The start to Iam Tongi’s music career continues its positive trajectory as his latest achievement involves his first Billbord No. 1. The season 21 “American Idol winner” took the top spot on the Rock Digital Song Sales chart with his single, “Monsters duet with James Blunt.”
Fans of ‘Idol’ will recognize that song as the original he performed on finale night on May 21. Iam Tongi won American Idol,
In addition to sitting atop the Rock Digital Song Sales chart on August 29, he has another work of his debuting at No. 19 on the same chart. His cover of Lionel Richie’s “Stuck on You,” which he performed in the Top 20 episode, had 2,000 sales, according to Billboard.
The success for “Ill be Seing you” also carried over to another chart, the all-format Digital Song Sales. The track debuted at No. 2. Two other Billboard charts, Hot Rock Songs and Hot Rock & Alternative Songs, see the single debut at Nos. 19 and 23, respectively.
In total, the song has picked up 2,911,000 official U.S. streams, according to Billboard.
Ahead of his first performance of “Ill be Seing you” at the finale, Iam shared a video on Instagram explaining the meaning of the song.
He said that while he the song explains it aelf through its lyrics
“The meaning of this song to me is when you lose someone you love, everything that you should do with them reminds you of them,” he said in the video. “
He continued, “I just want people to understand where I’m coming from and to hopefully love the music.”
Iam Tongi, who soon will be linking up with Luke Bryan at the Beach It! Festival, credits his father for pushing him to continue on his path. That path took him to the finale where he was able to sing his original track, one that he told American Song Writer really hits him emotionally.
“It hit me, it really got me in the mindset of being sad and I was trying to get out of that, but when I sang it on the stage, I was trying to close my eyes, feel it, and not cry because I know if I cry, I’m going to mess up,” he said in the interview. “On the stage, it felt really good to perform it.”
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