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Susan Boyle’s ‘I Dreamed A Dream’ Reigns #1 for Second Consecutive Week
9th December 2009
Susan Boyle’s ‘I Dreamed A Dream’ continues to hold the #1 spot on the Billboard 200 with another milestone, becoming the fastest selling debut album over a two-week period after release. The album earned the highest second week sales of 2009 with 527,000 copies sold this week. Over 2 million copies of the album have been shipped to retailers.
‘I Dreamed A Dream’ was #1 again on the charts this week in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Ireland, Canada and Japan.
‘I Dreamed A Dream’ made its historical introduction to the charts last week achieving the highest first week sales of 2009 as well as the largest ever debut for a female artist on the Billboard 200 in the Soundscan era with 701,000 copies sold in the U.S and over 5 million copies worldwide.
Additionally, Susan Boyle will star in an original one-hour television special exclusively on TV Guide Network. The worldwide premiere of “I Dreamed a Dream: The Susan Boyle Story” airs on Sunday, December 13 at 9:00 p.m. on ITV1 in the UK, followed by the exclusive North American premiere on TV Guide Network at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT. The show will celebrate this extraordinary woman’s journey from a small village in rural Scotland to international fame and fan-fare.
After an audition for ‘Britain’s Got Talent,’ in which Susan immediately impressed the judges, the audience and then anyone with access to YouTube’s expectations by dazzling her way through a version of “‘I Dreamed A Dream’ ” from Les Miserables. A tornado of rumination and amazement grew around Susan Boyle feverishly, with over 300 Million YouTube hits and nearly two million Facebook friends to prove it.
‘I Dreamed A Dream’ was recorded during the summer of 2009. Susan first entered a recording studio in July in Edinburgh, picking songs that resonated with her. The final results shocked both her and veteran producer Steve Mac with its beauty and musical impact. “It was important that I could feel everything I was singing,” she says. The 12 track collection features Susan Boyle performing signature songs such as “I Dreamed A Dream”, “Cry Me A River,” as well as her haunting rendition of The Rolling Stones’ “Wild Horses,” Madonna’s “You’ll See,” The Monkees’ “Daydream Believer,” and “Who I Was Born To Be,” an original recording written especially for Susan.
Here’s what the press have said of Boyle’s first week sales milestones:
“The Britain’s Got Talent phenom bagged the year’s hugest bow by far, selling a stunning 701K copies of her debut album in a crowded week.” - Entertainment Weekly
“Astonishing, record-breaking sales week…Boyle’s “I Dreamed a Dream” rocked the Billboard 200 this past week when it bowed atop the tally with the year’s best sales frame for an album, shifting 701,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.” - Billboard
“Susan Boyle’s ‘I Dreamed a Dream’ sold 701,000 copies its first week, the biggest sales week of 2009, in another chapter to the Scottish singer’s fairy-tale rise to stardom.” - USA Today
“Her debut album is rocking the charts.” - Star
Here’s what the press have said of ‘I Dreamed A Dream:’
“In the most striking cut Ms. Boyle turns the Rolling Stones’ ‘Wild Horses’ into a starkly beautiful declaration of tenacity and resolution. The hushed mood of it all recalls Celine Dion’s blockbuster hit ‘My Heart Will Go On’...” - New York Times
“When Boyle connects, whether it’s on the Rolling Stones’ “Wild Horses” or Madonna’s post-breakup anthem ‘You’ll See,’ she delivers the song with a clarity and a rawness that’s impossible to fake. She does it time and again….” - Newsday
“She has the vocal chops to take her place alongside the Andrea Bocelli and Josh Groban records.” - Boston Herald
“The voice that launched millions of hits online wows with her first album.” - Ladies Home Journal
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