Are American Idol singers the musical equivalent of a goldfish? As soon as it dies, flush it down the toilet and make way for the next.
Season one American Idol runner-up Justin Guarini is among the missing. The Pennsylvania native was dropped from his record label, RCA, after his self-titled debut album landed at Number 20 on the Billboard 200 album chart selling a mere 54,000 copies. While 54,000 may seem like a fair amount of albums, it pales in comparison to Kelly Clarkson’s first week sales of 297,000 copies of her album Thankful, or Clay Aiken’s first week slaes of a whopping 613,000 copies of Measure Of A Man. (full story)
I hate everything about American Idol, but being dropped for selling 54,000 albums is an indicator of how record labels are treating these disposable pop stars. Sell big or make way for the season 3 winners.