“Bleeding Love” is a pop/R&B ballad recorded by British singer Leona Lewis, from her debut album, Spirit. Co-written by Jesse McCartney and Ryan Tedder (and produced by Tedder), the song is the album’s lead single (Lewis’s official second single following “A Moment Like This”), released in the United Kingdom and Ireland in October 2007. Debuting at number one on the UK Singles Chart, “Bleeding Love” became the best-selling single of 2007 in the United Kingdom. Since the single’s release, it became a major international hit, and was the best-selling single of 2008 worldwide.