The performance – which surprised the show’s live audience, judges, and subsequently the world – has led to appearances by Boyle on American television programs like Good Morning America and The Early Show

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Susan Boyle: The Biggest YouTub Sensation Ever?

April 17th, 2009 | by Adam Ostrow

One of this week’s most widely reported and talked about stories has been the appearance of Susan Boyle, a 47 year-old singer from Scotland, on the show Britain’s Got Talent.

The performance – which surprised the show’s live audience, judges, and subsequently the world – has led to appearances by Boyle on American television programs like Good Morning America and The Early Show.

Now, the YouTube() video of the performance is approaching levels of some of the biggest viral hits of all-time. Visible Measures, which tracks online video usage, estimates that so far Boyle’s performance has already been seen more than 47 million times in all, taking into account all of the reproductions of the original.

That puts the video in rare air among viral hits. Visible Measures points out that this is more views than Tiny Fey as Sarah Palin, shoes getting thrown at President Bush, and Obama’s election night victory speech. YouTube’s most popular video of all-time, sans Avril Lavigne, is Evolution of Dance, with more than 117 million views. At the pace the Boyle video is spreading, it certainly has a chance to eclipse that number.

While Boyle’s performance has a lot of natural appeal, the conditions have never been riper for a video to go so incredibly viral. Between Twitter, Facebook(), and other social media sites - not to mention mainstream media - the performance has been impossible to miss this week. Meanwhile, if and when Boyle decides to jump into social media for herself, she’ll have a built in audience of millions of fans hanging on her every word. It’s a fairly incredible, albeit not completely surprising story.

And just in case you haven’t seen it yet, the video of Susan Boyle performing “I Dreamed a Dream” from the musical Les Miserables can be found here (embedding appears to have been disabled, making the video’s viral growth even more impressive).

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The Daily Record, April 16, 2009 - It emerged last night that Susan, whose Britain’s Got Talent triumph has made her an instant superstar, is being lined up for an appearance on the Oprah Winfrey show which would give her the chance of a number one album in the US. But the Record can reveal she made her first recording back in 1999, when she sang blues ballad Cry Me A River for a charity CD.

Only 1000 copies of the disc were ever produced, but we’ve got hold of the long-forgotten recording and it’s now on our site. A showbiz insider said: “This is a real coup for the Record. The whole world would have wanted to find this.

“People will be scrambling to get their hands on this CD. They will be like gold dust soon.”

Susan, 48, of Blackburn, West Lothian, has gone from obscurity to worldwide fame in less than a week after her amazing Britain’s Got Talent debut. So far, her performance of I Dreamed A Dream from Les Miserables has attracted more than 16 MILLION hits on YouTube. And yesterday, she was doing the rounds of America’s top morning TV chat shows.

CBS superstar Diane Sawyer interviewed Susan for the Early Show. And Kathie Lee Gifford, host of NBC’s Today Show, was so moved by her voice that she burst into tears. Last night, it emerged that Susan has also been offered the chance to be a guest on the Oprah Winfrey show. And BGT supremo Simon Cowell reckons that if the appearance goes ahead, it will guarantee that her debut album will top the charts in the States.

It’s all a far cry from 1999, when Susan recorded her track for the charity compilation CD at Whitburn Academy, where X Factor winner Leon Jackson went to school. The Millennium Celebration disc, which was partly funded by Whitburn Community Council, was the brainchild of local newspaper editor Eddie Anderson.

He launched a search for unsigned acts to take part. And as soon as he heard Susan at the auditions he knew he had found something special.

“I was amazed when she sang,” Eddie said. “It was probably the same reaction as everyone had last Saturday.

“Susan was exactly the same then as she is now. She has a fabulous and unique talent.”

When Susan walked on to the Britain’s Got Talent stage, the judges and audience seemed more interested in her appearance than her voice.

Simon, Piers Morgan and Amanda Holden rolled their eyes and raised their eyebrows when she told them she wanted to be a Broadway superstar like Elaine Paige.

But their scorn quickly turned to amazement when she started to sing.

Simon grinned as he admitted that Susan’s voice was “extraordinary”. Piers told her: “I am giving you the biggest ‘yes’ I have ever given to anybody.”

And Amanda added: “It was a privilege to listen to you.”

In the days that followed, Susan became a YouTube sensation. Even Hollywood A-lister Demi Moore admitted she was moved to tears when she watched her performance.

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