Singer Susan Boyle has narrowly missed out on topping the best seller list of 2009 but has spent a sixth week on top of the US album chart.

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Susan Boyle was narrowly outperformed by US star Taylor Swift

The Scottish star sold 3.1m copies last year, but was beaten by teen artist Taylor Swift, who sold 3.21m records.

But Boyle's I Dreamed A Dream is the biggest-selling album to have been released in 2009 - country singer Swift's album first came out in 2008.

Michael Jackson and Lady Gaga came third and fourth in the year's rundown裁减，纲要.

Vinyl sales

The late singer's Number Ones album sold 2.3m copies, followed by Lady Gaga's The Fame with sales of 2.24m.

Jackson scored four albums inside the top 20 over the past year, including his classic 1983 record Thriller¹.

Only Boyle and Swift's albums sold in excess of超过 three million, the first time since 2006 when three records achieved the feat².

The vast majority of Boyle's albums were sold in physical formats³, with just 86,000 digital downloads accounting⁴ for its sales figures.

The total number of albums sold in the US during 2009 amounted to 373.9 million, according to chart compilers Nielsen SoundScan.

They added that more vinyl records黑胶唱片 had been purchased than any other year since they began compiling music sales figures in 1991.