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Susan Boyle is officially a worldwide phenomenon. After breaking the record for the fastest-selling debut album in U.K. history, Boyle has conquered American shores as well with I Dreamed a Dream.

With more than 700,000 in sales, according to Columbia Records, Dream will not only claim the biggest debut of 2009 in the U.S. when it charts next week — beating out the 608,000 for Eminem’s Relapse but will also earn Boyle the highest debut ever for a female solo artist on the Billboard 200 in the SoundScan era. The previous record was held by Ashanti’s self-titled 2002 debut, which sold 503,000 in its first week. Hot Deals on Popular New Releases at Amazon.com

Since its release last week, Boyle’s album has sold almost 3 million copies worldwide and hit the #1 spot in Australia, Ireland, Canada and New Zealand. By the time of its official release, it had also become the biggest pre-order in the history of the Amazon.com music store and, according to Columbia, broken pre-sales records on QVC and Barnes & Noble online.

Boyle’s mentor and “Britain’s Got Talent” judge Simon Cowell congratulated his charge on her global success in a statement. “I’m incredibly proud of Susan and delighted for her,” he said. “This success couldn’t have happened to a more deserving person. Susan Boyle quite simply has broken the rules. Her story is like a Hollywood movie, but this time it’s real life and a really talented, nice lady who has won.” Dream features a mix of Boyle’s signature covers of “I Dreamed a Dream” and “Cry Me a River,” as well as versions of the Rolling Stones’ “Wild Horses,” the Madonna tune “You’ll See,” the Monkees’ “Daydream Believer,” hymns “How Great Thou Art” and “Amazing Grace,” the Christmas standard “Silent Night” and one original song written for Boyle, “Who I Was Born to Be.”

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Harry Potter – Joanne’s Dream

Late in June of 1997 in London a publishing company released what was to become a cultural phenomenon. The book’s author, a teacher, would go on to become a household name. Her journey took her from Gloucestershire, England, where she was born, through Exeter, a town in the south coast of England where she went to university, to a job as a research assistant for Amnesty International and on to teaching. Joanne Rowling’s lifelong dream was to be a writer…she succeeded.

Since the release of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (the title was edited to Sorcerer’s Stone in America because it was thought we wouldn’t associate magic and wizardry with the word Philosopher), the book now a series, has garnered world-wide attention, countless fans, numerous awards and accolades, drawing attention from film producers, video game makers and merchandisers.

The list of awards Rowling’s has received?

– 4 Whitaker Platinum Book Awards in 2001

– 3 Nestle Smarties Book Prizes in ’97 and again in ’99

– 2 Scottish Arts Council Book Awards

– the first ever Whitbread children’s book of the year award in ’99

– and in 2006, the WHSmith book of the year

Oh, and her little friend, Harry Potter, who borrows his name from Rowling’s childhood neighbors, is a legend FROM her own mind.

Fans waited in long lines as the hours tick down to the official release date of each new book… many times at midnight! Special security measures had to be taken to ensure no books were sold before the actual date. Book store owners had to sign legal documents insuring they would not even open the boxes before then.

Numerous conventions, conferences and symposiums have sprung up all over the world. People couldn’t and apparently still can’t get enough of Harry and his clan. These gatherings feature speakers, book and film discussions, games and costumes. Just recently (May 2007)the was a conference in New Orleans – Phoenix Rising which ran from May 17th to the 21st.

From the site:

“The conference will examine the novels, the movies, and the extraordinary fan phenomenon during the day; then, attendees will revel with the beat of the Crescent City herself rising from ash and flame when evening advances.”

For those of you who might have missed it, don’t worry, there’s another schedules for August 7-11, 2008, in Chicago.

The impact on the publishing world was immense. So great was the clamor for each new book in the series that the New York Times was persuaded to reformat its best-seller list. Harry was taking up too many slots on the list. In 2002 just before the release of Goblet Of Fire the Times created a separate list for Harry Potter and the children’s book category.

The New York Times wasn’t alone. FedEx used 9,000 trucks whose sole purpose was to deliver the Goblet Of Fire to eager fans. Book retailers like Barnes and Noble, Amazon and Borders pre-sold books in spectacular amounts – 700,000 copies of Goblets Of Fire. Sales records were shattered with each new release.

In all the books alone have sold over 325 million copies worldwide. With the subsequent films, video games and merchandising that followed, Joanne, aka J. K. Rowling by her fans, is a billionaire.

In spite of her success, or maybe because of it, she and Harry have their critics. Right wing conservatives claim the premise of the series is designed to entice the younger generation over to the dark side by glorifying witchcraft. Personally, I think Bewitched already did that. But if you’re really that concerned that a work of pure fantasy will convince your child it’s ok to turn his 6th grade math teacher into the next slimy little spokesman for Geico, then learn calculus and help your child with his homework! On a side note – I have nothing against the Geico gecko, I think using cute little animals to sell insurance is brilliant.

For those of you dealing with separation anxiety over the departure of Harry and his gang, fear not! Although Rowling has decided to retire the teenaged wizard, she does plan to write an encyclopedia, an epilogue, which would detail some background information derived from the narrative, what happens after Deathly Hallows and reveals who will step into the Hogwart Headmaster’s position.

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Why did Susan Boyle’s Album, I Dreamed a Dream, beats Amazon’s pre-ordered sales records?

This Sunday I watched the news on our Spanish television, and a headline with a short report came up. “Susan Boyle’s debut CD sets Amazon pre-ordered sales record”. I do not recall to have heard Susan sing any song for the  Album, I Dreamed a Dream, in the trailer, but I remembered a picture of the “woman”; …”ugly” even a little “silly” looking, with a terrible haircut and hairy eyebrows. My first thought was that I had seen Susan Boyle’s mother’s images and not the artist herself.

Before I continue, I may first introduce myself a little. I am German (excusing my deficient English), living in Spain, married to a lovely Spanish woman and father of a wonderful 14 years old teenager Yes! A Teenager, but still wonderful!). I am working all day and have little time to watch television. As I never had heard the name Susan Boyle, I asked my daughter whether she knew anything about Susan and her new Album, I Dreamed a Dream.

She looked at me with this cynical look of hers, like saying “Pa you are living behind the moon”, and replied “You have not heard of Susan Boyle? …Really? … O.k. She is a singer from the English TV realty show ‘Britain’s Got Talent’. The show is similar to the Spanish equivalent ‘Operacion Triunfo’. She was the sensation!”   “And why that?” I replied. Again, she looked at me with this cynical expression, slightly shaking her head, about to continue, but then changed her mind and simply said. “That’s a surprise Pa. If you want to know more, then have a look on internet. It’s worthwhile!” 

Looking at her smiling face and knowing my teenager daughter, it was very clear that she would not tell mi a single word more about Susan Boyle’s “sensational” performance in the Britain’s Got Talent show.  I would have to research for myself. I asked her whether the “woman” on the TV had been Susan Boyle, and she nodded, confirming the “impossible”.

Now I was completely intrigued and headed directly to my PC. When I looked “Susan Boil” up in Yahoo there was nothing. I thought, “Well, Susan Boil can’t be that important if I can’t find her name in yahoo”.  Then I tried Google and got the hint “Did you mean ‘Susan Boyle’?”. Oooops! Google was right, and I am ignorant!  There were pages and pages of search results for Susan Boyle, including pictures of this “sensational” woman. Also the title of Susan’s new (debut) album, I Dreamed a Dream, was al over the place. An album that has not even been published! Dreamed a Dream, will be published officially on November 22nd.

One of the first entries was the YouTube video titled “Susan Boyle – Singer – Britains Got Talent 2009 (With Lyrics)”. That lookes interesting, click and go…

The video loaded in high definition mode. The first images, Susan, sitting in the back, having a big bite into her sandwich, in a way that it seemed as if she wanted to eat it all in one go, including the tips of her fingers. Then a few backstage sequences of Susan with the final phrase “I’m gone a make that audience rock!” What a statement! This woman, “uglier” than I recalled, dressed according to the rest of her appearance, what would make her performance so “sensational”? Was this “show” of self esteeming just a bluff? Either Susan was totally “nuts”, or …I don’t know what to say….     

The following sequences are amazing; Susan walks onto the stage with all her pride and courage, exposing herself to the humiliation and desperation that will follow, without doubt. Asked about where she comes from gets stuck, but very naturally finds her way out; then, asked about her age, 47, shows a wonderful sense of humour with her peculiar “belly dance”. You can tell that she is enjoying her “Dream”! Susan Boyle has nothing to loose, and she is living this moment that will never come back.

Flashes of people’s faces and expressions, ranging from pain through amusement and laughing to incredibility make me feel glad for her that she is not able to see those expressions from her spot far up on the stage, against the blinding lights.  I would have run away, that’s for sure!

But Susan stays! No doubting seems to overcome our brave Susan Boyle. Asked about who she would like to be successful as, Susan, without shame, but rather convinced, names a famous star. No need to describe the expressions on the crowds faces.

Then Susan begins… singing her song, “I Dreamed a Dream”… Within seconds the whole atmosphere changes. Her voice seems to embrace all.  The peoples faces first freeze, but then quickly warm up and astounding and joy is everywhere. The audience is applauding enthusiastically, screaming and giving standing ovations. The crowd “rocks”! …Susan Boyle has fulfilled her Dream. Finished her song, she sends a kiss to her audience, turns around and is about to leave the stage (as if she did not want to spoil this memory of her dream), but the jury calls her back. Susan turns around and with firm steps takes her spot on the stage again, awaiting what is about to come.

No need to say that she had passed the exam with outstanding results.

Amanda defines very well the crowd, and myself. “I know that everybody was against you. We were all being very cynical, and this has been the biggest wakeup call ever…”

Simon describes Susan I with one clear phrase; “Susan, you are a little Tiger, aren’t you?” Yes! Susan Boyle is a Tiger, and not one of the small kinds. I am trying to imagine how much she had to fight against herself and all the odds, but Susan did not give up! She finally managed to live the dream she dreamed. 

Now, while I am writing this small article, I take a small break and watch Susan Boyle’s first performance again. The same happens to me as when I saw her yesterday. Tears are rolling down my chicks. She definitely has stroke my heart, this small, ugly tiger!

On Sunday, November 21, 2009, there were 77,023,361 views of Susan’s YouTube video “Susan Boyle – Singer – Britains Got Talent 2009 (With Lyrics)”. How many tears and joy may this 7:07 minutes have given the world? How many talented people may there be out there that have not had the chance to live the dream they dreamed or did not even dare to dream?

So, …Why did Susan Boyle’s Album, I Dreamed a Dream, beat Amazon’s pre-ordered sales records?
I went to amazon.co.uk and found already 50 very positive reviews on Susan’s unpublished debut Album; I then listened to the trailers of the 12 songs onthe Album titled,… guess what!… “I Dreamed a Dream”.  The reviews were very positive and I like a lot the songs, but nothing convinced me more than the moment I enjoyed together with Susan, when she lived her Dream.

Andre Klein
P.S. Today is Monday, November 22nd, and I am curious to see how many albums of Susan Boyle’s “I Dreamed a Dream” are still available on Amazon. I first go to Amazon.co.uk and, no surprise, only 6 CD’s left. I then go to Amazon.com and find another 13 Albums. My wife calls me for lunch, and I return an hour later. Now all “I Dreamed a Dream” CD’s are gone! I missed my chance . This would have been a wonderful gift for my wife (and myself ). 

I will have to wait until Susan Boyle’s Album is on stock again. But there is a handy website that will alert me immediately for any product on Amazon when it returns into stock again. In case you’re interested, you may want to have a look at the site http://www.mygiftalert.com. You never know when you may need it , Christmas time is close! 

More information on the “dream” Album…
Artist: Susan Boyle
CD Title: I Dreamed a Dream
US Amazon.com ASIN code: B0026P3G12
UK Amazon.com.uk ASIN code : B002LE8EFQ

Titles on the CD I Dreamed a Dream:
1. Wild Horses
2. I Dreamed A Dream
3. Cry Me A River
4. How Great Thou Art
5. You’ll See
6. Daydream Believer
7. Up To The Mountain
8. Amazing Grace
9. Who I Was Born To Be
10. Proud
11. The End Of The World
12. Silent Night

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American Idol – Redefining American Dream

When it comes to reality search, American Idol is one of the pioneers. It started in June 11, 2002 with the original title American Idol: The Search for a Superstar on its first season. American Idol is a talent search that is open to all people from different walks of life through its nationwide auditions. It has opened a door of opportunities to all Americans who want to showcase their singing talents. The show is a well acclaimed talent search that scout for only the best talents and potential superstar quality and becomes the ticket to fame and fortune of most American Idol winners.

The show can be considered as a three-way process of bringing out the best not only on the contestants and their family but that of the judges and the followers or viewers as well. It is not only a talent search launched to search for the next singing sensation but it is also subconsciously a challenge to the judges as well. What makes American Idol more interesting is the most awaited part of the judges’ turn to make a comment. Oftentimes the judges can be outrageously funny or sometimes they can be so blatantly frank with their comments.

Of course people who dreamed or hoped to proceed to the next level would be hoping against hope to get a “Yes” or “You’re moving on…” once they are on the auditions of the American Idol. It seems like when people took their chances they surely expect to bring out the best in themselves knowing that they will be auditioning to a very prestigious talent search, where only the brightest star shines.

The show perks up the spirits of Americans to attain the brightest future in the music industry. The prestige, fame and fortune they can attain can be too glamorous and exhilarating that even their families feel proud to their loves ones who just made it to the audition. The thrilling winning moments are highly enigmatic and can immediately magnet fame and fortune to the American Idol winner.

In American Idol only the best performer has the shining moment of being the American Idol. The other performers though are all winners in their own merits and some even managed to sign a recording contract.

American Idol is there not only to bring out the best in a person but American Idol is there to inspire Americans to dream big. it has become a stepping stone for an American dream to come true.

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