Music Thread #1 For 12/9/09: Susan Boyle Is Platinum In Two Weeks

Last week, after the news of Susan Boyle's wonderful first week sales, I said this:

Boyle is on the road to going platinum in three weeks here, and it wouldn't be foolhardy to think she could push 300K in her second week (though I don't think it will happen).

I really thought at day's end this week, Boyle would be within a whisker of going platinum.

I was wrong. By a long, LONG shot. She has sold over a million in two weeks:

usan Boyle's "I Dreamed a Dream" album continues its hold of the No. 1 slot on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 527,000 copies (down just 25%), according to Nielsen SoundScan. After two weeks of release, "I Dreamed a Dream" is now the 10th biggest-selling album of the year with 1.23 million sold.

Just wow.

Doyle, as I talked about last week, is a testament once again that, if marketed right and/or capable of making quality music that can't be denied, music artists of any shape or size can sell CD's just like the 90's.

Now you won't see any of Doyle's singles in the Top 5 or 10, nor will you see her video get big play as a contender for "Video Of The Year" at the VMA's or apart of "106 & Park's" countdown. Just as similar to Andrea Bocelli and his success, Doyle caters to a market that isn't apart of the normally all important "youth generation" (teenagers and young adults).

Still, the generation that buys probably a majority of her albums can still freely download her CD without purchasing it. They have that option to do exactly what their children or younger counterparts do nowadays without spending the $10 or $15 on a disc.

But something is pushing them to go out and spend their money on that CD, something that isn't prevalent with Rihanna's numbers for "Rated R" (only 59 K this week, 240 K overall) despite seeing her on SNL and everywhere else much more than Doyle. And it sure as hell isn't the case with 50 Cent's abysmal numbers for "Before I Self Destruct" (a measly 30K, with 270K overall).

It would be one thing if these sales were happening in Britain, but the fact that they are happening state side as well is a startling and refreshing surprise.

And it debunks the moniker "People don't buy CD's anymore" memo that has been etched in stone in most of our minds.