That bad day is really paying off for Canadian singer Daniel Powter now that he's sold the most digital downloads of a single ever.
Although the song 'Bad Day' was a hit last year, it has been revived in the US in 2006 as the theme song to the new season of American Idol. Now Contact Music reports that the song has sold more than 1.6 million in digital downloads in the US, giving it eight times platinum certification.In 2003 it was possible to hit the digital charts with only a few thousand downloads, but now it is big business. In 2005 Gwen Stefani's 'Hollaback Girl' was the first digital track to be certified diamond (one million copies), then it was overtaken as the highest seller by Kelly Clarkson's 'Since U Been Gone', and now that's been usurped by Powter.
Other diamond-certified tracks include: James Blunt's 'You're Beautiful', Sean Paul's 'Temperature', Kanye West's 'Goldigger', Natasha Beddingfield's 'Unwritten' and The Pussycat Dolls 'Don't Cha'. Shakira's new collaboration with Wyclef Jean, 'Hips Don't Lie', currently hold the record for most downloads in a week, selling over 260,000 and instantly going platinum.
Powter's milestone is particularly serendipitous as he's about to embark on his first US tour.
