Susan Boyle

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Susan Boyle has been globe trotting again. This time she was in Germany, where she appeared on the Carmen Nebel show on March 6th on the ZDF TV channel and sang “I Dreamed a Dream”. Thanks go to Heide for informing me of this.

Heide says: “She sang very beautifully and looked gorgeous in her rouge noir dress!”

Here is Susan Boyle performing “I Dreamed a Dream” on the Ana Rosa show in Spain on February 12th, 2010. Susan gets prettier and more confident with each performance. They still give her a stationary mic though…

Susan Boyle appeared on the Spanish TV show “Mira Quien Baila” yesterday and sang her signature song, “I Dreamed a Dream”.

Here is a YouTube video of Susan Boyle singing “I Dreamed a Dream” at the Haiti fund raiser in Denmark. I think Susan looks particularly young and pretty on this video.

Susan Boyle’s “I Dreamed a Dream” album may retake the Number One spot on the Billboard 200 next week, according to the Billboard website, as she is predicted to sell a further 80,000 copies of her album in the US by Sunday 24th January.

The upsurge in sales is as a result of Susan’s chat and performance on “The Oprah Winfrey Show”, although her segment was only 20 minutes long. Adam Lambert’s segment took up the balance of the hour long broadcast.

It was a close run thing, with internet rumours going this way and that, but in the end it appears that Susan Boyle has lost out to Taylor Swift in the battle to have the bestselling album of 2009 in the US, according to the New York Times.

The final figures from Neilsen/SoundScan for 2009, are that Susan Boyle sold 3,103,000 copies of I Dreamed a Dream, whereas Taylor Swift sold 3,216,000 copies of Fearless. Other albums in the top five bestsellers were at #3 Number Ones by Michael Jackson, selling 2,355,000 copies, at #4 Fame by Lady Gaga selling 2,237,000 copies and at #5 My Christmas by Andrea Bocelli, selling 2,207,000 copies.

However, Susan did sell more physical copies of her album than Taylor, she sold 3 million compared to Taylor’s 2.8 million, with only 100,000 Susan Boyle fans choosing to download the album instead of buying a physical copy.

As Susan is still number one on the Billboard 200, she may well catch up on Taylor’s figures this year. Total sales for Fearless so far are more than 5 million copies.

Susan Boyle is likely to be Number One on the Billboard 200 for a sixth week, according to a report on Billboard.biz. However, current predictions are that the sales of Susan’s album will not overtake those of Taylor Swift, although it’s clearly going to be a nail biting finish.

According to Billboard, the total number of sales of Taylor Swift’s Fearless are 3,157,000, whereas the total number of sales of I Dreamed a Dream stand at 2,982,000.

“Fearless” is projected to sell a further 65,000 to 75,000 copies this week, and current predictions are that I Dreamed a Dream will not sell sufficient copies to close the gap, although the album is projected to sell over 100,000 copies this week.

The figures come from Nielsen SoundScan.

Next week’s album chart will be published on Wednesday, 6th January and includes data for the week ending Sunday, 3rd January.

Susan Boyle’s debut album, I Dreamed a Dream, has held onto the number one position on the Billboard 200 for an amazing fifth week in succession, according to MTV, despite a strong challenge from Mary J Blige, whose album Stronger reached number 2 with sales of 330,000 copies. Susan’s album sold a further 510,000 according to figures from Nielsen SoundScan, which pushed her five week US sales total to just under 3 million.

Andrea Bocelli, with whom Susan Boyle has been tipped to duet in 2010, held onto his number 3 position with his album My Christmas.

According to the article, Susan’s album sales “almost equal” those of Taylor Swift’s Fearless, so we’ll just have to wait until Sunday to see if Susan’s album sales overtake those of Taylor.

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.

The Susan Boyle TV special, I Dreamed a Dream – The Susan Boyle Story, was aired last night in the UK and US, and wasn’t it fabulous? One of the highlights was watching Susan being presented with a Triple Platinum Disc to celebrate over 1,000,000 sales of her “I Dreamed a Dream” album worldwide. See the video below: