According to Rickey.orgà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦Archuleta earned 1.3 mil last year. I expected more since that kid worked so hard.

Forbes also reported that David Cook made $2 million. This makes me wonder just how much the artist makes from album sales and downloads. By the time of the Forbes report, I think Cook had sold close to 400,000 more albums. During Season 7, I think he also sold the most downloads. With all this and his national shoe contract, I expected the difference to be a lot more than $700,000. Just how much (or how little) do they get from each album?

http://www.deseretnews.com/video/1,5143,870,00.html

How many 18 year-olds do you know who earn $1.3 million in just a few months?

I do hope everyone keeps this figure in proper perspective. These are gross earnings paid to the David Achuleta Franchise and not to David himself. There are tons of stuff that come off of this figure before David gets a dime. As an example: taxes, management fees, security, his band, tour overhead not covered by promoter or record company and the list goes on. It’s still a nice chunk of change but I think if he pocketed 20% of that he was fortunate.

For little old cynical me the biggest winner was his church who got 10% straight off the top.

Archuleta earned 1.3 mil last year. I expected more since that kid worked so hard.

How many 18 year-olds do you know who earn $1.3 million in just a few months?

It does look like heà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s supporting the whole familyà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦ but thatà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s another story.

Just the opposite–his father is the one who makes it possible for David to function successfully. Do you think he’d be so joyful if he had to worry about contract clauses, tour dates, hotel arrangements, etc.?

Sooo I was hoping somebody knew more. lol

I am going to be voting everyday this year cause I want to see Archie get his own surfboard on TV. If he wins I soooo hope they show it.

Heà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s got one heck of a work ethic!

Speaking of which–during the AI tour he got in more time with the fans than any other idol.

I think its clear from last year that his father over-works him.Archie is 18yr old thereà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s no way he choose all of those mature songs.I mean song choices like
à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Longerà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  ,à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ Another Day In Paradiseà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ,à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ Work It Outà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ? I think his father was a big deal on why Archie lost.You can tell he didnt have a postitive up-bringing but thank god he still smiles that heà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s on top of the world.I love the kid.

Archie didn’t choose Longer–the producers chose the song for him. He didn’t much care for the choice either–but was told he had to sing it straight instead of using a more contemporary arrangement–which he had already worked out with a friend.

He chose Another Day in Paradise because of clearance problems with other songs. He had already had several other songs turned down by the producers, so it was a last-minute choice. Besides, Besides, he couldn’t have chosen a more recent song–since the format–choosing a song from the year of his birth–would have prohibited such a choice.

And he chose the Beatles song We Can Work It Out because he was familiar with the Stevie Wonder version. He didn’t have an option to sing anything more current–those were the choices dictated by the format of the show itself. To suggest Archie’s Dad was behind these choices is simply wrong.

Finally, almost everyone concedes Archie is a nice kid, a loving, kind, affectionate, considerate human being. He didn’t get that way by having a negative upbringing. He got that way because he was surrounded by love and affection all his life. To imagine the opposite is to ignore the laws of human psychological development.

According to Rickey.orgà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦Archuleta earned 1.3 mil last year. I expected more since that kid worked so hard.

The Forbes article reported earnings from record sales only and it covered only a few months–not even the full year. It didn’t include the various tours, the Manila Concert, the tour with Levato or the summer fairs. (He will receive, for instance, $100,000 for the San Diego fair–same as Cook.)

Someoneà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s comment at the end of the article re: Carrie Underwood:
à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“it just shows a girl from a small town with good values wins outà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 

As opposed to the flamboyant guy from San Diego who makes à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“questionable lifestyle choicesà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ , I suppose. à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦Maybe Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢m reading waaaay too much into that comment.

Methinks you just have Adam Lambert on the brain and that’s why you drew a comparison somehow. I read that article this morning and never once thought they were trying to invoke some sort of comparison to a guy who wasn’t even mentioned.

Kellys doing a bunch of shows during the summer in the US but the à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“All I Ever Wanted Tourà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  will start in the fall and will cover US, Europe, Australia and Asia.

That’s great news! Thanks!

(bonus, david yelling GOOOOOOOAAAAALLLLLLL, rofl)

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Also here is another article from today(cute pics too hahaha)

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705308344/David-Archuleta-Already-serving-a-mission.html

“We’re still trying to decide what songs might be best,” he said about the Christmas release. “They’ll probably be my favorite Christmas songs, and we might need to come up with more different approaches.

“The pop album is different, (because) you need to try to find what suits you best,” he said. “I definitely want to get more involved with the writing. But I feel like I have writer’s block 24/7, with little openings. We’ve all got our weaknesses, and that’s mine.”

more at link