Clear as Day | ||||
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Released | October 4, 2011 | |||
Recorded | May โ July 2011 | |||
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Genre | Country | |||
Length | 40:49 | |||
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Producer | Mark Bright | |||
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Clear as Day is the debut studio album by season ten American Idol winner Scotty McCreery. The album was released on October 4, 2011 in the United States.[1] Clear as Day also became the first debut album from an American Idol winner to reach number one on the US Billboard 200 since Ruben Studdard's Soulful in 2003, selling 197,000 copies in its first week.[2][3]
McCreery broke records as the first country act to debut at number one with their first studio album, and at 18 years old, the youngest man to open at the top of the chart with their debut release.[2] The album had since been certified platinum on January 6, 2012.[4]