SuBo fans rage against lack of radio play

Furious Susan Boyle fans are lobbying radio stations around the globe amid fears their hero is being snubbed.

The fans claim the Scots superstar isn’t played as much as similarly-successful performers and have compiled a dossier of radio stations that blank the West Lothian songstress.

One American fanatic has complained to 400 US radio stations but received replies from just five, with only two agreeing to play more SuBo.

Massachusetts woman Grace Rooney’s campaign has been taken up in the UK.

Robert Stephenson, 62, originally from Coatbridge but now living in Portsmouth, has bombarded the BBC with letters urging them to give SuBo more airplay.

He said: “Susan’s coverage on BBC radio has been, and is, almost nil.

“I wrote to BBC Radio 2 asking for details of the number of plays Susan had in the previous years compared with those by Adele, Michael Buble, Coldplay, Take That and Amy Winehouse. About eight weeks later I got a letter refusing to give the information requested.

“It was about eight pages long but didn’t give me the information I wanted. It was just bureaucratic nonsense. It is a disgrace and what is even more of a surprise is that BBC Radio Scotland hardly ever play her either.”

Robert said he was moved to tears when he saw Susan’s famous audition for Britain’s Got Talent in 2009 and has been a fan ever since.

The former MoD bursar said: “Given her worldwide fame you’d think the BBC would play her more. I think it’s snobbery. I reckon the BBC doesn’t think she’s cool enough. She’s shoved into a corner because she’s a middle-aged woman.”

Grace Rooney said her US campaign had achieved little but Susan’s career was doing “just fine without the radio plays”.

She’s met Susan six times, including a trip to Scotland in 2012 to attend the I Dreamed A Dream tour and visit Susan’s hometown Blackburn. She’s also met her in Texas and New York.

A spokesperson for Susan Boyle said it was “wonderful” that fans have been so supportive of Susan and campaigned to get more stations to play her music but said it is “ultimately the decision of the radio station” as to what they play.

A spokesperson for BBC Radio Scotland said: “Susan has featured as a guest on many of our speech radio programmes. BBC Radio Scotland is largely a speech station in the daytime with specialist music in the evening.

“Where Susan appears as a guest on our daytime shows we happily play her music alongside her appearance and celebrate her success.”

The Sunday Post contacted the BBC for a comment on behalf of its other stations but did not receive a response before deadline.