New Year, Last Post

Welcome to 2011 and my final post on my old blog! I realized last year that the only reason I followed American Idol was I had fallen for a incredible new talent on Season 9, that being Crystal Bowersox. I have never cared about American Idol before, but since I first heard her sing "Natural Woman" before they selected the Top 24 I was captivated by Crystal's performances. I tried to start this as a neutral and unbiased AI blog last year, but by the time Crystal released her album, "Farmer's Daughter",  in December, I realized I could no longer pretend to be unbiased. It is not that I have anything against any of the other contestants, I just think Crystal is exceptional. On this blog I noticed almost all my posts in November and December were about Crystal, since I really was not that interested in what was happening to Lee at that point. He is a pretty talented fellow and may do quite well, but I just am not a big fan of his music now that the show is over. I am actually more curious about what may become of Casey James once his music is released in 2011. We will have to wait and see what happens to him!

So the "Farmer's Daughter" album has now been out for more than 3 weeks and the latest sales results have been released. In three weeks Crystal has sold 106,000 copies and has dropped to #62 on the BillBoard 200. She had debuted at #28, then fell to #47 so falling to #62 after 3 weeks is not too bad. She appears to be continuing to rank well on Amazon sales (currently #10 in all music sales) so she will hopefully stay in the top 100 for a few weeks and may even move up once "Farmer's Daughter" is released to radio. Her video is now playing on VH1 and people can even vote for it on the VH1 Top 20 Countdown. She is even playing tomorrow at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas representing Sony Music.