But no previous Idol winner had generated that many Hot 100 hits-not even cumulatively. Since it launched in 2002, Idol had proven itself a juggernaut, minting pop stars including Kelly Clarkson, Fantasia, and Carrie Underwood. OK, sure, Cook was no ordinary ex-barkeep: He had just taken the crown in the seventh season of American Idol, the top-rated program on television. This instantly placed Cook second on the all-time list of most simultaneous chart entries in a single week-behind only the Beatles, who, one week in 1964, at the peak of Beatlemania, managed 14 simultaneous charting songs. In the spring of 2008, a former bartender from Missouri named David Cook, who had never appeared on the Hot 100 before, suddenly crash-landed with 11 chart debuts all at once. Before I dissect how this happened, gather ’round the campfire, kids, while I tell you a story from long, long ago, a time when this singer-songwriter had yet to score her first Top 10 pop hit. You may have heard that, this week, one artist-a notorious cat-lover with an increasingly foul mouth-has locked down the entire Top 10 on Billboard’s Hot 100.
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