Susan Boyle

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A quick update to the article below, where we reported Susan Boyle as being number 2 on the Amazon.com chart. Susan’s Boyle album is now at number one – and it is not due to be released for nearly three months!

One of Susan’s biggest fans, Misti in Seattle, said: “The CD was #2 yesterday but skyrocketed up and is now #1 !!! Yay Susan! Yay SusaFans!

“But amazon.com has been limiting to three the number that people can buy. Glad I got my order in before this as I ordered four! ”

In the UK, I think we must be a little more reserved about buying albums before their official release. On Amazon.co.uk, Susan’s album, at the time of writing, was at number 34.

Susan Boyle’s new album, entitled “I Dreamed a Dreamed” has entered the Amazon.com charts at number 2 – and it hasn’t even been released yet! The album, named after Susan’s debut song on Britain’s Got Talent, is scheduled for release on November 23rd in the UK and November 24th in the US, just in time for a Christmas Number One.

Number one on the chart currently is Whitney Houston’s  “I Look to You”. However, Susan’s album is placed above the remastered Beatles album, “Abbey Road”.

The complete track listing is currently a mystery, but will no doubt contain “I Dreamed a Dream” as that is the name of the album. Other tracks thought to be listed include “Cry Me a River” and a Rolling Stones cover song. “Memory” might also appear, as Susan also sang that song on Britain’s Got Talent.

It is also not known which track will be the debut single, but “I Dreamed a Dream” is a likely choice.

Susan’s fans are hoping that Susan will get the Christmas number one spot for both her album and her single, making a fairy tale ending to the year for our favourite Scottish songstress.

Susan Boyle’s debut CD is scheduled to be released on 23rd November, 2009. It will be called “I Dreamed a Dream” but not much is known about the track listing at the time of writing.

If you want to be first in the queue (or line for my American friends) you can pre-order the album from www.play.com. The price is £8.50, but this includes free shipping to the UK and Europe.

Play.com do not ship outside of Europe.

However, for my American friends, Amazon.com have now made Susan Boyle’s CD available for pre-order at $9.99 (see ad on the left or click here to reserve your copy at the special pre-order price).

Susan Boyle is planning to visit the US in November, according to a report that appeared in today’s Daily Mirror. The US trip will take place before her debut album is released in the UK.

She is planning to sing at a number of public events in America, before releasing her album at the end of November. It is thought that Susan’s debut album will hit number one worldwide.

Simon Cowell believes that the US market is the most lucrative to Susan, so most of her efforts will be concentrated there.

A source told The Mirror: “We are really pleased with how she is doing and the album is now well on the way to being finished.

“Susan will be flying to America in November to give her fans there a treat for Thanksgiving. Initially there were plans for a single, but now it seems to be all about an album.”

Well Susan, from the correspondence I’ve been receiving I know that the Americans just **can’t wait** for you to get there!

Susan Boyle is staying true to her roots as she has decided to buy her council house in Blackburn, West Lothian. Susan has lived in the house since she was a baby, but has never been able to afford to buy it, until now.

(A note for my American friends and other visitors from outside the UK. A council house is a house owned by the local council or district authority. Previous government legislation gave council house tenants the “right to buy” their council houses at a reduced market value dependent upon how long they had lived in the house.)

Gerry Boyle, Susan’s big brother, told the Daily Record: “Susan walked into the local council office and told them that although she was living in London, she didn’t want them to rent her house to anyone else.

“I think people were a bit shocked to see her but they told her they had no plans to let it go to anyone else – and now she wants to buy it. She will never forget her roots.”

Gerry also added : “She has been given a mobile phone for the first time but can only make calls. She hasn’t got her head round texting yet.”

Gerry also told The Scotsman that Simon Cowell has had Susan Boyle’s cat, Pebbles, transported to her luxury Kensington flat and has given her a credit card so she can go shopping. Susan has had fun buying new clothes, getting her teeth whitened (we know Mr Cowell is an advocate of cosmetic dentistry) and she has a personal assistant called Julia.

It is also rumoured that Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber is helping Simon Cowell and Susan put together her new album.

Susan told Gerry about meeting her idol Elaine Paige for the first time: “It was fantastic to be on TV with Elaine,. When I watched the interview back I felt like a megastar for the first time. I can’t believe how much my life has changed in the past few weeks. I am so happy.”

However, Susan has also expressed fear about her life going back to the way it was previously, asking: “What happens if it all stops?”

Reports are appearing in the press that Susan Boyle’s first single will be “Moon River”, the song originally sung by Audrey Hepburn in the film Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

According to a report in the Daily Telegraph, Susan Boyle also hopes to release her debut album by the end of the year. The album will also include Cry Me A River and a song by the Rolling Stones.

According to the Daily Mirror, the album will be “about the music that she has listened to over the years and feels emotionally attached to”.

However, the BBC web site quote Susan Boyle’s spokeswoman, who says that the debut single has yet to be decided.

Simon Cowell has a reputation for being a Mr Nasty in the reality TV talent show world. However, he is showing a completely different side with Susan Boyle.

In order that the pressures don’t become too great for Susan, her interview on NBC was prerecorded, and not live, to keep the pressure off our favourite lady.

Susan’s chat with Meredith Vieira aired in the US this morning and will be repeated at 9pm tonight before America’s Got Talent (bumping Barack out of the way).

Meanwhile, Simon Cowell has revealed that he is delighted with the progress so far on Susan’s album. He said: “We went through about 350 songs and Susan was blown away by some of the choices. She’s going to surprise a lot of people with this record.”