Holiday shopping increased record sales across the board last week, but Susan Boyle remains queen of the season. Her “I Dreamed a Dream” (Syco Music/Columbia) sold 661,000 copies for a four-week total of 2.46 million, according to Nielsen SoundScan. There are two sales weeks left in 2009 and it’s going to be a close race for the best-selling album of the year: “I Dreamed a Dream” is gaining fast on Taylor Swift’s “Fearless” (Big Machine), which has sold 2.93 million this year. (“Fearless,” No. 4 this week, has moved just over five million copies since it was released in November 2008.)
Alicia Keys’s new album, “The Element of Freedom” (J), opened at No. 2 with 417,000 sales, and the only other major new release was Robin Thicke’s “Sex Therapy: The Experience” (Interscope), at No. 9 with 123,000. Otherwise, this week’s top 10 is an only slightly reshuffled version of last week’s: Andrea Bocelli slipped one spot to No. 3; Carrie Underwood held at No. 5, and Lady Gaga at No. 6; Michael Bublé climbed two to No. 7; Justin Bieber stood at No. 8; while “Glee: The Music, Volume 2” (Columbia) fell seven spots to No. 10.
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