Judging from the latest record sales, what little credibility American Idol gained as a "talent" competition six years ago is fading away almost as fast as Ruben Studdard's career....unfortunately, it's America's collective ADD that caused season six winner Jordin Sparks' self-titled debut album to turn out the lowest first week sales of any Idol winner.
The barely-18-year-old singer was arguably one of the best singers the competition has ever seen, and extremely likeable, but unless you're Sanjaya, this season's winner was destined to fall short of impressive on the record-sale front. Nobody takes that show seriously, and more and more, viewers are tuning in for a cheap laugh at shameless and oblivious tone deaf singers' expense, and moving on to a different reality show that probably whores itself out slightly less than Idol.
Comparatively, season-one winner Kelly Clarkson's 2003 debut, Thankful, opened at #1 with 297,400 scans, while Spark's debut coughed up merely 64,000 scans.
I'm thinking the mockery Sanjaya and his devoted fans made of the show this season, coupled with poor record sales? Maybe we're looking at the last season of AI starting in January--who's excited?
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Two things:
1) I can't believe that, out of the group of American Idol winners, Ruben Studdard had the best opening week with 416,600 copies sold - that is ridiculous.
2) While Jordin Sparks didn't have a great opening week, I think she'll end up far more successful than Fantasia or that guy with gray hair. It seems like she has much more radio play/MTV backing, so I'd think she would have more staying power than the others = more total albums sold.
Good article though...
great comment--
I agree...I don't think they hyped Jordin's album up enough, but I definitely know most of the words to her single (whether I want to or not) just by having the radio on in the car. I think she's on par with Kelly Clarkson and that she at least has a niche audience (unlike that gray haired guy, haha) that will keep her around.
And if nothing else, they'll bring her back on to perform this season and make her seem like the most successful Idol ever.
Thanks for reading!
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