Susan Boyle - I Dreamed A Dream CD
Debuts 23 November 2009!
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January 8th, 2010
Susan Boyle has narrowly missed out on topping the best seller list of 2009 but has spent a sixth week on top of the US album chart.
The Scottish star sold 3.1m copies last year, but was beaten by teen artist Taylor Swift, who sold 3.21m records.
But Boyle’s I Dreamed A Dream is the biggest-selling album to have been released in 2009 – country singer Swift’s album first came out in 2008.
Michael Jackson and Lady Gaga came third and fourth in the year’s rundown.
Vinyl sales
The late singer’s Number Ones album sold 2.3m copies, followed by Lady Gaga’s The Fame with sales of 2.24m.
Jackson scored four albums inside the top 20 over the past year, including his classic 1983 record Thriller.
Only Boyle and Swift’s albums sold in excess of three million, the first time since 2006 when three records achieved the feat.
The vast majority of Boyle’s albums were sold in physical formats, with just 86,000 digital downloads accounting for its sales figures.
The total number of albums sold in the US during 2009 amounted to 373.9 million, according to chart compilers Nielsen SoundScan.
(Source: BBC UK)
Oh, what a pity! But I think Susan was even more amazing because I Dreamed A Dream came out only end November 2009. Over 3 million copies in less than 2 months, wow!
Susan Boyle sold almost as many in 6 weeks as Taylor Swift sold in 52.
That sounds like a winner to me.