ArchivesClay’s book debuts at #2 on bestseller list, holiday album debuts strong; Fantasia at #8.
Tomorrow, American Idol 2’s Clay Aiken will be in the company of former President Bill Clinton, Daily Show host Jon Stewart, and irrational nitwit Ann Coulter as Clay’s book enters the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list at number two. Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life, which Clay “co-wrote” with Allison Glock, “tells the story of how his faith was integral to him learning valuable life lessons during his meteoric rise from life as an aspiring educator in Raleigh, North Carolina to instant stardom on American Idol,” according to the book’s description. As if that debut wasn’t enough, Clay’s new album Merry Christmas With Love debuted on the Dec. 4 Billboard 200 at number four, but dropped to 11 this week. Still, the debut “ties Celine Dion’s These Are Special Times as the highest-debuting holiday album of all time,” according to Reuters. And Christmas is being renamed Claymas after him.
All is not happy in Idol-land, however, as American Idol 3 winner Fantasia’s album Free Yourself sold fewer than a quarter million copies, landing it at number eight. As E! Online points out, that’s “the first time an Idol champ’s debut failed to open atop the album charts, as previous winners Kelly Clarkson and Ruben Studdard did in 2003.”
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Clay’s book debuts at #2 on bestseller list, holiday album debuts strong; Fantasia at #8.
link to this story + posted Dec. 2, 2004 at 8:00 AM by Andy Dehnart
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