Who says winning is everything?
Crystal Bowersox, last season’s runner-up on “American Idol,” is poised to eclipse show winner Lee DeWyze in first-week album sales.
And, if this holds true, it won’t be the first time an “Idol” runner-up has beaten the show’s winner in record sales.
Bowersox’s inaugural CD, “Farmer’s Daughter,” sold 45,000-50,000 copies its first day.
That eclipses the opening-day sales of DeWyze’s “Live it Up,” which sold 39,000 copies its first day earlier this fall — and, if projections hold true, means it will easily pass DeWyze’s opening-week sales, according to headlineplanet.com.
Opening-week releases from Clay Aiken and Adam Lambert also eclipsed the sales of the winners from their respective seasons of “Idol” (Ruben Studdard in 2003 and Kris Allen in 2009).
Still, the combined opening-week sales of the CDs from Bowersox and DeWyze will be much lower than any prior “Idol” one-two punch, according to the report.