--I Dreamed A Dream - Susan Boyle 2009--

Dreamed a Dream is the debut album from Scottish singer Susan Boyle. It was released on 23 November 2009 by Syco Music in the UK, and by Columbia Records in the US one day later. In the standard edition, 11 out of the 12 songs that appear on the album are cover songs, with "Who I Was Born To Be" being the only original composition.
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The album entered the UK album chart at no.1 and remained at the top for four weeks. It was confirmed as the fastest selling UK debut album of all time (and the fourth fastest selling album of all) selling 411,820 copies, beating the previous fastest selling debut album of all time, Spirit by Leona Lewis. It also outsold the rest of the top 5 albums combined during its first week on sale, and became the biggest selling album in the UK in 2009. I Dreamed a Dream debuted at #1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 with 701,000 copies sold in its first week, breaking the record for the highest debut ever for a new solo female artist in the SoundScan era (post 1991).

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I Dreamed a Dream became the biggest opening sales week of 2009 in the United States, beating out Eminem's Relapse which sold 608,000. It was the second biggest-selling album of 2009 in America, with 3.1 million copies sold, behind Taylor Swift's Fearless which sold 3.2 million copies (although Swift's album was actually released in 2008). In only six weeks of sales, it became the biggest selling album in the world for 2009.
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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Dreamed_a_Dream_%28album%29

--Moon River - Breakfast at Tiffanys--

"Moon River" is a song composed by Johnny Mercer (lyrics) and Henry Mancini (music) in 1961, for whom it won that year's Academy Award for Best Original Song. It was originally sung in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's by Audrey Hepburn, although it has been covered by many other artists. The song also won the 1962 Grammy Award for Record of the Year.
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It became the theme song for Andy Williams, who first recorded it in 1961 and performed it at the Academy Awards ceremonies in 1962. He sang the first eight bars at the beginning of his television show and also named his production company and venue in Branson, Missouri after it. Williams' version was vetoed by Cadence Records president Archie Bleyer, who believed it had little or no appeal to teenagers. Andy Williams' version never charted, except as an LP track, which he recorded for Columbia in a hit album of 1962.
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The success of the song was responsible for re-launching Mercer's career as a songwriter, which had stalled in the mid-1950s because rock and roll replaced jazz standards as the popular music of the time. An inlet near Savannah, Georgia, Johnny Mercer's hometown, was named Moon River in honor of him and this song. The popularity of the song is such that it has been used as a test sample in a study on people's memories of popular songs.
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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_River