Beautiful song, Beautiful production and glorious vocals...Its Clay at his best!!!!
Track list of On My Way Here:
1. On My Way Here 2. Ashes 3. Everything I don't Need 4. Something About Us 5. Falling 6. Where I Draw The Line 7. The Real Me 8. Weight Of The World 9. As Long As We're Here 10. Sacrificial Love 11. Grace Of God 12. Lover All Alone
Monday, April 21....................iTunes pre-order with bonus track Monday, April 28....................QVC (Bonus CD with TITN video, When I need You, Invisible, Measure of a Man and I Will Carry You) Monday, April 28 ...................OMWH to be released to AC radio Tuesday, April 29................... Amazon digital download of the single - OMWH Wednesday, April 30 ............Tyra 500th show appearance (tentative date) Friday, May 2 ..........................Clay on ET Tuesday, May 6th................... hit the retail stores ................... satellite media tours Tuesday, May 6th....................Clay signs CD's at Virgin megastore Time squra Wednesday, May 7th ............GMA appearance Thursday, May 8th..................The View Friday, May 9th ....................... CW11 Morning News ........................ ABC Nightlin New York ........................MSNBC Today Show Monday, May12th...................Leno Appearance Tuesday, May 13th................Taping of AOL sessions Friday, May 16th....................Jimmy Kimmel Appearance New York .................... Rachel Ray New York Monday, May 19th...................Ferguson
Walmart pre-order with bonus track - order any time.
CD NEWS update!!!!!
May 15:
TOMORROW.. Clay on RACHEL RAY.
CLAY ON KIMMEL.interview and performance
May 9:
>Very funny interview conducted at Benihana with Blogger Mo Rocca
>Clay was on The Today Show 4...he was interviewed by Kathie Lee Gifford about his album, Spamalot and AI: watch the video from MSNBC video
He was also on MSNBC as a UNICEF ambassador, talking about relief effort to Myanmar.
May 8:
> Clay on Nightline's Playlist feature...gives some of the songs that was significant to him:
> Clay was on The View to promote his CD...
Clay singing OMWH on the view:
Clay's interview with the ladies:
May 7:
Clay visited GMA and GMA now. He chatted with the host about his CD and his stint on Broadway, he also performed 2 songs...his Single On My Way Here and another track from the CD...Ashes.
see videos of his performance and interview at ABCNews.com
Clay performing Ashes on GMA now...
May 6:
> Clay went to the Virgin Store in Time Square for a CD signing. Video of the event:
MAY 5:
> The CD is up on AOL first listen...CHECK IT OUT!!!
May 4:
> Clay's last night on Spamalot wasattended by fans, friends and family...here is Clay on the roof of the marquee waving to hundreds of fans waiting for him outside the Schubert Theater...
April 30:
> Clay helps Tyra celebrate her 500th show by surprising one of his biggest fans.
> Virgin Megastore Times Square
May 6th, 2PM Meet Clay Aiken! Join us on Tuesday, May 6th at 2PM at the Virgin Megastore Times Square to celebrate the release of Clay Aiken's new CD "On My Way Here." The first 300 people to purchase "On My Way Here" beginning at 12:01 AM Tuesday May 6th, 2008 Virgin Megastore Times Square location ONLY will receive a wristband that allows you to get in line to have your CD signed by Clay Aiken! Remember, there is only one wristband per person so please arrive as early as possible! Clay will be signing copies of his new CD only.
April 28:
>Clay will be on QVC today from 7 pm to 8 pm. It will be streamed from the QVC site ... click on watch TV live.
to watch the full performance... go to QVC site , search for Clay Aiken, click on video and you can order the QVC special edition of the OMWH CD with abonus cd that includes 4 live performances and a never release video of TITN.
> Clay on Spamalot was featured on American Idol result show.
> TV Promo dates:
4/28 QVC
5/7 GMA
5/8 The View
5/12 Leno
5/15 Kimmel
5/19 Ferguson
> also expect Clay to be on Tyra's 500th show and Rachel Ray's in May. This schedule doesnot include his appearance on entertainment new programs like ET and Insider.
>Kmart will be offering an exclusive Clay Aiken Poster free with the purchase of On My Way Here for a limited time.
April 22:
> PRE-ORDER ON ITUNES NOW AVAILABLE...includes a bonus track "Its in everyone of us" that is exclusive to itunes and for pre-orders ONLY.
April 21:
> New Webisode is up at Gather.com he talks about his work with BAF and UNICEF
April 19:
> Snippets of all the songs from the CD are available as ringtones from FIDO STORE and this Slovenian site .
> QVC bonus CD will include 4 songs, When I Need You, Invisible, Measure of a Man, I Will Carry You and 1 Video of This is The Night.
April 17:
>CLAY AIKEN -ON MY WAY HERE/GADGETS & GIZMOS Monday, April 28, 2008 07:00 - 08:00 PM ET Multi-platinum selling singing sensation Clay Aiken is poised to release his first album of original material since his double-platinum debut, "Measure of a Man." This eagerly anticipated new CD, "On My Way Here," is set to release on May 6, 2008. Reserve your copy before it hits the stores, and receive a special 5-track Bonus CD created especially for QVC. He'll win your heart again, as Clay performs select songs from On My Way Here. Release date subject to change without notice
> GRAB Clay widget to put on your blogs, myspace, etc, HERE
> It's the Clay Aiken album hotline
Here's a fun one - call this number with your cellphone: 919.883.5111
You'll hear Clay, you can get on his mobile network and then he gives the first update which is about the album coming out on May 6th.
I called it already, they text you back. If you join, it gives you a website to hear another message from Clay.
> On My Way Here will be released on AC radio on April 28 2008.
>From RCA Marketing
In addition to the Amazon (physical) preorder, there will be an exclusive digital preorder on Itunes which will begin on April 21.
This digital version of the album (which will include the standard album and a digital version of the booklet) will include an additional bonus preorder only track.
That song will only be available when the album is purchased during the pre-order period
> Clay and his new CD On My Way here will be featured on QVC on April 28th, from 7 to 8 pm...
6 Questions with Clay Aiken
Current Project
Billboard
May 03, 2008
CHUCK TAYLOR
During its six previous seasons, TV juggernaut "American Idol" has launched countless music careers—but the caveat is maintaining staying power. Season-two runner-up Clay Aiken continues to trump the odds. His third RCA album, "On My Way Here," due May 6, follows his 2003 double-platinum debut, "Measure of a Man"; 2004's platinum "Merry Christmas With Love"; and 2006 gold covers album "A Thousand Different Ways." In May, he'll wrap a five-month Broadway stint in the Tony Award-lauded musical comedy "Spamalot."
On the new album, his first of original material since "Measure," Aiken worked with Grammy Award-winning producer Kipper (Sting, Chris Botti). The singer talks about the road ahead and his journey to this point.
You call "On My Way Here" a thematic reflection on life lessons, a sort of road map of your last five years. What do you hope listeners will take from the collection?
When [executive producer] Jaymes Foster and I came across the song "On My Way Here," written by OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder, I really connected to it lyrically. It sums up how the experiences we go through make us who we are. As I'm knocking on the door to 30—and it's knocking hard—this decade has been about figuring out who I am. That set the tone for the album; they're all about things I've learned or universal lessons.
Once we had that road map and knew what we were looking for, the songs started falling in our laps. In the past, I'd sing about dog food and sunshine, as long as it was catchy and had a great melody, so it's the first time I've paid close attention to lyrics. I'm not Alicia Keys or Norah Jones when it comes to artistic lyrics, but I like what these songs are saying—and they're still pretty.
Knowing that we probably weren't going to get radio made the process even easier, so we just made an album that is me—songs written for me or whose meaning I connected with, and songs that I sing well.
"The Real Me" was written by Natalie Grant, who comes from the Christian world but is popular at AC. Her songs tend to explore life's challenges and offer a positive spin.
We first looked at that song as one of four originals on the last album. The thing I love so much about "The Real Me" is that when I listened to it, I thought, "It's about God." Jaymes heard a romantic song. Other people think it's about their mom. Everyone is able to take their own message. Natalie was kind enough to change a little bit of the lyric so that it fits my life even better.
Clay Aiken to Release Brand-New Album, On My Way Here, on May 6th 2008
Clay News
EAGERLY AWAITED COLLECTION IS THE POP SUPERSTAR'S FIRST ALBUM OF ORIGINAL SONGS SINCE 2003
NEW YORK, April 4, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Multi-platinum selling popsinger Clay Aiken will release his fourth album, On My Way Here, on RCARecords/19 Entertainment on May 6th, 2008. The collection is the 29-year-old Raleigh, NC, native's first album of original songs since his 2003 chart-topping, double- platinum debut Measure of a Man.
On My Way Here chronicles Aiken's experiences over the past five years, ascending from popular contestant on the second season of American Idol to pop superstar. The album's theme came to Aiken when he and his executive producer Jaymes Foster fell in love with a song written by OneRepublic frontman Ryan Tedder called "On My Way Here." The message of the lyrics --how the lessons we learn while growing up shape us into who we become as adults -- struck a very deep chord with the artist. The title track "On My Way Here" will be the first radio single from the album to be releasedlater this month. Additionally the single, "On My Way Here" will premiere as an "AOL First Listen" on Monday, April 7th.
"I thought if we could find songs that relate to what's gone on in my life over the past five years and address what I've learned from my experiences, it would be a great concept for my album," Aiken says. "Since I got into this business, I've learned so much about myself. I think this album covers how far I've come, personally and professionally."
The chance to record new material was an opportunity Aiken didn't want to miss. His previous two albums, 2004's Merry Christmas with Love (which went platinum within six weeks of its release) and 2006's gold-certified A Thousand Different Ways, featured 10 cover versions of well-known songs popularized by Celine Dion, Elton John, and Dolly Parton. Aiken's vocal performances on songs like "As Long as We're Here," about not waiting until it's too late to tell someone you love them, and "The Real Me," about being in the public eye, resonate with the kind of emotion that can only come from someone who's experienced this firsthand. "Although," Aiken says, "it was important to me that the songs be interpretable in all kinds of ways. People should be able to find their own meaning in the lyrics."
On My Way Here will be released just as Aiken finishes up his Broadway run playing Sir Robin in the Tony Award-winning musical Monty Python's Spamalot. Since January, Aiken has spent his days in the recording studio with On My Way Here's Grammy Award-winning British producer Kipper (Sting, Chris Botti), and his nights onstage in Spamalot. "I guess I'm a glutton for punishment," he says with a laugh.
NEW YORK — Raleigh native Clay Aiken is a busy man these days, performing at night on Broadway as Sir Robin in "Monty Python's Spamalot" and working on his upcoming studio album during the day.
t's been five years since Aiken put together an original album, or one that is, he says, at least 95 percent original.
"Some of it is, you know, a kind of half-way version of original," he said. "But it's all stuff that I'd imagine 90 percent of people have not heard."
The songs had to meet two qualifications.
"They have to be something I'll enjoy and that I can do well," Aiken said. "And at the same time, they have to kind of fit into this common theme of 'On my way here.'"
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February 25, 2008
Hey, it's not dead yet. In the words of one of the supremely goofy bad-taste delights from "Monty Python's Spamalot," the musical may be approaching its third year at the Shubert Theatre. But the thing's not dead yet - in fact, not even close.
Forgive our suspicion that "Spamalot" might have reached the uh-oh point in its heretofore long and happy run. After all, Clay Aiken, unknown until he was the runner-up in the second season of "American Idol," had been cast, with alarming hoopla, to play Sir Robin and assorted zanies - in a British accent, in a role created on film by (author, lyricist, co-composer) Eric Idle himself and recreated on Broadway by David Hyde Pierce.
We know that Fantasia, Aiken's fellow breakout survivor from gladiator TV, had a phenomenal stage debut last year as a replacement for the star in "The Color Purple." But what are the chances that another newbie from the South with zero stage experience would be able to slip into a high-maintenance Broadway hit without dragging it down like a boulder tied to its soft shoe?
So it's excellent news for Aiken and "Spamalot," not so good for drama schools. Aiken is a charmer. With his aging cherub face and a frizzle-pageboy wig, he goes sweetly and deftly Medieval on Broadway - a world described in the show as "a very special place with people who can sing and dance, often at the same time."
