UPDATE FROM BILLBOARD: SWIFT TAKES THE CROWN  OF SOUND! –

Susan Boyle’s “I Dreamed a Dream” reigns for a sixth straight week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with 137,000 (down 73%) according to Nielsen SoundScan, bringing her cumulative sales total up to 3,104,000. However, while that is a huge sales sum — especially considering it was totaled in just six weeks time — it’s not enough to overtake Taylor Swift’s “Fearless” as 2009′s top selling album. The latter is at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 this week, selling another
60,000 — bringing its 2009 total to 3,217,000.

It’s an exciting battle with two unlikely stars fighting (not really) for the number one CD release of 2010.

Susan Boyle and Taylor Swift have been almost the only singers selling in the last year as physical

Taylor Swift Fearless Platinum

CD sales continue to shrink.   But two unlikely singers – a kid – and a mature Brit ish woman have turned things upside down.    The bean counters are tabulating the sales figures right now…

Swift’s “Fearless” in fact was a 2008 release that recieved a makeover in 2009 with a “Platinum” edition.  Boyle has simply been a phenomenon from the YouTube – jaw dropping reality show start.

Boyle is confirmed as Britans number one seller of the year… U.S.Numbers out soon at Billboard.  More here when news is official.