mc_squared Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 Susan Boyle's at No1... and the biggest debut star of all By Sara Nathan Last updated at 12:44 PM on 30th November 2009 Comments (70) Add to My Stories Susan Boyle, the shy 48-year-old Scottish spinster, has made history with the fastest-selling worldwide debut album for a female artist. Miss Boyle captured hearts across the globe with her audition on Britain's Got Talent last year. But even her greatest supporters may not have believed that the eccentric lady who still lives in her childhood home in Blackburn in the heart of West Lothian, would celebrate not just the number one album in Britain, but also Australia and Ireland. Scroll down to watch the MailOnline video report Top of the world: Susan Boyle has the fastest-selling worldwide debut album The album, I Dreamed A Dream - named after the Les Miserables tune that Miss Boyle sang at her audition - was last night confirmed as the fastest selling UK debut ever, shifting 411,820 copies in its first week - beating the previous fastest-selling debut of all time, Leona Lewis's Spirit. It is on course to top the charts in America, Canada and New Zealand. In the U.S., it has projected first-week sales of around one million. But while sales of the album were soaring, one TV presenter was facing the sack for calling her 'retarded'. Paul Henry has refused to apologise after saying on his New Zealand breakfast show that 'she is in fact retarded'. Miss Boyle, who has a minor learning disability, recorded the album just weeks after suffering a breakdown, following the Britain's Got Talent final in May where she was named runner-up. She spent four days being treated for exhaustion at the Priory clinic. Miss Boyle, who was yesterday rehearsing in London for her ITV Christmas special, released just a brief statement through her management: 'It's fantastic.' Simon Cowell, who signed Miss Boyle to his Syco record label, admitted to the Mail that he had been 'incredibly judgmental' when he first saw the singer at her audition. Cowell, 50, said: 'I think Susan Boyle was good for all of us. She was certainly good for me because I look at me in that first audition and I saw something which I didn't particularly like, which was incredibly judgmental. More... Wax Factor: Hirsute Simon Cowell has hair stripped from back of his hands 'So I think Susan is going to help an awful lot of people who didn't have the confidence to do this and realise that actually if you are determined and talented and people like you, you don't have to conform to what the music business has previously said.' He says she is 'a fly in the face of every talentless monster who's become famous for not actually doing anything, but of which there are thousands in the world today - just people who are famous for being useless'. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1231939/Susan-Boyles-No1--biggest-debut-star-all.html#ixzz0YMslGr8h Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue_girl Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 Answering your question, whos gonna buy this things.. ill tell you : me :p as x-mas gift to my mom :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mc_squared Posted November 30, 2009 Author Share Posted November 30, 2009 Answering your question, whos gonna buy this things.. ill tell you : me :p as x-mas gift to my mom :D :stunned: Can't you think of anything better to buy her?:confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue_girl Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 :laugh4: she likes her, and cd is cheapest thing i can find for now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mc_squared Posted November 30, 2009 Author Share Posted November 30, 2009 :laugh4: she likes her, and cd is cheapest thing i can find for now Wait until January and it'll be even cheaper - in fact, they'll probably be giving it away!:P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darlene_Ihnfsa Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 well seems that for xmas people like stuff like that, here in Spain last year most sold album for xmas was Il Divo :thinking: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mc_squared Posted November 30, 2009 Author Share Posted November 30, 2009 well seems that for xmas people like stuff like that, here in Spain last year most sold album for xmas was Il Divo :thinking: While I'm not an Il Divo fan, they're still infinitely better than Subo.:dozey: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Cadet Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 And this is why paying attention to trashy tabloid stories rots your brain, mr. mc_squared. :P Personal drama aside, she has a wonderful voice, and people all over the world fell in love with it. Of course the ones who like more populist music are going to buy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mc_squared Posted November 30, 2009 Author Share Posted November 30, 2009 Personal drama aside, she has a wonderful voice I disagree. She has a good voice, but an unexceptional one. There are far better singers of her ilk out there. We all know why this has really happened................... :dozey: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue_girl Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 Wait until January and it'll be even cheaper - in fact, they'll probably be giving it away!:P Haha:lol: maybe ! but my mom does not really want that cd :P you just give me a suggestion :awesome: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mc_squared Posted November 30, 2009 Author Share Posted November 30, 2009 Haha:lol: maybe ! but my mom does not really want that cd :P you just give me a suggestion :awesome: Something decent?:\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue_girl Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 Ye, a mp3 :) not to listen decent music though lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shipoffools Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 I like Susan. I might get this (for myself, of course. :P ) Does that mean I have bad taste in music? It's only 1 cd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mc_squared Posted November 30, 2009 Author Share Posted November 30, 2009 I like Susan. I might get this (for myself, of course. :P ) Does that mean I have bad taste in music? It's only 1 cd. But it could be the start of a slippery slope............................ :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest howyousawtheworld Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 She won Britain's Got Talent of course.... oh wait come to think of it she only came second??! Someone please remind me who came first? I've been itching to find out for months now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darlene_Ihnfsa Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 she has a wonderful voice, and people all over the world fell in love with it. ^this, and more considering it if she has never got music or singing lessons. I disagree. She has a good voice, but an unexceptional one. There are far better singers of her ilk out there. We all know why this has really happened................... :dozey: off course all opera singers have that good voice but they don't get such attention on the press ;) Does that mean I have bad taste in music? those things are relative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mc_squared Posted November 30, 2009 Author Share Posted November 30, 2009 She won Britain's Got Talent of course.... oh wait come to think of it she only came second??! Someone please remind me who came first? I've been itching to find out for months now. Are you sure it wasn't a dancing dog?:confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mc_squared Posted November 30, 2009 Author Share Posted November 30, 2009 ^this, and more considering it if she has never got music or singing lessons. off course all opera singers have that good voice but they don't get such attention on the press ;) Exactly, and of course, a large majority of the public are like sheep.:dozey: those things are relative. Unless of course you're a fan of the Jonas Brothers, in which case, the evidence is irrefutable!:P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Violet Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 well seems that for xmas people like stuff like that, here in Spain last year most sold album for xmas was Il Divo :thinking: I love Il Divo. Especially Carlos. :heart: :escaping: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Rose Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 Why it sold a lot: 1 - Supermarkets such as Tesco/Asda were selling it for cheap 2 - High promotional in such supermarkets 3 - People buying it for christmas for their mums/nans 4- The housewives united sleep buying it because she was on BGT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mc_squared Posted November 30, 2009 Author Share Posted November 30, 2009 3 - People buying it for christmas for their mums/nans So are there really so many mums and nans out there with such awful taste?:stunned: 4- The housewives united sleep buying it because she was on BGT Shouldn't that be sheep buying it?:rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Rose Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 Or so many kids out there thinking their mums/nans will like it :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PolarMonkey Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 She won Britain's Got Talent of course.... oh wait come to think of it she only came second??! Someone please remind me who came first? I've been itching to find out for months now. the winners were a dance group...hardly something you can market a music CD on. & look what happened with that George kid from the previous BGT - also a dance act....but managed to come up with an album with him rapping/singing/whatever, complete with music video. :confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmmaLouiseSmyth Posted November 30, 2009 Share Posted November 30, 2009 :laugh4: I was thinking about this the other day when i went into tescos, i felt like buying some cds, and went into see her face everywhere around the No.1 spot. D: I know of no one who has bought it, old or young. I flicked on to that child's news program Newsround today. Basically she just went around asking people if they bought it. I think she found one person.. :laugh4: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mc_squared Posted December 1, 2009 Author Share Posted December 1, 2009 :laugh4: I was thinking about this the other day when i went into tescos, i felt like buying some cds, and went into see her face everywhere around the No.1 spot. D: I know of no one who has bought it, old or young. I flicked on to that child's news program Newsround today. Basically she just went around asking people if they bought it. I think she found one person.. :laugh4: And that person will now be tarnished for life!!:P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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