This is a feel-good story for me, and I suspect many others. It seems that Susan Boyle's miraculous journey is not yet over. Her first album has just been released, and it has become the best-selling debut album in UK chart history. So far, 410,000 copies of the album have been sold.Simon Cowell, one of the judges on the TV show Britain's Got Talent (where she was discovered), said he was proud of her and the success couldn't have happened to a nicer person. He said, "She did it her way and made a dream come true. In Britain's Got Talent she opened her mouth and the world fell in love with her, which is why her album has been the fastest selling of any woman making her debut."
And it looks like the album is poised to do the same in the United States. The album may well break the record for first week sales in the U.S. (set in 2009 by Eminem).
This is a marvelous story. Too often, record companies pass up real talent for sexy, pretty or handsome singers who need studio help to make the grade. Ms. Boyle has smashed all those preconceptions.
It would behoove record producers to pay more attention to true musical talent and creativity, and less to a performer's looks. After all, if we want something sexy, we can always rent a porno.
And for those of you wondering what to get an old blogger for christmas -- a Susan Boyle CD would do nicely.
good for her..hope she makes a zillion dollars and lives happily ever after..
ReplyDeleteI just hope Simon Cowell has got the support for her properly set up now. Poor woman nearly exploded at the end of Britain's Got Talent.
ReplyDeleteI hope so too. She's too nice a person to be torn apart by the industry.
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