The younger sister of Daniel (whose “Gotta Get Thru This” was a minor dance-club hit in 2002), Natasha Bedingfield’s debut album has sold a million copies in the U.K. since last September, and it’s easy to see why. In her campaign to become a genre-hopping pop princess à la Gwen Stefani, this precocious 23-year-old throws everything into the pot: soulful ballad (“Stumble”), up-tempo celebration (“Unwritten”) and the kind of tame hip-hop workout Sting might add his name to (“Drop Me in the Middle”). On “If You’re Gonna,” meanwhile, she sounds as if she’s auditioning for limpbizkit, with predictably unpalatable results. A devout and practicing Christian, she occasionally sings with an urgency bordering on religious zeal, but much here is fresh, funky and thoroughly likeable.

DOWNLOAD: “Unwritten,” “These Words”