Yeah he would fit right in there and their roster is way more impressive than Wind-up’s. Wind-up claims to be the world’s biggest indie label but juding by ESM’s roster I’d say they’re just as big. They don’t have anything against signing dropped acts either (Buckcherry, Drowning Pool), in fact they signed Drowning Pool after Wind-up dropped them. Also it’s run by real rockers, Nikki Sixx, who’s always been supportive of James, is the freaking president, while Gregg Wattenberg is Train’s primary HAC hitmaker. I won’t be the least bit surprised if ESM becomes James’ next label, however the parting with Wind-up takes place. They probably would’ve signed him if 19E, who likes to work with their buddies like Wattenberg, wasn’t in the picture

The launch of an Idol winner is a special situation in and of itself, and to think that it’s not is not really appreciating the differences IMO.

I appreciate the difference, I just don’t think that possibility of successes evaporates 2 years down the line.
Record companies does not seem to think that either.
Otherwise I can not explain their decision to give and support second eras to Kelly, Daughtry, Adam, Kris, Cook, Jordin just to name a few.
All of that people were aiming for POP and/or HAC radioplay.
Some have managed to score top 10 pop hits after the honeymoon of their post-Idol years was over. Some did not. Such is life.

More so you seem to have read something i did not wright and took issue with it.
I was talking about runway success of “Home”, the song. And it is undeniably “special” if you want to use this word.

As for Phillip himself IMHO he is spacial in a sense that so far he has been very lucky, being the recipient of some top notch good karma either for himself or the song. To the point that he is collecting milestones he never aimed at or was interested in, when so many who did have failed (my personal favorites included by the way).

And as far as commercial success, and radio penetration goes I fully expect Home to be the biggest single of his career.
Sonically he is AAA artist (HAC at best), so there is no expectations of explosive pop crossover, lightning does not struck twice.

All the more reasons to celebrate Home’s incredible success. And it has been truly incredible.

“As for Phillip himself IMHO he is spacial in a sense that so far he has
been very lucky, being the recipient of some top notch good karma either
for himself or the song.”

“If only there is Olympic every year, maybe the comparison is more appropriate, plus same support of label, etc, etc, etc.”

You don’t need an Olympiad every year to have a successful single and a motive to compare idols’ singles that way, you need a label every year to support your song(s) that fit you and seems to reach so many, various souls, the way Stronger has reached and got so ways to be promoted, including  commercial ads got and now it is almost to 4M singles sold. Home has almost 3M sold with maybe 1/2 of the amount of promo Phillip has gotten compared with Stronger/KC.

Home is selling 100K downloads a week because it’s in Top 10 on Top 40 radio. The Olympics is like the Idol finale. Important events of course but not driving the big sales today.

Who knows if P2 will stand the test of time and avoid the dreaded sophmore Idol curse. All we know for sure is that he’s not the flop or disaster to the franchise some folks had predicted. ;0

Yes, but the single benefited from it on a large scale because it clicked with the audience. Not all songs used during the Olympics or other major event, movie soundtrack, commercial, become hits. Some of them do , but the majority stay in the background.

 The song slowed down after a big starting week, because Phillip couldn´t do any promo for about 4 weeks because of his healths problems. But it rised again with beginning of the AI tour and some live acts ,which he had to do ( for example at the all star game). But off course the really boost came with the olympics and the radioplays after that.
But you can´t not deny, that the last recent boost has nothing to do with the Olympics but only with the release of his album.

CaseyJ’s COAS is going to regain a bullet on the official MB/Aircheck chart, so that’s going to keep COAS on this chart through mid-January at least. It was at risk of going recurrent on Billboard this week too but, if it’s MB AI gains translate to Billboard then it’ll stave off recurrency at Billboard as well.

I was surprised when COAS hit a wall when it hit t20 and now I’m surprised it’s likely to have fought off recurrency after stalling. I’m not going to try and predict what’s next LOL except for COAS regaining its #22 spot at MB when recurrents are removed this afternoon.

Kelly’s Don’t Rush will make MB t40 when recurrents are removed this afternoon since Luke, Miranda, and Jon Pardi are all going recurrent (unless the afternoon update causes DR to switch positions with Jana Kramer’s Whiskey but, I don’t think it will).