Lack of Ongoing Recording Industry Support
Australian Idol and its performers are often criticized by the Australian media and entertainers . Some winners and runners-up from the show have failed to maintain popularity past the airing of their respective series of the show. Critics have also lamented the associated record companies claiming high record sales but instead measuring the number of copies shipped to music stores in sale or return. This trend is more noticeable with the female winners, as Casey Donovan, Kate DeAraugo and Natalie Gauci only enjoyed mild and short-lived successes. Other idol graduates such as Guy Sebastian, Shannon Noll, Ricki-Lee Coulter, Jessica Mauboy, Damien Leith and Stan Walker on the other hand, have established themselves in the Australian music market and continue to enjoy success. Another noticeable fact is that some female contestants who were favourites with the audiences during their respective seasons but did not win such as Jessica Mauboy and Ricki-Lee Coulter have gone on to have more commercial and long term success than all three of the female winners, none of whom were actually favourites to win their respective seasons.
The criticism of idol sales fails to take into account the fact that while accreditations are based on distribution, the ARIA weekly and end of year charts and also sales nominations at the Annual ARIA Awards are based on actual real sales and do not use distribution in their calculations to determine position. There are some Idol contestants who have achieved strong sales for their first releases, with a few having sustained success over a number of years going on chart performance, position on the ARIA end of year charts and also sales nominations at the Annual ARIA Awards. Guy Sebastian and Shannon Noll received highest selling nominations both for singles and albums at the 2004 ARIA Awards, with Sebastian winning the highest selling singles category for Angels Brought Me Here, which was also named the highest selling song in Australia last decade. Paulini was also nominated for an ARIA Award for "Highest Selling Single" for the single Angel Eyes in 2004. Sebastian also received nominations for highest selling album in 2005 and 2008, with Noll nominated in the singles category in 2006. Casey Donovon and Anthony Callea were nominated in both single and album categories in 2005 with Anthony Callea winning the ARIA for highest selling single. Damien Leith was nominated for highest selling single and album in 2007, winning the album category. Several other contestants have received nominations for singles in various years. In more recent history Mauboy achieved a #1 single in 2009, and three of Sebastian's six #1 singles have also been achieved since 2009. "Like It Like That" was the highest selling Australian artist single and 6th highest seller overall in Australia in 2009 and the sixth highest selling Australian artist song last decade. Jessica Mauboy received ARIA nominations in 2009 for highest selling album for Been Waiting. "Running Back" and "Burn" were nominated in the highest selling singles category with "Running Back" winning. Sebastian won that category in 2011 with "Who's That Girl".
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