:I Dreamed a Dream (album)

In August 2008, Boyle applied for an audition for the third series of Britain's Got Talent (as contestant number 43212) and was accepted after a preliminary audition in Glasgow. When Boyle first appeared on the show at the city's Clyde Auditorium, she said that she aspired to become a professional singer "as successful as Elaine Paige".{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/apr/19/susan-boyle-duet-elaine-paige |title=Reality TV star Susan Boyle set for duet with idol Elaine Paige |work=The Guardian |location=London |first=Caroline |last=Davies |author2=Kelbie, Paul |date=19 April 2009 |access-date=19 April 2009 }} Upon this statement, most of the audience began to laugh. Boyle sang "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Misérables in the first round of the third series of Britain's Got Talent, which was watched by over 10 million viewers when it aired on 11 April 2009.{{cite web |url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/128284-Producer-Mackintosh-Gob-Smacked-By-Boyles-I-Dreamed-a-Dream-Song-Is-YouTube-Hit |title=Producer Mackintosh "Gob-Smacked" By Boyle's "I Dreamed a Dream"; Song Is YouTube Hit |work=Playbill News |date=15 April 2009 |access-date=19 April 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091215034843/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/128284-Producer-Mackintosh-Gob-Smacked-By-Boyles-I-Dreamed-a-Dream-Song-Is-YouTube-Hit |archive-date=15 December 2009}} Programme judge Amanda Holden remarked upon the audience's initially cynical attitude, and the subsequent "biggest wake-up call ever" upon hearing her performance.{{Cite news|url=https://vancouversun.com/Life/Beautiful+blondes+Boyle+lingering+ideas+about+sexuality/1509204/story.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090421061343/http://www.vancouversun.com/Life/Beautiful+blondes+Boyle+lingering+ideas+about+sexuality/1509204/story.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=21 April 2009 |title=Beautiful blondes, a Boyle and lingering ideas about sexuality |work=Vancouver Sun |location=Canada |first=Pete |last=McMartin |date=18 April 2009 |access-date=18 April 2009 }} Soon, the audition was widely reported and tens of millions of people viewed the video on YouTube. Boyle was "absolutely gobsmacked" by the strength of this reaction.{{Cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/17/susan.boyle/?iref=mpstoryview |title=Scottish singer 'gobsmacked' by overnight stardom |publisher=CNN |date=17 April 2009}} After the appearance, Paige expressed interest in singing a duet with Boyle, calling her "a role model for everyone who has a dream".{{Cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8006786.stm |title=Paige salutes Talent star Boyle |work=BBC News |date=19 April 2009 |access-date=21 April 2009}}

Despite being the clear favourite to win the final,{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/jun/03/susan-boyle-britains-got-talent-press-warned |title=Susan Boyle: press warned to back off Britain's Got Talent star |work=The Guardian |location=London |first=Stephen |last=Brook |date= 3 June 2009 }} she ended up in second place to Diversity; the UK TV audience was a record of 17.3 million viewers.{{Cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/susan-boyle/5434811/Susan-Boyle-could-be-in-Priory-clinic-for-weeks-says-doctor.html |title=Susan Boyle could be in Priory clinic for weeks, says doctor |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=London |first=Alastair |last=Jamieson |date=3 June 2009 |access-date=24 May 2009}} However, Boyle was quickly signed to Simon Cowell's record label and began the production of the album soon after the show.{{cite news |url=http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2009/04/19/singing-sensation-susan-boyle-gets-dream-offer-from-star-elaine-paige-78057-21289014/ |title=Singing sensation Susan Boyle gets dream offer from star Elaine Paige |work=The Sunday Mail |first=Jean |last=Smith |date=19 April 2009 |access-date=15 May 2009}} Cowell compiled a list of around 150 songs that had in part been accumulated from "various A&R guys" who sent them to him. He then whittled these down to 50 and presented the list to producer Steve Mac, so that he could try out the songs with Boyle to see which worked for her and which she wanted to record. They then recorded 20 songs for the album, with 12 eventually making the final cut.{{cite web |url=http://www.hitquarters.com/index.php3?page=intrview/opar/intrview_Steve_Mac_Interview.html |title=Interview With Steve Mac |publisher=HitQuarters |date=12 April 2010 |access-date=13 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314061742/http://www.hitquarters.com/index.php3?page=intrview/opar/intrview_Steve_Mac_Interview.html |archive-date=14 March 2012 |url-status=dead }} In an interview with HitQuarters, Mac talked about working with the singer:

"Susan had a big say in what she wanted to record. She’s an extraordinary artist – she’s an old school artist in that she can only sing what she feels in her heart. She’s not one of those singers that can make anything sound good, it’s only if she feels the passion of it and understands the lyric. It’s been a long time since I’ve worked with an artist that could do that."

The album opens with a cover of the Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses" (1971), which Boyle described as "[o]ne of my personal favourites and an emotional release." She further stated that its "haunting theme" conjures up memories of her childhood amongst council estates, poverty and struggle in the first verse.{{cite web |url=http://www.christiantoday.com/articledir/print.htm?id=24503 |title=Integrity Music to retail Susan Boyle's debut album to Christians |date=31 October 2009 |work=Christian Today |access-date=22 November 2009}} Her version of the popular American torch song "Cry Me a River" had been previously recorded in 1999 for a charity CD.{{cite video|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4949467n |title=She Dreamed A Dream |publisher=CBS News |people=Smith, Harry |format=streaming |medium=Television |date=16 April 2009 |access-date=16 April 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090418062942/http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4949467n |archive-date=18 April 2009 }} She also covered "You'll See" (1995), written and originally recorded by pop singer Madonna. Boyle stated that the cover of the song is her answer to the teachers who beat her regularly and the classmates who were aggressive and bullied her when she was growing up. "That was a statement I was trying to make, because I was bullied a lot at school: 'You may have done that to me when I was younger, but you can’t do it to me any more. I’m grown up now," she said.{{cite web|url=http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/34106308/ns/today-entertainment/t/susan-boyle-her-bullies-im-all-grown/#.T21GAzEge3Y|title=Susan Boyle to her bullies: 'I'm all grown up'|last=Celizic|first=Mike|date=1 December 2009|access-date=24 March 2012|publisher=Today/MSNBC. NBC Universal|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120511191421/http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/34106308/ns/today-entertainment/t/susan-boyle-her-bullies-im-all-grown/#.T21GAzEge3Y|archive-date=11 May 2012|url-status=dead}} Boyle had been a volunteer at Our Lady of Lourdes church in Blackburn, West Lothian, and recorded some religious songs, including "Amazing Grace" and "How Great Thou Art", a Christian hymn based on a Swedish poem written by Carl Gustav Boberg in Sweden in 1885.Kurian, G. T. (2001). Nelson's new Christian dictionary: The authoritative resource on the Christian world. Nashville: Thomas Nelson. The only original composition of the album is "Who I Was Born to Be", written by Audra Mae, Mark Linn-Baker, Johan Fransson, Tobias Lundgren, and Tim Larsson.I Dreamed a Dream. Syco Records (2009)

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| MC = 54/100{{cite web | url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/boylesusan/dreamedadream | title=Susan Boyle: I Dreamed a Dream (2009): Reviews | work=Metacritic | publisher=CNET Networks, Inc | access-date=11 December 2009 | archive-date=9 February 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100209071639/http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/boylesusan/dreamedadream | url-status=dead }}

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| rev2 = Entertainment Weekly

| rev2Score = (B-){{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/2009/11/28/i-dreamed-dream/|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|publisher=Time Inc.|title=Music Review – I Dreamed a Dream (2009)|first=Mikael|last=Wood|access-date=27 November 2009|date=28 November 2009|archive-date=28 November 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091128153856/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20322517,00.html|url-status=live}}

| rev3 = The Guardian

| rev3Score = {{Rating|2|5}}{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/nov/19/susan-boyle-review-dreamed-dream|title=Susan Boyle: I Dreamed a Dream|first=Caroline|last=Sullivan|work=The Guardian |access-date=27 November 2009 | location=London | date=19 November 2009}}

| rev4 = The Independent

| rev4Score = {{Rating|2|5}}{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/album-susan-boyle-i-dreamed-a-dream-syco-1828347.html |title=Album: Susan Boyle, I Dreamed a Dream (Syco) |first=Andy |last=Gill |date=27 November 2009 |work=The Independent |publisher=Independent News and Media Ltd |access-date=20 December 2009 | location=London}}

| rev5 = Los Angeles Times

| rev5Score = {{Rating|2|4}}{{cite news|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2009/11/album-review-susan-boyles-i-dreamed-a-dream.html|title=Album review: Susan Boyle's 'I Dreamed a Dream'|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=28 November 2009|first=Ann|last=Powers | date=23 November 2009}}

| rev6 = MSN

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| rev7 = Slant Magazine

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| rev8 = The Times

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I Dreamed a Dream sold approximately 134,000 copies in the United Kingdom on its first day of release alone, and approximately 300,000 copies by Friday, 27 November.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/susan-boyle/6643743/Susan-Boyle-gets-own-US-TV-special-as-album-sales-rocket.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120918020709/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/susan-boyle/6643743/Susan-Boyle-gets-own-US-TV-special-as-album-sales-rocket.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 September 2012|title=Susan Boyle may be feeling the strain amid success of US tour|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=26 November 2009|access-date=11 December 2009 | location=London}} Sales of 411,820 copies made it the largest first week sales of any debut album in UK chart history.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8385395.stm|title=Susan Boyle's debut album makes UK chart history|work=BBC News|date=30 November 2009|access-date=11 December 2009}}{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/266578/susan-boyle-makes-uk-chart-history|title=Susan Boyle Sees 'Dream' Soar To No. 1 on Billboard 200|magazine=Billboard |date=30 November 2009|access-date=11 December 2009}} The album debuted at No. 1 in Australia, selling 164,973 in the first week of release and has been certified 9× Platinum (630,000 units shipped). In New Zealand, the album was certified 3× Platinum for shipping over 45,000 copies after just one week of release while debuting at number 1; the album was certified 8× Platinum (120,000 units shipped) three weeks after its release.{{cite web|url=http://rianz.org.nz/rianz/chart.asp |title=top 40 singles |publisher=RIANZ |access-date=11 December 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061205032837/http://rianz.org.nz/rianz/chart.asp |archive-date=5 December 2006}} The Japanese market regarded it as a classical music album,{{cite web|url=http://www.nikkansports.com/entertainment/news/p-et-tp0-20091126-569623.html|script-title=ja:"世界の歌姫"ボイルＣＤ初日３万枚|publisher=Nikkan Sports|date=26 November 2009|access-date=24 December 2009|language=ja}} and it debuted at No. 5 on the Oricon weekly comprehensive charts with around 36,000 copies,{{cite web|url=http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/71179/full/|title=48歳の歌姫スーザン・ボイル、洋楽女性ソロ1stアルバムで史上初の初登場TOP5入り|publisher=Oricon|date=1 December 2009|access-date=1 December 2009|language=ja}} and climbed to No. 3 the next week.{{cite web|url=http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/71399/full/|title=新生EXILE初アルバムが73万枚、初週売上げでミスチル超え スーザン・ボイルは、5位から3位にランクアップ|work=Oricon|language=ja|access-date=8 December 2009}}

In the United States, the album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with approximate sales of 701,000 units, becoming the best sales week for an album in the United States for 2009. I Dreamed a Dream broke the record for the highest debut by a new solo female artist in the SoundScan era (post 1991)., and the oldest artist to reach number-one with a debut album at 49 years old. It also became the biggest opening sales week of 2009 in the U.S., beating out Eminem's Relapse which sold 608,000. It stayed at number one for five consecutive weeks, selling in excess of half a million copies each week, bringing her total U.S. sales over to 2.9 million copies. It is the fastest-selling debut album to reach two million in sales and was 2009's second biggest-selling album. In just 6 weeks it sold 3.1 million sold according to SoundScan; behind Taylor Swift's Fearless which sold 3.21 million since being released one year prior on 11 November 2008. The album moved 3,974,000 copies in the United States to date.{{cite web|url=http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/74248/#postcomment:|title=Yahoo Music}} The album sold over 3.5 million copies worldwide in its first three weeks of release,{{citation needed|date=October 2020}} and by January 2011 sold 14 million.{{cite book |last1=Zeiss Stange |first1=Mary |last2=Oyster |first2=Carol K. |last3=Sloan |first3=Jane E. |title=The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World |date=9 January 2013 |publisher=SAGE Publications |isbn=978-1452270371 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_BTKCgAAQBAJ&q=I+Dreamed+a+Dream+14+million&pg=PT171 |access-date=20 November 2020}} It received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Pop Vocal Album but lost to Lady Gaga's The Fame Monster.

To promote the release, Boyle sang on several television shows. Her first performance was on the America's Got Talent final, on 16 September, where she performed "Wild Horses" before more than 13 million viewers in the United States.{{cite news|url=http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/09/17/tv-ratings-agt-finale-leno-glee-and-the-beautiful-life/27454 |title=Updated TV Ratings: AGT finale, Leno, Glee and The Beautiful Life |date=17 September 2009 |access-date=26 September 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090922214527/http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/09/17/tv-ratings-agt-finale-leno-glee-and-the-beautiful-life/27454 |archive-date=22 September 2009}} On 10 November, she sang "I Dreamed a Dream" on Dancing with the Stars, during the performance of Chelsie Hightower and Tony Dovolani, and she also sang "Wild Horses" on The X Factor.{{cite news|url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/xfactor/news/a185774/susan-boyle-to-appear-on-the-x-factor.html|title=Susan Boyle to appear on 'X Factor'|publisher=Digital Spy|first=Mayer|last=Nissim|date=30 October 2009|access-date=30 October 2009}} On 23 November, Boyle gave a live TV performance on the Today Show on the NBC television network which took place outside its studios on Rockefeller Plaza;{{cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/2009/11/23/2009-11-23_susan_boyle_turns_morning_songbird_on_today_show_as_new_album_i_dreamed_a_dream_.html|title=Susan Boyle turns morning songbird on 'Today' show, as new album 'I Dreamed a Dream' arrives|last=Dziemianowicz|first=Joe|date=23 November 2009|access-date=2 December 2009 | location=New York | work=Daily News}} Boyle sang "I Dreamed a Dream", "Wild Horses", and "Cry Me a River". After the show, Boyle attended a lunch with fans where she was presented with a handmade quilt made by over one hundred people from 28 countries including Mexico, Poland, Japan and Antarctica.{{cite news|url=http://www.susanboylemusic.com/gb/news/item/susan_receives_a_hand-made_fan-made_quilt_in_new_york/|title=Susan receives a hand-made, fan-made quilt in New York|date=26 November 2009|access-date=2 December 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091201175446/http://www.susanboylemusic.com/gb/news/item/susan_receives_a_hand-made_fan-made_quilt_in_new_york/|archive-date=1 December 2009}} On 13 December 2009 she appeared in her own television special, "I Dreamed a Dream: the Susan Boyle Story", featuring a duet with her idol Elaine Paige.{{cite news|url=http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1523399?UserKey=|title=US TV special details Boyle's Cinderella story|date=12 December 2009|publisher=The Press and Journal|access-date=15 December 2009}} The show achieved ratings of 10 million viewers in the United Kingdom.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/dec/14/x-factor-joe-mcelderry|title=The X Factor: more than 19m watch Joe McElderry win|last=Plunkett|first=John|date=13 December 2009|work=The Guardian |access-date=15 December 2009 | location=London}} In the U.S. it was carried on the TV Guide Network, becoming the highest rated special in the tiny cable network's history.{{cite news|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=9334862|title="Dexter" Season Finale Slashes Records|date=14 December 2009|publisher=ABC News|access-date=15 December 2009}} It was reported that Susan Boyle would be invited to perform "I Dreamed a Dream" for a small gathering at the birthday celebration of Michelle Obama on 17 January 2010.{{cite web|url=http://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/celebrity/news/daily-gossip/091207-susan-boyle-to-perform-for-the-obam.aspx|title=Susan Boyle to perform for the Obamas|access-date=6 January 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091208122750/http://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/celebrity/news/daily-gossip/091207-susan-boyle-to-perform-for-the-obam.aspx|archive-date=8 December 2009|url-status=dead}} "You'll See" was included in the international soundtrack to Ti Ti Ti, a Brazilian telenovela, which helping to propel "I Dreamed A Dream" up the charts in Brazil.[http://www.abril.com.br/blog/chiado/2010/08/10/%E2%80%9Cti-ti-ti%E2%80%9D-tem-musicas-de-susan-boyle-e-alessandra-maestrini/ "Ti-ti-ti" tem músicas de Susan Boyle e Alessandra Maestrini ] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100828162305/http://www.abril.com.br/blog/chiado/2010/08/10/%E2%80%9Cti-ti-ti%E2%80%9D-tem-musicas-de-susan-boyle-e-alessandra-maestrini/ |date=28 August 2010 }}

{{Track listing

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| extra_column = Original artist

| title_width = 30%

| writing_width = 40%

| extra_width = 30%

| title1 = Wild Horses

| writer1 = {{hlist|Mick Jagger|Keith Richards}}

| extra1 = The Rolling Stones

| length1 = 4:53

| title2 = I Dreamed a Dream

| writer2 = {{hlist|Alain Boublil|Herbert Kretzmer|Claude-Michel Schönberg}}

| extra2 = Patti LuPone, from Les Misérables

| length2 = 3:12

| title3 = Cry Me a River

| writer3 = Arthur Hamilton

| extra3 = Julie London

| length3 = 2:41

| title4 = How Great Thou Art

| writer4 = Carl Boberg

| extra4 = Carl Boberg

| length4 = 3:12

| title5 = You'll See

| writer5 = {{hlist|Madonna|David Foster}}

| extra5 = Madonna

| length5 = 4:41

| title6 = Daydream Believer

| writer6 = John Stewart

| extra6 = The Monkees

| length6 = 3:18

| title7 = Up to the Mountain

| writer7 = Patty Griffin

| extra7 = Patty Griffin

| length7 = 3:29

| title8 = Amazing Grace

| writer8 = John Newton

| extra8 = John Newton

| length8 = 3:33

| title9 = Who I Was Born to Be

| writer9 = {{hlist|Johan Fransson|Tim Larsson|Mark Linn-Baker|Tobias Lundgren|Audra Mae}}

| extra9 = Susan Boyle

| length9 = 4:08

| title10 = Proud

| writer10 = {{hlist|Wayne Hector|Andy Hill|Steve Mac}}

| extra10 = The cast of Britannia High

| length10 = 3:20

| title11 = The End of the World

| writer11 = {{hlist|Sylvia Dee|Arthur Kent}}

| extra11 = Skeeter Davis

| length11 = 3:13

| title12 = Silent Night

| writer12 = {{hlist|Franz Xaver Gruber|Josef Mohr}}

| extra12 = Franz Xaver Gruber

| length12 = 2:59

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{{Track listing

| headline = Japanese edition bonus track

| extra_column = Original artist

| title_width = 30%

| writing_width = 40%

| extra_width = 30%

| title13 = Wings to Fly

| writer13 = Kunihiko Murai

| extra13 = Akai Tori

| length13 = 3:51

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{{Track listing

| headline = Tesco Bonus DVD

| title1 = The Susan Boyle Story: Interview

| length1 = 11:19

| title2 = I Dreamed a Dream

| note2 = original audition

| length2 = 3:11

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Production and recording

• Produced and Arranged by Steve Mac.
• Engineered by Chris Laws & Dann Pursey.
• Pro Tools: Chris Laws.
• Mixed by Ren Swan.
• Recorded and Mixed at Rokstone Studios, London.
• String Arrangements by Dave Arch.
• Strings Recorded at Air Studios, London by Geoff Foster, Chris Barrett & Steve Orchard.
• Assisted by Nick Carvonaro and Fiona Cruickshank.
• String Leader: Rolf Wilson.
• Strings contracted by: Isobel Griffiths.
• Copyist: John Baker.
• Choir: LJ Singers led by Lawrence Johnson. Choir Recorded at Sphere Studios & Rokstone Studios.
• Sphere session assisted by Ronan Phelan.
• Album Coordinator for Steve Mac: Nicki L’Amy.

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Instruments and vocals

• Piano: Dave Arch & Steve Mac.
• Hammond Organ: Dave Arch.
• Vibes on 'Cry Me A River': Franc Ricotti.
• Drums: Chris Laws except 'Cry Me A River': Ralph Salmins
• Guitars: John Parricelli.
• Bass on 'Who I Was Born To Be': Steve Pearce.
• All Keyboard and Synths: Steve Mac.
• Background Vocals: Mae McKenna.

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• {{official website|http://www.susanboylemusic.com}}
• {{AllMusic|class=album|id=r1660602|label=I Dreamed a Dream}}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20091211105706/http://www.tvguide.com/special/susan-boyle/ I Dreamed a Dream in The Susan Boyle Story]

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