Susan Boyle Set To Top The Billboard 200 For A Third Week!

Susan Boyle’s “I Dreamed a Dream” is on course to spend a third week atop the Billboard 200, as industry sources suggest the set will sell at least another 500,000 copies and could approach 600,000 by week’s end on Dec. 13.

This past week, Boyle’s “Dream” held on to the No. 1 slot for a second week with sales of 527,000, after bowing last week with 701,000. Now, with 1.23 million sold in its first two weeks, “Dream” is chasing after Taylor Swift’s “Fearless” (2.53 million sold this year) for the title of 2009’s best selling album. With four sales weeks left in the SoundScan tracking year, Boyle could overtake Swift’s sales figure by year’s end.

This wouldn’t be the first time a surprise fourth quarter release rallies to overtake the seemed-to-be-certain top seller of the year. Back in 2007, Josh Groban’s “Noel” was released 12 weeks before the end of the year and blew through 3.7 million in that span of time. Two weeks before the year was over, it had overtaken the soundtrack to “High School Musical 2″ (3 million) to become the year’s best seller. Two years ago this week, “Noel” sold 582,000 copies and then scored sales of 669,000 and 757,000 in the two successive weeks, respectively.

Meanwhile, the highest debut on the tally will come from either the second installment of the “Glee” television soundtrack, or Chris Brown’s new album, “Graffiti.” Currently, “Glee” is projected to sell between 110,000 and 120,000 in its first week, while Brown may shift 95,000 to 110,000.

After that, it looks like the currently jailed Gucci Mane will be the next biggest bow, as his “The State Vs. Radric Davis” could break out with 90,000. A little over a month ago, the first “Glee” soundtrack entered the chart at No. 4 with 113,000 sold copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. As for the beleaguered Brown, his last album, “Exclusive,” debuted at No. 4 in 2007 with 294,000.

50 Cent Wants To Work w/ Susan Boyle & Show Her Around!

50 Cent recently said that he would like to work with Scottish singing sensation Susan Boyle. The G-Unit leader thinks that the two could easily make a hit record together.

"Susan Boyle is hot right now . . . I got to get her on a track, for real," 50 said..LOL
"She's got an amazing voice, and together we'd get everyone dancing," he added. "I'm always looking to do something new and she's cool, so I'll ask somebody to let her know."

50 Cent said he wouldn't mind showing the Britain's Got Talent star around town either.
"She's cool. I'd love to take her clubbing, show her around my world. She'd have a great time," he added.

Boyle's debut album, I Dreamed a Dream, sold 701,000 copies in its first week. It awarded the singer the best first week sales of 2009 and the best-selling debut album by any woman since SoundScan began tracking in 1991...

Eminem To Get Outsold by Susan Boyle??

Scottish singer Susan Boyle, who shot to fame after her audition for Britain's Got Talent was aired in April, looks set to have one of the biggest album launches of the year.

I Dreamed A Dream, Boyle's debut album released by Sony Music, went on sale in Britain on Monday and hits stores in the key US market on Tuesday.

Based on early sales, pre-orders and online retailers' charts, the 48-year-old's album is in contention to beat this year's top US debut-week seller, Eminem's Relapse.

In Britain, music retailer HMV says the album appears set to become the biggest-selling album of the year.

"HMV is now revising significantly its estimate for the total weekly sales upward from the 300,000 that we initially projected to a figure closer to 400,000," HMV spokesman Gennaro Castaldo said.

"This would easily make the album the biggest and fastest-selling release of 2009. "You would have to go back a year to the release of Take That's The Circus in December last year, which sold 432,490 copies in its week of release, to find anything comparable during the past 12 months."

"The Circus" went on to sell more than two million copies and was the 27th best-selling album worldwide last year, according to industry figures.

Boyle's record arguably has stronger commercial potential than Take That's, given her media exposure in the United States.

Boyle won over the public with her rendition of Les Miserables song I Dreamed a Dream in April, and footage of the performance has been viewed more than 300 million times over the internet.

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