Susan Boyle

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Susan Boyle has been the biggest selling British artist abroad for two years running. Her second album, The Gift, sold 3.7 million copies outside of the UK. Susan’s debut album, I Dreamed a Dream, sold more than six million copies in 2009.

In other news, it has been reported that Glenn Close is to play Susan in an upcoming biopic, although other sources have refuted this, so I guess we’ll just have to wait and see. It has been said that Susan herself would prefer fellow scot Elaine C Smith to play the role.

According to one source, who said (to The Sun):

?It was always going to be a tricky one to cast. [Susan Boyle's] incredible story is so well-known across the planet that the film is bound to go down a storm.

“Glenn has played some imposing women in the past including Cruella de Vil and Alex Forrest, who boils the pet rabbit in Fatal Attraction. But [Boyle] might just be her biggest role yet.”

Susan Boyle sold around 650,000 copies of her debut album, I Dreamed a Dream, last week in the US, bringing her total US sales so far to in the region of 2.5 million, and maintaining her number one position on the Billboard 200 for an amazing 4th successive week. Taylor Swift’s album has, to date, sold 2.7 million copies in the US. However, in the last week, Susan’s album sold approximately 650,000 copies, whereas Taylor Swift’s album sold 230,000 more copies.

Nevertheless, in the US, there are still two full sales weeks left and the highest selling album will not be known until January 3rd, 2010. With Susan Boyle is currently selling about three times as many copies of her album as Taylor Swift, will her sales surpass Taylor’s next week or the week after? I predict that they will.

In the meantime, I Dreamed A Dream is officially the second biggest selling album of the year in America, overtaking Eminem’s Relapse, according to Undercover.com.au.

Susan Boyle has lots of reasons to celebrate today, as it has been announced that her album is the best selling album in the UK for 2009, outselling her nearest rival Lady Gaga whose own debut album, The Fame, has been on the chart for 49 weeks. Susan’s album was only released on November 23rd although it was available on presale just less than three months earlier, and has currently sold in excess of 1.4 million albums in the UK alone. Remember – this is the same country that placed her second to diversity in the Britain’s Got Talent competition!

Susan is clearly enjoying her time in the spotlight, and has been seen playfully throwing snowballs at paparazzi outside her home in Blackburn, West Lothian. She is clearly becoming more relaxed and at ease with fame. Speaking to the Daily Mail, Susan said: “‘It got to the stage where I couldn’t even go outside because the media ? American television crews too ? surrounded the house.

“I had to draw my blinds, and even after that they started hammering on my door. I was quite frightened. I felt very vulnerable, because I was living on my own.”