David Cook
David Cook's self-titled album
Tracklisting:
01 Declaration
02 Heroes
03 Light On
04 Come Back to Me
05 Life on the Moon
06 Bar-ba-sol
07 Mr. Sensitive
08 Lie
09 I Did It for You
10 Avalanche
11 Permanent
12 A Daily AntheM
13 Kiss on the Neck
(Hidden track from A Daily AntheM)
14 The Time of My Life
(Main Bonus Track)
15 My Last Request
(iTunes Pre-Order Bonus Track)
16 Breathe Tonight
(Walmart Bonus Track)
David Roland Cook (born December 20, 1982) is an American Alternative-Rock, Post-Grunge/Rock singer-songwriter. On May 21, 2008, he won the seventh season of the reality television show American Idol. Even though he came from American Idol, David Cook is a versatile musician performing grunge-inspired versions of Lionel Richie’s Hello, The Beatles’ Eleanor Rigby, Day Tripper and performing Chris Cornell’s version of Billie Jean. Cook also created his own arrangements of Mariah Carey’s Always Be My Baby, Neil Diamond’s All I Really Need is You and other songs. By playing a musical instrument and arranging songs on the Pop-genre show, he changed the rules forever.
Prior to Idol he released an album entitled Analog Heart, and his first post-Idol album titled David Cook, produced by Rob Cavallo, is set for release on November 18, 2008.
For the Billboard chart week ending May 25, 2008, a week following Cook’s American Idol victory, Cook broke several Billboard chart records. Most notable was his record shattering feat of having eleven songs debut on the Hot 100 that week, beating the previous record set by Miley Cyrus (Hannah Montana) in 2006 when she had six songs debut on the chart.
Cook’s first single, “The Time of My Life” led the pack, debuting at #3 on the Hot 100. Cook’s eleven charting songs also gave him the most songs by one artist on the Hot 100 of any week in the Nielsen SoundScan era (which began in 1991), and the most of any era since The Beatles placed 14 songs on the chart the week of April 11, 1964.
In addition, that same week Cook also broke the record for the most debuts on Billboard’s Hot Digital Songs chart, where he placed 14 debut entries, the record of which was previously six set by Bon Jovi in 2007.
Cook’s 17 entries had a combined total of 944,000 digital downloads in the first week of selling.
The song also reached #61 in the UK due to downloads alone.
As of now, his first American Idol – coronation single, The Time of My Life has sold 946,374 and has the chance of being the first coronation single to reach Platinum (1,000,000) and his debut album has sold nearly 700,000 copies – now GOLD and 300,000 copies away from Platinum.
His major debut album is the highest-selling debut album by an American Idol winner since 2005 and his current rise has been compared to the most successful Idol, country musician Carrie Underwood.
