The new number one tune in the land is Taylor Hicks’s “Do I Make You Proud.” Hicks won Idol season five.
Four other Idol competitors have made it to the top spot:
“A Moment Like This,” Kelly Clarkson (Oct. 5, 2002)
“This Is the Night,” Clay Aiken (June 28, 2003)
“I Believe,” Fantasia (July 10, 2004)
“Inside Your Heaven,” Carrie Underwood (July 2, 2005)
And four of the five Idol number ones (all but Clarkson) entered the Hot 100 as number one. (Eleven other tunes have done so in the nearly 50 years the list has existed.)