Though none of their studio performances were popular enough to remove Lil Wayne's "Lollipop (featuring Static Major)" from the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100, David Cook and David Archuleta had a number of songs debut, thanks to strong iTunes sales for their "American Idol" performances.

Winner David Cook's "The Time of My Life," which was far and away the hottest download of the week, landed at number three on the chart, behind only "Lollipop" and Leona Lewis' "Bleeding Love."

Cook also landed on the chart with "Dream Big" (15), "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" (22), "The World I Know" (28), "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing" (42), "Billie Jean" (47), "Always Be My Baby" (67), "Hello" (73), "The Music of the Night" (77), "Eleanor Rigby" (92) and "I'm Alive" (99). He appeared on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 with "Little Sparrow" (101), Hungry Like the Wolf" (103), "Innocent" (104), "Day Tripper" (114), "All Right Now" (118) and "Happy Together" (125).

Runner-up David Archuleta charted with "Imagine" (36), "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" (58), "In This Moment" (60). His Bubbling Under Hot 100 presence was felt with "Longer" (115), "Think of Me" (119) and "Angels" (124).

Beginning with fourth, Rihanna's "Take a Bow," Jordin Sparks' and Chris Brown's "No Air," Usher's "Love in this Club (featuring Young Jeezy)," Ray J's and Yung Berg's "Sexy Can I," Madonna's "4 Minutes (featuring Justin Timberlake)," Natasha Bedingfield's "Pocketful of Sunshine" and Coldplay's "Viva la Vida" rounded out the top ten. "Viva la Vida" climbed thirty one places as the week's biggest sales gainer, thanks largely due to the song's feature on the new iTunes commercial.

After "Viva la Vida," other big gains included a nine place jump for 3 Doors Down's "It's Not My Time" (17), a fourteen place "Idol" finale-related ascent for Timbaland's "Apologize (featuring OneRepublic)" (18), an eighteen place hop, also in conjunction with an "Idol" performance, for Carrie Underwood's "Last Name" (18), a nineteen spot move for Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" (21) and a twenty five place bump for Kardinal Offishall's "Dangerous (featuring Akon)" (51).

Though Cook and Archuleta were the talk of the chart, other singles did debut this week. Fueled by a performance at the ACM Awards, Taylor Swift's new "Should've Said No" started at 84, while Julianne Hough's "That Song in My Head" (88), Lloyd's "Girls Around the World (featuring Lil Wayne)" (93) and Kanye West's "Homecoming (featuring Chris Martin)" (96) also got their chart runs going.

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