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Top 10 Susan Boyle moments of 2009
2009 was the year Susan Boyle streaked like a comet across our skies.
We all have our Susan Boyle favorite moments from 2009, the year she streaked like a comet across our skies. Love to hear from you about yours. Here are mine:
1. The very first time… when she appeared on Britain’s Got Talent and the amazed reactions of everyone when she began to sing.
2. Her appearance at Rockefeller Center when her album debuted and she went to join her fans afterwards at the nearby restaurant. Her adoring fans could not get enough.
3. Hearing her sing “Wild Horses” for the first time, a song I would never have thought she should have chosen and realizing she really has an incredible voice.
4. Her first interview with Meredith Viera on NBC, where this cheeky, funny and very capable lady put a lie to all the tabloid tattle.
5. When the word came that she had smashed all British and American records for a new release.
6. When she was named Woman of the Year by Matt Lauer on NBC.
7. When she refused to respond to jibes by former "friends" Amanda Holden and Sharon Osbourne.
8. When I went on a New Zealand radio station discussing Susan and suddenly realized the world wide impact she had.
9. Listening to “How Great Thou Art” first time I got the record.
10. Reading the dumbfounded response of the British tabloids as Susan’s fame and support worldwide became apparent, after they had written her off as a one-night-wonder.
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There are many 2009 articles written about Susan during 2009 beginning year on link below.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/susan-boyle/5209026/Susan-Boyle-fans-turn-to-cybersquatting.html
A 2009 article of interest
Susan Boyle fans turn to cybersquatting
Web-savvy fans of Britain’s Got Talent star Susan Boyle are cashing in on the Scottish singer’s new-found popularity by registering unofficial domain names.
6:00PM BST 23 Apr 2009
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Internet users in the UK, France, Germany and Spain have already snapped up a host of potentially valuable web addresses, including susanboyle.co.uk, susanboyle.org and susan-boyle.com, as well as local domains, such as susanboyle.fr,
susanboyle.de and susanboyle.es.
susanboyle.de and susanboyle.es.
It means that should Susan Boyle go on to win the television talent show, her management team may find it tough to establish an official web presence, and could mean they have to strike private deals with the people who currently own the web addresses to buy the domain names from them.
“Every time a new star like Susan Boyle is born, there is always a huge surge in new registration activity,” said Nora Nanayakkara, direct of business development at Sedo, a domain name marketplace.
However, she warned that the resale value of such web addresses was relatively low, and not the best way to make a fast buck. “We advise people to not jump on trends like this and instead invest in more generic keyword domains that will result in a far more valuable site and ensure that intellectual property infringement is not an issue.”
Internet users have run in to trouble in the past for so-called “cybersquatting” on potentially lucrative or commercially sensitive web domains. Harrods famously had to take a group of cybersquatters to court to wrestle back control of the harrods.com domain name, while in 1999, the BBC had to buy the bbc.com domain name from Boston Business Computing.
Famous US cybersquatter Jeff Burgar owns thousands of contentious domain names and has been ordered by courts on several occasions to surrender the web addresses to their rightful owners.
A 2009 article of interest
Susan Boyle is old friends with Sir David Frost
Susan Boyle's rise from obscurity may have won over many Hollywood celebrities, but one famous name has known her for years – Sir David Frost.
The veteran chat show host is an old family friend of the Boyles, it has emerged,
Sir David, 70, first fell in with the family more than 20 years ago when Susan's brothers John and Gerard contacted him with a business idea related to his television show Through the Keyhole.
The presenter, who was recently portrayed in the hit film Frost/Nixon, was among the first to call Susan when her mother Bridget died two years ago, the Daily Express reported.
"We're still friends with him and he gets in touch regularly," John Boyle, 59, told the newspaper. "He will definitely be in touch when he realises what Susan is doing. That's the kind of guy he is."
Actress Demi Moore and her husband Ashton Kutcher are among Ms Boyle's growing army of fans, with the YouTube clip of her impressive performance on Britain's Got Talent attracting more than 120 million views.
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The 47-year-old unemployed church volunteer from Blackburn in West Lothian has also been invited to appear on the Oprah Winfrey show and has already been interviewed on several US programmes including Larry King Live on CNN.
Elaine Page, who Ms Boyle cited on the ITV1 talent show as her musical inspiration, has hinted that she would like to record a duet with the Scottish singer, describing her as a "role model for everyone who has a dream".
