Phillip Phillips' "Home" rebounds from #25 to #19 in its 16th week. The song has already climbed as high as #9. It will top the 2 million mark next week.
For an Idol coronation song, yes. David Cook's Time of My Life is at about 1.5 million and Home should pass that in a few weeks. Kelly has the biggest selling song by an Idol with Stronger at about 3.6 million.
A&R service TAXI lists a call-out for catchy sing along songs for an Idol winner's debut album, nothing overly moody or introspective ...
Phillip tweets that he likes moody music ...
Someone from 19 tweets about corporate vs artist support etc but is not a manager at 19, his linked in profile has disappeared since earlier today and his twitter is now protected ...
ETA: P2 retweets the corporation vs. artist tweet to his 500,000+ followers
Phillip's girlfriend randomly tweets of wanting to know about artists going outside their genre, but this is because of a course she is doing on music ...
And now 19 tweets rumour control that none of this is Phillip related ... the call-out was for someone else *rolls eyes*
I guess it was all a major coinky-dink ...
It looks like someone is looking for the typical "radio-friendly" pop/rock for Phillip's album (shades of the last 934832 male Idol winners) and he's not too happy about that. His management team tweets that everything is good now but that seems like spin...
Phillip Phillips' "Home" rebounds from #25 to #19 in its 16th week. The song has already climbed as high as #9. It will top the 2 million mark next week.