The Syco-issued cover of the REM classic, which features acts including Susan Boyle, Michael Buble, Cheryl Cole and Leona Lewis under the collective name Helping Haiti, is comfortably outselling the rest of the Top 20 combined, according to OCC sales figures.

It will now be a question of just how many copies it will end up selling before the chart week ends at the close of business this Saturday, with the only chart battle now left to determine being who ...