The 48-year-old Britain's Got Talent runner-up shifted more than 130,000 copies of her debut album as it went on sale on Monday. Experts at the Official Charts Company said it is now set to become one of the fastest sellers of the decade.
I Dreamed A Dream looks to be on track to vie for the accolade of having this year's biggest first week sale, a record held by JLS for their self-titled which sold over 230,000 copies earlier this month.
It also includes the standard Cry Me a River, as well as covers of Madonna's You'll See and The Monkees' Daydream Believer.
Boyle's album last week achieved the largest ever pre-order for online retailer Amazon. She said: ''It was my greatest ambition to release an album and I have finally achieved it. There is happiness out there for everyone who dares to dream.''
Boyle launched her album with a performance on The X Factor on Sunday during which she sang her version of The Rolling Stones song Wild Horses. A huge crowd watched the performance seven months after her sensational debut on Britain's Got Talent.
Miss Boyle said: "I've grown up a bit. I've become more of a lady. I don't swivel my hips as much, you know? It feels very surreal, as if it's not really happening." She said: "That was a statement I was trying to make, because I was bullied a lot at school - 'You may have done that to me when I was younger, but you can't do it to me anymore. I'm grown up now'." She added: "From no pressure to having all this pressure, I found it a bit suffocating. It was such a short space of time, it felt like a demolition ball really. It really came at me like a demolition ball.
The things which mattered to me before 'Britain's Got Talent,' they still matter to me now: my faith, my friends, family. I'm not so cooped up now; I'm part of the world."
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