Tidbits 11/10

• Clay is in this week's Soap Opera Weekly says the CB's ellenpoppy:

  AMERICAN IDOL TO DAYS
  
  Here an early present for all you Claymates. Clay Aiken is heading to Days of Our Lives for the holidays. The American Idol star appears Dec. 22, performing a private concert for Steve and Kayla. He will sing Everything I Have,?from his new album. His version of O, Holy Night?will also be featured. Aiken was runner-up to second-season Idol winner Ruben Studdard.

• There's also a mention in Soap Opera Digest - Nov. 21 issue. Again, thanks to ellenpoppy:

  DAYS OF OUR LIVES
  
  Clay Aiken (Himself): The American Idol alum will appear on Dec 22 to sing "Everything I Have" in a scene with Steve (Stephen Nichols) and Kayla (Mary Beth Evans).

• ellenpoppy also says the Tyra Banks Show has taken out an ad in the Nov. 20 issue of Us. Clay's November 17 appearance on the show is promoted:

  TYRA MAGAZINE AD
  
  An ad for TYRA that takes up 1/3 of the vertical right of page 42 and all of page 43. Page 42 has a Where to Watch" schedule (great idea!) that lists the cities, channels and times that TYRA is on. The right side is a huge picture of Tyra, with a banner that says "LUV2TLK" across her mouth. At the bottom of the page is a scrawl with pictures (1-1/4x1-1/2 inches?) of Hilary Duff 11/14, PartyParty 11/15, Diddy 11/17, Janet Jackson 11/20, Clay Aiken 11/22, Beauty 911 11/24.

• LiveDaily has a really nice update on what Clay's been up to:

  Though Clay Aiken (tickets | music)'s upcoming December concerts will have a holiday theme, the singer plans to get back on the road next year to support his third album, "A Thousand Different Ways," which debuted at No. 2 on The Billboard 200 album chart after selling 205,000 copies during its first week in stores.
  
  It was Aiken's third consecutive debut inside the Top 5: his debut, "Measure of a Man," entered at No. 1 and "Merry Christmas With Love" debuted at No. 4.
  
  "A Thousand Different Ways" combines 10 cover versions of songs from the '70s, '80s and '90s with four new songs--though that wasn't the original plan, Aiken said in an e-mail interview.

• Electric New Paper Singapore- nice, fair article about the new Clay:

  But Aiken assured he won't get another panic attack if A Thousand Different Ways doesn't match up to the record-breaking sales figures he used to enjoy.
  
  He said: 'Everything happened so big and so early for me, that anything that comes after would be disappointing. It's hard to sell 615,000 in your first week again.
  
  'But I do feel this is like my first album again. We're selling it with a normal amount of publicity and fanaticism. It's a true test. But from now, anything I do is successful in my eyes.'

• Green Bay Press Gazette, Chicago Courier News- Kathy Griffin warning
• Collegiate Times on why America doesn't like to vote -- "The main reason why people decide not to vote is because they believe that their vote won’t make a difference. Well it certainly won’t while they sit on the coach and frantically call in every two minutes to vote for Clay Aiken. "
• Boston Herald- weird article - negative Clay mention. Don't bother.

• Graphics In Mind- check out this stunning computer generated painting of Clay... cool!
  

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