Thursday 23 October 2003

Poor showing

He came in No. 2 on "American Idol" and received zero stars from critics, but Clay Aiken's debut CD bagged the No. 1 slot on Billboard's latest Top 200 list. Aiken's "Measure of a Man" sold 612,859 copies in its first week, giving him the third-highest debut of the year, after 50 Cent's "Get Rich or Die Trying" and Linkin Park's "Meteora." Both sold in the 800,000 range.

Mariah Carey had a poor opening this week - with an excuse. It's an album of single "Remixes", packaged by her previous record company, Columbia. It starts at No. 26 with sales of 40,687. Carey's most recent new recording opened with 260,000 copies moved.

Opening just below Carey were Simon and Garfunkel with their "Essential" collection. It moved just over 40,000 copies. Simon and Garfunkel's music has been compiled dozens of times, but the latest set is timed to a soldout reunion tour.

(New York Daily News)



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