Lauren Alaina Sets Highest Debut Single Sales For Idol Runner-Up In 6 Years

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American Idol runner-up Lauren Alaina is quickly becoming an established artist. Like My Mother Does, her debut single, has already sold 121,204 digital downloads and entered Billboardā€™s all-genre Hot 100 chart at No. 20.

The sales mark the highest debut for a second place finalist in six years. The number 1 runner up is Clay Aikenā€™s This Is The Night / Bridge over Troubled Water which sold 393,000. Bo Biceā€™s Inside Your Heaven / Vehicle has a total of 121,423 downloads and Adam Lambertā€™s debut single Mad World sold 114,763.

Lauren loves it! She says, ā€œThis is so awesome! American Idolā€™ has changed my life, so Iā€™m excited that the songs I performed on there are doing so well. I canā€™t believe that I have a song out on country radio, much less that so many stations started playing it right away. I canā€™t wait to get out and meet everybody and thank them personally for playing my song.ā€

In case youā€™re wondering, Idol winner Scotty McCreery sold 171,000 downloads of his debut I love You This Big ā€”A song which debuted at No. 32 on Billboardā€™s Nielsen BDS-based Hot Country Songs chart. THAT may not sound so impressive until you also take into account this little fact: NO new artistā€™s first single has debuted that high since Jan. 20, 1990.

Congrats Alaina and Scotty.

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  1. Adam Lambertā€™s debut single was called No Boundaries and it sold the lowest of all 18 debut songs by all top 2 finishers.

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