Tidbits 10/17

• Allicat is holding a craft sale for the Bubel Aiken Foundation. All products have been approved by the foundation and will help raise funds for the foundation. To find our more, click here. These are sooo cute!
  
• We're keeping our eye on HDD's charts today. With about 54% reporting, ATDW has a power index of 17,355 on track to sell 30-35,000 copies this week.
  
• 1iota - This website has some gorgeous pictures of Clay's Outdoor Concert at Jimmy Kimmel's Show.
  
• Ruben was mentioned in all those articles about Clay and ATDW last month, so it's fitting that Clay's being mentioned in a bunch of Ruben articles now his CD drop date is apporaching:
• AP wire- Ruben says this about the pressure of competition with other idols - "Clay (Aiken) is in adult contemporary."
• Houston Chronicle - "The portly crooner with the sheepish grin bested Clay Aiken for American Idol's season-2 crown. But his gleam was soon dulled by stiff competition from lower-ranking Idol hopefuls (including Aiken) and subsequent Idol winners."
• Canoe.ca
• Inside Bay Area
  
• Beacon Journal - ATDW mention (negative)
• Harness Racing Portal - horse called "Aiken For Clay" (this has come up several times before)
• Clay holds on to #13 on the Lycos 50 this week.
• Raleigh News & Observer - friendship by the numbers - "Number of friends Clay Aiken has on his MySpace page, as of Oct. 11: 13,671"
• Associated Content - top 10 American Idol songs- "Invisible" comes in at #2.

  Invisible - Clay Aiken
  Clay Aiken appeared on American Idol in the year 2003, and although he lost to Ruben Studdard, he put up a great fight and came in second place. In 2003, he released his first solo album, Measure of a Man, which in fact debuted at #1 on the Billboard 100, and was, with 613,000 copies sold in its very first week, the highest selling debut for a solo artist in over ten years. Invisible was the best-selling single that appeared on this album.

• There Was A Man - Clay Aiken - then and now.
• Outdoor Plants and Landscaping Assistance Who would ever think that Clay's name would be found in a landscaping website! This site says, "People born in the November, like Clay Aiken, share the chrysanthemum as their birth flower," and then goes on to talk about diseases of this flower.

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