14 DAY TRIAL // To say that Adam Lambert is perhaps the biggest star American Idol has created and who did not even have to win the competition is probably an understatement right at this point, judging by the way everything he does is welcomed by the fan community. His debut album, not out until November 24, reached the number-two position at Amazon.com on Monday and, in just hours, made it to number one, as People magazine can confirm.
Interest for the upcoming debut album is surging, even if the release date is still almost two months away. As proof of that interest, pre-sale orders are hitting a new record, with Lambert’s album going past all competition and settling safely at the number-one spot, as gossip blogger Perez Hilton also informs in an update to the original article that had the singer at number two. Not that this is extremely surprising in the least, knowing Lambert’s fans, but it’s still a wonderful feat, they say.
What’s downright amazing, though, People adds, is that Adam Lambert accomplished this without even having his record label announce that his debut album would go up for pre-sale orders. This means that fans are keeping an eye on his career and were quick to pick up on the release, and even quicker to act on it, making of the singer’s debut album one of the hottest releases of this year, several other music-oriented publications point out.
“His first album, not due for release until November 24, zoomed to the No. 2 spot on the Amazon.com sales list Monday, behind only Barbra Streisand’s much-publicized new jazz album, the New York Post reported. The distinction ranked Lambert, 27, ahead of Madonna, the Beatles and Susan Boyle on the online retailer’s sales list – and shows that one needn’t nab the top title on Idol to win the sales race, as also evidenced by such chart-topping second-place winners as Jennifer Hudson, Clay Aiken and Chris Daughtry.” People magazine writes.
Indeed, it’s no longer news that fans love Adam Lambert and that he, in turn, loves nothing more than to sing and perform for them. However, one thing that the flamboyant singer resents is having people think of him as some sort of a puppet handled by AI producers, who gets to have no say in the kind of music he puts out or, for that matter, in anything he would release in his entire career, be it music-related or not.
“I think there’s a little bit of a misconception out in the public that people that come out of American Idol are puppetted and kind of controlled. That hasn’t been my experience one bit. They’ve been completely supportive and collaborative with me, and all the powers that be are really trying to facilitate my artistic vision. So, I really feel I’ve gotten to inject a lot of this music on the album with my own personal vocal stylings and my own lyrical content. A lot of it talks about stuff I really care about and that I find interesting, so that feels really good.” Lambert was saying in a recent interview with E! Online, as quoted by MTV News.