SACD Going Mainstream?

According to a British HiFi Magazine, Virgin Records is so pleased with the sales of it first SACD, Oldfield's Tubular Bells, that in the next couple months will release 25 of some of its top records in SACD. No mention which albums these would be, but Virgin Records represents the Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Tina Turner, Smashing Pumkins, Janet Jackson, Lenny Kravitz, Yanni, and John Lee Hooker---to name a few that come to mind.

Why would non-audiophile consumers be at all interested in an SACD player?

Metaphysics, can you say surround sound.

But aren't the current SACD players two channel?

Thanks for all of the info. It seems as if SACD hs truly arrived. That universal unit from Rotel looks interesting...