Susan Boyle has knocked Cheryl Cole off the top of the UK album charts with her second long-player The Gift. The album went straight into the charts at No 1, just one week after The X Factor judge debuted in pole position with her new release Messy Little Raindrops. Cheryl's album fell to number three, while her latest single Promise This dropped to number seven. The Gift is Susan's second number one album in the space of a year, following her debut I Dreamed A Dream which was released in late 2009. According to sales figures it sold over 100,000 copies in its first week of release, outselling its nearest rival, Bon Jovi's Greatest Hits, by two to one. The 49-year-old, who sprang to fame on Britain's Got Talent in 2009, said she was ecstatic at the news, thanking fans and saying, "my dreams just keep coming true". In other chart news former X Factor winner Shayne Ward went into the singles charts at number 12 with his latest track Gotta Be Somebody. Shayne, who won the 2005 series, performed the single on last weekend's X Factor results show.
