People actually BOUGHT a CD Single?? (Billboard Chart Report)

[Kal El]

Season five "American Idol" winner Taylor Hicks' "Do I Make You Proud" will debut on the top of the Billboard Hot 100 to be published tomorrow (June 22) on Billboard.com. The silver-haired Alabama native moved 190,000 physical singles and another 38,000 digital downloads of the track, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Three of the previous four "Idol" winners have also nabbed the top spot. Carrie Underwood's "Inside Your Heaven" sold a combined 169,000 in its first full week last year. Fantasia's "I Believe" moved 142,000 and Kelly Clarkson sold 236,000 of "A Moment Like This."

Season two runner-up Clay Aiken scored the No. 1 spot with "This Is the Night" with a whopping 393,000, staving off the winner Ruben Studdard's "Flying Without Wings" (286,000).

As previously reported, Hicks is currently recording for his 19 Recordings/Arista debut, which is slated for release this fall.

"I'm really excited," Hicks told Billboard.com. "There's gonna be some really, really great things on the album. I've got some secret stuff that I'm completely stoked about and I know everybody else will be, too."

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I've never once in the last 6 years seen a physical CD single sold in a store.. who the hell sells them?

[Darwee]

I bought a Third Eye Blind single once. Best Buy used to have a little shelf with them; can't say that I know that they still do.

[Morbio]

I remember down in Downtown Disney, there is a Virgin Record store. That place had every cd in the world! Except a rare one I was looking for.. :(

[redbassist66]

Borders will still have a single once and a while. and they'll always cary a big names like this guy

[Sabbster]#]

What the hoof?

[Nevermore]

I buy CD's all the time.

And by all the time I mean when the store up the road has sales where some new release or stuff i've been trying to get my hands on (for collecting purposes) for $5-$10 AUD.

Apart from that, I dont see the sense in paying $30 AUD for a CD you might not even listen to more than once.

[seansdadj]

I rarely buy singles, but when I do it's always worth it because usually they always add tracks that won't be on the album or remixes.

[flickfan82x]

I don't buy singles either, but if I truly love one, I'll buy one off iTunes for 99 cents.

[jonspeaks22]

i havent because i have no money! sorry but blame the economy