Susan Boyle to Break Record with Album Sales
Susan Boyle, the now famous nobody who sky rocketed to fame after stealing the show on Britain’s Got Talent, is now looking like she will be one of the fastest selling artists to top the charts for her debut album. This Sunday the singer will break an almost decade long record by selling out the most copies, the fastest of her new, debut album.
The first day sales for the singer’s album raked in at 130,000, which sets her on par to crush Leona Lewis’s current record holding album, ‘Spirit’, which blew open the charts in 2007 selling 375,872 copies. First week sales are even looking like they may top Coldplay’s newest album ‘X & Y’, which recently took the fastest selling album of the decade spot by selling out 464,471 copies in a period of seven days.
‘I Dreamed a Dream’, Boyle’s debut album is already the highest pre-ordered CD sales for Amazon, a large online retailer, which has been offering pre-orders prior to album’s release. The album hit shelves for everyone November 23rd, and since then has been breaking records with its sales proportions.
On the album are several of Susan Boyle’s own works, however, the album also features Boyle’s popular cover of the Rolling Stones hit Wild Horses, a song which skyrocketed again to fame when Boyle performed it on X Factor, prompting, even the rock band to re-release the single.
Boyle, 48, from West Lothian, has been promoting the album across the UK appearing on X Factor last week, as well as promoting in the US. If Boyle’s CD stays on track it will become the decade’s fastest selling album to top the charts beating out current reigning record holder Coldplay.
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