'American Idol' Winner Scotty McCreery Debuts at Number One

Scotty McCreery – who knew? Other than the Idol judges and millions of voters, of course. Last season's winner lands at Number One on Billboard's Top 200, selling 197,000 copies of Clear As Day, becoming the first Idol winner to take that spot since Ruben Studdard in December 2003. McCreery is also following standard country-music-business practices. He isn't flooding the charts with singles, Lil Wayne-style; he's methodically putting them out three months at a time ("I Love You This Big" immediately after the Idol finale last May, "The Trouble with Girls" in August). So there is absolutely no new action from McCreery on the singles charts – no iTunes, no Ultimate Chart.