Cook’s scores a hit and helps Fuller set a record
Tulsa rocker David Cook has barely been an “American Idol” for a week, but he’s already reaping the benefits.
The Associated Pressreports that Cook, 25, notched 942,000 digital downloads in a week, according to numbers released today by Nielsen SoundScan. The numbers are from the week ending Sunday. That bodes well for his plans to release an album in the fall.
“Idol” runner-up David Archuleta marked 323,000 downloads in that timeframe, according to the AP story.
But the reality show’s competitors weren’t the only ones to get a boost from the show. Oklahoma’s previous “Idol” winner Carrie Underwood, George Michael and ZZ Top all performed on last week’s “Idol” seventh season finale and experienced big jumps in their download figures, according to the AP.
Another beneficiary: The show’s creator, Simon Fuller.
PR Newswire is reporting that Fuller, who recently was named the top British manager of all time by Billboard, has scored a record 17 songs on the trade magazine’s Top 100. All 17 songs are by artists whose careers were launched on “Idol.”
Perhaps even more impressive: 14 of those 17 songs debuted on the chart this week.
With his artists filling 17 spots on the Hot 100, Fuller beats Brian Epstein’s long-standing record; Epstein’s Beatles had 14 singles hit the charts in one week in 1964.
Cook, who is managed by Fuller and signed to the mogul’s 19 Recordings, set a new record for the most new chart entries by a single artist in the Hot 100′s 50-year history, according to PR Newsire. Cook had 11 songs enter the list dated June 7, shattering Miley Cyrus’ previous record of six new entries in one week.
Of course, the leader among Cook’s 11 songs is “The Time of My Life,” which debuted at No. 3 on the chart, the highest debut of the year.
The piano ballad may not be my favorite in Cook’s repertoire, but it bowed at No. 1 on the Hot Digital Songs and Hot Digital Tracks charts. That brings the total of No. 1 hits spawned by “Idol” to 179, dating back to Kelly Clarkson’s first No. 1, “A Moment Like This,” in October 2002, according to PR Newswire
Archuleta, another of Fuller’s clients, had three songs enter the Hot 100 this week, including his cover of John Lennon’s “Imagine” at No. 36.
Rounding out Fuller’s 17 Hot 100 songs: Jordin Spark’s duet with Chris Brown of “No Air,” holding at No. 5; Underwood’s “Last Name, which made a big jump from No. 37 to No. 19; and Daughtry’s “Feels Like Tonight.”
One more record for Fuller: 17 songs by Fuller-managed artists debuted this week on the Billboard Hot Digital Songs chart. Fourteen of those songs are by Cook; the remaining three are by Archuleta.
All of this hitmaking and record-setting should at least put a damper on the idea that “Idol” is losing its magic touch, or at least its influence on the charts.
-BAM
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