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Clay Aiken -“Interesting” Articles!?!

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On Saturday, April 8th, there were some “interesting” articles about American Idol contestants.  As a popular former contestant, Clay Aiken is most often a part of these articles.  The following are a couple of different articles that were published during the last few days.

The first article is from a web-site titled Oh No They Didn’t!

American Idol’s Top 5 Alumni Based on Album Sales in USA

This article provides a list of albums recorded by alumni of the popular American televised singing competition American Idol in the post-Idol career. It only lists main albums released in the alumni’s post-Idol career. American Idol compilations , individual artist’s pre-Idol recordings, EPs, and compilation albums are not listed here. As of April 3, 2011 – US album sales (Billboard):



1. Carrie Underwood – Season 4 Winner
Total Album Sales: 12, 247,000
 First album: 7,090,000 (7x platinum)     Second album: 3,180,000 (3x platinum)    Third album: 1,977,000 (2x platinum) *still charting*

2. Kelly Clarkson – Season 1 Winner
Total Album Sales: 10,633,000
 First album: 2,745,000 (2x platinum)     Second album: 6,160,000 (6x platinum)    Third album: 815,000 (platinum)  Fourth album: 913,000

3. Chris Daughtry – Season 5, Fourth Place
Total Album Sales: 6,044,000
 First album: 4,795,000 (4x platinum)     Second album: 1,249,000 (platinum)

4. Clay Aiken – Season 2, Runner-up
Total Album Sales: 4,960,000
 First album: 2,785,000 (2x plantinum)   Second album: 1,416,000 (platinum)   Third album: 531,000 (gold)   Fourth album: 165,000   Fifth album: 63,000

5. Fantasia Barrino – Season 3 Winner
Total Album Sales: 2,758,000
First album: 1,793,000 (platinum)          Second album: 530,000 (gold)     Third album: 435,000 *still charting*

6. Ruben Studdard (Season 2 Winner) – 2,562,000  (NO. 7) David Cook (Season 7 Winner) – 1,345,000  (NO. 8) Kelly Pickler (Season 5, 6th Place) – 1,318,000  (NO. 9) Jordin Sparks (Season 6 Winner) – 1,216,000  (NO. 10) David Archuleta (Season 7 Runner Up) – 1,078,000

For the entire article, click HERE

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Idol_alumni_album_sales


Another fluff piece was found at The Hollywood Reporter.  This site decided that American Idol’s need help with their clothing.  The April 8th article is titled:

10 Worst “American Idol” Performance Outfits

The site lists the “chosen” Idols and includes a slide show to see the outfits.  Be sure and stop by and see the entire article.  HollywoodReporter

The following is what they said about Clay:

10. Clay Aiken “Always and Forever” (Season 2)

If anyone was screaming for a stylist, it was Clay Aiken. Randy Jackson even told him to work on it, and Clay didn’t improve much in Hollywood. But if anything, this early audition clip proves that even a bad fashion choice like a hideous striped shirt can’t hide raw vocal talent.
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