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Susan Boyle has reached number one

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Susan Boyle has reached number one in the US and European album charts as expected with her amazing “I Dreamed a Dream”.

Susan is said have already made £5million in under to weeks from 3.5m sales world wide of her début album of the same name.

It is the best US opening for any female artist’s début album, and the second best overall, since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991

Susan’s original appearance on the talent show that launched her onto world wide fame has been viewed over 300 million times today just on YouTube and she went on to attracted an army of celebrity followers including Demi Moore.

Her newest fan comes a bit of a surprise – 50 Cent, the 34-year-old rapper who was shot nine times before finding fame, is the latest celebrity to praise Boyle.

“Susan Boyle is hot right now. I got to get her on a track, for real. We’d make a hit,” he told the Daily Mirror.

“Everyone is talking about her, the lady from Britain’s Got Talent.

“She’s got an amazing voice, and together we’d get everyone dancing. I’m always looking to do something new and she’s cool, so I’ll ask somebody to let her know.”

He added: “I’d love to take her clubbing, show her around my world. She’d have a great time.”

I feel more refined now

Magnificent: Susan Boyle performed a triumphant new version of I Dreamed a Dream at the final but it was not quite enough to win the public vote for the top prize

Susan has revealed that she decided to have a makeover after seeing herself on television.

She explained that she was very unhappy about being described as the “Hairy Angel” by the press.

“I was fed up with being called that,” she explained to the Daily Mail. “I didn’t know what I looked like on television until I saw myself on Britain’s Got Talent. I saw this wee wifey with the mad hairdo and the bushy eyebrows and said, ‘Hmm, not really telegenic’.

“So I decided to spruce myself up a bit. When I look in the mirror now, I see this sophisticated lady. I’m still a bit like that wee wifey inside, but more refined in some ways. Would you want to look like the Hairy Angel? I don’t think so.”

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Susan Boyle before

Susan Boyle  felt like she was in a pressure cooker during Britain’s Got Talent.

In an interview with the Daily Mail, Susan  explained that she had not been prepared for all the media attention and ended up being admitted to The Priory following the show’s final.

“Everything had built up and I was exhausted,” she said. “There were a lot of press people outside my door, a lot of television people, a lot of people who wanted a piece of me. I thought, ‘God, what’s happening here? I’m a reasonable singer but I never expected that’.

“It got to the stage where I couldn’t even go outside because the media – American television crews too – surrounded the house. I had to draw my blinds, and even after that they started hammering on my door.

“I was quite frightened. I felt very vulnerable, because I was living on my own. There were phonecalls 24 hours a day. They kept me awake for three weeks, until I changed my number. It was just constant. I don’t know anybody else from a talent show who got that.

“It was like being inside a giant pressure cooker, where the lid bubbles up and bubbles up and soon the pressure cooker goes.”

Boyle added that the pressure continued to increase as the show went on, explaining: “It was totally out of control, like a steamroller. It just got bigger and bigger and bigger, until eventually it can flatten you.”

Susan who had  became unwell after finishing in second place due to the enormous pressure, said she had been determined to perform

“I just went through to the dressing room and I don’t know what was wrong,” she said. “I couldn’t even see properly. I hadn’t eaten for about a week, hadn’t slept properly. It was like looking at everything through a glass, and the feeling was one of extreme exhaustion that manifested itself in firing off at everyone.

“It was like the dream had gone pop – a baby that’s had the sweeties taken away. I was just being childish. I so desperately wanted to make a record. I wanted to prove myself a bit more, but maybe I was pushing myself a bit too hard. I felt I’d got so close.

“I don’t remember much else. I just know someone sent for an ambulance and I went to The Priory. I needed to sleep. I was too tired to even think straight. I’m much stronger now, though.”

Susan Boyle X Factor

Magnificent: Susan Boyle performed a triumphant new version of I Dreamed a Dream at the final but it was not quite enough to win the public vote for the top prize

Susan Boyle is to appear on the The X Factor on the 22 of November and will sing her debut single ‘Wild Horses’
Susan’s appearance is also timed to help the hit ITV show X Factor win the ratings war against the  BBC One rival Strictly Come Dancing
“We’re going all out to annihilate Strictly this year,” a source said. “These big signings will really help us.
“Simon Cowell is very excited about Susan coming back but wants to make sure she excels. It’s going to be nerve-racking for her being at the very same place where she lost Britain’s Got Talent. The pressure can get to her and he’s decided not to sign another big-name act for that night so everything is focused around her.”
It was also confirmed yesterday that Susan  will be performing on the hit US show Dancing With The Stars.

Michael Buble on Susan Boyle

michael Buble on Susan Boyle

Michael Bublé has admitted that orignally he did not see what all the fuss and media hype was about regarding Susan Boyle.

Bublé explained that he would now love to work along side Susan, who he also described as “lovely”.

“I didn’t understand Susan Boyle,” he told the Daily Express. “I was cynical and critical because I had never seen her in that first show where she comes up and says, ‘I want to be a singer’ and the audience looks at her and says, ‘Oh please!’ I got goosebumps.

“I’m going to go when this record comes out and buy 20 copies… because what a beautiful story of an underdog. It gives me faith in the human condition that we still have that kind of feeling that we actually want the good guy to win.

“It killed me. It really is a beautiful, beautiful story.”

Bublé was also full of praised for Susan Boyle’s success after she shot to fame on reality show Britain‘s Got Talent.

“It’s proof that they can be more than just a flash in the pan,” he said.

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Susan Boyle will sing on X Factor in November

Susan Boyle on the X Factor

Susan Boyle is to apear live on the X Factor shows in November

According to The Mirror, the Britain’s Got Talent runner-up’s performance will coincide with the release of her debut album I Dreamed A Dream.

A show insider said: “It makes perfect sense and will create a big buzz.

“There are two shows to fill on Saturday and Sunday nights now, so they’re also planning guest appearances from previous winners and runners-up as well as celebrity guests.”

X Factor presenter Dermot O’Leary earlier this year said that Susan would sing a duet with a mystery performer when she appears on the show later in the year.

Alexandra Burke – last years winner and former Take That star Robbie Williams will also perform on the first live programmes.

There have been rumors that the second week will feature live music from Whitney Houston and show judge Cheryl Cole.

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Susan Boyle’s album is going to sell millions – Simon Cowell

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Simon Cowell thinks that Susan Boyle debut album ‘I Dreamed A Dream’ will sell millions when it is released in November this year.

For a a time Susan future seemed uncertain after she was admited to The Priory clinic after coming second on Britain’s Got Talent earlier on this year.

Susan who had been the favourite to win after becoming a youtube sensation, came second to dance troupe Diversity in the final.

Speaking about susan , Simon told a US TV show: “I think at the point where she didn’t win, she was afraid everything would be taken away from her and she was going to go back to that little house. She didn’t want to go back to that life.”

“After all the dust settled, she was happy. She is stunning on record. She’s going to sell millions of records this year.”

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Susan Boyle documentary for Japan

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Susan Boyle’s meteoric rise to fame is being made into a documentary for the Japanese.

Producers will soon be travelling to Blackburn in Scotland, where Susan lived till her sudden fame after appearing on  Britain’s Got Talent

Kanako Hiramoto a Japanese broadcaster NHK told the Sunday Mirror: “We wanted to tell the story of the Susan Boyle phenomenon and how the world responded to her remarkable performance on Britain’s Got Talent.

“People in Japan are fascinated by the story.”

The documentary,  featuring  a number of interviews, including those with fans at the Happy Valley pub where Susan sang karaoke, and one with Del and Leslie McMillan, who have established tours around the star’s hometown.