Video: Clay Aiken Is Ringing In the Holidays with New Album

Welcome to another edition of “The Roundtable” on BroadwayWorld! This week Idol Star and vocal powerhouse Clay Aiken is here. We admit it! We are some Claymates here at The Roundtable! That second season of Idol was LIFE! Did you know that Clay's iconic Christmas Album is tied for the biggest first week of Holiday sales with Celine Dion!? Well, Clay is back with a new album full of classics and he is singing the only way Clay knows how!

Catapulting to fame on season two of American Idol, he became the first Idol alum in history to have his first single debut at #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, to have a single certified platinum and to have an album certified triple platinum. As a concert artist he’s played some of the most iconic venues in North America, including on the 2003 Independent Tour which Clay co-headlined with Kelly Clarkson. Clay’s album, Measure Of A Man, also debuted at #1 with the highest first week sales by a debut artist.

His 2004 holiday release, Merry Christmas With Love, set a record for the fastest selling holiday album of the SoundScan era and remains tied for the highest charting debut of a holiday album in Billboard history. Beyond all of his successes (and near successes) his proudest accomplishment remains his son, Parker.

Stream "Christmas Bells Are Ringing" today wherever music is heard!

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