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’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.

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!