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HOME > American Idol > American Idol 10 Scotty McCreery's album debuts at No. 1 and makes chart history
By Elizabeth Kwiatkowski, 10/12/2011
Scotty McCreery's recording career appears to be off to a strong start.
McCreery's debut album sold 197,000 copies during its initial week of release.
McCreery's first-week album sales are the highest of any Idol winner since David Cook -- whose 2008 self-titled album sold 280,000 copies in its first week -- and the most of any finalist since eighth-season runner-up Adam Lambert, who sold 198,000 copies of his debut album "For Your Entertainment" in 2009. McCreery is the first Idol champ to debut at No. 1 on the chart since Ruben Studdard in 2003. The 18-year-old singer is also the first country artist to have their first studio album debut at No. 1 on the overall album sales chart and the youngest man to ever top the chart with a debut release, according to Billboard. "My head is just spinning," McCreery told USA Today about his album's first-week sales performance. "It started out kind of low: They said 100,000 maybe. Then every day I saw the numbers climbing. It's wild: It wasn't a year ago that I was a normal cat, and now I'm number one on Billboard. It's insane, it really is." (Photo credit Fox) DISCUSS AND COMMENT ON THIS STORY Reality TV World has launched a trial program offering Facebook Comments on our stories to provide an enhanced user experience to our readers. To post a comment, log into Facebook and then 'Add' your comment. To report spam or abuse, click the 'X' in the upper right corner of the comment box.Get more Reality TV World! Follow us on Twitter, friend us on Facebook or subscribe to our RSS feed. |
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