Tidbits 9/18

CLAYNADA LOVES CLAY TOO - This big ad from HMV Canada appeared in Canada's 2nd largest newspaper - The Globe & Mail (with a circulation of 2 million each day!!!) The TV ad for ATDW also aired today during Oprah on Canada's largest TV network - CTV.

• Eisenhower Hall in West Point is listing Clay's Christmas concert on their website now.
  
• A batch of ATDW/Clay TV Appearances articles on the release day eve. They're basically all the same - summarizing Clay's choiceof covers, etc...
  
• Billboard- mentions Christmas tour. This article is being syndicated at many websites.
  
• South Coast Today
• LiveDaily
• Foxes On Idol
• Nashville City Paper
• About.com Top 40 Music
• Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
• Charlotte Observer
• Central Michigan Life
• Wichita Eagle
• And the reviews are starting to come in. CDD's policy remains that we will post all news items except if they violate our policy on no-Clay bashing. We want to remind you that many newspapers use 1 music reviewer for all music genres. So if a music reviewer likes rap and has to review ATDW, he/she'll obviously hate it!
  
• E! Online - negative
• Newsday- says it'll sell well, but negative
• About.com - mixed
  
• Crunch Gear - article about the Apple iPod has a good Clay mention - "But a cheap copy of the new Clay Aiken’s latest makes people happy enough to pick up an SD card, an extended warranty, and an HD TV."
• Seattle Times mentions Clay's May AI5 appearance with Michael Sandecki -

  Remember Michael Sandecki, last year's jittery, bladder-challenged Clay Aiken impersonator? Simon declared him an awful singer and denied him a trip to Hollywood. (But Sandecki did score a consolation prize at the finale: an award for "best impersonation" and a surprise duet with Aiken.)

• Washington Post article about CD sales mentions Clay/MOAM -- "In the last trimester of 2003, a September-December rally that included new releases from the likes of OutKast, Alicia Keys, Toby Keith, the Beatles and Clay Aiken cut the prior-year album gap from 8.5 percent at the end of August to a more digestible 3.6 percent deficit by year's end."
• Fantastic mention on About.com Special Children:

  American Idol runner-up Clay Aiken is making news again, but not for music this time. The singer, who has a degree in special education and is co-founder of the Bubel/Aiken Foundation, has been named to the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities. The committee, according to a press release, "acts in an advisory capacity to the President and the Secretary of HHS on matters relating to programs and services for persons with intellectual disabilities."

• Taking a Moment reminds us to use our manners at CD release parties and "take a piece of meat with you when you go away."
• Southern Girl's Guide to Almost anything tells us about the Wal-Mart Soundcheck.

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