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Pre-orders for Susan Boyle's first album I Dreamed a Dream were so strong that she set a global record at Amazon.com for the most pre-orders ever. Now it appears the in-store sales are holding up as well. Hits Daily Double is reporting that I Dreamed a Dream is already selling two to three times the estimated pre-release totals. They estimate first week sales will go over 500,000.

In the UK the story is similar. Reuters is reporting that music retailer HMV expects Susan Boyle's album to be the biggest selling album of the year. It looked like she was going to sell nearly 150,000 copies of I Dreamed a Dream on its first day of release. HMV initially projected she would sell 300,000 copies in the first week in the UK, but now they are revising their estimate upward to 400,000. Numbers like that have not been seen in the UK since the release of Take That's The Circus last December.

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