Rebecca Ferguson is well on her way to “breaking America”.

Yet to score a ‘hit single’ in the USA, her debut album Heaven still managed to race into the Billboard 200 listings at No. 23.

OK, so that’s not exactly a chart position to have on your gravestone, but when you consider that Natasha Bedingfield – allegedly now bigger in the US than in the UK – saw her last album go in at No. 103, you can’t really complain.

Elsewhere One Direction’s Up All Night has returned to the Top 5 as their gloabal domination continues (the performance of their 2nd album will be fascinating, won’t it?).

Heaven has now peaked at No. 3 in the UK, No.16 in Australia, No.15 in Germany, No.9 in Ireland, No.22 in New Zealand and No.7 in that all-important, make-or-break Swiss market.

Cher Lloyd is also making progress – her US debut single ‘Want U Back’ has made it to No. 38 on the Pop Songs chart and No. 21 on the Heatseekers (?) chart.

Here’s WHOOPI GOLDBERG introducing Rebecca on The View.

Rebecca Ferguson’s US mission is now underway, as the British invasion continues.

She had a chat with Rolling Stone today, following a brilliant performance for LA’s 104.3 MYfm yesterday to perform stripped-back renditions of ‘Nothing’s Real But Love’ and ‘Shoulder To Shoulder’.

Watch them below. Both of them are (obviously) stunning.

Heaven is released to the US market later this month.

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Rebecca Ferguson’s ‘Glitter & Gold’ stands little-to-no chance of registering within the Top 100, let alone the Top 40 when it is released in full next week (April 29), but its A-List status on Radio 2 is keeping the album ticking over, and now in support of the whole shebang a behind-the-scenes clip of the video shoot has appeared.

The director talks through the general concept of the promo, and takes a few mins to sing Rebecca’s praises as well.

Check it out below.

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Rebecca Ferguson’s Heaven will come loaded with this rather brilliant new song when it’s released in North America on May 15.

‘Backtrack’ appears to have its own lyric video (though not on an official YouTube account), so whether it’ll be used as the lead single remains to be seen, but presumably they’ll lead again with ‘Nothing’s Real But Love’, given that it helped the record achieve Platinum status in under a fortnight over here in December.

The song is Emeli Sande ‘Next To Me’-style piano pop (though with very different lyrical content), mixed a chord sequence not dissimilar to Aloe Blacc’s ‘I Need A Dollar’.

It’s equally as good as everything on Heaven, but it does have a slightly different feel about it to the ten songs that made the initial tracklisting, so you can kinda understand its initial exclusion.

Heaven has now climbed to a new peak of No. 16 in Australia, and has also charted at No. 22 in New Zealand and No. 30 in Italy.