The new Susan Boyle – swan of the music scene
If you ever doubted the value of time just look at what difference a year can make. In January 2009, Susan Boyle walked onto the Britain’s Got Talent show as an ugly duckling 47-year-old hopeful from Scotland. The new Susan Boyle is a swan in the music scene, admired internationally and an inspiration to many.
More than 100 million people have watched Susan Boyle videos on YouTube, making her one of the most watched celebrities of all time. Her debut album “I Dreamed a Dream” topped the Billboard 200 album chart with sales of 701,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan, overtaking Eminem’s “Relapse” as the year’s best sales week for an album in the U.S. That’s the difference a year can make! Read more…
The Unstoppable Susan Boyle and memorable Paul Potts
Susan Boyle, the 47-year-old, fuzzy-haired, singleton, devout Catholic from Blackburn, West Lothian, Scotland did for her audition for Britain’s Got Talent and went home, not expecting much. “There was no big celebration. I just went home to bed. I do have the occasional glass of wine, but most of the time I’m teetotal. I prefer a half pint of lemonade.”
After a quite few months the audition was televised, on April, 11 2009, on ITV and posted on YouTube here. Susan Boyle’s rendition of I Dreamed A Dream from Les Miserables went viral; within two weeks the video was viewed more than 100 million times on the various video channels. The girl who, in her own words, “They called me Susan Simple” had become the angel of the internet, a global sensation. Susan Boyle was simply unstoppable. Read more…
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