Talking of American Idol, winner Kelly Clarkson's debut single will, unsurprisingly, easily top the Billboard Chart this week. Sales for double a-side ‘Before Your Love/ A Moment Like This’ are currently standing at 236,000. Put this next to 4,955 sales of the number two track - Nivea's ‘Don't Mess With My Man’ – and the fact the combined sales of the rest of the Top 20 is just 34,331, then this is quite an achievement! "It's fantastic," Aaron Borns of RCA told reporters: "The sales were so strong early in the week that we expected to see very big numbers, but this is one of the biggest singles anyone has had in years."
Sep 26, 2002
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American Idol straight to number one
American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson's debut double A-side tops the Billboard chart with 236,000 sales, dwarfing the rest of the top 20.