Susan Boyle

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Susan Boyle’s official website has posted a statement telling Susafans not to buy any tickets for tour dates in Australia and New Zealand – because she had no current plans to perform there.

The website says: “Please do not be tempted to purchase tickets should you see any for sale as these will be fake. The official Susan Boyle website will always let you know first if Susan is performing anywhere in the world.”

A spokesman for Susan told the Daily Star: “We can confirm a hoax e-mail was sent to newsrooms saying she was going to perform concert dates in Australia and New Zealand.

“We can categorically deny Susan was ­scheduled to play any dates in either of these two ­countries.”

It is believed that the sender of the e-mail has been identified.

Susan Boyle has cancelled her performance at the Logie awards in Australia next month, according to an article in The Sydney Morning Herald.

The trip has been cancelled in order to allow Susan some time to rest in order to prepare for the recording of her second album.

Susan’s manager, Andy Stephens, said that Susan was still keen to visit Australia and was looking at dates later on in the year.

He said: ”Regrettably, we have had to make the tough decision to postpone our Australian visit for the Logies in May.

”We want to apologise to all Susan’s Australian fans and look forward to coming to Australia later in the year.”

Here is the Susan Boyle “Living the Dream” interview as shown on Australian TV, delightfully interviewed by Charles Wooley on Channel 9. I am unable to embed the first part of the interview, so you will have to click the this link here to view the first half.

It’s funny, I went to Edinburgh Castle about four weeks ago – I kept saying to my husband, “I wonder if we’ll bump into Susan Boyle”. And we went to Edinburgh Castle. Looks like I picked the wrong day. It would have been lovely if I had bumped into her, but I doubt I would have known what to say. Blushes and looks tongue tied!!

Thanks to Eloise for bringing this interview to my attention.

Susan Boyle has been interviewed on the Australian TV station Channel 9 (reported in the Daily Mirror) and has insisted that although she is still single, she in enjoying life more than ever before. However, she maintained: “Some day, my prince will come”.

She continued: “I go on looking. But I have never been in a better place. It’s absolutely brilliant for me right now.”

She also spoke about fame, saying that: “It takes a wee bit to get used to it. I had to learn to be a bit different. People recognise you in the street. At the beginning I couldn’t go out on my own. I still catch the bus.”

Susan also confessed that she doesn’t know how to use a computer, saying: “I don’t know what Google is.”

Susan Boyle is being predicted to be the Marquee Guest at this year’s Logies in Melbourne on May 2nd at Crown.

It is not definite yet, but according to an article in the Herald Sun, she is top of the list for the organisers of the event.

The host for the event has not yet been decided, although there are rumours that Kerri-Anne Kennerley will be asked to be the host for the occasion.

Viewers in Australia will get their chance to watch I Dreamed a Dream – The Susan Boyle Story as it will be airing in Australia this Sunday 17th January at 6.30pm on Nine.

Susan Boyle’s album, I Dreamed a Dream, is the biggest selling album of 2009 in Australia, and now Susan says that she would like to tour Australia this year.

Speaking to the Australian Sunday Herald Sun, Susan said: “When I entered the Britain’s Got Talent competition in Scotland this year, I could never in my wildest of dreams imagined having the biggest-selling album of the year on the other side of the world by Christmas.

“I’d like to say a very sincere thank you to everyone in Australia that’s shown me the most incredible support.

“I’m really hoping I might visit Australia in 2010 to thank everyone in person.”

Susan’s album is still the world’s number one.

Within Australia, it has been certified eight times platinum, with 560,000 sales, and counting. It also broke a record in the ARIA chart by selling more than 100,000 copies for two consecutive weeks.

Susan Boyle has held onto her number one spot in Oz with her album I Dreamed a Dream, with total sales of more than 400,000 copies. This means that the record has gone 6 times platinum in Australia in just 4 weeks. Sales for last week were 164,973 units according to Undercover Music News. This was more than twice the number of sales that the number one album a year ago, Funhouse by Pink, sold across the same period.

The battle is still on in the US to see if Susan Boyle’s album will be the biggest seller of the year, overtaking Taylor Swift’s Fearless. The result will be announced on January 3rd, 2010.

Susan Boyle’s debut album, I Dreamed a Dream, is still number one in Canada, for the week ending December 19th, in addition to continuing to be number one on the Billboard 200 for the third consecutive week. It is also number one in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Switzerland.

According to Susan’s official website, her album has also received RIAA-Triple Platinum Certification for shipping over three million copies to retailers in the US. The album is the biggest seller released in 2009, and the first album released in 2009 to hold onto the number one chart position consecutively for three weeks. In that time, it has also achieved the highest album sales ever for a debut artist.

Internationally, there have been over 7 million copies of Susan’s album  shipped worldwide and Susan also has thre record for being the fastest selling global female debut artiste.

Here is the ultimate interview of Susan Boyle by Molly Meldrum that was filmed and broadcast in Australia. It’s a really lovely interview as you get to see Susan’s light hearted personality, Susan’s joys and sadness, and really get to know her and relate to her.

The interview starts with Molly saying to Susan: “It’s the first time I’ve interviewed someone who’s number one around the world. I’m not going to frighten you…”

“You’re not frightening!” Guffaws Susan – and that kind of sets the tone.

There are sad moments too, when Susan shares her anguish that her mum is not alive to see the great success that Susan has had. I think we can all empathise with that.

“I know she would have been proud of me now,” says Susan, with tears in her eyes.

When later reminded of her astounding success, Susan humbly says “All I do is open my gob!”

However, she feels that she communicates with the audience when she sings, and has been told that she becomes a different person when she sings.

Watch the full interview and it will bring tears to your eyes too