American Idol: Scotty McCreery’s Single Debuts at #32 on Billboard Country Chart

Scott McCreery’s new single I Love You This Big has debuted at #32 on the Billboard Country Music chart. It is the highest any debut single has reached when first entering the chart since the chart was changed to include Nielsen Broadcast Data System results in 1990. It is impressive that McCreery is the first to accomplish this feat in the 21 years since the new system was adopted.

The runner-up Lauren Alaina song Like My Mother Does charted at the No.49 position.

http://thecelebritycafe.com/feature/scotty-mccreery-enters-airplay-chart-higher-position-past-two-american-idol-winners-05-30-20

Billboard sees both of their songs moving onto the Hot 100 chart when it is announced on Thursday, June 2.

http://www.billboard.com/#/column/chartbeat/scotty-mccreery-makes-historic-start-lauren-1005207362.story

Today’s poll asks if visitors to this website if they would be interested in buying Scotty’s or Lauren’s downloaded single.

Memorial Day 2011

May we remember on this Memorial Day of 2011, the soldiers who have died in defense of America, from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

I would like to remember my cousin James Walter Godfrey from Maine who died piloting a helicopter in Vietnam and the two soldiers who I worked with in Army post office in Vietnam, who were killed by a mortar shell attack, two months after I had left the country.

It is a sobering sight to see their names on the Vietnam War Wall online website, but would like to see their names in person someday on the Vietnam Wall in Washington, D.C.