Susan Boyle - Still on Top!

From JERRY OSBORNE
Mr. Music

Dear Jerry: It's been at least a year since I heard Susan Boyle being talked about in the entertainment media. Is her singing career in a sophomore slump?
-- S. CHARLES, ST. PAUL, MINN.

Dear Samantha: Anything but. As of this writing (December 22), Susan's "The Gift" is the No. 1 title on both the Billboard and Cashbox Top Albums charts, and No. 1 on both of their Christmas album surveys.

Meanwhile, Boyle's debut collection, "I Dreamed the Dream," the No. 1 album exactly one year ago, is still on the charts and even among the Top 70.

Susan may not be the big news story she became in 2009, when she flabbergasted everyone via the "Britain's Got Talent," but she sure is ringing up the sales.

If Susan Boyle's "The Gift" holding the No. 1 position on both the Pop and Christmas Albums charts seems extraordinary, it's because it is.

But, Susan is not the first to accomplish this feat.

In December 2007, Josh Grobin's "Noel" simultaneously topped those two charts.