Clay Aiken's On My Way Here Debuts at #4
Leona Lewis at #6 with SPIRIT
Gavin DeGraw's Self Titled Sophomore Album Debuts at #7
NEW YORK, May 14 - RCA Music Group artists dominate the
Billboard album chart this week with three of the country's Top Ten
best-selling albums. Additionally, RCA Label Group tops the Digital Album
Chart with GAVIN DEGRAW at #1, Clay Aiken's ON MY WAY HERE at #3, and Leona
Lewis's SPIRIT at #4.
Clay Aiken's RCA Records/19 Recordings, ON MY WAY HERE debuts this week
at #4 with 94,071 units sold this week, making this Aiken's fourth Top 5
debut. Released on May 6th, ON MY WAY HERE is Aiken's fourth album and his
first album of original songs since his 2003 chart topping, double platinum
debut Measure of a Man. The title track and first single from the album "On
My Way Here" debuted at #1 on the AOL streaming chart week of release,
rocketed to #1 on the Amazon chart the week it was made available as a
pre-release, and debuted at #1 on the Amazon download chart the day it was
released. Aiken appeared on Good Morning America, The View, The Today Show,
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, AOL Sessions, Entertainment Tonight, Access
Hollywood, Insider, Extra!, E!, CNN, ABC Nightline, Fox News, and CBS News
Path, all the week of release.
Leona Lewis' J Records/SyCo Music debut album SPIRIT claims the #6 spot
on the album chart with 555,472 units sold, to date. British sensation
Leona Lewis has achieved many record-breaking milestones since her debut
album entered the Billboard chart at #1 on April 16th. She became the first
British female artist in music history to debut at #1 on the Billboard Top
200, and was the first time ever that a British artist overall has debuted
on the chart at #1 with a first album. It was also the biggest female
artist first album debut since Carrie Underwood in 2005, and had the
biggest digital album sales week ever for a new artist. When her album
SPIRIT debuted at #1, Leona was the first British female artist ever to
score both a US Number One album and single in the same week. Her single
"Bleeding Love," which has scanned almost 2 million in single sales, topped
the Billboard Hot 100 chart for a fourth, record-breaking week last week,
becoming the first British-born female solo artist ever to hold the #1 spot
on the singles chart with a debut charting single for 4 weeks.
Additionally, the song holds the radio spin record with the most weekly
plays ever, in a one week period, at the Top 40 radio format with 10,665
spins.
Gavin DeGraw's self-titled J Records sophomore release debuts at #7
with 66,112 units sold this week. Released on May 6th, GAVIN DEGRAW is the
long-awaited follow up to his platinum selling debut album Chariot released
in 2003. Gavin DeGraw, produced by Grammy-nominated producer Howard Benson,
showcases an edgy pop/rock sound evident on the first single, "In Love With
A Girl." "In Love With A Girl" has been in the Top 10 for three weeks on
the Hot AC radio chart. The single's video, directed by acclaimed director
Wayne Isham and featuring "Laguna Beach" beauty Kristin Cavallari,
premiered on Yahoo! Music, and is currently in large rotation on VH-1.
Gavin DeGraw appeared on CBS Early Show, Live with Regis & Kelly, The Ellen
DeGeneres Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, two nights on Last Call with Carson
Daly, Entertainment Tonight, Access Hollywood, and CNN all the week of
release.
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