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Sunday, August 5, 2007
8/5: Watch Clay sing “Baby Got Back”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Clay Aiken spoke to our nightlife/leisure reporter David Graves about his upcoming tour stop at Chastain Park Amphitheatre Wednesday, August 15 with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. I might have to ask David for the full interview. What we posted online is only four questions and naturally, there’s nothing about his personal life. Here’s the link..
He’s going to perform songs off his last album (covers such as “Open Arms” and “Every Time You Go Away”) and upbeat songs such as “Baby Got Back” and “1999.” Yes, Clay performing “Baby Got Back.” That is not a typo folks. The Sir-Mix-A-Lot bootylicious song and Clay Aiken. That alone makes me want to go and see him just to have my jaw hit the concrete.
Here’s the review from Nashua, N.H. of Clay’s concert with the orchestra there.. He sings TV theme songs, too. Huh?
The best tickets I could find at Ticketmaster at Chastain were mid-level seats about 2/3 back, Terrace P, as of Saturday evening August 4.
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8/5: Digital downloads/CD sales
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Elliot’s “Wait For You” 22-20, 36K for the week, 464K total
Carrie’s “Before He Cheats” 34-33, 26K, 1.67 mil total
Carrie’s “Wasted,” 158, 6K, 371K total
Daughtry’s “Home” 37-44, 22K, 921K total
Daughtry’s “It’s Not Over” 68-98, 11K, 1.41 mil total
Kelly’s “Never Again” 44-59, 18K, 773K total
Kelly/Reba “Because of You” 87-69, 16K, 80K total
“Sober” fell off the top 200 last week; “Since U Been Gone” dropped out this week after selling 1.7 mil total since the chart launched.
Kellie’s “I Wonder,” 141-124, 8K, 130K total
Bucky’s “A Different World” 121-126, 8K, 131K total (It’s been a battle between Kellie and Bucky for weeks on the country chart though Bucky is doing in that front, closing in on the top 5 while Kellie is still in the teens.)
Fantasia’s “When I See U” fell off the chart.
Off the chart, Kat’s “Over It” sold 3,300 for a total of 471K.
And on the Nielsen SoundScan sales chart, Carrie’s “Some Hearts” finally passes Kelly’s “Breakaway” for biggest “Idol’ sales champ. Carrie has sold 5,813,400. Kelly: 5,813,200.
Kelly’s “My December” in its fifth week drops to 15 from 11 with 31K sold and 536K total.
Daughtry falls 22-25, 23K, 2.96 mil total. He’s two weeks away from 3 million sold.
Carrie rises 30-28, 21K for the week, and as noted, 5.8 mil total
Elliott is 81-84, 9K and 333K total.
Bucky falls 83-91, 8K and 231K total.
Kellie jumps 141-99, 7K and 593K total.
Fantasia falls sharply 125-179, 4K, 447K total. She’s still quite a ways away from 500K at this rate.
Off the top 200: Breakaway sold another 6K, Kat, 1,500 for a total of 348K, Taylor sold 900 for 692K (he should hit 700K within two months at this rate); Clay sold 500 and 516K total; Ruben sold 400, totaling 232K. Paris sold 300, totaling still 18K. Kimberley also sold 300 and has a total of 14K sold now.
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