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Fantasia Barrino's 'I Believe' and Diana DeGarmo's 'Dreams' both reach Billboard Top 20
July 8, 2004
On the Billboard Hot 100 charts, which evaluate both airplay and sales, the contestants of American Idol 3 have now surpassed the contestants of American Idol 1, although they still lag behind Idol 2.
Fantasia Barrino's 'I Believe' outsells Diana DeGarmo's 'Dreams' to keep #1 spot in U.S.
July 8, 2004
This time, the record buying audience agreed with the American Idol voting audience.
'Idol 3' Fantasia Barrino's 'I Believe' track debuts at #1 on Billboard Hot 100
July 1, 2004
American Idol 3 winner Fantasia (who has officially dropped her last name, Barrino) may have only sold about half the quantity of singles as Idol 2 winner Ruben Studdard did in the official debut week, but she now has accomplished something that Ruben never has: reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles and tracks chart.
'Idol 3' winner Fantasia Barrino's 'I Believe' single hits #1 with 142,141 units sold
June 30, 2004
American Idol still rules the U.S. charts. But has a little tarnish developed around the edges?
Fantasia Barrino's debut single opens at #14, as Diana DeGarmo's single waits in wings
June 25, 2004
Time for American Idol 3 to see if it can generate as much success at record stores as it did on the airwaves.
Debut singles from 'Idol' finalists Fantasia Barrino and Diana DeGarmo pushed back a week
June 4, 2004
Looks like the American Idol 3 recording sessions are taking longer than RCA Music Group chairman and CEO Clive Davis expected.
'Idol 3' winner Fantasia Barrino and runner-up Diana DeGarmo plan June singles
June 3, 2004
Could we have a repeat brewing of last June's battle between American Idol finalists?
Original 'Idol' finalist Tamyra Gray's 'The Dreamer' album only debuts at #23 on U.S. charts
June 2, 2004
In a somewhat disappointing debut, American Idol 1 fourth-place finisher Tamyra Gray's debut CD, entitled The Dreamer, only managed to reach #23 in its first week on the Nielsen SoundScan U.S. Album Sales chart (also known as the Billboard 200) for the week ended May 30, 2004. Tamyra's CD thus becomes the first of the five CDs released by Idol finalists through major labels to fail to reach the Top 20 in its debut.
Fantasia Barrino bests Diana DeGarmo by 1.3 million votes to win 'American Idol 3'
May 27, 2004
In the "Battle of the Teens" on the season finale of Fox's American Idol 3, 19-year-old Fantasia Barrino, the last remaining member of the show's "Three Divas," defeated 16-year-old Diana DeGarmo to become the third "American Idol" selected by the show.
'American Idol' to assign additional voting phone numbers for finale... but will it matter?
May 25, 2004
Attempting to quell the ongoing controversy over the program's voting system, the producers of FOX's American Idol have announced that Fantasia Barrino and Diana DeGarmo, the two finalists left competing for this season's Idol title, will have additional voting phone numbers allocated to them for the show's finale voting. FOX had also previously announced that as it did last year, the finale's voting period would also be extended from two hours to four hours.