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To: ken5050; Netizen; retrokitten; maggief; silent_jonny; All
Hi Ken. Thanks for the link to the Post article. The author's choice of top 10 singles by former AI contestants is interesting. I'm really surprised he picked a Clay Aiken song for #2 over a Carrie Underwood song.

The sales are for albums, though, not singles, and those are domestic sales only. Just FYI, Kelly's album, 'Breakaway', has sold about 13 million copies worldwide as of the latest figures.

According to figures released by Sony Music, Kelly's three albums combined have sold well over 20 million copies worldwide. Her fourth album debuts tomorrow. The first single from it, 'My Life Would Suck Without You', has already gone #1 in the U.S. and UK, and is on its way to double platinum.

The Grammy-winning 'Because of You' is Kelly's biggest worldwide hit in the pop genre, and it even went #1 on the Country radio airplay charts as the first single off Reba McEntire's 'Duets' album. The duet of 'Because of You' with Kelly became Reba's 30th Top-20 country single, peaking at #2 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. It was also her 50th Top 5 single, tying her for the record with Dolly Parton among female country artists.

I don't know if these are the absolute latest figures, since albums can continue to sell for years, but you can find the top-selling American Idol alumni list by domestic sales here.

Among other things, that list clearly shows Clay Aiken's decline across the four albums he's released. His first sold 2,780,000, but his fourth sold only 160,000.

Lastly, like so many other businesses these days, the music industry has been experiencing serious sales declines over the last year or so. Last info I saw was that album sales were down over 8% from the same period last year. U2's new album debuted last week and is on track to be #1 this week with sales of around 400–450K. It is expected to fall off as much as 60% in its second week.

9,709 posted on 03/09/2009 12:50:10 PM PDT by Wolfstar (Elections have thousands of consequences. Some minor, some major...and some that can kill you.)
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To: Wolfstar
Just read elsewhere that Kayne West is supposed to perform on AI on Wednesday. personally, I have no idea who/what he is, but there appears to be a BIG stink about it. Why? What'd he do. I gather he's not a nice guy.

PS: Have you moved yet?

9,710 posted on 03/09/2009 12:57:00 PM PDT by ken5050 (Don't blame me, I voted fopr Palin!!)
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