Susan Boyle to Duet with Opera Star Andrea Bocelli; Serenades Japan New Years Eve

Scottish songbird Susan Boyle will join famed opera tenor Andrea Bocelli, who has sold a record 70 million albums, on stage in a duet to be aired as part of a new British TV talent show called Pop Star to Opera Star, the UK Daily Mail reports. On the show, pop singers are trained to sing arias. Though there is no word yet on the song selection, it is expected that they will perform on of Grammy-winning Bocelli's most famous numbers -Time to Say Goodbye or The Prayer, which he last performed with Celine Dion.

Boyle's arrived in Japan on Tuesday, where she will perform on the country's top-rating TV show on New Year's Eve.

To read the full report of Boyle's upcoming activities in the Daily Mail, click here.

Susan Boyle's I Dreamed a Dream has held the #1 spot on the Billboard charts for fourth consecutive weeks, nearly 3 million copies worldwide.

Boyle's I Dreamed a Dream, debuted at number 1 on the charts, remained at number 1 in it's second and third weeks and has also received RIAA-Triple Platinum Certification for shipping over three million units to retailers nationwide. ‘I Dreamed A Dream' continues to break records by becoming the biggest selling album released in 2009.  Also as previously reported, "I Dreamed A Dream: The Susan Boyle Story," which premiered exclusively on TV Guide Network on Sunday, December 13 became its #1 rated television special in history. The television special, which delivered a 1.0 coverage rating (788,500 HH) for the 8:00 p.m. telecast, also over-delivered with the network's key demos. It achieved a triple digit increase (404 percent) with persons 25-54 over the prior year, and the combined 8:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. telecasts reached 4.1 million households and 4.8 million viewers (p18+). 

YouTube additionally announced last week that Susan Boyle's I Dreamed A Dream performance from
Britain's Got Talent is their most watched video of 2009.

After an audition for "Britain's Got Talent," in which Susan immediately impressed the judges, the audience and then anyone with access to YouTube's expectations by singing her way through a version of "I Dreamed A Dream" from Les Miserables. A tornado of rumination and amazement grew around Susan Boyle feverishly, with over 300 Million YouTube hits and nearly two million Facebook friends to prove it.

'I Dreamed A Dream' was recorded during the summer of 2009. Susan first entered a recording studio in July in Edinburgh, picking songs that resonated with her. The final results shocked both her and veteran producer Steve Mac with its beauty and musical impact. "It was important that I could feel everything I was singing," she says. The 12 track collection features Susan Boyle performing signature songs such as "I Dreamed A Dream", "Cry Me A River," as well as her haunting
rendition of The Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses," Madonna's "You'll See," The Monkees' "Daydream Believer," and "Who I Was Born To Be," an original recording written especially for Susan.

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