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  Ruben Studdard's remix single 'What If?' with Kayne West opens to dismal sales

  July 8, 2004
  We have no idea what the record is for the largest percentage decline in sales between one commercial single and its follow-up in the first week of release -- but whatever it is, American Idol 2 winner Ruben Studdard may have just broken it.
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  Original 'American Idol' finalist Tamyra Gray joins most 'Idol 3' national tour dates

  July 7, 2004
  Billboard reports that Tamyra Gray, the fourth-place finisher in American Idol 1, will appear as a "special guest" on most dates of the American Idol 3 national tour, which starts in mid-July and ends in September.
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  'Idol 3' Fantasia Barrino's 'I Believe' track debuts at #1 on Billboard Hot 100

  July 1, 2004
  American Idol 3 winner Fantasia (who has officially dropped her last name, Barrino) may have only sold about half the quantity of singles as Idol 2 winner Ruben Studdard did in the official debut week, but she now has accomplished something that Ruben never has: reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles and tracks chart.
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  'Idol 3' winner Fantasia Barrino's 'I Believe' single hits #1 with 142,141 units sold

  June 30, 2004
  American Idol still rules the U.S. charts. But has a little tarnish developed around the edges?
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  Clay Aiken to perform on PBS on July 4th, then launch concert tour

  June 30, 2004
  American Idol 2 runner-up and double-platinum recording artist Clay Aiken will perform on PBS's live-from-Washington D.C. Fourth of July broadcast, according to the Associated Press.
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  Fantasia Barrino's debut single opens at #14, as Diana DeGarmo's single waits in wings

  June 25, 2004
  Time for American Idol 3 to see if it can generate as much success at record stores as it did on the airwaves.
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  'Idol 2' Marine finalist Josh Gracin's eponymous CD debuts at #11 on U.S. charts

  June 23, 2004
  Judging by record sales, it's beginning to look like American Idol 2 was the best edition of the hit Fox series at date, as so far even the debut albums from the show's third-and-fourth-place finishers have done as well as that of the runner-up from the first edition.
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  Debut singles from 'Idol' finalists Fantasia Barrino and Diana DeGarmo pushed back a week

  June 4, 2004
  Looks like the American Idol 3 recording sessions are taking longer than RCA Music Group chairman and CEO Clive Davis expected.
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  'Idol 3' winner Fantasia Barrino and runner-up Diana DeGarmo plan June singles

  June 3, 2004
  Could we have a repeat brewing of last June's battle between American Idol finalists?
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  Original 'Idol' finalist Tamyra Gray's 'The Dreamer' album only debuts at #23 on U.S. charts

  June 2, 2004
  In a somewhat disappointing debut, American Idol 1 fourth-place finisher Tamyra Gray's debut CD, entitled The Dreamer, only managed to reach #23 in its first week on the Nielsen SoundScan U.S. Album Sales chart (also known as the Billboard 200) for the week ended May 30, 2004. Tamyra's CD thus becomes the first of the five CDs released by Idol finalists through major labels to fail to reach the Top 20 in its debut.

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