King of the Singles

Ken Barnes of USA Today reported single numbers for the American Idols and the runner-ups. It must stick in his craw that Clay is on top of the list since he not a Clay Aiken fan to say the least. If fact, I never remember him saying anything positive about him at all, but the facts are the facts, and Clay is the King of the Singles.

Single Sales (First Week/Total to Date):

1. Clay Aiken/This Is the Night 393,000 (960,000)

2. Ruben Studdard/Flying Without Wings 286,000 (737,000)

3. Kelly Clarkson/A Moment Like This 236,000 (626,000)

4. Taylor Hicks/Do I Make You Proud 190,000 (190,000)

5. Fantasia/I Believe 142,000 (405,000)

6. Carrie Underwood/Inside Your Heaven 130,000 (455,000)

7. Bo Bice/Inside Your Heaven 102,000 ()346,000

8. Diana DeGarmo/Dreams 65,000 (201,000)

9. Justin Guarini/Sorry no sales reported in SoundScan archives; possibly not released as a CD single?

10. Katharine McPhee/My Destiny Out June 27 ***

***Addendum: Katharine McPhee sold 47,000 Commercial Singles plus 28,000Digital Downloads in her first week of sales

You can read my about Clay's single in my blog post, A Single-lar Anniversary which also includes video of him singing both"Bridge Over Trouble Water" and "This Is The Night".

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