album, sold more than a third of a million copies on its first day and reached 696,000 within three days.

Dido, 31, launched Life For Rent on Monday by chartering a plane and performing in London and New York on the same day.