The numbers were close between Susan Boyle and Taylor Swift for the number one US Christmas album but Taylor Swift beat Susan Boyle by selling 5,000 more than Boyle. This is the second time the British singer has been knocked off the top of the Billboard Chart by Taylor Swift. Susan Boyle became an international star after her performance of, I Dreamed a Dream ,on a TV show . . Last week Boyle’s album called The Gift sold.254,000 while Swift album called Speak Now sold 259,000.Last year in October for the third time Swift 21 ,has topped the Billboard Chart since the release of Speak Now.
Her biggest selling album in the US in 2009 was Fearless that was originally released in 2008 .Boyle’s second album topped the UK and US charts in November ,less than 12 months after her debut she gained the same chart position , a feat only equaled by the Beatles and the Monkees. Third in line was a album by the late Michael Jackson called Michael selling 228,000. The projected sales of his album that record company Epic was hoping for was 400,000 .
The biggest seller in the US with sales of 3.2 million was Eminem’s Recovery .
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