I Dreamed a Dream (album)

I Dreamed a Dream
Studio album by
Susan Boyle
Released23 November 2009
Recorded1999, July–September 2009
Genre
Length43:00
Label
ProducerSteve Mac
Susan Boyle chronology
I Dreamed a Dream
(2009) 		The Gift
(2010)
Singles from I Dreamed a Dream
  1. "Wild Horses"
    Released: 15 November 2009
  2. "I Dreamed a Dream"
    Released: 15 April 2010
  3. "You'll See"
    Released: 20 June 2010
  4. "Amazing Grace"
    Released: 15 August 2010

I Dreamed a Dream is the debut studio album by Scottish singer Susan Boyle. It was released on 23 November 2009 by Syco Music in the United Kingdom, and by Columbia Records in the United States one day later. In the standard edition, 11 out of the 12 songs that appear on the album are cover songs, plus the original composition "Who I Was Born to Be". It quickly became the world's biggest selling album of 2009, according to IFPI. The album had sold around 10 million copies worldwide since its debut.[1][2]

The album entered the UK album chart at number 1 and became the fastest-selling debut album ever in the UK, selling 411,820 copies, beating the record previously set by Spirit by Leona Lewis and outselling the rest of the top five albums combined during its first week on sale. The album remained at the top spot for four weeks, becoming the biggest selling album in the UK in 2009.[3] In the U.S., I Dreamed a Dream debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, with 701,000 copies sold in its first week, breaking the record for the highest debut by a new solo female artist in the SoundScan era (post 1991).[4] I Dreamed a Dream became the biggest opening sales week of 2009 in the U.S., beating out Eminem's Relapse which sold 608,000.[5] It was the second-biggest selling album of 2009 in the U.S., with 3.1 million copies sold, right behind Taylor Swift's Fearless at 3.2 million copies.[6] In only six weeks of sales, it became the biggest selling album in the world for 2009.[7]

Background

In August 2008, Boyle applied for an audition for the third series of Britain's Got Talent (as contestant number 43212) and was accepted after a preliminary audition in Glasgow. When Boyle first appeared on the show at the city's Clyde Auditorium, she said that she aspired to become a professional singer "as successful as Elaine Paige".[8] Upon this statement, most of the audience began to laugh. Boyle sang "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Misérables in the first round of the third series of Britain's Got Talent, which was watched by over 10 million viewers when it aired on 11 April 2009.[9] Programme judge Amanda Holden remarked upon the audience's initially cynical attitude, and the subsequent "biggest wake-up call ever" upon hearing her performance.[10] Soon, the audition was widely reported and tens of millions of people viewed the video on YouTube.[9] Boyle was "absolutely gobsmacked" by the strength of this reaction.[11] After the appearance, Paige expressed interest in singing a duet with Boyle,[8] calling her "a role model for everyone who has a dream".[12]

Despite being the clear favourite to win the final,[13] she ended up in second place to Diversity; the UK TV audience was a record of 17.3 million viewers.[14] However, Boyle was quickly signed to Simon Cowell's record label and began the production of the album soon after the show.[15] Cowell compiled a list of around 150 songs that had in part been accumulated from "various A&R guys" who sent them to him.[16] He then whittled these down to 50 and presented the list to producer Steve Mac, so that he could try out the songs with Boyle to see which worked for her and which she wanted to record.[16] They then recorded 20 songs for the album, with 12 eventually making the final cut.[16] In an interview with HitQuarters, Mac talked about working with the singer:

"Susan had a big say in what she wanted to record. She’s an extraordinary artist – she’s an old school artist in that she can only sing what she feels in her heart. She’s not one of those singers that can make anything sound good, it’s only if she feels the passion of it and understands the lyric. It’s been a long time since I’ve worked with an artist that could do that."[16]

Composition

The album opens with a cover of the Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses" (1971), which Boyle described as "[o]ne of my personal favourites and an emotional release." She further stated that its "haunting theme" conjures up memories of her childhood amongst council estates, poverty and struggle in the first verse.[17] Her version of the popular American torch song "Cry Me a River" had been previously recorded in 1999 for a charity CD.[18] She also covered "You'll See" (1995), written and originally recorded by pop singer Madonna. Boyle stated that the cover of the song is her answer to the teachers who beat her regularly and the classmates who were aggressive and bullied her when she was growing up. "That was a statement I was trying to make, because I was bullied a lot at school: 'You may have done that to me when I was younger, but you can’t do it to me any more. I’m grown up now," she said.[19] Boyle had been a volunteer at Our Lady of Lourdes church in Blackburn, West Lothian, and recorded some religious songs, including "Amazing Grace" and "How Great Thou Art", a Christian hymn based on a Swedish poem written by Carl Gustav Boberg in Sweden in 1885.[20] The only original composition of the album is "Who I Was Born to Be", written by Audra Mae, Mark Linn-Baker, Johan Fransson, Tobias Lundgren, and Tim Larsson.[21]

Reception and commercial performance

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic54/100[22]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[23]
Entertainment Weekly(B-)[24]
The Guardian[25]
The Independent[26]
Los Angeles Times[27]
MSN[28]
Slant Magazine[29]
The Times[30]

I Dreamed a Dream sold approximately 134,000 copies in the United Kingdom on its first day of release alone, and approximately 300,000 copies by Friday, 27 November.[31] Sales of 411,820 copies made it the largest first week sales of any debut album in UK chart history.[32][33] The album debuted at No. 1 in Australia, selling 164,973 in the first week of release and has been certified 9× Platinum (630,000 units shipped). In New Zealand, the album was certified 3× Platinum for shipping over 45,000 copies after just one week of release while debuting at number 1; the album was certified 8× Platinum (120,000 units shipped) three weeks after its release.[34] The Japanese market regarded it as a classical music album,[35] and it debuted at No. 5 on the Oricon weekly comprehensive charts with around 36,000 copies,[36] and climbed to No. 3 the next week.[37]

In the United States, the album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with approximate sales of 701,000 units, becoming the best sales week for an album in the United States for 2009.[3] I Dreamed a Dream broke the record for the highest debut by a new solo female artist in the SoundScan era (post 1991).,[4] and the oldest artist to reach number-one with a debut album at 49 years old. It also became the biggest opening sales week of 2009 in the U.S., beating out Eminem's Relapse which sold 608,000.[5] It stayed at number one for five consecutive weeks, selling in excess of half a million copies each week, bringing her total U.S. sales over to 2.9 million copies. It is the fastest-selling debut album to reach two million in sales and was 2009's second biggest-selling album. In just 6 weeks it sold 3.1 million sold according to SoundScan; behind Taylor Swift's Fearless which sold 3.21 million[6] since being released one year prior on 11 November 2008. The album moved 3,974,000 copies in the United States to date.[38] The album sold over 3.5 million copies worldwide in its first three weeks of release,[citation needed] and by January 2011 sold 14 million.[39] It received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Pop Vocal Album but lost to Lady Gaga's The Fame Monster.

Promotion

To promote the release, Boyle sang on several television shows. Her first performance was on the America's Got Talent final, on 16 September, where she performed "Wild Horses" before more than 13 million viewers in the United States.[40] On 10 November, she sang "I Dreamed a Dream" on Dancing with the Stars, during the performance of Chelsie Hightower and Tony Dovolani, and she also sang "Wild Horses" on The X Factor.[41] On 23 November, Boyle gave a live TV performance on the Today Show on the NBC television network which took place outside its studios on Rockefeller Plaza;[42] Boyle sang "I Dreamed a Dream", "Wild Horses", and "Cry Me a River".[42] After the show, Boyle attended a lunch with fans where she was presented with a handmade quilt made by over one hundred people from 28 countries including Mexico, Poland, Japan and Antarctica.[43] On 13 December 2009 she appeared in her own television special, "I Dreamed a Dream: the Susan Boyle Story", featuring a duet with her idol Elaine Paige.[44] The show achieved ratings of 10 million viewers in the United Kingdom.[45] In the U.S. it was carried on the TV Guide Network, becoming the highest rated special in the tiny cable network's history.[46] It was reported that Susan Boyle would be invited to perform "I Dreamed a Dream" for a small gathering at the birthday celebration of Michelle Obama on 17 January 2010.[47] "You'll See" was included in the international soundtrack to Ti Ti Ti, a Brazilian telenovela, which helping to propel "I Dreamed A Dream" up the charts in Brazil.[48]

Track listing

Standard edition
No.TitleWriter(s)Original artistLength
1."Wild Horses"
The Rolling Stones4:53
2."I Dreamed a Dream"
Patti LuPone, from Les Misérables3:12
3."Cry Me a River"Arthur HamiltonJulie London2:41
4."How Great Thou Art"Carl BobergCarl Boberg3:12
5."You'll See"
Madonna4:41
6."Daydream Believer"John StewartThe Monkees3:18
7."Up to the Mountain"Patty GriffinPatty Griffin3:29
8."Amazing Grace"John NewtonJohn Newton3:33
9."Who I Was Born to Be"
Susan Boyle4:08
10."Proud"
The cast of Britannia High3:20
11."The End of the World"
Skeeter Davis3:13
12."Silent Night"
Franz Xaver Gruber2:59
Japanese edition bonus track
No.TitleWriter(s)Original artistLength
13."Wings to Fly"Kunihiko MuraiAkai Tori3:51
Tesco Bonus DVD
No.TitleLength
1."The Susan Boyle Story: Interview"11:19
2."I Dreamed a Dream" (original audition)3:11

Personnel

Charts

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[104] 10× Platinum 750,000[103]
Austria (IFPI Austria)[105] Gold 10,000*
Belgium (BEA)[106] Platinum 30,000*
Canada (Music Canada)[107] 5× Platinum 400,000^
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[108] Gold 15,000^
France (SNEP)[109] Platinum 100,000*
GCC (IFPI Middle East)[110] Platinum 6,000*
Germany (BVMI)[111] Gold 100,000‡
Greece (IFPI Greece)[112] Gold 3,000^
Hungary (MAHASZ)[113] Gold 3,000^
Ireland (IRMA)[114] 8× Platinum 120,000^
Italy (FIMI)[115] Gold 30,000*
Japan (RIAJ)[116] Platinum 250,000^
Mexico (AMPROFON)[118] Gold 40,000[117]
Netherlands (NVPI)[119] Platinum 50,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ)[120] 11× Platinum 165,000^
Poland (ZPAV)[121] Gold 10,000*
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[122] Gold 30,000^
Sweden (GLF)[123] Platinum 40,000‡
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[124] Platinum 30,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[125] 7× Platinum 2,100,000^
United States (RIAA)[126] 4× Platinum 4,000,000^
Summaries
Europe (IFPI)[127] 3× Platinum 3,000,000*

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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