'American Idol' on the Charts Valentines Day Edition: What's the Top Love Song By An Idol?
BIG LOVE: In celebration of Valentines Day, a list of the top 50 love songs according to chart performance on the Hot 100 has been posted at www.billboard.com. To be eligible, a song had to have a form of the word love in the title. Using the same criterion, what is the No. 1 love song by an American Idol?
Its a tricky (tricky, not trick) question because you want to start by searching through the repertoires of Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood. But you wont find the No. 1 love song there. You can look through the hits of Daughtry and youll have no luck. Heres one more clue before the big reveal: the No. 1 love song according to chart performance on the Hot 100 is by an American Idol winner.
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Give up? Alright, SPOILER ALERT, heres the answer. The No. 1 love song by an Idol is I Love You This Big by Scotty McCreery. You wont find a bigger song by an Idol with the word love in the title. In second place is the cover version of Bon Jovis You Give Love a Bad Name by season six runner-up Blake Lewis and in third place is If This Isnt Love by season threes seventh-place finalist Jennifer Hudson.
What is Billboards No. 1 love song of all time? Youll find the entire top 50 here:
GRAMMY BUMP: The real sales boost that artists receive from appearing on the Grammys wont show up until next week but even though the show was broadcast on the last day of the sales week, one Idol has already benefited from an instant sales gain. Kelly Clarksons Stronger, winner of the Best Pop Vocal Album award, is one of those beneficiaries, with a rebound of 180-128 on The Billboard 200 album chart.
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BITS AND PIECES: Jason Castros Only a Mountain climbs the Top Christian Albums chart this week, with a move of 33-25In its 71st week on the Top Country Albums chart, there is still a lot of life left in Scotty McCreerys Clear As Day, as his debut set moves back up the list with a jump of 54-44 Kelly Clarksons Catch My Breath breaks into the top five of the Adult Top 40 chart, rising 6-5, and into the top 10 of the Adult Contemporary tally, climbing 13-10 Phillip Phillips Home is No. ! 1 on the ! Adult Contemporary chart for the fourth week.
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