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Susan Boyle’s “I Dreamed a Dream” (Syco Music/Columbia) is No. 1 on the Billboard album chart for a fifth week, racking up another 510,000 sales, according to Nielsen SoundScan. She is the first artist in the 53-year history of the chart to have a debut album open No. 1 and stay in that position for the following four weeks. New York Times reported on 30th Dec 2009.

Ms. Boyle has sold a total of 2,982,000 albums, trailing Taylor Swift’s “Fearless” (Big Machine) by only 175,000 as the best-selling title of 2009, with one week of sales left for the year. (SoundScan’s year officially ends on Sunday.)

On last week’s chart the continued success of “I Dreamed a Dream” pushed Alicia Keys’s latest album, “The Element of Freedom” (J), to No. 2, and on this week’s chart Ms. Boyle holds off another R&B diva: Mary J. Blige’s new release, “Stronger With Each Tear” (Geffen), opened at No. 2 with 330,000.

Andrea Bocelli’s “My Christmas” (Sugar/Decca) is No. 3 with 284,000, “The Element of Freedom” is No. 4 with 280,000, and Ms. Swift’s “Fearless” is in fifth place with 224,000.

Susan Boyle talked about finding love, and a recent attempt that a television company made to set her up on a date.

The Britain's Got Talent runner-up explained that she turned down the offer. In an interview with OK magazine, she said: "What a laugh. There was a TV company that wanted to set me up.

Apparently he was nice, but I've got my living to do now."However, she added that she does hope to find love in the future. "I dream about security, about one day finding the right person and continuing to make people happy with my music," she said. "My advice to those who dare to dream is don't give up. If I can do it, anyone else can."