Britain’s Got Talent star Susan Boyle is on course to have the fastest-selling album of the year in the UK.

HMV have revealed that Susan’s debut album I Dreamed a Dream has sold almost 150,000 copies on its first day of release.

“The Susan Boyle story just keeps getting bigger and more fantastic,” spokesperson Gennaro Castaldo said.

”Our hmv.com online store had one of its largest ever pre-orders for an album and now we’re seeing a huge surge in demand in our stores, though especially in Susan’s native Scotland.

”People of all ages seem to be buying it, and it’s clearly going to be one of the must-have gift items this Christmas.

”Susan’s accomplished performance on The X Factor has given the album a massive, timely boost, and it now has the momentum to challenge the likes of Leona, JLS and The Soldiers for the Christmas number one.”

Online retailer Amazon have previously revealed that I Dreamed a Dream has broken all previous records and achieved the largest global CD pre-orders in the history of the site.

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.

A source told The Sun: “Simon is not taking any chances.

“This woman is constantly following Susan around the world. It is a middle-aged American woman who has become obsessed with her.

“At first, people thought it was no more than a nuisance. But after what happened to Leona everyone is taking extra precautions.

“This is an important month for Susan and everyone wants it to go smoothly.”

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.”

“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.”

Susan Boyle has reportedly been signed up for a ITV Christmas special this December.

The News Of The World reports that the Britain’s Got Talent star will host ‘An Audience With Susan Boyle’ for the channel.

A source told the newspaper: “Everyone is really excited about the show. With the huge worldwide appeal of Susan, the show could be screened right across the globe and potentially be one of the biggest ratings successes for ITV ever.”

Susan will reportedly sing tracks from her new album and talk about her life before and after fame.

Britain’s Got Talent star, Susan Boyle, has reportedly taken up boxing to keep fit and de-stress.

The Sun reports that Susan’s pal took her to a local boxing class in Scotland, where she fell in love with the sport.

One said: “Susan has been pretty stressed out by the whole worldwide fame thing and needed something to get her head straight.

“She was taken to a boxing gym and loved it. She put on the gloves and the boots and did some working out on a punch bag. She is a boxing but had never tried it before.

“One of her favourite songs is Eye Of The Tiger from the Rocky movie.”

Susan Boyle has revealed the tracklisting for her debut album I Dreamed a Dream.

The album will be released in the UK on November 23, just in time for the Christmas market.

Boyle said: “It was my greatest ambition to release an album and I have finally achieved it.

“This amazing journey has helped me find my own identity and fulfil my wish. There is happiness out there for everyone who dares to dream.”

The album features 11 cover versions and one new song, ‘Who I Was Born To Be’, written especially for Boyle.

The full tracklisting is as follows:

* ‘Wild Horses’
* ‘I Dreamed A Dream’
* ‘Cry Me A River’
* ‘How Great Thou Art’
* ‘You’ll See’
* ‘Daydream Believer’
* ‘Up To The Mountain’
* ‘Amazing Grace’
* ‘Who I Was Born To Be’
* ‘Proud’
* ‘The End of The World’
* ‘Silent Night’

JLS - X Factor 2008

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.

Bandmember JB Gill admitted that he lurves Dannii Minogue and Cheryl Cole but can’t stand Amanda Holden.

“I’d snog Dannii and marry Cheryl,” he said.

“I’d avoid Amanda Holden, though – she’s not genuine, is she? Everything she does comes across as a facade.”

Britain’s Got Talent stars Stavros Flatley are raking in £200,000 per week since appearing on the show in June.

Th father and son act are in big demand and regularly perform at four gigs a day, charging £10,000 a time.

A source told Th Sun: “Stavros have performed all over the UK.

They’re very popular at sporting events but it’s corporate events which are most popular and with the Christmas party season coming up, they’re sure to be in the money well into the next year.”

Simon Cowell was very impressed by Susan Boyle’s performance on America’s Got Talent last week, saying that she was ’staggeringly good.’

The Britain’s Got Talent judge told The Mirror:

“I thought her performance was staggeringly good and I felt amazingly proud of her. It hasn’t been easy for her as we all know.

“It was a personal triumph and I was very very happy for her.

“I am really happy with the record and I am going to say that it will be the biggest album of the year.

“She has a broad reach of fans so we have made an album to appeal to that.”

Poor little Perri Luc Kiely. His dance group, Diversity, were invited to perform for Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday and in the midst of their performance he backflipped, then fell.

Mr Brown looked on in disbelief as the 13 year old collapsed in fits of tears, probably more embarrassed than hurt, and had to be comforted by his team mates.

A spokesman for the group said Perri was “absolutely fine, just a bit shocked”.