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James David Carter performs during Season 7 of The Voice. (NBC Photo)

Well, that album finally hit iTunes Wednesday, more than a week later than expected.

But fans of the former contestant on The Voice didn’t seem to mind. The album, “Songs on the Radio,” cracked the Top 10 on iTunes country album chart shortly after its release and was still sitting at number 11 at 5 p.m. Wednesday.

Wrote Carter to his fans on Facebook: “Pretty cool to have an album on the iTunes country chart without the help of a label, even if it’s just for a day. Thank you for believing in and supporting me.”

For those with short memories, Carter was an early favorite on Season 7 of The Voice after turning four chairs with his blind audition performance of “Nobody Knows.”

Carter, 34 when he auditioned for the show, wound up making it to the Top 20 before being eliminated. The eventual champ was Craig Wayne Boyd, who Carter had defeated in the battle round.

The new album is a solid, eight-track effort; the highlights are a trio of up-tempo tunes — “Call My Name,” “County Line” and title track. Then there’s my favorite, “Georgia Day,” which I’ve embedded below.

As you might guess by that song title, Carter now calls Georgia home.

During a visit with 11 Alive in Atlanta last week, he called his new music “kind of like a throwback to the ’90s country, story-telling songs” and called his time on The Voice “a steroid shot of exposure.”

Exposure that helped him land on that country albums chart — for at least a day — and maybe longer considering how catchy
these new tunes are.