{"id":9100,"date":"2010-11-16T22:11:42","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T03:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=9100"},"modified":"2010-11-17T01:09:53","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T06:09:53","slug":"susan-boyle-album-sales-outpace-expectations-top-taylor-swift-kid-cudi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2010\/11\/16\/susan-boyle-album-sales-outpace-expectations-top-taylor-swift-kid-cudi\/","title":{"rendered":"Susan Boyle Album Sales Outpace Expectations, Top Taylor Swift, Kid Cudi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though initial data predicted a nailbiter in the album sales race between Susan Boyle&#8217;s holiday-themed &#8220;The Gift&#8221; and Taylor Swift&#8217;s holdover sensation &#8220;Speak Now,&#8221; when the final receipts were counted, Boyle&#8217;s album won by a mile.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float:right;margin-left:5px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/view.picapp.com\/pictures.photo\/news\/susan-boyle-signs\/image\/10188446?term=susan+boyle\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/view2.picapp.com\/pictures.photo\/image\/10188446\/susan-boyle-signs\/susan-boyle-signs.jpg?size=234&#038;imageId=10188446\" border=\"0\" width=\"234\" title=\"Susan Boyle signs autographs of her new book 'The Woman I Was Born to Be' for her fans in Edinburgh\" height=\"157\" oncontextmenu=\"return false;\" ondrag=\"return false;\" onmousedown=\"return false;\" alt=\"47360, EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - Thursday November 11, 2010. Susan Boyle signs autographs of her new book 'The Woman I Was Born to Be' for her fans at the Waterstone Bookstore in Edinburgh. Photograph:  Deadline Scotland, PacificCoastNews.com\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/view.picapp.com\/\/JavaScripts\/OTIjs.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Hits Daily Double&#8217;s final data, which is usually quite similar to the Nielsen Soundscan data published weekly by Billboard, reveals that Boyle&#8217;s album moved a strong 321,506 copies in its first week (<i>Update from Billboard: The official total is 318,000<\/i>).  Though down substantially from her debut &#8220;I Dreamed a Dream,&#8221; the figure is impressive insofar as it proves Susan Boyle was not a stunt-driven flash in the pan.  She has developed a legitimately strong fanbase.<\/p>\n<p>Swift&#8217;s album follows at a strong 209,512, beating out Kid Cudi&#8217;s new entry &#8220;Man on the Moon II,&#8221; which opens to the tune of 176,298 sales.<\/p>\n<p>Other top ten debuts will include &#8220;Now 36&#8221; (87,872 ), Bon Jovi&#8217;s greatest hits release (87,077) and Reba McEntire&#8217;s &#8220;All the Women I Am&#8221; (64,604).  Final data might also reveal that Cee Lo Green&#8217;s &#8220;Lady Killer,&#8221; which moved just over 34,000 first week units, is also a top ten album this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Susan Boyle Album Sales Outpace Expectations, Top Taylor Swift, Kid Cudi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Though initial data predicted a nailbiter in the album sales race between Susan Boyle&#039;s holiday-themed &quot;The Gift&quot; and Taylor Swift&#039;s holdover sensation\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2010\/11\/16\/susan-boyle-album-sales-outpace-expectations-top-taylor-swift-kid-cudi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Susan Boyle Album Sales Outpace Expectations, Top Taylor Swift, Kid Cudi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Though initial data predicted a nailbiter in the album sales race between Susan Boyle&#039;s holiday-themed &quot;The Gift&quot; and Taylor Swift&#039;s holdover sensation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2010\/11\/16\/susan-boyle-album-sales-outpace-expectations-top-taylor-swift-kid-cudi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Headline Planet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-11-17T03:11:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2010-11-17T06:09:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/view2.picapp.com\/pictures.photo\/image\/10188446\/susan-boyle-signs\/susan-boyle-signs.jpg?size=234&imageId=10188446\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Brian Cantor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cantorpedia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@headlineplanet\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2010\/11\/16\/susan-boyle-album-sales-outpace-expectations-top-taylor-swift-kid-cudi\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2010\/11\/16\/susan-boyle-album-sales-outpace-expectations-top-taylor-swift-kid-cudi\/\",\"name\":\"Susan Boyle Album Sales Outpace Expectations, Top Taylor Swift, Kid Cudi\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2010-11-17T03:11:42+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2010-11-17T06:09:53+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\"},\"description\":\"Though initial data predicted a nailbiter in the album sales race between Susan Boyle's holiday-themed \\\"The Gift\\\" and Taylor Swift's holdover sensation\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2010\/11\/16\/susan-boyle-album-sales-outpace-expectations-top-taylor-swift-kid-cudi\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/\",\"name\":\"Headline Planet\",\"description\":\"Music News &amp; Charts, TV News &amp; Spoilers\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\",\"name\":\"Brian Cantor\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Brian Cantor\"},\"description\":\"Brian Cantor is the editor-in-chief for Headline Planet. 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