Adam Lambert: Bigger Than the Beatles?

By PopEater Staff Posted Sep 29th 2009 09:00PM

Adam Lambert proves again that on 'American Idol,' you don't have to come in first place to sell records. The runner-up is winning in Amazon.com sales, with orders bigger than the Beatles and Madonna, the New York Post reports.

His debut album, which isn't released until Nov. 24, took the No. 2 spot on the bestsellers list Monday. He was outranked only by Barbara Steisand.

Amazingly, since the record company did not announce that the CD was available for pre-order, all sales were perpetuated by word of mouth.

Within hours of a fan's discovery that it was for sale on Amazon, the news spread through the Twitter and 'Idol' blog communities, and the album quickly made its way up the Bestsellers list.

Lambert, 27, joins other successful runner-ups like Jennifer Hudson, Clay Aiken and Chris Daughtry, who have gone on to overshadow the winners of their respective seasons.

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Saturday 31 October

By Nan

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I seem to be confused about why people buy music, I always thought it was because of how it sounded not the sexual preference of the singer. Personally I will buy his cd because his voice is the best I have heard in many years, and he continuously suprises and delights his audiences with the unexpected. A unbeatable combination!!

Sunday 01 November

By crystal

I agree about the sexual preference thing. Who cares about his gender preference. That's his business and in no way reflects his music and artistry, however, to compare him to the Beatles is laughable. He will never be as big as the Beatles. As a matter of fact, there have been no musical acts that have ever matched up to the Beatles, and this is 50+ years after they first formed. That alone is iconic. Also, the fact that the Beatles music is still heard in everyday life ie: Cirque de Soleil's Beatles show, a blackberry commercial, the movie Across the Universe, shows just how legendary the Beatles were, and still are today. In fifty years, nobody will remember who Adam Lambert is. Sorry, but it's just a fact. It is all media hype, just like when New Kids on the Block first came out. They were the hot thing in the late 80's and early 90's and were hailed to be the next Beatles. Well, that obviously didn't happen. They didn't even come close. So sorry Adam. Just not going to happen.

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