Connie Talbot Soars 'Over The Rainbow' and Up the Billboard Charts

Connie Talbot Soars 'Over The Rainbow' and Up the Billboard Charts

Only Independent Artist Featured In SANDISK's Newly Announced slotMusic Format

ALBANY, N.Y., Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Connie is a hit! At age 7, the adorable, charismatic charmer with a singing voice that belies her age is now making an immediate and huge impact on American shores. Within a week of release, Connie's debut American album and single releases are already reaching for the top of the Billboard charts:

-- #7 on the Heatseekers chart for her album Over The Rainbow
-- #2 on the Hot Singles chart for her rendition of the Bob Marley track
"Three Little Birds" (knocking Madonna out of the Top 10!)
-- #8 on the Hot Kid Audio chart (sharing the Top 10 with Hannah Montana,
Camp Rock, Cheetah Girls and Baby Einstein)
-- and #43 on the Top Indie Albums chart

This whirlwind of chart activity comes at a time when Connie Talbot is following her international successes with a blitz of American media including recent appearances on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, QVC, Comcast Cable and the TV Guide Network.

Recently, Over The Rainbow was named as one of an initial 40 titles being featured in technology and entertainment giant SANDISK's new slotMusic format, a versatile, groundbreaking physical music format that enables consumers to instantly and easily enjoy music from their favorite artists. Over The Rainbow is the only title released by an independent label -- AAO Music/Reality Records -- to be featured among the 40 artists. She will also have her own branded slot music player.

Talbot's meteoric rise began when -- still only 6 and flashing a gap-toothed smile that instantly won over Great Britain -- she impressed even the notoriously impossible-to-please Simon Cowell last year on the other program he co-hosts, the enormously popular Britain's Got Talent. Since then the Connie Talbot phenomenon has ballooned not only in the U.K., where Over The Rainbow went gold in three weeks, but in other European and Asian countries as well. Recently the Guinness Book of World Records certified Talbot as the new reigning champion in the categories of youngest artist ever to reach the charts and the youngest to receive a gold record.

In addition, Nintendo has announced that Connie will be the subject of a karaoke Wii game. The game, being designed by the British firm Data Design Interactive and due out next year, will allow fans to sing along with the songs on the Over The Rainbow album.

Connie Talbot remains a YouTube phenomenon as well, where more than 50 million people to date have viewed her performances throughout the world.

Over The Rainbow, produced and mixed by Simon Hill and Rob May, was recorded last fall in an aunt's spare bedroom so that Connie, who lives in the town of Streetly in West Midlands, England, would not lose valuable school time. The album is filled with Connie's stirring interpretations of such classics as "I Will Always Love You," "Imagine," "Ben," "My Favorite Things" and "What a Wonderful World."

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CONTACT: Lydia Sherwood of Presto Public Relations, +1-360-734-8315,
presto.ls@gmail.com, for AAO Music|Reality Records

Web site: http://www.connietalbot.com/
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