TAYLOR SWIFT BEATS OUT SUSAN BOYLE AS THE TOP SELLING ALBUM OF 2009! THANKS 2 KANYE! LOL!

So, in the end, the frump didn’t beat the teen queen after all.
For weeks it looked like Susan Boyle might pull a Hail Mary pass, and beat out Taylor Swift as the year’s top album seller at the very last minute. But in a photo finish finale, Swift pulled ahead, selling 3,216,000 copies of her “Fearless” CD, to 3,103,000 of Boyle's "I Dreamed a Dream."

That makes “Fearless” the top selling disc of 2009 to Boyle’s No. 2.

Then again, Boyle did best Swift in one key arena: physical sales. She’s sold 3 million to Taylor’s 2.8 mil in that ancient realm. That’s a telling measure of the age of Boyle’s buyers. Only 100,000 of them downloaded the disc, a slimmer slice of the overall amount than most any other star in these iPod-mad days.

Also, the elder singer has some extra momentum on her side: She’s still this week’s No. 1 seller. Which means she has a shot to catch up to Swift in overall sales in the months to come. But to do so, she’d have to rack up another several million units; “Fearless” recently pushed past the 5 mil mark for its total figure.

Here’s a look at the final Top Ten sellers during the calendar year of 2009, according to Neilsen/SoundScan. (Total sales may well be higher, if the album came out before ’09).

1) “Fearless” Taylor Swift 3,216,000

2) “I Dreamed A Dream” Susan Boyle 3,103,000

3) “Number Ones” Michael Jackson 2,355,000

4) “Fame” Lady Gaga 2,237,000

5) “My Christmas” Andrea Bocelli 2,207,000

6) “Hannah Movie Soundtrack” Hanna Montana 1,823,000

7) “The E.N.D.” Black Eyed Peas 1,786,000

8) “Relapse” Enimen 1,735,000

9) “Blueprint 3” Jay-Z 1,514,000

10) “Only By the Night” Kings of Leon 1,397,000