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Troubled, gap-toothed songstress Winehouse's sophomore effort Back to Black has just topped the list of Amazon UK's biggest selling album of all time. Who did she dethrone to take the title? Forget Thriller, and it's not the Beatles or Zeppelin - the group that previously held the top spot was Coldplay, with their 3-chord formula masterpiece, X&Y, followed by Keane's Hopes and Fears in third place.

Coldplay? Keane? These names and placements may seem a bit strange to you. That's because they're all British. This is Amazon UK we're talking about. I can't remember ever meeting anyone who's owned a Keane album or been to one of their shows. "The sales of Back to Black have been consistently high for the last year and a half and we have seen massive uplifts on the title during periods when Amy Winehouse has commanded many column inches," Amazon's Julian Monaghan told Gigwise. " She has led the way in a resurgence of British female music talent and she thoroughly deserves the mantle of the biggest selling album of all time." Thoroughly deserves? Come on. She's got an incredible voice, but she's by no means the best in the industry. Although I will admit, anything's preferable to Coldplay topping the charts.

Winehouse's second album was released at the end of 2006, and has sold nearly ten million copies, despite a list of personal problems that stretches from a publicly documented crack habit and a tendency to physically attack total strangers, to a husband/drug buddy in prison. Britney Spears likely makes a daily ritual of wishing her dead, justifiably afraid that the London soulstress will usurp her Train Wreck of the World crown.

Amy has done little to intentionally help her career while she awaits the return of her jailed husband, (known as Blake Incarcerated after Winehouse's impassioned Grammy performance dedication) with frequent tabloid appearances in which she appears haggard, bone-thin and higher than Everest. Producer Mark Ronson recently pulled out of a planned Winehouse collaboration for the theme to the next Bond film, due in theaters this November. "We tried to work for a little bit," he told Sky News in London. "I'm not sure she's ready to work on music yet." That's friendlish for "Have you looked at the girl recently? She's a cracked out mess. She needs help."

In a telling display of the cause/effect relationship between downward-spiraling celebrities and society's unquenchable lust for scandal, sales of Back to Black doubled last week after the singer was arrested for going apeshit psycho on a man.