Dream Continues For Susan Boyle

06/12/2009

Susan Boyle’s debut album I Dreamed A Dream stays at number one for a second week in the Official UK Albums Chart with yet more phenomenal sales, the Official Charts Company confirms today.

Last week I Dreamed A Dream recorded the biggest first week sales for a debut album in chart history.  Now, in just two weeks, it has sold over 700,000 copies and is already one of the three best-selling albums of the entire year so far.

Top 3 Albums 2009 so far:

 Pos.  Artist               Title                      Weeks On Chart
   1  Kings Of Leon     Only By The Night            63
   2  Lady Gaga          The Fame                       47
   3  Susan Boyle        I Dreamed A Dream         2

Martin Talbot, MD, the Official Charts Company said:

"Susan Boyle’s debut was historic and we expect ‘The Susan Boyle Effect’ to be felt in the charts for a long time to come yet.”

There are two new entries in the Official UK Albums Chart Top 10: 

Westlife score their twelfth Top 10 album with Where We Are a new entry at number two. 

Take That’s live album The Greatest Day – The Circus Live is new at number three.  With over 123,000 copies sold in its first week it is the fastest-selling live album since 1994. Take That’s DVD, The Circus Live, the fastest-selling music DVD of all time, is the number one music DVD for the second week running.

In the Official UK Singles Chart, Official BBC Children In Need Medley by Peter Kay’s Animated All Stars, stays at number one for a second week. 

There are two new entries in the Official UK Singles Chart Top 10: Alicia Keys with Doesn’t Mean Anything at number nine and Timbaland feat. Nelly Furtado with Morning After Dark at number ten.

Notes to Editors:

1.   Chart information quoted from this release must be credited to The Official Charts Company

2.  The Official Charts Company (OCC) is a joint venture between record labels’ body the BPI and ERA, the Entertainment Retailers Association.   The OCC is responsible for the commissioning, marketing, distribution and management of the UK’s industry standard music and video charts and is endorsed by the BVA (British Video Association).

3. The Official Charts Company compiles its charts from sales information gathered across all key distribution (or entertainment) channels including all major high street retail chains, independent stores, supermarkets, mail order internet retailers and digital music service providers. This market research sample equates to 99% of the total UK Singles market; 98% of the total UK Albums market and 90% of the total UK DVD market.

For further information contact:
Amy Howard, Official Charts Company.
: 01480 860 530  M. 07768 891 264
E: amy@theofficialcharts.com
         www.theofficialcharts.com

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