Snark Food » i dreamed a dream http://snarkfood.com Daily Gossip to feed your inner snark... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:39:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Susan Boyle Number One Album in U.S. Charts http://snarkfood.com/susan-boyle-number-one-album-in-u-s-charts/35964/ http://snarkfood.com/susan-boyle-number-one-album-in-u-s-charts/35964/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:24:51 +0000 Cameron http://snarkfood.com/?p=5964 Britain’s Got Talent star and YouTube darling Susan Boyle flew to the top of the U.S. charts with the release of her debut album, I Dreamed a Dream. The album was the best U.S. opening from a female artist since Nielsen began tracking sales in 1991.

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Susan Boyle also topped the British album sales charts earlier this week. Boyle’s album sold a record-setting 701,000 copies sold, even beating out American Idol alumni Adam Lambert‘s debut album, which came in at number three. Andrea Bocelli‘s My Christmas took the number two spot.

I Dreamed a Dream slugged out Eminem‘s previous record sales this year for Relapse, making it the biggest debut album of 2009 by far.

In a week that featured new albums by Lambert, Rihanna and Lady Gaga, pulling the number one spot is quite a coup for Susan Boyle.

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