Look, I don’t like to rain your mighty parade here but seriously, David Archuleta’s album didn’t do well whatsoever. Those cheeky smiles just can’t help the poor album sales and guess what, Jive didn’t care about how good you look while smiling as long as you bring money to the table, you’re a family! In Archie’s case, no, so the label dropped him in a snap! Now, David Archuleta is in the Philippines! If you can still remember how American Idol Season 10 Top 11 got stormed by the thousand of crowds there?? Same case with Archie! He’s now living like a king in that country and even got his own video like “Nandito Ako”, whatever that means! I think it means money for Archie so why not, LOL! The video got copyright complaints so they took it down but news said that it will be airing in the Philippines for 5 freaking weeks! How lucky is that! I bet the next one to go there would be Kris Allen! You know that guy? Anyone still remembers him? Well, he’s just another American Idol flop doing TV commercials right now instead of touring and singing along with QUEEN on Sonisphere, haha! Anyways, enough of me rumbling. Let’s see what else Idol can give us…
David Archuleta finished his 3 album contract with Jive (part of Sony) and right when his 3rd album was released the label was falling apart around him with management jumping ship because American Idol dropped its relationship with Sony and switched to another label. So David’s album got almost no promo and his singles got none. With all that, his 3rd album still did better than some new Idols’ albums. David said he had offers to stay with Sony but he felt he had changed and they had changed and it wasn’t a good fit anymore. In retrospect he was probably also not making any long commitments that would keep him from leaving on his 2 year Mormon mission this spring 2012. And he still has some kind of arrangement with at Sony Asia – they released an extended Asia Tour Edition of his 3rd album and the Sony logo is on his upcoming OPM album (which BTW in presale was #1 OPM seller at Astroplus last week). Nandito Ako is a 5-week daily prime-time miniseries with David as leading man. He also sang the theme song (which unfortunately will not be part of his OPM album). And he got a nice endorsement deal with Bench – there are already a couple of huge house-size billboards of David in Manila. He got a lot done in 5 weeks! Gonna miss him for the 2 years he’s gone on his mission. BTW on twitter he is @DavidArchie (his own account though hopefully during his mission a family member might post some updates).