Who's the biggest recording star to come out of American Idol? I really think we should call it a tie. Carrie Underwood has sold more albums, but Kelly Clarkson has sold more individual songs. Just this week, Clarkson's #1 smash "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" pulled ahead of Underwood's 2007 hit "Before He Cheats" to become the best-selling song by an Idol alumnus. "Stronger" has sold 3,510,000 copies, 1K more than Underwood's sassy revenge fantasy.(Want to know what's in third place? It's "No Air," the melodramatic 2008 collabo by Jordin Sparks & Chris Brown, which has sold 3,437,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan, which tracks sales for Billboard.)
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