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Britain's Got Talent sensation Susan Boyle is set to shoot straight to the top of the charts after pre-orders of her debut album broke all previous records yesterday.

Her I Dreamed A Dream release become the largest global CD pre-order in the history of internet website Amazon.

It is the first album since the dowdy 48-year-old church volunteer from Scotland took the world by storm with her unlikely star turn on the talent show in April.

Amazon said the album was not only the top CD pre-order in the United States, but also the biggest around the world in the 14-year history of its website.

Amazon declined to give pre-order figures but said I Dreamed a Dream surpassed the 2008 record held by Supermarket Fantasy from Japanese rock band Mr. Children and 2007's Not Too Late by U.S. singer Norah Jones.  It had also soared beyond pre-orders for Take That's Never Forget: The Ultimate Collection in 2008.

'Susan's album is clearly capturing the hearts of our customers around the globe,' said Craig Pape, senior manager of music at Amazon.com.

It comes as Miss Boyle was named one of the People Of The Year by America's NBC network.
She was joined on the list by Taylor Swift, 'Octomum' Nadya Suleman,  Kobe Bryant, Captain Chelsey Sullenberger of the miracle landing in the Hudson, and Merchant Marine Captain Richard Phillips, who was a hostage of Somali pirates.

Miss Boyle lost the final of Britain's Got Talent to a dance team, and she was afterward briefly admitted to a private British clinic for exhaustion.

However she was signed to a record deal by Britain's Got Talent and American Idol judge Simon Cowell and performed one track from the album - a cover of The Rolling Stone's hit Wild Horses - on America's Got Talent in September.