American Idol winner Scotty McCreery‘s debut album, Clear as Day, sold 197,000 copies in its first week–placing it atop the Billboard Top 200 chart.

Congratulations Scotty!

“My head is just spinning,” Scotty says.

He continued, “It started out kind of low: They said 100,000 maybe. Then every day I saw the numbers climbing. It’s wild: It wasn’t a year ago that I was a normal cat, and now I’m number one on Billboard. It’s insane, it really is.”

The only other Idol winner to debut at number one was Ruben Studdard who accomplished the feat in 2003.