After her momentous audition on Britain's Got Talent , Boyle was instantly recognised not just in the UK but across the world. Her audition alone was the most-watched YouTube video of , clocking up million views that year. It has now received million views and counting in the 21 years since the show. Upon its release, it was hailed the fastest-selling UK debut album of all time.
To date, she has sold 25 million records worldwide and clocked up million audio streams and million YouTube hits. The singer went on to release seven albums, her most recent one dropped in and was called Ten — a compilation of her biggest hits in the last decade.
Boyle has also performed in front of the Queen twice — in , Boyle sang at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and then graced the monarch again with her voice in at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, her home country.
It took some getting used to," Boyle would later tell People in And while she all smiles before and after her performance that fateful day, there was a sad backstory to her audition.
In , just two years prior, her mother had died aged 91 and the loss was devastating for Boyle, who in was diagnosed with Asperger's — a condition that affects one's ability to socialise and communicate. My mum's still looking after me now, she's still here and she has given me the confidence to do what I do.
Boyle was arguably the most popular contestant during Series 3 of Britain's Got Talent. TV personalities Oprah Winfrey and Larry King wanted to interview her and actor Ashton Kutcher shared a clip of her audition with millions of his Twitter followers.
But somehow, Boyle did not go home with the coveted BGT trophy. You don't swear about a child. He believes her true personality has come out now that she has sniffed the competition and realized she is not a shoo-in. The audience, through telephone voting, determines the winner. Morgan said the pressure definitely has gotten to Boyle and that he and others offered Boyle advice on how handle all the new attention and press headlines.
I had a word with her at one stage saying, 'Look. I used to work in the newspaper business. It's cut-throat. You're the hottest story in town. They're doing their job. They want a story," Morgan said.
He added that he told the songstress, "'Don't watch the TV. Don't read the papers. Don't do anything because actually what is important to you now is this two-minute period, tomorrow night, Saturday night, when you sing for the world, in the final of "Britain's Got Talent.
And it doesn't matter, really, what people are talking about, because you're the hot story. Morgan also defended Boyle on his blog. She has been in tears many times during the last few days, and even, fleetingly, felt like quitting the show altogether at one point," Morgan wrote on his blog Thursday. I am calling today for everyone to just give her a break.
The reason I said that, was not denigrate Susan, but because she obviously missed the big note at the start of her performance midnight," Morgan said. Morgan also spoke about Boyle's learning disabilities that stem from being oxygen-deprived at birth, the bullying by kids and the years she spent caring for her aging mother. She brought up her mother when she got old and looked after her," Morgan said on "GMA. But also, occasionally, the ultimate nightmare, where she's had to deal with this extraordinary world attention.
And i think we should all just give her, now, twenty-four hours to cool down to relax. Some of that heat is coming from her competition. Boyle may be getting more love from Americans than her fellow countrymen. For instance, she still has the support of American celebrities Demi Moore and her husband Ashton Kutcher.
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