Clay Still Holds First Week CD Single Sales Record

Taylor Hicks has made his fans proud for selling 190,000 CD's this past week, but Clay's fans are even more "proud of their boy" for still holding the record of CD's sold the first week, with 393,000 back in 2003. Every article that I've found thus far about Taylor's CD sales mentions Clay as still having this record. Though we have something in our Tidbits 6/22 section today, I'd like to expand upon this with a few thoughts and more info.

First, here are some articles which mention this...

• Zap2It - I love this sentence from this article, "The all-time "Idol" first-week singles sales champ is, of course, Clay Aiken." Yes, why of course!!
• Yahoo.com - Yahoo says, "Season two runner-up Clay Aiken scored the No. 1 spot with "This Is the Night" with a whopping 393,000, staving off winner Ruben Studdard's "Flying Without Wings" (286,000)." Don't you love the word "whopping"!!
• WSBTV Atlanta - "The show has also proven to be golden for Clay Aiken, a runner-up to Studdard in season 2."
• Local 6.com (Central Florida) - This article has the same info in it as the one immediately above.
• Newsday.com - Another mention of Clay's "whopping" 393,000 CD's sold.
• KNBC: "The show has also proven to be golden for Clay Aiken, a runner-up to Studdard in season 2."
• and a few more...Arizona Republic, E! Online News, Pioneer Press, Reuters
  

This is a great time, I believe, for Clay's record-selling CD to be mentioned in so many articles, right before his next CD comes out. Many people who read this and who may have forgottten about Clay will again be reminded of what a great seller his first CD was. Maybe some who never bought it will. Hopefully, when his next CD comes out quite soon, they will remember how popular his first CD was and this could make for more sales. This possibility is exciting!

To see the other articles where Clay's sales-breaking CD is mentioned, see our Tidbits 6/22 in today's CDD.

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