Susan Boyle Battles Taylor Swift for Top Album of Year (Video)

Susan Boyle, the Scottish singer with the amazing voice, narrowly failed to claim honors for the year's best-selling album in the United States on Wednesday, but still has another sales week to wrest the title from country star Taylor Swift. Boyle's debut album "I Dreamed a Dream" already the year's best seller in Britain, has sold 2.98 million copies after five consecutive weeks at No. 1, tracking firm Nielsen SoundScan said.

Swift's "Fearless," the No. 3 seller in 2008, has sold 3.16 million copies this year, giving the 20-year-old a margin of about 175,000 over Boyle. Nielsen SoundScan's sales week ends on Sunday, but it will include the first three days of 2010 in a 53rd week for 2009

Meanwhile, Susan Boyle has the most watched YouTube video for 2009.  The video showing her first performance on Britain's Got Talent was watched over 83,000,000 million times.  If you haven't seen the video, it is truly one of the most uplifting stories of the year.  As Susan walks onstage and begins talking about her dream to be a singer, you can see the audience and Simon Cowell rolling their eyes and becoming impatient.  But when she starts to sing with that amazing voice, she wins the crowd and the judges over instantly.  Susan went on to place second in the overall Britain's Got Talent competition - but no worries, she may just have the biggest selling album of 2009.

YouTube is no longer letting you embed the video but here's the link.