Album sales and official news
Album sales and official news
We all know the story so far, a talented singer who tried her whole life to get noticed but had to give up to take care of her parents, got discouraged by their passing out and just when it seemed that she would not have the well deserved chance Susan decided to try her luck on Britain’s Got Talent. The rest is one of the most widespread stories of 2009.
Larry King live, Oprah, and most well reputed talk show have talked or interviewed Susan, who for a while didn’t seem capable of coping with the heavy weight of worldwide fame, yet she had the inner strength to take her dream to completion and release a record braking album that has been in the top spot for two weeks and is not showing any signs of letting others take her place.
Not everything has been a bed of roses and Susan as been stung by the very roses that helped her rise to fame, media attention, tabloids critics and false rumours overwhelmed Susan and she had to be taken to a the Priory clinic. But she hit back with what she was meant to be, Music.
Susan still lives in the same apartment that saw her grow up, being bullied by schoolmates and over protected by her loving parent, especially her mother. Susan is not in it for the money of which she has plenty at the moment (reportedly about $9 million) she is in it for her love of music and that’s what makes her the true artist that she is.
TV Guide has produced this TV special that will air next Sunday December 13th , hosted by Piers Morgan the Britain’s Got Talent that squinted when Susan revealed that she wanted to be as famous as Elaine Page, According to Mr. Morgan Susan has given him a unique experience:
“NOT many things send shivers down my spine…in terms of feeling goosebumps of a warm, positive, glowing variety then I’ve experienced this twice this year – thanks to Susan Boyle.”
Many celebrities are rumoured to appear in the TV special to talk about Susan Boyle, among which is Simon Cowell, responsible for launching Susan Boyle’s career who is also producing the TV special.
During this special Susan will perform several songs from her record braking début album including a special rendition of “One Day More” with the London cast of Les Miserables.
Here you can take a sneak preview of this Sunday’s Susan Boyle especial I Dreamed a Dream: The Susan Boyle Story
An unlikely hero Susan has become not only an Internet sensation but a record breaker as well, she broke records when she first auditioned for Britain’s got Talent and a bit more than half a year later Susan breaks new records again: the most preorders in the history of Amazon, the biggest debut week of an album this year, the best selling debut album in the UK, … etc.
Susan Boyle’s debut album, “I Dreamed a Dream” published in Simon Cowell’s label Sysco/Columbia, has not only sold 701,000 copies in the United States alone ( Nielsen SoundScan), it’s also the biggest opening-week sales for any album this year, even eclipsing big popular acts like Eminem or U2, and the best reocrded for a debut artist since Snoop Doggy Dogg’s “Doggystyle” in 1993.
“I Dreamed a Dream” has become a global sensation sames when Susan auditioned. it has reached No. 1 in Australia, Canada, Ireland and New Zealand and top 10 and many other countries. According to Columbia it has sold three million copies around the world.
Music retailers worldwide are realizing that Susan Boyle’s album sales are going beyond expectations and experts put her album as a serious contender to this year’s debut week biggest seller, Eminem’s “Relapse.”
Susan who a year ago could have not imagined that she’d become one of this year’s biggest names in the world is in bliss and she even posed for photographers at her doorstep holding a copy of her album.
Simon Cowell has commented on Susan’s debut:
“She did it her way and made a dream come true.
“In Britain’s Got Talent she opened her mouth and the world fell in love with her, which is why her album has been the fastest selling of any woman making her debut.”
Of course we all remember his smile when Susan first belted out her first notes in that worldwide famous Britain’s Got Talent audition, his eyes had the shape of dollar signs predicting what a mind gold Susan would be and he was not mistaken.
But nobody adventures to give a definitive figure until sales are recounted this weekend but presales went beyond expectations and Sony may have some problems restocking some places where sales went way beyond any expectations.
Susan has prove she was not just a brief internet sensation and that she is in the music business to Stay.
Worldwide, the CD has sold more than 2 million copies in a week. In Britain, it has become the fastest-selling debut of all time – 411,820 copies since its November 23 release and in Australia it has shipped 70,000 copies to shops, enough to earn platinum status.
