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Idol's Bucky Gets Labeled
This latest deal is just Bucky.
Lyric Street Records announced Wednesday that it has signed American Idol finalist Bucky Covington, making him the eighth alum from season five to ink a recording contract.
"It's so amazing, what American Idol can do for a singer," the 29-year-old North Carolina native, whose real name is William Joel Covington, said.
"People don't realize that when they pick up the phone to vote they're helping to make someone's dream come true. So when [Sawyer Brown frontman] Mark Miller called me the day after I got voted off American Idol to tell me that I sounded great on the show, I couldn't believe it!
"Now I'm living in Nashville, signed to Lyric Street Records, and getting ready to release my first single and debut album. Man, it's unbelievable!"
So Bogie was wrong. This is what dreams are made of.
Covington's single, "A Different World," will hit the country radio airwaves Jan. 16. His as-yet untitled first album, which will be produced by Miller, is scheduled to drop Apr. 17.
Like his fellow top-10 finalists, Covington, who finished eighth, spent the summer crisscrossing the nation on the American Idols Live tour. The raspy-voiced rocker then nabbed a spot on the GAC Country Music Christmas tour, after which he moved to Nashville to pursue a recording career.
Lyric Street is also home to Rascal Flatts, whose Me and My Gang was the best-selling album of 2006.
Covington showed his country rock chops on Idol whenever he could last year, choosing to perform tunes such as Garth Brook's "Thunder Rolls," Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Simple Man," Tim McGraw's "Real Good Man" and Gary Allan's "Best I Ever Had" during his tenure on the show.
And the former car painter plans to keep doing what suits him. When asked about his upcoming album, Covington said that it will be more than just a little bit country.
"It’s going to be a country record, definitely, anything from slow ballads to upbeat, humorous songs, and I’ve got some songs that are almost rock," he told the Canton, Ohio, Repository newspaper. "I’m very happy with the way things are going. I don’t want overnight success, I want longevity."
Just in case things don't work out for Paris Bennett, Mandisa, Elliott Yamin, Kellie Pickler, Chris Daughtry, Katharine McPhee or Idol champ Taylor Hicks—all of whom now have recording contracts—Covington can look to Grammy winner Kellie Clarkson, singer-actor Fantasia Barrino or country-pop crossover star Carrie Underwood for inspiration.
But we'll give some of these newbies the benefit of the doubt. Daughtry's first album, Daughtry, debuted on the Billboard 200 at number two and sold 304,000 copies its first week out, beating Taylor Hicks' self-titled freshman effort, which also debuted in the second spot, moving 298,000 copies. McPhee's album is due out Jan. 30.
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