Susan Boyle’s I Dreamed a Dream has already broken the U.K record for the largest first-week sales for a debut album.

I Dreamed a Dream, which is mostly a collection of covers, sold more than 410,000 copies in the UK, according to the Official Charts Company. This beats the two most recent record-holders for the fastest-selling debut album: Leona Lewis’s 2007 release, Spirit, which sold about 376,000 copies; and Arctic Monkeys’ 2006 record, Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, which sold about 363,000.

Boyle’s first-week sales are the highest of any album this year, and the fourth-best of all time, behind Oasis’ Be Here Now, Coldplay’s X&Y and Take That’s The Circus. I Dreamed a Dream is also expected to top the US charts this week and break Eminem’s record for best first-week sales in America for 2009.

I’d like to hear the one original song on the album, “Who I Was Born to Be.” Boyle needs to earn some recognition for her own songs. Covers can be interesting, but I don’t admire singers who make a career out of them.

New singing sensation Susan Boyle is back with another great performance. It probably doesn’t match her initial performance that made her into an international sensation, but it was pretty damn good considering the pressure.