✦Was appointed as an Ambassador of Education for All Children by UNICEF, under which he participated in doing charity for tsunami victims through his song "Give a Little Bit."
✦Becomes the ambassador of Ronald McDonald House Charities.
✦Was born with a collapsed lung.
✦Shared a house in L.A with former American Idol contestant Kimberley Locke.
✦Established the Bubel/Aiken Foundation aimed to include children with disabilities in activities with typical children. Named the foundation for Diane Bubel, the mother of a child with autism he worked with, who persuaded him to audition for American Ido