Tidbits 10/20

• Its been one month since ATDW was released. HAPPY ONE MONTH ANNIVERSARY TO CLAY AND ATDW! ATDW comes in at #32 on the Billboard 200 this week! Well done Clay- another tremendous sales week!
• USA Today Music blog has some interesting comments about ATDW that I have to somewhat agree with. Although I'm thrilled with the quality of ATDW, I still am not convinced a covers album was the correct path --

  But when you're a young, relatively new artist and have put out exactly one album of new material (and it's closing in on triple platinum-level sales), a covers album isn't such a great idea. It arouses suspicions that the album is just a filler, that you haven't been able to come up with any good new material. That may not be true, and in Clay's case it apparently isn't, as he's stockpiled a fairly sizable amount of new material. It also makes the artist seem prematurely old and past his prime when that, in this instance, is clearly not the case. All in all, a very puzzling career move.
  

• Canada.com - they can't even get their fact straight. Says Clay was an AI3 runner up. Huh?
• Carbwire- Clay mention in Ruben article.
• Dallas Ft-Wth. Star Telegram - another mention in a sports article (seems to be happening everyday now). Not a bad mention too!
• About.com Music- top 10 songs of October 2006- "Without You" comes in at #2
  
• LA Times Calendar Live- small Clay mention in an AI related article.
• Fort Wayne Journal Gazette- Carrie Underwood follows footsteps of Kelly & Clay.
• News Times Live- nice mention of Clay's Uncasville, CT JBT concert from last year. "Hary said she and her sister especially loved a Clay Aiken concert they saw there last year. Hary said they were also "amazed" at how large the venue was where Aiken performed."

• TC Palm - very nice mention - "And, what a difference a hairstyle can make. Remember Clay Aiken from American Idol? By the time the American Idol season was finished, Clay's hairstyle was totally transformed, creating a more mature-looking, better-sounding Clay. The change totally transformed his overall appearance."
• Times Herald- article about AI2 finalist Josh Gracin (mentions Clay and posted the picture seen to the right)
• Chicago Sun Times- Barry Manilow says: "This is what Clay Aiken is going to look like in 30 years!"
• Evanston Review- Ruben Studdard "is no Clay Aiken". (this is a positive mention, I take it?)
  

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