This week’s milestones feature Idol’s two country winners and two of the S3 “divas”.
ETA: A S2 country artist re-emerges on the AC chart!
Season 3’s winner, Fantasia, has taken “Collard Greens & Cornbread” to top 10 on UAC. This is her third single from her third album, “Back To Me”. She performed CG&C on the Idol results show on March 13th. All the singles from this album have gone at least top 10 in this format.
Also from Season 3 is Jennifer Hudson. “No One Gonna Love You” has gone top 20 on UAC giving her two songs in the top 20 in that format (the other is her first single “Where You At”).
Carrie Underwood’s duet with Brad Paisley has hit a milestone every one of its weeks, but that’s the way it tends to go with Carrie. This week, “Remind Me” reaches top 15 on the Country chart. This is the third single from Paisley’s recent album.
Our latest winner, Scotty McCreery reaches his very first top 20. I’m sure that a lot of people hearing “I Love You This Big” for the first time on Top 2 night wouldn’t have predicted that Scotty would get the song to top 20 on Country one month later. Sometimes coronation singles just work.
Season’s 2 Josh Gracin has re-emerged on the charts. Josh finished 4th in Season 2 and signed with Lyric Records in 2004 (he was in the Marine Corps when he was on Idol, but was honorably discharged after completing his service). Lyric Records was the country division of Disney and featured Rascal Flatts. Josh’s first album saw 3 successful singles (top 5) and went Gold. His follow-up album took a while to record and struggled. He was dropped by Lyric in 2008 and signed by Average Joes in 2010 (Montgomery Gentry is probably their biggest act – but maybe I just know them because Scotty sang one of their songs). His latest single “Long Way To Go” has flown up the AC chart from 72 last week to 35 this week.
Details as of 7:21 pm on 06/26/11.
Carrie Underwood:
“Remind Me” with Braid Paisley: ^14 Country (18)
Chris Richardson:
“Far Away” by Tyga; ^42 RHY (45)
Chris Sligh:
“One”: 21 CAC (22)
David Cook:
“Last Goodbye”: ^35 HAC (38), ^37 AC (44)
Fantasia:
“Collard Greens & Cornbread”: ^10 UAC (12)
Jennifer Hudson:
“Don’t LooK Down”: 37 UAC (35)
“No One Gonna Love You”: ^20 UAC (23), ^33 Urban (34)
“Where You At”: 13 UAC (11)
Josh Gracin
“Long Way to Go”: ^35 AC (72)
Kellie Pickler:
“Tough”: ^42 Country (49)
Kelly Clarkson:
“Don’t You Wanna Stay”: ^12 HAC (11), ^11 AC (13), ^48 Pop (48)
Lauren Alaina:
“Like My Mother Does”: ^46 Country (48)
Mandisa:
“Stronger”: 4 CAC (3)
Ruben Studdard:
“Saturday Love” by Keke Wyatt: ^32 UAC (33)
Scotty McCreery:
“I Love You This Big”: ^19 Country (22)
Note: Numbers indicate position on the chart while numbers in brackets indicate the position on the chart the previous week. The “^” (aka “a bullet”) indicates that a song gained spins since last week
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