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	<title>Comments on: David Cook &#8211; First Week Sales 280K, Debuts at #3 on The Billboard 200</title>
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		<title>By: bean99</title>
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		<dc:creator>bean99</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m a little late in the conversation but wanted to say I&#039;m happy for DC.  I did buy his cd through iTunes on Fri. because Walmart didn&#039;t have it on sale and I could finish it off for $9 because I already had his single.  I&#039;ve heard the first few songs and liked them.  I think it should do well.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m a little late in the conversation but wanted to say I&#8217;m happy for DC.  I did buy his cd through iTunes on Fri. because Walmart didn&#8217;t have it on sale and I could finish it off for $9 because I already had his single.  I&#8217;ve heard the first few songs and liked them.  I think it should do well.</p>
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		<title>By: mj</title>
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		<dc:creator>mj</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Posters get a chance or two, but then, once I get a sense that my guidelines are being ignored, I ban.

Read my guidelines if you haven&#039;t already.

http://mjsbigblog.com/?page_id=1172</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Posters get a chance or two, but then, once I get a sense that my guidelines are being ignored, I ban.</p>
<p>Read my guidelines if you haven&#8217;t already.</p>
<p><a href="http://mjsbigblog.com/?page_id=1172" rel="nofollow">http://mjsbigblog.com/?page_id=1172</a></p>
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		<title>By: oceana</title>
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		<dc:creator>oceana</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Good luck to them all.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good luck to them all.</p>
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		<title>By: oceana</title>
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		<dc:creator>oceana</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve heard that the only other Idols that Fuller personally manages are Daughtry and Carrie. I&#039;m not sure if that&#039;s true but it&#039;s pretty impressive that he&#039;s personally managing DC.

And -- focusing on the chart positions is silly, when it&#039;s obvious that DC had a much tougher week with more competition than DA did. What place would DA have been in this past week with 183,000 sales? Not #2 for sure. The chart position is relative to who else is competing that week, so it&#039;s like comparing apples to oranges to compare one week to another.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve heard that the only other Idols that Fuller personally manages are Daughtry and Carrie. I&#8217;m not sure if that&#8217;s true but it&#8217;s pretty impressive that he&#8217;s personally managing DC.</p>
<p>And &#8212; focusing on the chart positions is silly, when it&#8217;s obvious that DC had a much tougher week with more competition than DA did. What place would DA have been in this past week with 183,000 sales? Not #2 for sure. The chart position is relative to who else is competing that week, so it&#8217;s like comparing apples to oranges to compare one week to another.</p>
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		<title>By: Kirsten</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kirsten</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks Tony!

The numbers in the numbers thread are now updated.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks Tony!</p>
<p>The numbers in the numbers thread are now updated.</p>
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		<title>By: Tony</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tony</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 05:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Unrounded Idol figures:

3 COOK*DAVID DAVID COOK &lt;b&gt;279,578&lt;/b&gt; 234 999 279,812
11 ARCHULETA*DAVID DAVID ARCHULETA &lt;b&gt;66,417&lt;/b&gt; 182,927 -64 249,541
47 HUDSON*JENNIFER JENNIFER HUDSON &lt;b&gt;20,996&lt;/b&gt; 21,575 -3 455,632
57 UNDERWOOD*CARRIE CARNIVAL RIDE &lt;b&gt;16,459&lt;/b&gt; 21,098 -22 2,448,818
109 DAUGHTRY DAUGHTRY &lt;b&gt;6,477&lt;/b&gt; 6,362 2 4,286,670
115 PICKLER*KELLIE KELLIE PICKLER &lt;b&gt;6,104&lt;/b&gt; 8,761 -30 107,008</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Unrounded Idol figures:</p>
<p>3 COOK*DAVID DAVID COOK <b>279,578</b> 234 999 279,812<br />
11 ARCHULETA*DAVID DAVID ARCHULETA <b>66,417</b> 182,927 -64 249,541<br />
47 HUDSON*JENNIFER JENNIFER HUDSON <b>20,996</b> 21,575 -3 455,632<br />
57 UNDERWOOD*CARRIE CARNIVAL RIDE <b>16,459</b> 21,098 -22 2,448,818<br />
109 DAUGHTRY DAUGHTRY <b>6,477</b> 6,362 2 4,286,670<br />
115 PICKLER*KELLIE KELLIE PICKLER <b>6,104</b> 8,761 -30 107,008</p>
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		<title>By: ShariG</title>
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		<dc:creator>ShariG</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m with you daenarys, maybe number four, who loved Magic Rainbow from the first minute I heard it and still love it.  Of course now I also love Declaration, Lie, Avalanche, Permanent, Come Back to Me, Barbasol, Mr. Sensitive, I Did it For You, etc., etc., too. Congratulations to David Cook for a fantastic debut album with multiple hit songs.  Can&#039;t wait for the tour, and for the love of God, please release a new single soon.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m with you daenarys, maybe number four, who loved Magic Rainbow from the first minute I heard it and still love it.  Of course now I also love Declaration, Lie, Avalanche, Permanent, Come Back to Me, Barbasol, Mr. Sensitive, I Did it For You, etc., etc., too. Congratulations to David Cook for a fantastic debut album with multiple hit songs.  Can&#8217;t wait for the tour, and for the love of God, please release a new single soon.</p>
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		<title>By: daenarys</title>
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		<dc:creator>daenarys</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;CathyMK 
Nov 26th, 2008 at 2:07 pm 
IÃƒ ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ve seen the cake/cupcake baking mentioned a couple of times now- when/where did he say that? I canÃƒ ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t miss a Cookie baking reference!&lt;/blockquote&gt;


Sirius1 radio interview. Can&#039;t remember the whole question, but he mentions that since both he and his girlfriend have busy schedules, they tend to stay in, have dinners, and lately he tried baking (whereupon I spat coffee at my laptop). That&#039;s when he described himself as a bad a s s (in a whisper LOL).

Re Magic Rainbow - I feel vindicated in being a total of maybe 5 people who FLOVE that song right out of the gate. We were NOT insane. Heehee.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>CathyMK<br />
Nov 26th, 2008 at 2:07 pm<br />
IÃƒ ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ve seen the cake/cupcake baking mentioned a couple of times now- when/where did he say that? I canÃƒ ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t miss a Cookie baking reference!</p></blockquote>
<p>Sirius1 radio interview. Can&#8217;t remember the whole question, but he mentions that since both he and his girlfriend have busy schedules, they tend to stay in, have dinners, and lately he tried baking (whereupon I spat coffee at my laptop). That&#8217;s when he described himself as a bad a s s (in a whisper LOL).</p>
<p>Re Magic Rainbow &#8211; I feel vindicated in being a total of maybe 5 people who FLOVE that song right out of the gate. We were NOT insane. Heehee.</p>
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		<title>By: Sarah</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;the Disney parade on Xmas&lt;/blockquote&gt;


*shrieks*

WHAT?! When did this info come out? I feel so out of the loop this week because I don&#039;t have as much access to the net as usual.

I am so. glad. that I am going to actually be here during Christmas! Gonna talk to my Disney family and friends tonight! :D

Anyway, YAY at sales numbers!! Congrats Cook and all my fellow fans. :) And WOW at that press release. Good stuff. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>the Disney parade on Xmas</p></blockquote>
<p>*shrieks*</p>
<p>WHAT?! When did this info come out? I feel so out of the loop this week because I don&#8217;t have as much access to the net as usual.</p>
<p>I am so. glad. that I am going to actually be here during Christmas! Gonna talk to my Disney family and friends tonight! <img src='http://3888.voxcdn.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Anyway, YAY at sales numbers!! Congrats Cook and all my fellow fans. <img src='http://3888.voxcdn.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  And WOW at that press release. Good stuff.</p>
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		<title>By: Autumn</title>
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		<dc:creator>Autumn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;FolkFan&lt;/strong&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;that one thing that people probably donÃƒ ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t know about him was that he bites his fingernails. To which the proper response was, um, wasnÃƒ ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t that OBVIOUS?
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

LMAO! ^^^^^^One of the first things I noticed about him, that and that he had REALLY BIG Feet!  :sealed_tb:</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>FolkFan</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>that one thing that people probably donÃƒ ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t know about him was that he bites his fingernails. To which the proper response was, um, wasnÃƒ ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t that OBVIOUS?
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<p>LMAO! ^^^^^^One of the first things I noticed about him, that and that he had REALLY BIG Feet!  :sealed_tb:</p>
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		<title>By: Lisa</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;19 is run by Simon Fuller, who happens to &lt;strong&gt;personally manage David. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

I had no idea Fuller personally managed David. Wow.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>19 is run by Simon Fuller, who happens to <strong>personally manage David. </strong></p></blockquote>
<p>I had no idea Fuller personally managed David. Wow.</p>
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		<title>By: Lisa</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;The fact that Tay Tay outsold Cook, and still is considered a punchline to an Idol joke, should be fair warning that things can head into the shitter pretty quickly.
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

I was a big Taylor fan and even I will say Taylor&#039;s cd sucked bigtime a$$. The sucky cd is what hurt Taylor for the most part.

David Cook&#039;s cd is pretty dang much awesome. I can&#039;t remember the last time I bought a cd where I loved multiple songs.  IMHO there are several hits on DC&#039;s.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>The fact that Tay Tay outsold Cook, and still is considered a punchline to an Idol joke, should be fair warning that things can head into the shitter pretty quickly.
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<p>I was a big Taylor fan and even I will say Taylor&#8217;s cd sucked bigtime a$$. The sucky cd is what hurt Taylor for the most part.</p>
<p>David Cook&#8217;s cd is pretty dang much awesome. I can&#8217;t remember the last time I bought a cd where I loved multiple songs.  IMHO there are several hits on DC&#8217;s.</p>
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		<title>By: Lisa</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;making him one of 15 solo male artists to rule this survey for 10 weeks or more since the chart began in 1961.

Cook is the only male artist to have a song advance to No. 1 on the AC chart in 2008.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Way to Go David! What an accomplishment! Thank you for the article Sasha.


He can now add the above to his list which also includes this:
&lt;em&gt;
&quot;The seventh season winner of the popular TV series rewrites chart history in a number of ways this week. Those 11 charted songs on the Hot 100 give Cook the highest number of titles on the survey in a single week since the Beatles placed 14 songs on the list in 1964&quot;&lt;/em&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>making him one of 15 solo male artists to rule this survey for 10 weeks or more since the chart began in 1961.</p>
<p>Cook is the only male artist to have a song advance to No. 1 on the AC chart in 2008.</p></blockquote>
<p>Way to Go David! What an accomplishment! Thank you for the article Sasha.</p>
<p>He can now add the above to his list which also includes this:<br />
<em><br />
&#8220;The seventh season winner of the popular TV series rewrites chart history in a number of ways this week. Those 11 charted songs on the Hot 100 give Cook the highest number of titles on the survey in a single week since the Beatles placed 14 songs on the list in 1964&#8243;</em></p>
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		<title>By: kathrynTX</title>
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		<dc:creator>kathrynTX</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And so, just like he crashed into my living room on TV during Idol, David Cook crashes into...EVERYTHING, it sounds like, this month. Just WOW. YAY! YIPPEE! I am thrilled, absolutely ecstatic, for him. I love this record more each time I listen to it. That would be mumbly-mumbly times so far, starting whenever it was up for listening on iheartmusic and continuing with my own lovely CD. And download. Had to get those exclusive tracks, ya know. Gawd. It is indeed a roller coaster ride. And last night, I was exhausted after listening and cried myself to sleep...OK getting too fangirly now. I just lurv him and his music and his band and and and I&#039;m out of words. Oh wait - THANK YOU, David Cook, for sharing, for everything. And damn you and the Magic Rainbows and Avalanches and Lies and the Barbasol and the Permanence and the anthems...you know what I mean.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And so, just like he crashed into my living room on TV during Idol, David Cook crashes into&#8230;EVERYTHING, it sounds like, this month. Just WOW. YAY! YIPPEE! I am thrilled, absolutely ecstatic, for him. I love this record more each time I listen to it. That would be mumbly-mumbly times so far, starting whenever it was up for listening on iheartmusic and continuing with my own lovely CD. And download. Had to get those exclusive tracks, ya know. Gawd. It is indeed a roller coaster ride. And last night, I was exhausted after listening and cried myself to sleep&#8230;OK getting too fangirly now. I just lurv him and his music and his band and and and I&#8217;m out of words. Oh wait &#8211; THANK YOU, David Cook, for sharing, for everything. And damn you and the Magic Rainbows and Avalanches and Lies and the Barbasol and the Permanence and the anthems&#8230;you know what I mean.<br />
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		<title>By: sma11ie</title>
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		<dc:creator>sma11ie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Amazon&#039;s having a huge music sale for black Friday that&#039;s already started and includes a ton of recent releases both for CDs and MP3s, but DC isn&#039;t included in the price slashes. (Pretty great sale-- use MJ&#039;s link if you take advantage). Also, based on the few black Friday ads I&#039;ve seen, I haven&#039;t seen the DC&#039;s record slashed anywhere. I saw a couple ads of it on &quot;sale&quot; for 9.99/9.98, but that&#039;s not really a sale compared to the 7.99, 6.99 and lower prices for some other new releases that I remember seeing (Taylor Swift, Beyonce among them, I think).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Amazon&#8217;s having a huge music sale for black Friday that&#8217;s already started and includes a ton of recent releases both for CDs and MP3s, but DC isn&#8217;t included in the price slashes. (Pretty great sale&#8211; use MJ&#8217;s link if you take advantage). Also, based on the few black Friday ads I&#8217;ve seen, I haven&#8217;t seen the DC&#8217;s record slashed anywhere. I saw a couple ads of it on &#8220;sale&#8221; for 9.99/9.98, but that&#8217;s not really a sale compared to the 7.99, 6.99 and lower prices for some other new releases that I remember seeing (Taylor Swift, Beyonce among them, I think).</p>
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		<title>By: DBfan</title>
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		<dc:creator>DBfan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;I remember that Daughtry had the $5.99 deal at Best Buy for Black Friday&lt;/blockquote&gt;



That NEVER happened. The Daughtry CD did not sell for lower than $9.99 in 2006. And it&#039;s unlikely for RCA to do it for the 2nd week of a debut.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>I remember that Daughtry had the $5.99 deal at Best Buy for Black Friday</p></blockquote>
<p>That NEVER happened. The Daughtry CD did not sell for lower than $9.99 in 2006. And it&#8217;s unlikely for RCA to do it for the 2nd week of a debut.</p>
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		<title>By: FolkFan</title>
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		<dc:creator>FolkFan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>SashaB, thank you for that link. I had wondered when Chart Beat would pop up. I find it irksome that Fred Bronson insists on focusing on DC and DA&#039;s relative chart positions, without taking into accounts differences in the chart weeks that their products debuted.  I guess he is a chart guy and wants to focus on chart positions, though, so maybe that should not be too surprising.  

In any event, DC has another #1 on the billboard charts, and Magic Rainbow&#039;s reign on AC is even more impressive than we&#039;d realized.  Which is cool.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>SashaB, thank you for that link. I had wondered when Chart Beat would pop up. I find it irksome that Fred Bronson insists on focusing on DC and DA&#8217;s relative chart positions, without taking into accounts differences in the chart weeks that their products debuted.  I guess he is a chart guy and wants to focus on chart positions, though, so maybe that should not be too surprising.  </p>
<p>In any event, DC has another #1 on the billboard charts, and Magic Rainbow&#8217;s reign on AC is even more impressive than we&#8217;d realized.  Which is cool.</p>
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		<title>By: SashaB</title>
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		<dc:creator>SashaB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Daenarys&quot; -the Little Rainbow That Could goes platinum. Hugz my happy song.&quot;

Speaking of the Rainbow, and another DC record for the day:

David Cook&#039;s reign on the Adult Contemporary chart with &quot;The Time of My Life&quot; (19/RCA) has gone into double digits, making him one of 15 solo male artists to rule this survey for 10 weeks or more since the chart began in 1961.

Cook is the only male artist to have a song advance to No. 1 on the AC chart in 2008. The last song by a solo male to top this survey was Josh Groban&#039;s &quot;I&#039;ll Be Home for Christmas,&quot; which began a three-week stay on the throne the week of Dec. 22, 2007.

source: Billboard.com 
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/chart_beat/bonus.jsp?JSESSIONID=QsVnJthQQhLh8hhlzVzKkZh8GCTbJhy3Tnkyn2KYtxFNKhk77yB2!-182491207

Impressive - no matter how you look at it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Daenarys&#8221; -the Little Rainbow That Could goes platinum. Hugz my happy song.&#8221;</p>
<p>Speaking of the Rainbow, and another DC record for the day:</p>
<p>David Cook&#8217;s reign on the Adult Contemporary chart with &#8220;The Time of My Life&#8221; (19/RCA) has gone into double digits, making him one of 15 solo male artists to rule this survey for 10 weeks or more since the chart began in 1961.</p>
<p>Cook is the only male artist to have a song advance to No. 1 on the AC chart in 2008. The last song by a solo male to top this survey was Josh Groban&#8217;s &#8220;I&#8217;ll Be Home for Christmas,&#8221; which began a three-week stay on the throne the week of Dec. 22, 2007.</p>
<p>source: Billboard.com<br />
<a href="http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/chart_beat/bonus.jsp?JSESSIONID=QsVnJthQQhLh8hhlzVzKkZh8GCTbJhy3Tnkyn2KYtxFNKhk77yB2" rel="nofollow">http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/chart_beat/bonus.jsp?JSESSIONID=QsVnJthQQhLh8hhlzVzKkZh8GCTbJhy3Tnkyn2KYtxFNKhk77yB2</a>!-182491207</p>
<p>Impressive &#8211; no matter how you look at it.</p>
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		<title>By: Garnetstar</title>
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		<dc:creator>Garnetstar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Awesome David. Lovin the record myself so glad to see others agree. I can&#039;t wait to see him sing these songs live. I am jonesing for a live A Daily AntheM. As well as many others.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Awesome David. Lovin the record myself so glad to see others agree. I can&#8217;t wait to see him sing these songs live. I am jonesing for a live A Daily AntheM. As well as many others.</p>
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		<title>By: Barbariba</title>
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		<dc:creator>Barbariba</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Just wanted to add my Woots  :clap_tb: and Yays  :thumbup_tb: at DC&#039;s sales numbers. I am beyond excited and happy for him. Here&#039;s hoping that next week&#039;s sales will be just as awesome. He&#039;s David Cook! He always surpasses expectations!! :king_tb:</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just wanted to add my Woots  :clap_tb: and Yays  :thumbup_tb: at DC&#8217;s sales numbers. I am beyond excited and happy for him. Here&#8217;s hoping that next week&#8217;s sales will be just as awesome. He&#8217;s David Cook! He always surpasses expectations!! :king_tb:</p>
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		<title>By: jpfan</title>
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		<dc:creator>jpfan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Actual (unrounded number) Sorry, I don&#039;t have anyone else&#039;s

279,578</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Actual (unrounded number) Sorry, I don&#8217;t have anyone else&#8217;s</p>
<p>279,578</p>
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		<title>By: mj</title>
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		<dc:creator>mj</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Oh, poor Perocet. Nobody deserves Clive. Perhaps she will be inspired to send us a memo.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

We can only hope! ;)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Oh, poor Perocet. Nobody deserves Clive. Perhaps she will be inspired to send us a memo.</p></blockquote>
<p>We can only hope! <img src='http://3888.voxcdn.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: sabby_rina</title>
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		<dc:creator>sabby_rina</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>AWESOME!  This is amazing!  I&#039;m so happy for Cook!

Man, the Davids are totally kicking butt!  YAY!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>AWESOME!  This is amazing!  I&#8217;m so happy for Cook!</p>
<p>Man, the Davids are totally kicking butt!  YAY!</p>
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		<title>By: cruzceleste</title>
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		<dc:creator>cruzceleste</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Thank you gingglesmo3</description>
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		<title>By: hollygo9</title>
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		<dc:creator>hollygo9</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think the christmas shopping frenzy of this week can only help his sales numbers.  So will releasing a new single (RCA, I&#039;m looking at you)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think the christmas shopping frenzy of this week can only help his sales numbers.  So will releasing a new single (RCA, I&#8217;m looking at you)</p>
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		<title>By: mj</title>
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		<dc:creator>mj</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If you are a new poster here &lt;em&gt;(Scott *ahem*)&lt;/em&gt; read my guidelines.  If you don&#039;t follow them, YOU WILL GET BANNED.

I don&#039;t tolerate rudeness here, or posters who bully other posters.

So please newbies, &lt;a href=&quot;http://mjsbigblog.com/?page_id=1172&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;READ&lt;/a&gt;!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you are a new poster here <em>(Scott *ahem*)</em> read my guidelines.  If you don&#8217;t follow them, YOU WILL GET BANNED.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t tolerate rudeness here, or posters who bully other posters.</p>
<p>So please newbies, <a href="http://mjsbigblog.com/?page_id=1172" rel="nofollow">READ</a>!!!</p>
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		<title>By: CathyMK</title>
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		<dc:creator>CathyMK</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve seen the cake/cupcake baking mentioned a couple of times now- when/where did he say that? I can&#039;t miss a Cookie baking reference!

And I&#039;ve been wondering- will all of the usual numbers be released as usual tomorrow, since it&#039;s a holiday? Can&#039;t wait to see more amazing stats.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve seen the cake/cupcake baking mentioned a couple of times now- when/where did he say that? I can&#8217;t miss a Cookie baking reference!</p>
<p>And I&#8217;ve been wondering- will all of the usual numbers be released as usual tomorrow, since it&#8217;s a holiday? Can&#8217;t wait to see more amazing stats.</p>
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		<title>By: tinawina</title>
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		<dc:creator>tinawina</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;I remember that Daughtry had the $5.99 deal at Best Buy for Black Friday and doing something like that with Cook debut might be enough to get him very close to Gold on the second week. &lt;/blockquote&gt;

Yeah, if they can keep it to a 50% second week drop off he will be past the 400,000 mark. I wonder if they are gonna do any special pricing anywhere? It will be interesting to see.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>I remember that Daughtry had the $5.99 deal at Best Buy for Black Friday and doing something like that with Cook debut might be enough to get him very close to Gold on the second week. </p></blockquote>
<p>Yeah, if they can keep it to a 50% second week drop off he will be past the 400,000 mark. I wonder if they are gonna do any special pricing anywhere? It will be interesting to see.</p>
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		<title>By: FolkFan</title>
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		<dc:creator>FolkFan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think that it&#039;s a reference to an interview (maybe in the AOL Sessions) that one thing that people probably don&#039;t know about him was that he bites his fingernails.  To which the proper response was, um, wasn&#039;t that OBVIOUS?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think that it&#8217;s a reference to an interview (maybe in the AOL Sessions) that one thing that people probably don&#8217;t know about him was that he bites his fingernails.  To which the proper response was, um, wasn&#8217;t that OBVIOUS?</p>
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		<title>By: gigglesmo3</title>
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		<dc:creator>gigglesmo3</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;cruzceleste &lt;/strong&gt;It was a question asked in Cook&#039;s AOL sessions:

&lt;blockquote&gt;AOL: So what would &#039;Archie&#039; say is something about you fans might not know?

David: I bite my fingernails. It&#039;s pretty gnarly. I chew them down.

&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>cruzceleste </strong>It was a question asked in Cook&#8217;s AOL sessions:</p>
<blockquote><p>AOL: So what would &#8216;Archie&#8217; say is something about you fans might not know?</p>
<p>David: I bite my fingernails. It&#8217;s pretty gnarly. I chew them down.</p>
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