Susan Boyle Year 1, 2009 - CLICK HERE
Susan Boyle Year 2, 2010 - CLICK HERE
Susan Boyle Year 3, 2011 - CLICK HERE
Susan Boyle Year 4, 2012 - CLICK HERE
Susan Boyle Year 5, 2013 - CLICK HERE
Susan Boyle Year 6, 2014 - CLICK HERE
Susan Boyle Year 7, 2015 - CLICK HERE
Susan Boyle Year 8, 2016 - CLICK HERE
Susan Boyle Year 9, 2017 - CLICK HERE
Images and Lyrics 'I Dreamed a Dream' - CLICK HERE
Images and Lyrics 'The Gift' CLICK HERE
Images and Lyrics 'Someone To Watch Over Me' CLICK HERE
Images and Lyrics 'Standing Ovation' CLICK HERE
Images and Lyrics 'Home For Christmas CLICK HERE
Images and Lyrics 'Hope' CLICK HERE
Images and Lyrics 'A Wonderful World' CLICK HERE
Susan Boyle Duets CLICK HERE
Susan Boyle Charity Choices CLICK HERE
Susan Boyle Quotes Posters, CLICK HERE, HERE, HERE
Susan Boyle Miscellaneous Posters CLICK HERE
Compilation Albums Featuring Susan Boyle CLICK HERE
Books Dedicated to Susan Boyle CLICK HERE
Susan Boyle Fan Meets Posters CLICK HERE
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ACHIEVEMENTS BY SUSAN BOYLE
NOTE: Susan's 7th Album, A Wonderful World, was released in the USA with no promotion at all, therefore reaching only #150 on Billboard.
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ALSO.........
* Most pre-release orders ever in Amazon history worldwide.
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* Highest sales ever for a single artist on QVC Shopping Channel (Dream)
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* Debuted on the World Chart at #1 twice within one year - IDAD, 2009, The Gift, 2010
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* IFPI’s Platinum Europe Awards were launched in 1996 to honour artists who achieve album sales of one million units in physical and digital formats across Europe. To this day the ‘Plats’ are an established hallmark of success for artists in Europe. The most successful entry of 2009 was Susan Boyle’s I Dreamed A Dream with sales of nearly three million. (Susan surpassed 3 million (Europe Awards) in 2010.)
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* #5 on List of Artists with the Most Weeks at #1 on the World United Albums Chart since 2004 (7 weeks for 'I Dreamed A Dream in 2009)
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* Most watched Youtube Video of the Year (BGT Audition) 2009
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* I Dreamed A Dream was the Best Selling Album in the World in 2009
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* Best Selling Female Debut Album in Soundscan Era according to Rolling Stone Magazine (This refers to sales in the first week of a debut album.)
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NOTE: In the July 6, 2015 edition of Time Magazine USA, Susan was recognized for this achievement under the title 'Who Is Exceptional?'
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
* Boyle is the first woman ever to sell over 500,000 albums each week for 5 consecutive weeks in Billboard's Soundscan history (1991).
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* Boyle's 'The Gift' was the first Holiday Album ever to debut in the #1 spot on Billboard 200.
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* One of only 2 people in USA in 2009 to sell over 3 million albums. Taylor Swift did it in 12 months. Susan Boyle did it in six weeks.
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* The Gift became the fastest selling Holiday album in both UK and USA in Soundscan History.
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* Boyle's 'The Gift' was the Best Selling Christmas Album of the year in USA 2010
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* Achieved Platinum rating in first week shipped CDs. In Oct, 2010, the RIAA announced Susan Boyle's 'The Gift' was 3X Platinum, and that her 'I Dreamed A Dream' was the highest certified album (6XPlatinum) of 2009.
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* Received Billboard 200 ALBUM OF THE YEAR for 'I Dreamed A Dream' (most sales for an album in Billboard's Year)
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* Susan Boyle was chosen 'Celebrity Of The Year 2009 by Fox News - USA
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* Susan Boyle now has the honor of having had the first #1 album of 2010 with I Dreamed A Dream, and also the final one of the year (chart is dated December 25) with The Gift. She was also the only solo artist to have 2 albums reach #1 in 2010 USA.
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* Susan became only the seventh woman ever to have her first two albums debut at #1 on Billboard 200 in their 56 years of chart history.
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* With 'The Gift', Susan ranks in the Top Ten on Nielsen/Soundscan's year end chart two years in a row. (She was #2 in 2009 with Dream, she is #5 in 2010 with The Gift - in both cases achieved with just weeks of selling time.)
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* With her third album, 'Someone To Watch Over Me' reaching #4 on Billboard, Susan now has had her first three albums in the top Five on Billboard 200. Her fourth album reached #12.
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* In December, 2013, Susan Boyle's second album 'The Gift' reentered the Billboard 200 Chart for the 4th consecutive year.
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* With her fifth album, 'Home For Christmas' Susan Boyle reached #3 on the Billboard Holiday Album Chart (USA) giving her the highest placement of any UK singer. In her 9 weeks on the Holiday Chart she was never lower than #5.
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* In 2014, 'Home For Christmas was on the Billboard Holiday Album Chart for 10 weeks and also briefly reappeared on the Billboard 200 Chart
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AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
*I Dreamed A Dream is the highest selling debut album in New Zealand chart history
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* Dream became the #1 Album 2 years in a row in New Zealand - 2009,2010! (Gift is multi-platinum in NZ having debuted at #1.)
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* In selling more than platinum over the counter in a single week, a massive achievement, Susan Boyle joins Guy Sebastian and Pink as the only artists to have achieved the feat on three occasions (since ARIA started tracking sales electronically in 1997).
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* "Susan Boyle has become the first act to place two albums in an ARIA Top 100 Album Chart top 5 since Abba in 1976, I Dreamed A Dream featuring at two and recent release The Gift at five in the 2010 top 100."
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* Boyle is the firs artist ever to sell over 100,000 per week for two consecutive weeks in Australia. (In the first week, she outsold the rest of the Top 5 Albums combined.)
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* Boyle's I Dreamed A Dream album became the first album to sell 165,000 in a 7 day period in Australia.
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OTHER
* Achieved Best Selling Album of the Year in Canada, 2009 (Dream) 5X Platinum
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* In Italy, it was the first album of the month in the Italian #1 Account by a non-Italian artist ever. (Dream)
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* Boyle was the Best Selling UK artist in the world in both 2009 and 2010. (3rd in 2011, 6th in 2012)
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* Opened at #1 on World United Chart and remained in the top spot for 7 consecutive weeks. (Dream)
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* Boyle was the only artist in 2010 2 have 2 Albums in the Top 40 Best Sellers of the year (#7, #14)
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* On May 16, 2012, Scott Kyle, Artistic Director for the Regal Theatre, Bathgate, UK announced that Susan Boyle had accepted to be Patron of the Regal Theatre. It is the theatre where she first performed 'I Dreamed A Dream', pre-fame.
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AWARDS and NOMINATIONS
* Won the 'Scot of the Year' Award at the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Awards in December, 2009 as voted by the people of Scotland.
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* Won the Scotscare Scot of the Year title in 2010 in a poll with voting worldwide, with 95% of the vote - the largest win in Scotscare's history.
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* Nominated for a People's Choice award (Best Breakout Artist) USA
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* Nominated for a Juno Award (Best International Album) Canada
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* WON Gold Disc Award - Top International Artist - Japan
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* WON Golden Chinese Music Award (Most Influential International Artist) China
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* WON World Music Award (Best Selling Artist in UK) (Also Nominated - BEST NEW ARTIST and WORLD'S BEST ALBUM)
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* Nominated for an Aria Award (Australia) Most Popular International Artist
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* Nominated for a Grammy (USA) for Best Pop Vocal Album - 'I Dreamed A Dream'.
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* Awarded 'Outstanding Achievement' trophy at the Scottish Variety Awards, March 19, 2011
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* Nominated for 2 Billboard Magazine Awards - Top Billboard 200 Artist and Top Billboard 200 Album.
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* June, 2011 - In her home village of Blackburn during the summer 'Gala' Susan Boyle was presented a Special Achievement Award "in recognition of her enormous success world-wide and the honour that it bestows upon the town in which she has lived all her life".
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* NOMINATED - Grammy (USA), Best Traditional Pop Vocal - 'The Gift' 2010
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* Overall Winner as well as Winner in Music/Entertainment category 'BEST IN BRITAIN' - THE GREAT EXHIBITION 2012 Poll
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* WINNER FANS CHOICE - Scottish Music Awards - Nov 23 in Glasgow
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* Nominated: Bighearted Entertainer of the Year - Scotland
http://www.sundaypost.com/that-s-lif...-year-1.145879
* Winner - RADIO FORTH MUSIC ICON AWARD - Edinburgh, Scotland, Nov 7, 2013
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* On June 28, 2012 it was announced by Saint Margaret University, Edinburgh, Scotland, that Susan Boyle would receive an Honorary Doctorate on July 6, 2012, in recognition of her contributions to the creative industries.
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* Susan Boyle received her second Honorary Degree on June 30, 2015, this from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow.
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MISCELLANEOUS
* Susan Boyle's YouTube videos, when you combine all of them together, have been viewed more than 680,375,000 times!!!
NOTE: For complete count of individual categories of Susan YouTube videos, please visit the first post in this thread by Lisa Pulley who counts them:
YOUTUBE HITS FOR SUSAN
* Susan Boyle had her first Television Special in December 2009 which has since been shown in many countries around the world. It attracted over 10 million viewers in UK and was most watched Doc on TV Guide Network in USA
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* First documentary about Susan was called 'Susan Boyle: An Unlikley Superstar' It received top rating in it's slot for UK debut, went Platinum as a DVD in Australia and has been sold to 88 countries around the world.
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* Susan Boyle has featured on billboards across the USA for 'Values.com' for 3 years. (She Lived A Dream. Live Your Dreams was the text, with a photo of Susan.)
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* On September 16, 2010 Susan Boyle sang live before a massive crowd of between 65,000-70,000 with a tv/internet audience estimated at one billion, for the Papal Mass in Scotland. Facing straight into the wind, she gave a performance as if she were a seasoned professional of many years - and yet in fact, it was still less than one year since her first album was released.
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* In March 2012 a Musical Stage Show began which tells the story of Susan's life. It is called 'I Dreamed A Dream' and premiered in Newcastle, UK, , and then toured the UK. It stars Scottish actress/singer Elaine C. Smith. Susan often toured with the play, closing the show herself over 60 times.
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* In May, 2012 Susan Boyle performed for the Queen during the Diamond Jubilee Celebrations in May, and then fulfilled a dream by meeting her personally.
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* A second documentary about Susan called 'Something About Susan' aired in December, 2013. It follows her as she prepares for and does her first tour (in Scotland) singing 24 songs over 2 hours. She also reveals her diagnosis of Aspergers' Syndrome. The doc was the second most watched of the night when it aired.
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* 'Home For Christmas' was the best selling Holiday Album in the UK by a UK artist in 2013. As of Dec 30, 2013 - 119K. Second place, Leona Lewis - 104K
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*On her fifth album 'Home For Christmas' Boyle becomes the first UK artist ever given permission by the Presley Estate to record a duet with the late Elvis Presley.
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TOURS
* First Tour: Susan performed a mini tour in Scotland (Susan Boyle In Concert), 7 shows, singing 24 songs, on stage for over 2 hours, with great reviews. Another primetime documentary ('There's Something About Susan') has been filmed about the rehearsals and concerts for release December, 2013.
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In Spring 2014, Susan Boyle toured the UK giving 19 concerts in 19 cities in March/April
In Fall 2014 Susan Boyle toured the southern USA giving 18 concerts in 18 cities.
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