The phenomenon that is Susan Boyle is alive and well. The good-natured frump from Scotland is on course to score one of the fastest-selling albums of the decade.

The 48-year-old Britain’s Got Talent runner-up shifted more than 130,000 copies of her debut album as it went on sale yesterday. Susan has already sold two to three times the estimated pre-release total for retailers and set a record for the highest preorder record of all-time at Amazon.

She’s expected to move over 500,000 copies of her debut album and outsell Rihanna, Adam Lambert, and even Lady Gaga — who are all releasing discs this week.

I Dreamed A Dream features her version of I Dreamed A Dream from the stage productionLes Miserables, which catapulted her to fame when she performed the song on Britain’s Got Talent earlier this year.
The album also includes the standard Cry Me A River, as well as covers of Madonna’s You’ll See and The Monkees’ Daydream Believer.