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BTW Elliott Yamin's new album debuts at
#3 on the Billboard Charts this week. Pretty good considering he didn't even get an Idol record deal - it was an independent release.
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I was reading the Allmusic review on this (dunno why, I would never buy it but he was my favorite contestant last year) and the whole thing was just lamenting the fact that he didn't win because he would have put out a really good album with all that help. Instead, America got a crummy Taylor album and a so-so Elliot album, whereas Allmusic believes that with some better help Elliot would have put out a really really good album.