Daughtry kicks Taylor Hicks in the nuts
Okay, so maybe American Idol Season Five fourth placer Chris Daughtry didn’t literally kick season winner Taylor Hicks where the sun don’t shine, but it sure feels like it. Daughtry’s band’s self-titled debut album topped the Billboard 200 this week with a 130-copy lead over the original soundtrack of Dreamgirls, selling over 65,000 copies, according to Soundscan. Where is Hicks’ debut album? Moved up three notches to #50.
In its ninth week on the chart, Daughtry’s RCA album has established two records of sorts: it is the fastest-selling debut by a rock artist in history, and it is the first album by an American Idol non-Top Two finalist to top the Billboard 200. Idols who have topped the Billboard 200 are Kelly Clarkson, Ruben Studdard, and his runner-up Clay Aiken; all remaining Idol winners and runners-up, including Justin Guarini, Fantasia, Diana DeGarmo, Carrie Underwood, Bo Bice, Taylor Hicks, and, for now, Katherine McPhee, have not topped the albums chart.
Of course, there are some factors to take into consideration here. It is the third week in a row that the #1 album on the Billboard 200 has sold less than 100,000 copies. You’d have to go back to the early 1990s to see those kinds of relatively low sales figures. You could also take into consideration that Daughtry has a hit single, It’s Not Over, that’s burning up the modern rock and Top 40 formats; RCA continues to hedge on sending a Hicks single to radio, which will continue to hurt Taylor’s chances of long-term success on the album charts.
Meanwhile, in other American Idol Season Five alum news, Bucky Covington’s new Lyric Street single A Different World has been serviced to country radio and is now #47 on the Radio and Records country chart; Paris Bennett has a new 306 Entertainment single, Ordinary Love, that’s being serviced to R&B formats; and Mandisa Hundley has signed up with Sparrow Records for a gospel album to be released late this year or early next year (her MySpace page features the delightful light acoustic toe-tapper Redeemer, a track on the album Beth Moore Presents: Songs of Deliverance.
There isn’t a bad song in Chris Daughtry’s album. He rocks!!!!! So much more than Bo too!
I love Chris Daughtry’s album! Yeah, everything in the album, I bet, will be chart-topping hits, not just some ordinary songs to fill up the album. I’m waiting for Katharine McPhee’s album to be released. And, is Ace Young going to make an album soon? I like his voice too. And Elliot! Hmmm… I hope this season’s American Idol contestants will be just as good or even better than last season’s
Toni and Tess: The strange thing is, neither Cathy nor I like him. We feel so old nga, e. LOL
Daughtry SUCKS. It is the type of rock that shames the rest of the genre. It’s the type of rock for people who don’t know rock.
Ugh.
Well, I’ve tried to be a little more diplomatic in my assessment. Haha!
You’ve proved once again why I respect you, because you dare to say the things I’m thinking but don’t say. Kudos!
I suppose you’ll be running for public office in the future then. Good luck with that.
Please don’t forget to vote for me.
To be fully honest, I didn’t even know Taylor Hicks had an album out yet. I think he’s one of those people who are really likable and charismatic in person and on stage, but are people actually into his music? Probably not.