Setting a Record With Her Debut Record

Susan Boyle’s album has already become the largest CD pre-order in the history of its online music store.

Susan Boyle’s dream is looking good. A month before Sony Music Entertainment is set to release her debut album, I Dreamed a Dream, on 23 November, amazon.com has announced that the album has already become the largest CD pre-order in the history of its online music store. Boyle, a 48-year-old Scottish singer, became an international star after her rendition of the song I dreamed a dream from Les Miserables at the reality TV show Britain’s Got Talent was posted at online forums like YouTube and Twitter. M Solano, a New York-based customer at amazon.com, commented on the website, ‘The very moment Susan Boyle began to sing at that audition, you just knew it would be incredible. It was like watching an emerging butterfly. Such a pure, beautiful sound.’ Though she finished second on the show, Boyle, with her plain looks, was the real reality TV triumph, receiving adulation in a world where youth and appearance matter more than anything else. While Amazon has not yet disclosed the exact number of pre-orders it has received till date, it revealed that Boyle has beaten the likes of Norah Jones, Coldplay, U2 and Bruce Springsteen. And the album is not out yet.

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