Susan Boyle sold 410,000 copies of her album I Dreamed A Dream becoming Britain’s fastest-selling album of 2009 and recorded the biggest first-week sales of any album in U.K. chart history. This is unheard of….

The Downtown Fiction have signed with Photo Finish / Atlantic Records and a pub deal with Warner Chappell Publishing. Check the band out in our February profile.
Our favorite track is Anybody Out There.
Contact: greg@controlny.com

KOAR favorite Dallas, Texas pop rock act Shorelines End just signed to Island Def Jam/Mercury Records. Check them out in our 2008 profile. Our favorite tracks include Surface and More Then You Know.
Contact: danielrfriedman@mac.com

Check out the ambient singer songwriter Jake Walden. His new album ‘Same Something Different’ will come out in 2010. He also covers Leona Lewis’ “Bleeding Love”, a duet with actress and singer/songwriter Bonnie Somerville, who was featured on the Grammy Award winning Garden State Soundtrack. His new album will be self-released.
Contact: chip@birdsnestmanagement.com

This is almost unheard of, but Susan Boyle’s new album “I Dreamed a Dream” which hit stores today is expected to sell 500k copies in the first week. She set the record for pre-orders on Amazon.com and will outsell conventional artists like GaGa and Rihanna! I think a major lesson is to be learned here…