Susan Boyle discography
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The discography of Susan Boyle, a Scottish singer, contains seven studio albums and sixteen singles, thirteen as a solo artist, and three as a featured artist. Boyle achieved global attention after auditioning for Series 3 of Britain's Got Talent in 2009. After much attention, Boyle signed a record deal with British record producer Simon Cowell, releasing her worldwide multi-platinum selling début album I Dreamed a Dream. The album contained four singles, the first two seeing somewhat more success in the UK and the US. The first single, "Wild Horses" reached number nine on the UK Singles Chart and the second single "I Dreamed a Dream" reached the top forty of the that chart. In the United States, Boyle's album charted at number one on the Billboard 200 album charts. The first single "Wild Horses" peaked at number ninety-eight and the second single "I Dreamed a Dream" peaked at number sixty-two on the US Billboard Hot 100.
| Susan Boyle discography | |
|---|---|
Susan Boyle in July 2013 | |
| Studio albums | 7 |
| Compilation albums | 1 |
| Singles | 16 |
| Video albums | 2 |
| Music videos | 6 |
In 2010, Boyle was one of few artists who featured on Simon Cowell's 2010 Haiti earthquake appeal single, "Everybody Hurts", a cover of the R.E.M. song. On 9 July 2010, Boyle announced that her second album would be a Christmas album entitled The Gift. As part of the lead-up to the album, she held a competition called Susan's Search, the winner of which sang a duet with her on her new CD. The album was released on 8 November 2010. For her third studio album, Emeli Sandé For her third studio album, Someone to Watch Over Me, released on 31 October 2011, Emeli Sande reported helped Boyle write some songs. Boyle performed on the second semi-final results show of the sixth season of America's Got Talent, which aired on 31 August 2011. Boyle made her first appearance in Australia, on The X Factor, on 8 November 2011 and sang "Autumn Leaves". In November 2012 her fourth studio album, Standing Ovation: The Greatest Songs from the Stage, was released. On two of the songs on the album, she collaborates with Donny Osmond.
As of 2013, Boyle had sold over 25 million records worldwide.[1] All seven of her seven studio albums released have charted within the top ten of the albums chart in her native Scotland.[2] Her first compilation album, Ten (2019) reached the top ten in Scotland, Australia and the United Kingdom, as well as reaching number forty-nine on the US Billboard Top Album Sales chart.[3][4]
Albums
Studio albums
| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Sales | Certifications | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SCO [5] |
AUS [6] |
CAN [7] |
FRA [8] |
IRE [9] |
NLD [10] |
NZ [11] |
SWE [12] |
UK [13] |
US [14] | ||||
| I Dreamed a Dream |
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1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||
| The Gift |
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1 | 2 | 1 | 29 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Someone to Watch Over Me |
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1 | 1 | 6 | 145 | 11 | 18 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 4 | ||
| Standing Ovation: The Greatest Songs from the Stage |
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1 | 6 | 17 | — | 19 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 12 | ||
| Home for Christmas |
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4 | 13 | 17 | — | 20 | 12 | 3 | — | 9 | 17 | ||
| Hope |
|
7 | 11 | — | — | — | — | 6 | — | 13 | 16 | ||
| A Wonderful World |
|
7 | 14 | — | — | 35 | — | 8 | — | 22 | 150 |
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| "—" denotes album that did not chart or was not released. | |||||||||||||
Compilation albums
Video albums
| Title | Details | Certification |
|---|---|---|
| The Making of a Dream |
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| An Unlikely Superstar |
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Singles
As lead artist
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SCO [47] |
UK [13] |
AUS [48] |
CAN [49] |
IRE [9] |
NLD [10] |
SWE [12] |
SWI [50] |
US [51] | |||||
| "Wild Horses" | 2009 | 8 | 9 | 93 | 95 | 11 | 99 | — | — | 98 |
|
I Dreamed a Dream | |
| "I Dreamed a Dream" | 27 | 37 | 66 | 65 | 20 | — | 59 | 37 | 62 | ||||
| "You'll See" | 2010 | — | 197 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Amazing Grace" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "Perfect Day" | — | 124 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | The Gift | |||
| "I Know Him So Well" (with Geraldine McQueen) |
2011 | 10 | 11 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album single | ||
| "You Have to Be There" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Someone to Watch Over Me | |||
| "Enjoy the Silence" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "Unchained Melody" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "Autumn Leaves" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "The Winner Takes It All"[53] | 2012 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Standing Ovation: The Greatest Songs from the Stage | ||
| "O Come, All Ye Faithful" (with Elvis Presley) |
2013 | 27 | 48 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Home for Christmas | ||
| "You Raise Me Up" | 2014 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Hope | ||
| "—" denotes single that did not chart or was not released | |||||||||||||
As featured artist
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [13] |
AUS [54] |
IRE [55] |
NZ [54] |
SWE [54] |
SWI [54] | ||||||||
| "Everybody Hurts" (as part of Helping Haiti) |
2010 | 1 | 28 | 1 | 17 | 21 | 16 | Charity single | |||||
| "A Mother's Prayer" (with Jackie Evancho) |
2011 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Dream with Me | |||||
| "From This Moment On"[56] (with Plácido Domingo) |
2012 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Songs | |||||
| "—" denotes single that did not chart or was not released | |||||||||||||
Promotional singles
| Title | Year | Album |
|---|---|---|
| "Who I Was Born to Be" | 2009 | I Dreamed a Dream |
Music videos
| Title | Year | Director |
|---|---|---|
| "Perfect Day" | 2010 | Lou Reed |
| "I Know Him So Well" | ||
| "You Have to Be There" | 2011 | |
| "Unchained Melody" | ||
| "Autumn Leaves" |
Notes
- "Ten" did not enter the US Billboard 200, but peaked at number 49 on the US Top Album Sales.[45]