Susan Boyle

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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

Susan Boyle’s debut album, I Dreamed a Dream, is still number one in the UK for the second week of its release, outselling rivals Westlife and Take That by two to one.

Susan’s album has sold 209,305 copies so far this week. Last week, her album sold 411,820 UK in the UK alone (there were 784,000 sales in the US according to the latest figures).

Meanwhile, Westlife are likely to enter the album charts at number 2 with 97,000 sales of Where We Are with Take That’s The Greatest Day selling 87,000 copies.

Worldwide, Susan Boyle is number one in the UK, Ireland, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The album is also number two in Holland and Argentina and number five in Switzerland, according to The Sun.

Currently, over three million of her albums have been shipped worldwide and record company bosses are making urgent arrangements to ship even more!

Just to whet your appetite, here is a sneak peak at Susan’s TV special I Dreamed A Dream – The Susan Boyle Story which will be airing in the UK on Sunday, 13th December 2009, 9:30pm – 10:30pm and in the US on Sunday, 13th December 2009, first showing 8pm-9pm on the TV Guide Network.

Finally, there are now 17 video questions and answers on the Video Questions page – check them out!