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Susan Boyle Makes Chart History With Debut Album

She lands number one...

November 29, 2009 by Jason Gregory
Susan Boyle Makes Chart History With Debut Album
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Britain’s Got Talent star Susan Boyle’s first album has become the fast-selling debut album in UK chart history.

‘I Dreamed A Dream’ sold 410,000 copies in its first week, beating previous record holder Leona Lewis.

It is also the fourth biggest first week sales for any artist album in chart history, according to the Official Charts Company.

The 48-year-old’s sales total has only been beaten by Oasis’ ‘Be Here Now’, Coldplay’s ‘X & Y’ and ‘The Circus’ by Take That.

Boyle shot to fame earlier this year when footage of her as a contestant on Britain’s Got Talent spread across the Internet.

Martin Talbot, of the Official Charts Company, said: "Susan Boyle's achievement is quite phenomenal.

“After all of the excitement surrounding her appearance on Britain’s Got Talent, everyone expected her to make a big impact when she released her first music – but to arrive with such a bang is exceptional.”

In what was an otherwise quite week on the album chart, there were no other new entries inside the top-10.

Meanwhile, the singles countdown was topped by comedian Peter Kay’s charity single for the BBC's Children In Need.

Rihanna’s ‘Russian Roulette’ was the only other new entry inside the top-10, charting at number six.
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  • Something is wrong with these figures. Monday, Nov. 23, she sold 134,000 in the UK alone, later updated to 140,000. At day's end on Nov. 23, Susan had sold apx 300,000 in the U.S. giving a total of over 400,000 after TWO DAYS SALES. By week's end, it was projected she would sell 1M CDs. The problem, however, in the U.S. is that stores ran out and on Black Fri. in the U.S., almost none were left to buy! Sony. HELP!

    ~ by Waddleduck 11/29/2009 Report

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  • Ummm, this is the UK chart Waddleduck...

    ~ by Neil 11/29/2009 Report

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  • ...Er, anyone know exactly what sort of dumb****s it is that are actually buying this shit? It's ****ing beyond me.

    ~ by Jeff 11/29/2009 Report

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  • And so out they come, all those folk that only buy music at Xmas - and yeh there's Subu cashing in, next year she'll probably do a duet with Cliff Richard... Regardless of what her adoring fans think, this woman cannot sing - her rendition of Madonna's You'll See is atrocious!! Subu thinks she's the dog's bollox what with her attempt at glamming up - in reality she's more akin to what comes out of a dog's ass!! Enjoy ur 15 minutes of fame, bitch!!

    ~ by AJ 11/30/2009 Report

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