1. She outsold Edith Piaf, toured with Jacques Brel, and Serge Gainsbourg wrote songs for her.

2. In that fifth week at No. 1 it outsold Mary J. Blige's Growing Pains, selling about 757,000 copies.

3. Margaret ATWOOD's cool, honest and acidly funny novels have had wide sales, especially The Handmaid's Tale (1985), which outsold all her earlier books.