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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...To say Taylor Swift had a remarkable year would be a comic understatement. She sold more albums than any artist not named Michael Jackson. Her first headlining tour, Fearless 2009, sold out every show within minutes. She became the youngest woman to win the Country Music Assn.’s entertainer of the year award, and she set seemingly every chart record that exists. But most important, she proved herself a graceful, timeless celebrity, handling hosting duties on “Saturday Night Live” and a rampaging Kanye West at the MTV Video Music Awards with equal aplomb. We caught up with her on the phone from London to discuss her exhilarating last 12 months.
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...There’s just no stopping Susan Boyle’s “I Dreamed a Dream.”
The album continues to lock up the top slot on the Billboard 200 chart for a fourth week in a row, selling 661,000 copies (up 14%), according to Nielsen SoundScan. “I Dreamed a Dream” has now sold a total of 2,465,000 copies and is the second-best selling album of 2009. Only Taylor Swift’s “Fearless” — with 2,933,000 sold — is standing in its way. And with two weeks left in the 2009 tracking year, anything is possible.
