Clay Aiken - In The News

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, sold 527,000 copies in its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan. That made it …
> The top debut week for a female singer so far this year.
> The second-biggest debut week for an Idol (next to Clay Aiken’s 613,000 for
Measure of a Man
).
> Her first No. 1 (first album
Some Hearts
entered the
Billboard
chart at No. 2 with 315,000 copies sold).
> Nearly five times as big as this week’s No. 2 album,

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Special guests, special events, weddings, funerals and a few awards — must besweeps time, those quarterly competitions when the broadcast ratings race heatsup. USA TODAY walks you through the November highlights.
The enertainment
The info Fox
November 1
Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? Fox, 8 ET/PT
The sweeps are scheduled to kick off with a special two-hour

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Nicole Kidman Golden in Holiday Smash
Kite Runner Kids Moving to Dubai
Sedaka Returns, With Friends
Nicole Kidman Is Golden in Holiday Smash
Forget whatever you might have read elsewhere last week about
Nicole Kidman
in “The Golden Compass.”
This column told you a few weeks ago that Kidman was in a slump after the terrible performance of “The Invasion” co-starring

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Nicole Kidman Golden in Holiday Smash
Kite Runner Kids Moving to Dubai
Sedaka Returns, With Friends
Nicole Kidman Is Golden in Holiday Smash
Forget whatever you might have read elsewhere last week about
Nicole Kidman
in “The Golden Compass.”
This column told you a few weeks ago that Kidman was in a slump after the terrible performance of “The Invasion” co-starring

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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - For labels and music retailers,
the Billboard 200 brings a scarier sight than any ghost, goblin
or witch you might encounter on Halloween: a No. 1 album in
October with a sales week of less than 100,000 copies.
We’ve had light chart-toppers before. Since May 1991, when
the big chart switched to Nielsen SoundScan data, there have
been 16 weeks when sales for the No. 1 slot fell below 100,000,
with seven of those occurring this year. It just seems more
jarring to see a number that light during the last four months
of the year, when high-profile artists seek to be prime
attractions during holiday shopping’s traffic.

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Low tide in October for album sales By Geoff Mayfield 1 hour, 47 minutes ago LOS ANGELES (Billboard) -
For labels and music retailers,
the Billboard 200 brings a scarier sight than any ghost, goblin
or witch you might encounter on Halloween: a No. 1 album in
October with a sales week of less than 100,000 copies.

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