News Item: "Talent" sensation to YouTube sensation to new record

News Item:
Susan Boyle album becomes biggest ever CD pre-order on Amazon.com

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While the world is fixated on Microsoft's official release of Windows 7 today, something far more relevant to my world caught my attention.


Susan Boyle set a record.
Well, she made a record album of course, but she also set a record.

Amazon.com announced that pre-order sales of her upcoming album has topped the all-time list of pre-orders, and there's still a month to go before the album is officially released (23 November, to be exact).


Susan's "I Dreamed a Dream" beat out some pretty heady competition to become the most-pre-ordered album, too:


1. Susan Boyle, "I Dreamed a Dream" (2009)
2. Norah Jones, "Not Too Late" (2007)
3. U2, "No Line on the Horizon" (2009)
4. Bruce Springsteen, "Magic" (2007)
5. Dixie Chicks, "Taking the Long Way" (2006)
6. Coldplay, "Viva La Vida" (2008)
7. U2, "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" (2004)
8. David Cook, "David Cook" (2008)
9. Diana Krall, "Quiet Nights" (2009)
10. Clay Aiken, "A Thousand Different Ways" (2006)


Way to go, Susan!