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| January 27, 2006 | The Raleigh News and Observer had a section in the newspaper with suggestions for potential locations where Clay could build his home. | FD Recap | News and Observer | 2006 News | |  |
| February 1, 2006 | Clay was featured in the Sensational Alumni of North Carolina issue of the Collegiate Standard in the Winter 2006 Issue. | FD Recap | Collegiate Standard | 2006 News | | |
| February 1, 2006 | UNICEF included a profile of Clay in their February magazine. It was called Bridging two passions for the World's Children. | FD Recap | UNICEF Magazine | 2006 News | | |
| February 28, 2006 | In February Clay's name or picture appeared in various places like Mad Magazine, a Jeopardy question, a People magazine poll and in a People Yearbook edition for his work in Banda Aceh after the tsunami. | FD Recap | 2006 News | People | | |
| March 1, 2006 | Clay was featured in a story about American Idol success stories in Teen People. | Fd Recap | Teen People | 2006 News | | |
| March 1, 2006 | My School Rocks Rockin Reporters Chatted with Clay for this cover story and interview. | FD Recap | My School Rocks | 2006 News | | |
| March 26, 2006 | Clay's name came up during an episode of Cheerleader Nation. Ashley included Clay in her bio. | FD Recap | Lifetime Network | | | |
| April 1, 2006 | Clay was featured in a story in Popstar Magazine. | FD Recap | Popstar! Magazine | 2006 News | | |
| April 1, 2006 | US Airways Magazine had a story about revitalization projects and included Raleigh, NC. Clay was mentioned as one of the famous locals. | FD Recap | US Airways | 2006 News | | |
| May 10, 2006 | Clay went to Middlesex Middle School in Darien, CT for UNICEF. | FD Recap | Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF/School Visits | Events - UNICEF | | |
| May 20, 2006 | TBAF sponsored it's first book, Our Friend Mikayla. | FD Recap | Our Friend Mikayla | Events - Bubel Aiken Foundation | | |
| May 24, 2006 | Clay appeared on the AI5 finale giving Clay fans a surprise and providing a magic moment for television. | FD Recap | Other American Idol appearances | Television Show List | | |
| June 1, 2006 | The talk in the media about Clay was all about his 'do'. | Fd Recap | 2006 News | | | |
| June 14, 2006 | Clay and a friend took in game five of the 2006 Stanley cup Finals between the Edmonton Oilers and the Carolina Hurricanes at the RBC Center in Raleigh. The Canes went on to win the Stanley Cup in 2006. | FD Recap | Out and about list | | | |
| June 14, 2006 | Quiana Parler welcomed Chamberlin into the world. | FD Recap | Out and about list | Quiana Parler | | |
| June 21, 2006 | Rita Crosby talked about how Clay still had the top selling single from AI. | Fd Recap | MSNBC | | | |
| July 1, 2006 | Clay's hair was still the rage in the media...US Magazine and Parade both featured him. Clay kept busy visiting the YMCA at home in Raleigh. | Fd Recap | 2006 News | US Weekly Magazine | | |
| July 3, 2006 | Clay and Ruben and some friends showed up at Kelly Clarkson's Concert in Raleigh. | FD Recap | Out and about list | | | |
| August 1, 2006 | We started getting news about A thousand different ways which was to come out in September. American Idol Magazine featured Michael Sandecki, and InStyle had another poll. | Fd Recap | 2006 News | American Idol Magazine | | |
| August 2, 2006 | ET gave fans a sneak peek at the photo shoot for the new cd. Miranda Penn Turin worked her magic at a beautiful house in California. | Fd Recap | Entertainment Tonight | Television Show List | | |
| August 22, 2006 | The Insider gave viewers a look at the photoshoot for Clay's upcoming cd. | Fd Recap | The Insider | Television Show List | | |
| August 30, 2006 | Matt Sayles posted a series of pictures of Clay on his website. | FD Recap | Photo Shoots | | | |
| August 31, 2006 | We started getting news about A thousand different ways that was to come out in September. | FD Recap | 2006 News | | | |
| September 1, 2006 | A thousand different ways promotion... | FD Recap | Promotion | | | |
| September 1, 2006 | Clay had some new pictures taken that showed up on various radio stations and tour venues. | Fd Recap | Photo Shoots | | | |
| September 5, 2006 | Clay was named to the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities. | FD Recap | President's Committee For People With Intellectual Disabilities (PCPID) | Other Charities, Committees and Foundations | | |
| September 9, 2006 | Clay helped out with David Foster's Star Search in Canada. This is a fund raising initiative to help families who need organ donations. Clay served as one of the judges for the competition. | FD Recap | The David Foster Foundation | Other Charities, Committees and Foundations | | |
| September 10, 2006 | Clay performed with David during the Star Search gala. He sang "Right Here Waiting", "Without You", and "Unchained Melody" | Fd Recap | The David Foster Foundation | Other Charities, Committees and Foundations | | |
| September 14, 2006 | Clay's Official Fan Club opened for year two. | Fd Recap | Promotion | | | |
| September 14, 2006 | The department of Health and Human Resources put out a press release about Clay's appointment to the Presidential Committee. | Fd Recap | President's Committee For People With Intellectual Disabilities (PCPID) | 2006 News | | |
| September 15, 2006 | Clay was profiled in the Entertainment Weekly magazine along with the other American Idols. | FD Recap | Entertainment Weekly | 2006 News | | |
| September 15, 2006 | Clay went on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. He shared some of his travel tales and performed "Without You". | Fd Recap | The Tonight Show | Television Show List | | |
| September 18, 2006 | Clay fans around the US and Canada and even some in Singapore gathered together at midnight to celebrate the release of Clay's cd, A thousand different ways. | FD Recap | Out and about list | Promotion | | |
| September 18, 2006 | From 9/18/06 - 9/22/06 Clay appeared on The Insider. Clay week included him singing "Without You" and also included a series of short interviews with Lara Spencer. There was also a more in-depth on-line interview. | FD Recap | The Insider | Television Show List | | |
| September 18, 2006 | RCA sent Without You to AC radio for addition to their playlists. | FD Recap | Music Milestones | | | |
| September 19, 2006 | A thousand different ways debuted at #2 and sold 211,234 copies its first week. It was second only to Justin Timberlake. | Fd Recap | Music Milestones | | | |
| September 19, 2006 | Clay did a series of interviews and performed "Without you" and "A thousand days" on GMA. | Fd Recap | Good Morning America | Singing Performances | | |
| September 19, 2006 | There were Wal-mart soundcheck videos made for Clay for release on 9/19/06. They were available online. Some stores even played them too. | FD Recap | Wal-Mart Soundcheck | Videos and Webisodes | | |
| September 22, 2006 | Clay made an appearance on The View. | FD Recap | The View | Television Show List | | |
| September 22, 2006 | People Magazine He spoke candidly about how celebrity had influenced his life. | FD Recap | People | 2006 News | | |
| September 26, 2006 | Clay appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live | FD Recap | Jimmy Kimmel Live | Television Show List | | |
| September 26, 2006 | Clay appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live and performed a mini concert at the Pontiac Garage. | FD Recap | Jimmy Kimmel Live | Television Show List | | |
| September 26, 2006 | There was a record signing event at the Virgin record megastore in Hollywood California. Jimmy Kimmel stopped by to record a bit for his show later that night. | FD Recap | Promotion | | | |
| September 27, 2006 | Clay appeared on KTLA Morning News. | FD Recap | Other Local News Shows | Television Show List | | |
| September 27, 2006 | Clay appeared on Larry King Live for an in-depth interview. | Fd Recap | CNN | Television Show List | | |
| September 27, 2006 | Quiana Parler posted some pictures of the band on her myspace page that were taken at some events during September. | FD Recap | Quiana Parler | Out and about list | | |
| October 3, 2006 | Clay went to see Hairspray on Broadway and visited with Diana DeGarmo backstage. He also ran into Hillary and Haley Duff. | FD Recap | Out and about list | | | |
| October 5, 2006 | Live at Yahoo Music presented In the Studio with Clay Aiken...an exclusive performance of "Without You" | Fd Recap | Videos and Webisodes | Yahoo Music | | |
| October 6, 2006 | Clay appeared on the Martha Stewart show to promote his album A thousand different ways. He brought his grandma with him to make one of his favorite dishes, Hot pineapple salad. He sang "A thousand days." | Fd Recap | Martha Stewart | | | |
| October 26, 2006 | 'Ultimate Christmas 2006' Compilation CD Released Oct. 26, 2006 Sony/BMG Includes "Don't Save It All For Christmas Day" | Fd Recap | Discography | Compilations and Duets | | |
| October 28, 2006 | TV Guide Channel had a special dedicated to Clay. | Fd Recap | TV Guide Channel | | | |
| October 31, 2006 | In October, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte's Niner Online did a cd review, another magazine mentioned his upcoming soap opera role, Image magazine did an interview with Michael Orland with a mention of Clay, and Hello magazine featured an article about David Foster including a picture of Clay. | Fd Recap | 2006 News | Hello | | |
| October 31, 2006 | Platinum Christmas III Compilation CD Released Oct. 31, 2010 Sony/BMG Music Includes Clay's version of "The Christmas Song". | FD Recap | Discography | Compilations and Duets | | |
| October 31, 2006 | Promotional Odds and Ends | Fd Recap | Promotion | | | |
| November 1, 2006 | Clay appeared in Galaxie Magazine in Singapore. | FD Recap | Galaxie | | | |
| November 1, 2006 | In November "The Insider" used the American Music Awards spoof on their website report of the event. Entertainment Tonight posted the AMA Awards in their Star Sightings, the UNICEF Snowflake lighting and a Happy Birthday wish. | Fd Recap | The Insider | | | |
| November 1, 2006 | In November there were a number of Clay mentions in the Media. People magazine, TV Guide, and a couple of newspaper mentions including one in Singapore. | Fd Recap | 2006 News | | | |
| November 2, 2006 | Clay appeared on the Megan Mullally Show. He performed "A thousand days" and also sang a duet with Megan for her Christmas show. | Fd Recap | Megan Mullally Show | Television Show List | | |
| November 11, 2006 | UNC CHARLOTTE ALUMNI AWARDS GALA Clay receive outstanding Young Alumnus | | Award list | | | |
| November 14, 2006 | Days of our Lives taping | | Days of our lives | | | |
| November 14, 2006 | Ryan Seacrest KIIS 102.7 Interview pt. 2 | | | | KIIS 102.7 Ryan Seacrest, pt. 2 | |
| November 14, 2006 | Ryan Seacrest radio show...interview | | | | KIIS 102.7 Ryan Seacrest, pt. 1 | |
| November 17, 2006 | Clay appeared on The Regis and Kelly Show as a cohost. He sang, he danced, he tried to interview the guests and he put his hand over Kelly's mouth.... | Fd Recap | Regis and Kelly | Television Show List | | |
| November 17, 2006 | WTVD RALEIGH NEWS INTERVIEW | | | | | |
| November 18, 2006 | Clay Aiken and Darryl Dawkins joined UNICEF for the lighting of the UNICEF snowflake. | Fd Recap | Snowflake Lighting | Events - UNICEF | | |
| November 21, 2006 | Clay appeared on the American Music Awards show with Tori Spelling. They made fun of the ongoing saga with Kelly Ripa by doing a skit about where Tori's hand has been... | Fd Recap | American Music Awards | Television Show List | | |
| November 22, 2006 | Clay and Tori's spoof of the Ripa hand incident was received well in reviews of the AMA show. | FD Recap | American Music Awards | 2006 News | | |
| November 22, 2006 | Clay appeared on Tyra. It was a great show. They laughed, sang, interviewed each other, danced, kissed...you almost wonder how either one of them could have called it work. | Fd Recap | The Tyra Banks Show | Television Show List | | |
| November 24, 2006 | A clip from the 2004 "A Clay Aiken Christmas" of Clay and Quiana Parler singing "Silver Bells" was used on a Direct TV special called "Songs of Praise for Christmas". | FD Recap | DirecTV Songs of Praise | Television Show List | | |
| November 26, 2006 | Clay sang Emmanuel on Good Morning America. This song was coming out on the limited exclusive EP available only from Wal-mart. | FD Recap | Good Morning America | Singing Performances | | |
| November 27, 2006 | Access Hollywood took a behind the scenes look at Clay's appearance on "Days of our lives". The episode would air on December 26th, 2006 | Fd Recap | Access Hollywood | Days of our lives | | |
| November 28, 2006 | All is Well was released as a Wal-Mart exclusive. There were very limited quantities available. | Fd Recap | Singles and EP's | Music Milestones | | |
| November 29, 2006 | On 11/29/06 and 11/30/06 Clay gave Lynda Loveland of WRAL a tour of his house in Raleigh. | Fd Recap | WRAL News | Television Show List | | |
| November 29, 2006 | The Insider showed a video of Clay singing "Without You" that he had taped during the week he was there after the cd was released. | Fd Recap | The Insider | Television Show List | | |
| December 1, 2006 | Christmas Symphony Tour - 2006 - Waukegan, IL | FD Recap | 2006 Christmas Symphony Tour | Singing Performances | | |
| December 1, 2006 | Clay did a series of Christmas appearances with symphonies. Over the 18 dates Clay sang and bantered and fought a horrible case of vertigo that left him so dizzy he could barely move at times. | FD Recap | 2006 Christmas Symphony Tour | | | |
| December 2, 2006 | Christmas Symphony Tour - 2006 - Merrilville, IN | FD Recap | 2006 Christmas Symphony Tour | Singing Performances | | |
| December 4, 2006 | Christmas Symphony Tour - 2006 - Verona, NY | FD Recap | 2006 Christmas Symphony Tour | Singing Performances | | |
| December 4, 2006 | People magazine put out a special edition called Before They Were Stars. Clay was included. | Fd Recap | People | 2006 News | | |
| December 5, 2006 | Christmas Symphony Tour - 2006 - Bergen, NJ | FD Recap | 2006 Christmas Symphony Tour | Singing Performances | | |
| December 5, 2006 | HARTFORD WTIC 1080 AM RADIO INTERVIEW concert promo | | | | WTIC Newstalk 1080 | |
| December 6, 2006 | Christmas Symphony Tour - 2006 - Baltimore, MD | FD Recap | 2006 Christmas Symphony Tour | Singing Performances | | |
| December 6, 2006 | On 12/06/06 Entertainment Tonight and The Insider both ran clips of Lynda Loveland's tour of Clay's house. On 12/29/06 The Insider ran their clip again. | Fd Recap | The Insider | Entertainment Tonight | | |
| December 7, 2006 | Christmas Symphony Tour - 2006 - Norfolk, VA | FD Recap | 2006 Christmas Symphony Tour | Singing Performances | | |
| December 9, 2006 | Christmas Symphony Tour - 2006 - Willamsport, PA | FD Recap | 2006 Christmas Symphony Tour | Singing Performances | | |
| December 10, 2006 | Christmas Symphony Tour - 2006 - Wilkes Barre, PA | FD Recap | 2006 Christmas Symphony Tour | Singing Performances | | |
| December 11, 2006 | Christmas Symphony Tour - 2006 - Easton, PA | FD Recap | 2006 Christmas Symphony Tour | Singing Performances | | |
| December 11, 2006 | Clay visited Lower Nazareth Elementary school to read "Our Friend Mikayla" to the students who wrote it. He also arranged for the students to ride in a limousine. | FD Recap | Our Friend Mikayla | Events - Bubel Aiken Foundation | | |
| December 12, 2006 | Christmas Symphony Tour - 2006 - Hartford, CT | FD Recap | 2006 Christmas Symphony Tour | Singing Performances | | |
| December 13, 2006 | KJOY-LI radio Interview | | | | KJoy 98.3 | |
| December 14, 2006 | Christmas Symphony Tour - 2006 - Long Island, NY | FD Recap | 2006 Christmas Symphony Tour | Singing Performances | | |
| December 15, 2006 | Christmas Symphony Tour - 2006 - West Point, NY | FD Recap | 2006 Christmas Symphony Tour | Singing Performances | | |
| December 15, 2006 | Clay appeared on Live with Regis and Kelly singing "Mary, Did You Know". He recorded this clip in November when he co-hosted the show. | Fd Recap | Regis and Kelly | Television Show List | | |
| December 16, 2006 | Christmas Symphony Tour - 2006 - Red Bank, NJ | FD Recap | 2006 Christmas Symphony Tour | Singing Performances | | |
| December 18, 2006 | Christmas Symphony Tour - 2006 - Detroit, MI | FD Recap | 2006 Christmas Symphony Tour | Singing Performances | | |
| December 18, 2006 | Clay appeared on the Tyra Christmas show to sing Mary did you know. He recorded this segment during his appearance in November. | Fd Recap | The Tyra Banks Show | Television Show List | | |
| December 19, 2006 | Christmas Symphony Tour - 2006 - Grand Rapids, MI | FD Recap | 2006 Christmas Symphony Tour | Singing Performances | | |
| December 19, 2006 | WMAG 99.5 (Greensboro) Interview | | | | | |
| December 21, 2006 | Christmas Symphony Tour - 2006 - Jacksonville, FL | FD Recap | 2006 Christmas Symphony Tour | Singing Performances | | |
| December 22, 2006 | Christmas Symphony Tour - 2006 - Charlotte, NC | FD Recap | 2006 Christmas Symphony Tour | Singing Performances | | |
| December 22, 2006 | Clay sang Silver Bells with Megan on her Christmas special. This segment was recorded in November when Clay appeared on Megan's show. | Fd Recap | Megan Mullally Show | Television Show List | | |
| December 22, 2006 | VH1's best week ever took a look back at the year in Pop Culture in a one hour special. They highlighted Clay's appearance on AI and they mentioned the Ripa nonsense. | Fd Recap | VH1 | Television Show List | | |
| December 23, 2006 | Christmas Symphony Tour - 2006 - Greensboro, NC | FD Recap | 2006 Christmas Symphony Tour | Singing Performances | | |
| December 26, 2006 | Clay appeared on Days of our Lives. | FD Recap | Days of our lives | Television Show List | | |
| December 26, 2006 | "Invisible" was included on an import compilation CD from Japan called "hearful lovesongs to you" | FD Recap | Compilations and Duets | Music Milestones | | |
| December 29, 2006 | Inside Edition included the AI finale surprise appearance among the Unforgettable TV Moments of 2006. | FD Recap | Inside Edition | | | |
| December 31, 2006 | Clay's name appeared in a variety of media. He was featured in a horoscope, Newsweek had a caption contest, his allergies were highlighted, his penchant for Paul Smith and they even asked him about a movie. | Fd Recap | 2006 News | | | |
| December 31, 2006 | Fountaindawg's Year in Review collage | Fd Recap | | | | |
| December 31, 2006 | In December 2006 a magazine in Singapore carried a great interview with Clay. | Fd Recap | 2006 News | Other Magazines | | |
| December 31, 2006 | In December there were a number of Soap magazine mentions about his appearance on Days of our lives. There was even an Australian soap magazine that featured an article. | Fd Recap | 2006 News | Days of our lives | | |
| December 31, 2006 | There were a few odds and ends we missed along the way. In April Clay took in The Color Purple on Broadway. In May he was featured on Fox's American Idol Hall of Fame. In September he took a picture with Per Magnusson and David Kreuger and in December he was on NBC's page for Days of our lives. | Fd Recap | Out and about list | 2006 News | | |
