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Carrie Underwood continues her record-breaking ways with the success of her sophomore album Carnival Ride, which debuted atop Billboards Top Country Albums and Billboard 200 charts with first-week sales totaling 527,101. This number marks the highest first-week sales for any female artist this year!
With a 60% increase over Carries debut-week sales of her six-time platinum album Some Hearts (which tallied 314,549), Carnival Ride achieved the highest-debut sales for any sophomore country album in SoundScan history. Adding to the albums accolades, Carnival Ride also became the largest country debut in digital album chart history with digital sales of 44,928.
In anticipation of the albums release, the Season 4 American Idol winner has been keeping busy with numerous media appearances, including her performance of the National Anthem at Game 3 of the World Series. While Carrie continues making a variety of media appearances, she has the CMA Awards to look forward to, where [...]

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You’ve most likely seen our "Photo of the Day" segment on Americanidol.com over the last few weeks, with pics spanning every season. These photos have given us the opportunity to reminisce about our favorite Idols and AI moments. We are now offering a "Video of the Day"–make sure to check it out on a daily basis for a different look back at each season. The videos will be a mixture of exit interviews, audition clips, behind-the-scenes glimpses, thoughts from the judges, and finale interviews!
Check out our first installment now!

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This is your very first official glimpse of the season seven "Idol" hopefuls! Americanidol.com correspondent James Pumphrey checked in with the auditioners on their favorite places to sing…and you might be surprised by some of the answers! Watch the video now!
Check back each week as James raises new topics with some good, bad, and just plain unique AI hopefuls!

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Season 6 runner-up Blake Lewis just released his debut single Break Anotha off his anticipated debut album for Arista Records, entitled Audio Day Dream (A.D.D.). With a revised release date, A.D.D. will now hit stores on December 4.
For a preview of Blakes album, take a look at the official trailer for Audio Day Dream that was just released earlier this week! Want to reacquaint yourself with the beatboxing Idol from Seattle? Our photo galleries can help you relive some of Blakes most memorable performances and his time at this year’s finale!

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The 2007 TV GUIDE ONLINE VIDEO AWARDS are approaching, and it’s time to put in your votes for the number one website for any TV show, Americanidol.com! While the votes are not the sole determining factor in choosing the winners, it doesn’t hurt to show our support! Here are two categories in which our website is nominated:
AmericanIdol.com – Best Show Site
AmericanIdol.com – Best Behind-The-Scenes Video
Go here to vote for Best Behind-The-Scenes Video. Go here to vote for Best Show Site. Or just go to WWW.TVGUIDE.COM!
The awards will air on MY NETWORK TV on Wednesday, Dec. 5. Vote while you can, and make sure to spread the word! In the meantime, check out one of the reasons we were nominated–our stellar Behind-the-Scenes video section, presented by Coke!

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Elliott Yamin isn’t the only "Idol" alum ringing in this holiday season by bringing Christmas music to his fans–Mandisa is set to release Christmas Joy, a four track holiday EP, on November 20th. Mandisa will bring us her take on some classics, including "O Holy Night," "Joy to the World," and Stevie Wonder’s "What Christmas Means to Me." She’ll also be doing an original duet with labelmate Matthew West called "Christmas Makes Me Cry." This last one will be sent to radio as a holiday single. Not only is Mandisa releasing her own holiday album, but she is also partaking in the "WOW Gospel Christmas" CD.
As Mandisa explains to CMSpin.com, "It seems to me that even the hardest hearts soften during the Christmas season. There is a prevalent joy that draws people together and Christmas music is the soundtrack to that season."
Mandisa will also be [...]

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