Posting on her official Twitter page, she wrote: "306,107 this WEEK in the UK! You sneaky little fans you! I love u guys, Thank you!!! Santa was good to me..."
The sales boost takes Loud's total sales tally to 820,000 in six weeks. It has now become the fourth best-selling album of 2010, behind Take That, Michael Bublé's Crazy Love and Lady GaGa's Fame Monster.
