First Week Sales For Clay Make Him #1 in New CD Sales

For those of you who were watching Hits Daily Double all day long today, you know that the final total of first week sales for "A Thousand Different Ways" was 206,631. This put Clay at #2 behind Justin Timberlake for all CD's. Even better though, for new CD's, Clay was the #1 seller of the week, even beating out Elton John, who came in 17th.

Also, in the News Section at Hits Daily Double, is an article entitled "Justin Still The One". Concerning Clay's second place finish to Justin, HDD says:

Justin’s still dustin’ the opposition. The Jive/ZLG superstar logs in at #1 for the second week in a row, as FutureSex/LoveSounds tallies 231k, more than enough to relegate RCA/RMG Idol alum Clay Aiken’s A Thousand Different Ways to a #2 bow, with 207k Claymates snapping up copies of his latest.

These figures are not the final figures, and those will be reported by Sound Scan more than likely by tomorrow. When the ITune numbers are added, hopefully Clay's number will go up.

All I have to say is this: "Clay...we are proud of you!!"

Here are the top 20 at Hits Daily Double:

CHART DATE: 09/25/2006
LAST UPDATE: 09/26/2006 09:51:02
NOW IN: FINAL

LW TW artist / album label power index % change
1 1 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE JIVE/ZLG 231,066 -67%
FUTURE SEX/LOVE SOUNDS
-- 2 CLAY AIKEN RCA/RMG 206,631 --
A THOUSAND DIFFERENT WAYS
-- 3 FERGIE A&M/INTERSCOPE 158,468 --
THE DUTCHESS
-- 4 KENNY CHESNEY SBMG NASHVILLE/BNA 141,635 --
LIVE THOSE SONGS AGAIN
2 5 JOHN MAYER AWARE/COLUMBIA/CRG 141,097 -51%
CONTINUUM
-- 6 DIANA KRALL VERVE 91,649 --
FROM THIS MOMENT ON
3 7 BEYONCE COLUMBIA/CRG 86,608 -44%
B'DAY
-- 8 LUPE FIASCO ATLANTIC/ATL G 85,959 --
LUPE FIASCO'S FOOD & LIQUOR
-- 9 CHINGY CAPITOL 75,109 --
HOODSTAR
7 10 HINDER UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 71,439 +8%
EXTREME BEHAVIOR
4 11 BOB SEGER CAPITOL 69,086 -53%
FACE THE PROMISE
5 12 BOB DYLAN COLUMBIA/CRG 62,117 -27%
MODERN TIMES
10 13 NICKELBACK ROADRUNNER/IDJMG 54,638 -2%
ALL THE RIGHT REASONS
18 14 THE FRAY EPIC 53,817 +56%
HOW TO SAVE A LIFE
-- 15 JESSE MCCARTNEY HOLLYWOOD 53,243 --
RIGHT WHERE YOU WANT ME
8 16 DANITY KANE BAD BOY/ATLANTIC/ATL G 49,485 -17%
DANITY KANE
-- 17 ELTON JOHN ROCKET/UNIVERSAL 47,493 --
THE CAPTAIN & THE KID
13 18 CHEETAH GIRLS 2 WALT DISNEY RECORDS 42,255 -15%
SOUNDTRACK
-- 19 NEW FOUND GLORY SURETONE/GEFFEN 40,223 --
COMING HOME
12 20 GREY'S ANATOMY VOL.2 HOLLYWOOD 39,128 -25%
SOUNDTRACK

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