Yea rascal! He so deserves this…I feel like a proud Momma right now.

Hugs!

Hit NUMERO UNO…NUMBER ONE….CRUSH IS #1 ON I-TUNES. FANTASTIC! REMEMBER THIS DAY 8/12 AND TIME 7:17 WHEN DAVID ARCHULETA, MY IDOL WENT TO #1 ….

I can hardly contain myself…I would give anything to be at the concert tonight….can you just imagine! The arena will explode when he comes on stage! Just love him to pieces!

I would give anything to see his face when he finds out Crush went to #1….and on the first day….

…YEAH….Way to go David!!! We are all so very proud of you for making it to #1 in just 1/2 a day….but then again, we all knew you would do it!! I just love your new song…can’t stop listening to it…how excited you must be today and we, your supporters, celebrate right along with you!

Congratulations David!!! The first of many #1s!!

Hey….Not just #1 on the Itunes Pop chart but #1 on the Overall Main Song chart.

#1

David, Congratulations! You do have good taste. CRUSH is a really good pop song and its catching on, yes! Enjoy this historic moment. So many dreams have come true and many mor to follow! We love you David.

Rob, is it confirmed Crush is #1 overall? If yes, that’s awesome!

Hi TOfan! Crush #1!! oh yes!! I was driving my son to a class this morning and tuned in to a Toronto station (CHUM FM) and I heard Crush… so thrilled. Way to go David, the crusher.

This is so exciting! Crush hasn’t even hardly hit the radio yet, and when it does, many new fans will be recruited. This is HUGE!

It’s just so awesome! *Sniff*

Yaay! ‘Crush’ is numero uno. Well done David, you deserve it and to all David’s fans, well done too. Hope we can keep him there for awhile.

You rock David James!

SO, SO awesome! Listening to Crush as I type this.

Rising to No. 1 seems all the more impressive to me because — as opposed to the old days — virtually everyone who paid money for the song today *already* had the MP3 for free. That’s 10s of thousands of people sending a message to Archie: 99 cents is a pittance compared to the value of the joy you have brought us these past seven months.

David, you deserve great things and more. Like rascal said, don’t ever change.

To add to caseydog, all the more impressive because really the only promotion it had was David appearing on Z100 a week or so ago (as another blog mentioned). Others who skyrocketed to #1 at least had an appearance on American Idol or night time talkshows, etc. in front of millions.

I had to laugh when a friend of mine emailed me today to tell me David had a single out and had I heard it? Uh, yeah, I got up at 5:30 am to hear it debut in NYC and I downloaded it at midnight last night and gifted it to half a dozen people. Perhaps you’ve heard of my addiction to David Archuleta-crack?

I know, isn’t even incredible that David has done almost no publicity for the song yet? I hope that there will be a domino effect as more radio stations play it after it hit #1 today.

Is “rascal” Michael Crichton or somebody like that?

It’s such a privilege to be a fan at the beginning of David’s journey. This is a great day for him! There is a fabulous path laid out before him.

Rascal, Yea for David and everyone who knows talent and class when the see and hear it. As you may remember from a post months ago, my mama always told me there would be decades like this and she was right…this is the beginning of the Archuleta decade. Isn’t this grand?

Rascal, thank you for you and what you do, and for allowing us older teens a “deeper” place to visit and reflect on all things David Archuleta.

Love you too Josie!

I was tense all day monitoring the activity at fanblast while I was at work. I could get fired for this. But oh well, I couldn’t help myself. So glad we made him #1 today. But what about tomorrow? What are we going to do? I already started requesting the song from our local stations here. Hopefully that would help keep the status of this song on top of the billboard charts. Yay! I’m so excited for David. Just like many of you here, it appears that the fans are the real driving force for David’s single to chart. I haven’t seen any promo at all from Jive or not that I’ve noticed anyway. I hope they will also promote it heavily and not just leave it to the fans. We need all the help we can get for our angel David.

I wish I could think of something articulate enough to belong on Rascal’s lovely site but I am so excited by this number one news that all I can do is a fangirl screeeeeeeeeeeaa aaaaaaaammmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Read the comments in office (it’s 13:48pm here), and smiled.

The smile is for David, Congratulation!!!

Second smile for a off-topic thinking. Love, in some aspects, is a dose of poison.

David says, “I’m working hard for you guys so…I hope I make you guys proud”

He hoped he made us proud That’s our David alright! Woohoo!

Now back to promoting David while finishing my report

OMG! this made me tear up! i’m so proud of him. this is so great.

P.S. DAVID -- we couldn’t be any more proud of you than we are at this very moment……GO DAVID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rascal,
I appreciate everyone of your articles and your thoughts about David. You are one of his biggest supporters!! Some people I guess start commenting before they really stop and think about what they are going to say. I usually always agree with you. I knew Kristy was going to be a great country singer because I have watched her earlier videos before she was on AI. I think she was kind of like David in the way that AI portrayed her. She is really better than she appeared to be on the show. She really didn’t get to sing songs that were her style and show how great she is. Simon didn’t care much for her it seemed and a lot of people throwed off on her. I watched her sing many country songs before she was on the show and I thought she was very good. You know most of the songs were not her genre of music, and that does not mean she is not a great country singer. Everyone can do better and be more comfortable when they can pick the songs and its their style of music. I also think she is beautiful woman, so she will do great in the country scene.
As far as David goes…I am sure he is probably getting very tired. He seems to be a person that gives so much of himself trying to make others happy that it is wearing him down. Imagine all that he has to do on a daily basis…there is no resting, no spending time with his high school friends, meetings with Jive and recording in between concerts, getting on planes to go from place to place, changes in times zones, just work work work. Although he loves it, I’m sure he must be very tired. I could not imagine sleeping on buses, going from hotel to hotel, sleeping in a different bed every night. It must be exhausting for all of them, but you know some adults can handle things like that better than teenagers. It also depends on your personality to I guess. Some people can handle stress better than others. After the tour is over he will have more time to rest. Thanks Rascal for all of your writings!

Kait#48, LOL, I dont want you to be stood up by David too! Two concert dates, woohooo! Enjoy yourself, for us who do not have the privilege now, we envy you! Furthermore, I still want to see all the screaming and applause for him at EVERY stop! Haha,I love it.

It was just some wishful thinking. AI tour, in David’s position now, is still a win-win situation in my opinion -- to reinforce the AI fanbase while picking up new fans from the show. You know, he did mentioned that he wasnt sure if AI fans support will still be there after the show ended -- how wrong can he be????!!!! But since Crush is gathering steam, David should be out there to promote it (& album) and reach out to the non-AI market. Hence, he’s working doubly hard -- for the tour and the album. Rest is a luxury. Oh well, I always believe things usually turn out for the best, especially where David is concerned, especially after Rascal’s post about his conversation with Jeff -- so uplifting! Yay!