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His smile warms hearts and breaks them
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TV APPEARANCES

May 7, 2008 
Good Morning America 
Tune in to see Clay Perform! 

May 8, 2008 
The View 
Live Interview and Performance! 

May 9, 2008 
The Today Show 
Clay Chats with Kathy Lee Gifford 

May 9, 2008 
CW11 Morning News 
Live Interview and Performance! 

May 9, 2008 
ABC Nightline 
"Playlist" Interview 

May 12, 2008 
Tonight Show w/ Jay Leno 
Appearance 

May 13 - 'ON MY WAY HERE' VIDEO PREMIERE ON YAHOO! MUSIC

May 14th-  Good Day LA 

May 16, 2008 
Rachel Ray 
Interview 

May 16, 2008 
Jimmy Kimmel Live 
Interview and perfomance! 

May 20, 2008 
Late Late Show w/th Craig Ferguson
 



 
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5/15/08
Clay Aiken is On His Way...
to Lunch




5/15/08
Clay Aiken’s iPhone 
Walk and Talk


5/15/08
Top Internet Albums
#1 This Week
Clay Aiken


5/15/08
Sunny 99.1 Phone
Interview with Clay


5/14/08

Clay is interviewed on
Good Day LA today


5/14/08
RCA Music Group Dominates the Billboard Top 10 Album Chart 



5/14/08

WJZ TV Morning Edition 



5/14/08
'On My Way Here' video now
on Yahoo Music


5/14/08
Clay Aiken - On My Way Here
This Is Clay Aiken
Review


5/14/08
Radio interview with
KVIL (Dallas)

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5/14/08
Another interview with Connecticut Lite 100.5FM



5/13/08
FINAL HDD NUMBERS
for Clay's first week
CD sales

5/13/08
Aiken finally has album
to call his own

5/13/08
Clay was a guest
on The Tonight Show
with Jay Leno
Monday, May 12th
Some screencaps here



5/11/08
Clay to be  on Rachel Ray

5/11/08
Clay Aiken Goes Original,
Not Sexy


5/11/08
STARS HONOR THEIR MOMS


5/10/08
Clay Aiken/s Playlist
Video


5/10/08
Clay Aiken
Album: On My Way Here 
Toronto News



5/10/08
Billboard single review 


5/09/0

Mo Rocco 180 - Clay Aiken
at Benihana! 




5/09/08
Video of Clay on
THE TODAY SHOW

5/09/08
K103 Exclusive Interview


5/09/08
Clay Aiken on Fox News Rising 


5/09/08
Album reviews | Will the real Clay Aiken please wake up?




5/09/08
Clay Aiken gets closer to 
finding his 'Way" 

5/08/08
Nightline Playlist: Clay Aiken


5/08/08
Clay Aiken: ON MY WAY HERE

5/08/08
GMA' ACHES FOR CLAY AIKEN'S 'ON MY WAY HERE'

5/08/08
Clay Aiken's Life Lessons

5/08/08
CLAY AIKEN CREATES QUITE THE COMMOTION AT OUR TIMES SQUARE MEGASTORE:

5/08/08
Clay sings 'Ashes'
on GMA
Click on his video

5/08/08
Clay Aiken - On My Way Here
Review

5/07/08
Former 'Idol' Blasts Show


5/06/08
Clay Aiken, 
"On My Way Here"
KUSI News San Diego

5/06/08
Tuesday CD Release: 
Clay Aiken 


5/06/08
Good Company Today
Video Interview


5/06/08
Clay Aiken Talks About His New Album 


5/06/08
Clay Aiken on FOX 35 
Morning News! 



5/06/08
Clay Aiken Releases 
'On My Way Home'


5/06/08
WRAL iNTERVIEW

5/06/08
Clay Aiken CD Review: Back
and Better Than Ever 


5/05/08

Final Wav from 
Shubert  Alley


5/05/08

Crowd size


5/05/08
AOLNew Music Releases - 
Free Full CD Listening Parties


5/05/08 LINK FIXED
Clay Aiken: `I'm not trying
to be Justin Timberlake'


5/05/08
Music review: Clay Aiken's
'On My Way Here'


5/05/08
Aiken is on his way to new CD


5/05/08
Clay stands on the roof
of the Schubert Theater
on Broadway and waves goodbye to hundreds of
people who 
filled Schubert Alley


5/05/08
Hannah Waddingham
Interview video
Great Clay mentions


5/05/08
Five questions for Clay Aiken



5/04/08
LALATE eLATEd about Clay 
Aiken “On My Way Here”

5/04/08
OVER 'IDOL'

5/04/08
Denver Post Article
Clay Aiken Finally has
a Record of his own

5/02/08
Billboard Review of
'On my Way Here'

5/02/08
Audio Inteview
Clay's 'On His Way' 
Back to Music
NBC News


5/02/08
POP QUIZ: Clay Aiken


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5/2: Clay Aiken interview

5/02/08
Clay Aiken gets personal: 
A SheKnows interview

5/01/08
All Access: Clay Aiken Talks New Album, Part I 

5/01/08
WrIters listed for each of the songs on Clay's CD
'ON MY WAY HERE'

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5/13/08

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5/15/08
Apollo and Julianne dance to
Clay's 'Something About Us'
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Spamalot montage scrapbook from Yollie950

Just the Way You Are
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CLAY MENTIONS

5/15/08
"Will he be the next Clay Aiken? Who knows! Clay has a better personality than David A. does but David A.’s may develop as he grows older.."




5/15/08
"All David Archuleta will need to do is find his own voice and he will do fine. If [Season 2 competitor] Clay Aiken can come out as a winner and say 'I'm not going to be the next Justin Timberlake,' and still do fine, with the right management, David Archuleta's prospects are bright." 

5/12/08
Howard heats up Broadway's 'Roof' 
"On the other hand, the departure of American Idol alum Clay Aiken from "Monty Python's Spamalot" ($519,454) caused sales for the tuner to plummet by more than $300,000, the steepest slide of the sesh."

5/12/08
RELEASE OF THE WEEK 
A common criticism of "American Idol" finalists is that when they get into the recording studio, their talent is overshadowed by poor material selection and overproduction. There's not a hint of that on Aiken's first album of original material since 2003. Just listen to the title track and you'll be asking too, "Why didn't he win Season 2?!" Check out: "On My Way Here," "Ashes," "Everything I Need," "Something About Us." 



5/10/08
USA Weekend 
Celebrity Updates: Who's News This Week

"We Brazilian fans of Clay Aiken would like to know more about his plans after "Spamalot" and his new album."  ~ Lucia Rácz, São Paulo 

"Aiken will be taking time off. He ended his three-month run in "Spamalot" this past Sunday and debuted his new album, "On My Way Here," on Tuesday, so he has been more than busy. The 29-year-old knows that fans would like him to tour again, but he says his tight schedule early this year didn't allow him to plan one. He'll take his downtime at home in North Carolina. "

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5/10/08
Hits Daily double Rumor Mill
"YOUR WEEKEND TOP 10 CHART PREVIEW: Good news, kiddies—there will be five debuts in next week’s Top 10, and one of them will actually break 100k! That would be Neil Diamond, whose second Rick Rubin-produced Columbia album is headed toward the top of the chart, with a projected 125-130k. Behind the old-timer will be RCA/RMG’s debuting Clay Aiken, who should come tantalizingly close to six figures, with 90-95k."


5/07/08
The Great American Idol Blog 

"Millions of Claymates were beside themselves this morning when Idol's second season runner-up, Clay Aiken, debuted his new song "Coming Back for More" on GMA. It's amazing how a former Idol contestant who didn’t even win can still drum up hordes and hordes of fans after more than five years. Sure is a lot more than you can say for whats-his-face who actually won Season 2. — Gina DiNunno "


5/06/08
Aiken's Not Cool 
"(antiMusic) Forget Corn Flakes, the only way to start your day is with morning quicks! Fruit Loops are good though. So here is today's dose of music news you can't use: We start off with the quote of the week from Clay Aiken: "I'm not cool, you know what I mean? I'm not gonna lie," the good-humored singer told The Associated Press in a recent interview. "I'm not trying to be Justin Timberlake. Thank God we have him, but I'm not him. ... I'm not gonna bring anybody's sexy back." Hats off to Clay for saying that. (Except that part about thanking God we have Timberlake.) Read the article the quote came from."


 

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Nominate the Best of Broadway for the 2008 Broadway.com Audience Awards
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Posted  on 5/06/08
Album review: Clay Aiken’s
“On My Way Here”

5/12/08
Clay Aiken- On Demand
97.1



5/10/08
Easter Bonnet Competition
2008 DVD
Order form to print

5/10/08
Clay's new album 
-- track by track review

5/10/08
Claymates slam critics who 
carp about Clay Aiken 



5/09/08
Clay Aiken vs. Neil Diamond: Looks Like I'm the Loser 
Idol Chitchat

5/08/08
Photos from GMA UP AT
Newscom

5/07/08
CLAY AIKEN AT VIRGIN MEGASTORE IN NEW YORK
Photos



5/07/08
Gather's Interview 
With Clay Aiken

5/06/08
Scans of Clay's CD and
insert pages


5/06/08
David’s touch on Clay Aiken’s new album


5/06/08
Groban vs. Aiken


5/06/08
AIKEN BACK 
'IDOL' STAR RETURNS WITH ORIGINAL TUNES 



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Clay's on RCA Main page


5/06/08
Clay Aiken Album Review:
Expect the Unexpected 
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5/06/08
On the Beat: David Menconi
on music

5/04/08
Clay Aiken Slims Down
Scan

5/04/08
Quotes about Critics

5/04/08
Click to enlarge

Clay with crowd
clammoring for autographs
at Spamalot Stage Door


5/04/08
The Prayer
Fuzzy video from
Easter Bonnet Program

Video by sweet carolina girl
Enhanced by Yollie

5/04/08
Video of 'The Real Me'

QVC Intro edited out
Thanks to RunningFree


5/04/08
Best Buy Flyer



Scan
5/02/08
'On My Way Here'
T-shirts

4/30/08
Clay and Hannah Waddingham
(SPAMalot) perform
THE PRAYER
at Easter Bonnet Program
Monday Afternoon

UPDATED- high quality!
Click here for audio mp3
download of performance
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4/30/08
Tyra and Clay Give Me 500 Reasons to Smile

4/29/08
"Easter Bonnet" Competition Raises a Record $3.7 Million

Clay Aiken observes
"Easter Bonnet"
Winner: The Broadway Musicl
'RENT" raising a record 
$277,740 in support of people facing HIV/AIDS.
The touring show that raised the most: Jersey Boys in Chicago ($255,000). 
Runners-up for fundraising (all Broadway musicals): Monty Python's Spamalot ($264,900), Wicked ($197,890), The Phantom of the Opera ($151,267) and The Lion King ($147,283).

4/29/08
Amazon.com mp3's
Clay's single curretly at
#1 on downloaded list

4/29/08
Don't Box Me In 
The ConClayve

4/29/08
Send Mom a 
Mother's Day
greeting from Clay



4/29/08
LOOK-- FRECKLES!
by J4Clay


4/28/08
SOMETHING ABOUT US
Song only (no QVC Intro)
To Download: 
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4/28/08
CLAY NATION NEWS
Upcoming TV Schedule 
and more

4/27/08
Anticipation 
The ConClayve

4/26/08
It's Good to be Clay
by Oldmoviegal

4/26/08

The Insider Text Poll Results:
"Will you tune into QVC to 
buy Clay Aiken'S new CD?"

4/26/08
Access Hollywood Poll
Who's your favorite
American Idol?

4/24/08
ON MY WAY HERE
Wallpaper by scorpionlady45

4/24/08
Sunset Wallpaper
by Fountaindawg

4/24/08
Screencaps from
Clay's spot on 
American
Idol 7
by RunningFree

ON THE AUCTION BLOCK
Clay Aiken’s costume from Broadway SPAMalot
Tickets to SPAMalot and Champagne toast with Clay Aiken
Dinner with Clay Aiken and SPAMalot cast members
Walk on role in Broadway’s SPAMalot 


4/22/08 

Video Alert for Clay on QVC


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