Music and Melodies

Philip Philips, American Idol Season 11 winner, has something to be happy with. The singer’s coronation song ‘Home’ has reached over 1 million downloads, making it his first platinum record! ‘Home’ shifted 212,000 digital copies last week, which pushed it to No. 2 on the Billboard Digital Songs chart. The song had already sold 844,000 copies, so last week’s sales surge was enough to push an already popular song to platinum, according to Wet Paint. The song went gold about three weeks ago. The sales boost came from the fact that it was the team anthem of the heavily covered U.S. [...]