Susan Boyle’s debut album I Dreamed a Dream has broken all previous records and achieved the largest global CD pre-orders in the history of Amazon.
The Britain’s Got Talent star, who will appear on this weekend’s X Factor, broke the record set by Japanese rock group Mr Children’s Supermarket Fantasy in 2008.
“Just eight months ago, no-one was aware of the talents of Susan Boyle. Now, she has generated more Amazon pre-order CD sales globally than any other artist,” Julian Monaghan said.
Britain’s Got Talent runner up Susan Boyle, has admitted that she auditioned for the show as part of a promise she made to her late mother.
The 48 year old told The Sun:
“I had promised my mum I would do something with my life just before she died – that I’d do something with my singing. So I applied for Britain’s Got Talent.”
Britain’s Got Talent star Susan Boyle has her very own stalker!
The singer, who has become famous all over the world, has been followed by a middle aged American woman and the last straw came when she showed up at Susan’s Scottish home this week. The woman was intercepted by a security guard, but after the recent assault on Leona Lewis, Simon Cowell has ordered extra security coverage for Subo.
Michael Bublé has admitted that due to missing Susan Boyle’s first Britain’s Got Talent audition, he didn’t initially understand her appeal.
“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.”
Daniel Fox has admitted that he plans to audition for Britain’s Got Talent next year.
The opera singer reached the judge’s houses stage of this years X Factor, but was sent home when Cheryl Cole chose Lloyd Daniels, Joseph McElderry and Rikki Loney as her final three singers.
Britain’s Got Talent judge, Piers Morgan has claimed that he deserves “every penny” of his current ITV contract. He added that he actually thinks he deserves a raise next year.
“I’ve got no problem if they take it away from somebody else who feels guilty about this type of thing, because I have absolutely no guilt issues about my salary whatsoever,” he told The Sun.
“I think it’s time the talent fall back and go, ‘Hang on a second, without us, you don’t have networks’.”
JLS have expressed their dislike for the new X Factor format, saying that it is too similar to Britain’s Got Talent.
“I watched it and expected to get a weird feeling because we were there a year ago, but I didn’t. It’s a completely different show now,” Aston Merrygold told Gay Times.
“It’s too much like Britain’s Got Talent now,” Ortise Williams added.