Clay Aiken to begin work on third album

American Idol alumnus Clay Aiken is to start work on his third album this March, Yahoo Music reports today.

The singer has just concluded a tour to accompany his second record, Merry Christmas With Love. Now he plans to take a short break before returning to the studio to work on new material.

"I'm gonna take a little bit of time off in January," said Aiken. "That's what I promised myself. We'll see if I end up doing it or not. I really don't like to sit down, do nothing for too long.

"We'll probably start working on the album some time in March, and I'm looking forward to hopefully spending a little bit more time on this next one and really picking songs that I like and working with producers that I like to make it all work."