LOVE the Cookie. LOVE the Cookie.
I love the Cookie too! I’ve been listening to his studio version of some of the songs he sang - they are FABULOUS.
Grin...if his initial foray onto the Billboard charts is any indication, the Cookie is gonna have a huge career. His debut single is the highest selling single of any AI winner since season #2. RCA/19 Entertainment released studio versions of his AI performances, and they're selling like hotcakes. So David has something like 17 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 this week. No other artist has come close to this number of songs on the charts in the same week since the Beatles set the record in 1964.
David's first album is tentatively scheduled to be released in the fall. If he gets to do the pop/rock album he wants, and the material is good, and if public interest in him continues at its current level, the album will be a smash hit.
Which, of course, will leave the likes of Montgomery to stew in their own putrid juices, wondering why Cookie and not them.