Finale Date: 09/05/2002
Kelly Clarkson – CD released 04/15/2003…7+ months after
Justin Guarini – CD released 06/10/2003…9+ months after (56 days later)

Finale Date: 05/21/2003
Ruben Studdard – CD released 12/09/2003…6+ months after
Clay Aiken – CD released 10/14/2003…4+ months after (56 days before Ruben)
(is this really right? The runner-up’s CD came out first? Can we encourage them to do that again?)

Finale Date: 05/26/2004
Fantasia Barrino – CD released 11/23/2004…6 months after (almost exactly)
Diana DeGarmo – CD released 12/07/2004…6+ months after (exactly 2 weeks later)

Finale Date: 05/25/2005
Carrie Underwood -- ????
Bo Bice -- ????

OK, now that I’ve wasted my time looking up all these dates, there doesn’t really seem to be a trend. Am I missing something? (besides Bo, that is)

Aside from the peculiar coincidence that the Kelly/Justin and the Clay/Ruben CDs came out 56 days apart, all I can gather is that we’ll likely see a Bo CD somewhere between mid-October & New Year’s.

(ok, so I'm a geek - this is the first time I've actually given a flying carp about an AI-related CD)