Australian Idol runner-up Anthony Callea has topped the first week sales record held by Guy Sebastian in 2003.
Callea's 'The Prayer' in it's first full week of sales sold over 147,000 units in addition to the 34,000 sold in the previous week after being on sale for just 3 days.
Sebastian's 'Angels Brought Me Here' sold 128,000+ when it debuted on the 2 December, 2003 chart.
The Callea sales have slaughtered the first week sales for 2004 Idol winner Casey Donovan, who had a luke-warm debut with less than 36,000 sales of her debut 'Listen With Your Heart'. Although Casey was the Reality TV show winner, Callea has proven to be the one Australia has spoken for with their wallets.
The Casey Donovan album went into free-fall in just it's second week on the chart. 'For You' fell out of the Top 10 this week and is still yet to sell enough copies to justify platinum even though being certified double platinum.
Casey was also trumped by last year's Idol runner-up on the singles chart this week. Shannon Noll's cover of 'C'mon Aussie C'mon' was at No.2 this week with sales of around 18,000. Casey's 'Listen With Your Heart' fell to No. 4 with sales of around 16,700.
Joel Turner, who didn't even make the Idol cut in 2003, has been 2004 success story. His single 'These Kids' is still in the Top 5 after 13 weeks on the chart. It moved a further 15,700 units last week
hehe.. i'm still waiting for the cd single that Aliaa bought from AUssie.. right now, have to be satisfies with the internet re-indition at http://www.hmv.com.au/events/anthony_callea/...
with a 40-piece orchestra and idol musical director John Foreman by his side, the Idol sophomore debut's still send chills down my spine and give me tingles like the first time i heard it on Idol...
though i still make fun of his kinda-short-coming (he's the shortest fella in IDOL!!), the photographer has used all his skills to make sure that anthony midget limbs look likes the one that walk on the runaway..
nevertheless, his smooth voice and dynamic performance has the edge for out-selling the actual Idol's winner who's struggling to keep her feet on the chart... and how on earth that he lost to Casey.. If idol is about the public, where's the public that voted Casey .. or they just wanna gave to the grungy Casey, to prove to the world that good-looking guys dont win....
well, welcome to the industry Casey.. sometimes. even cute guys with no voices to sing can sell cd's, geee wonder the one with the voices will do .. remember Justin TImberlake anyone?
aJLa
I'm no angel.. and i manage to remain alive in my own quirky way
