American Idol contestant David Cook’s pre-Idol CD Analog Heart was this weekend’s most downloaded offering in Amazon’s MP3 store, besting even the new release by superstar Mariah Carey.
Cook’s CD, a self-produced and released affair that first appeared in 2006, is rated 5-stars by Amazon customers and sits atop Carey’s E=MC2, the Juno soundtrack, Gnarls Barkley’s The Odd Couple, and Ghosts I-IV by Nine Inch Nails as the site’s most downloaded digital album.
Back when Cook auditioned in Omaha for “American Idol,” he was identified as a bartender who happened to be a friend of Chris Daughtry, a now wildly successful post-”Idol” graduate.
It sure didn’t seem like Cook had a big career already — albeit regionally. He’d already appeared on a couple albums with a local group, and there was some vague mention of a solo album that he’d made himself.
But if “Analog Heart” is now being offered officially to proper downloading services — and not on just mysterious indie platforms — then Cook has to be behind it. That’s a first: an album out from an “Idol” contestant before the contest has concluded. What if he doesn’t win?
Many previous Idols have had small, indie releases prior to their national Idol-related fame. I’ve got no problem with this.
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