Pop singer Ferras’ new CD “Aliens & Rainbows” didn’t make a big splash on this week’s Billboard 200 after selling only 3,087 copies its first week out. It deserves a better fate than this, and still has room to grow, for sure.

But those sales were enough for the Gillespie, Il’s home boy’s debut to come in at No. 9 on the magazine’s Top Heatseekers chart, reserved for developing acts.

The single, one-time “American Idol” exit song “Hollywood’s Not America,” recently debuted at No. 84 on the Hot 100 singles chart, then rose three notches the next week. The song is making a bigger impression on the Adult Top 40 chart.

National press has been mixed in reviewing “Aliens & Rainbows.” Billboard said the CD is an “action-packed collection of high-gloss piano-pop production numbers,” and called the disc a “rollicking good time.”

But Entertainment Weekly, giving the CD a C- grade, called the single sappy, with the rest of the CD only offering a little more. “Even Ferras’ best tunes suffer from overly slick production, and his weak quack of a voice does them no favors. Don’t hold your breath waiting for gold at the end of these ‘Rainbows.”

Ouch!