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Taylor Hicks is on top of the world.

 In one months time Taylor Hicks won American Idol, got a record deal, shot a Ford commercial and was named People’s Hottest Bachelor, the silver-haired crooning sensation is now king of the charts, with his first single, “Do I Make You Proud,” topping pretty much every pop ranking in sight.

The tune, performed on the May 24 Idol finale and released last week backed by his rendition of the Doobie Brothers’ “Takin’ It to the Streets,” opened at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, the Billboard Pop 100 and the Billboard Single Sales chart, moving more than 190,000 copies for the week ended Sunday.

“I’ve been a hard working musician for the past ten years trying to become the best singer and harmonica player I could be and I’m thrilled that I can now focus entirely on my music,” says Hicks. “Having a number one single is only the beginning.”

The single, whose sales benefit the American Red Cross, will appear on debut album, set for release in the fall. Hicks is slated to perform the tune on Thursday’s Tonight Show with Jay Leno and during his headlining stint as part of the American Idols Live! tour, which kicks of July 5 in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Compared to the other Idol stars, Hicks’ first-week sales are on the lowish side. He ranks behind the first singles from Clay Aiken (393,000 copies of “Bridge Over Troubled Waters/This Is the Night” in 2003), Ruben Studdard (286,000 copies of “Superstar/Flying Without Wings” in 2003, the same week as Aiken) and Kelly Clarkson (263,000 copies of “Before Your Love”/”A Moment Like This” in 2002), but ahead of Fantasia (142,000 copies of “I Believe”/”Chain of Fools” in 2004) and last year’s champ Carrie Underwood (130,000 copies of “Inside Your Heaven”).

Of course, Idol standards are downright lofty compared with other musicians. Singles chart runner-up Nelly Furtado sold just 6,000 copies of “Promiscuous.” In fact, only one other artist sold more copies of any kind of recorded music last week: Busta Rhymes, who notched his first number one album with The Big Bang moving 209,000, per Nielsen SoundScan.

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