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SuBo breaks another chart record

By | Published on Friday 19 November 2010

Susan Boyle has become the first lady to have had a simultaneous number one album in the US and the UK twice in less than a year. It’s a big day for gender equality this. She’s also the first solo artist to achieve such a thing, so it’s a big day for lonely people equality, too. 

According to her label, Sony Music, and I’m sure they wouldn’t lie, the only other acts to have had two simultaneous US/UK numbers ones in the same year are The Beatles and The Monkees, and that was in the days when the music charts were basically made up*.

Commenting on the achievement, that Simon Cowell dude said this: “I’m thrilled for Susan, she has once again defied the odds. She is my superwoman”. 

*That is to say, the olden day hit parade was not quite as accurate a reflection of real time sales as the charts are now – please don’t sue us chart people.



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