Idol Record News
- You can hear 40 second song-snippets of all the songs on Carrie Underwood’s upcoming album “Carnival Ride” here. However, if you are patient and can sit through songs by other artists, Slacker.com is streaming full songs on their Carrie Radio station. Type “Carrie Underwood” in the search box, then play. I’m listening to a song called “Crazy Dreams” right now…Also *ahem* these songs can all be found as downloads on the internet…somewhere… Or, so I hear. PS I like “Twisted”.
- Blake Lewis has a website with a phone number. Call, and you get a recorded message from Blake. After, you can leave your own message. Fans can hear the single at this phone number as soon as it’s ready. I got a message back on my cell phone, so I’m assuming they’ll be sending out messages as soon as the single is available. No, I did not leave a message. Heh.
- Not record news, but worth mentioning: Melinda Doolittle will be taping a PBS Christmas special in November at her Alma Mater, Belmont University. The program will air on December 20th on the Nashville PBS station, and December 24th across the country. Yay, Melinda!
This week’s Idol Billboard Update
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- Idols are still sliding on the Billboard 200–except for Daughtry. ”Daughtry” jumped a few spots, from 41-38. Carrie Underwood’s “Some Hearts” dropped from 75-89 (She’ll be back on top soon enough when “Carnival Ride” drops on the 23rd). Kelly Clarkson’s “My December” drops from 99-124 and “Elliott Yamin” drops from 122 to 155.
- Jordin Sparks’ “Tattoo” and Daughtry’s “Over You” continue to climb the charts. They climbed 58-56 and 31-25 on the Hot 100, respectively. “Tattoo” hung steady on the “Hot Digital Songs” chart, selling 32,826 more copies this week–only a 3% decrease from her first week. Not bad.
- Carrie Underwood’s “So Small” continues to do well on the country charts. It’s in the Top 10, at #8, on the Hot Country Songs chart. But, it’s struggling a little on the Hot 100 and Pop Charts. It dropped from 49-51 on the Hot 100, 65-84 on the Pop 100 and 52-69 on the Hot Digital Songs chart. Good news: It’s airplay has increased. It climbed from 44-41 on the Hot 100 Airplay chart.
- Elliott Yamin’s single “Wait For You” has peaked on the pop charts, but it’s rising on the AC and Dance charts. The single climbed from 10-8 on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart (making it this week’s Greatest Gainer), from 26-20 on the Hot Dance Club play chart and 25-21 on the Hot Dance Airplay chart.
- Fantasia’s duet with Aretha Franklin, “Put You Up On Game” is #1 on the Bubbling Under R&B/Hip Hop Singles chart. Next week, it could break through to the R&B singles and airplay charts.
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Those brief clips from Carrie are making me wish I had her CD already. Looks like this will be another homerun for her! Go Carrie!
LMAO I’ve been playing around with that slacker.com site all morning. I’ve heard Twisted, Crazy Dreams, Flat On The Floor, I Know You Won’t, I Told You So, and Just A Dream. I really like Twisted too. :)
ETA: oh I just got You Won’t Find This. Pretty!
Except for Kelly’s Breakaway, every follow up Idol album has performed significantly less than the preceeding one. Kelly’s My December put her back on track. It’ll be interesting to see if the trend continues for Carrie (and Bo for that matter).
I think Carrie did so well because she basically won everything she was nominated for, and that’s makes for some great promotion. I think she has set a decent pace for her next album and will probably do pretty well. I don’t think she’ll get anywhere near 6 million, though.
MJ, I think you have Kat’s download number incorrect. According to Ken Slone’s column, she sold 1900 downloads, not 19K.
I posted this on the main thread but it probably belongs here. Elliott’s album was certified gold on 10/12/07. No official PR release from his label yet.
I doubt Carrie’s new album will come near the first one in sales. It doesn’t seem cross over enough from what I’ve heard so far.
“I doubt Carrie’s new album will come near the first one in sales. It doesn’t seem cross over enough from what I’ve heard so far.”
SH went 4-5x platinum on the strength of the country side of the album. 4 singles went to the top of the country charts before BHC exploded on pop radio to take SH to 5-6x platinum. None were from the more pop side, Diane Warren ballads. The title track got a brief pop push from the label, but JTTW’s rise to tie the 2nd most successful chart position for a solo female country artist ever ended the bigger cross over approach. BHC crossed over as is–w/o taking the country instrumentation and twang out of the song as Carrie insisted. So Carrie’s brand of country sells.
It’ll be difficult to sell 6M again and 1M or so of the 6M would require another song to star on top 40 radio. Downloads have hurt sales overall and the biggest CDs in 2006-2007 top out near 3M sales. Nevertheless, I would expect CR to sell at least 3-4M unless Carrie
. You’re not going to see a Gretchen Wilson or Kelly December slide from multi-platinum to platinum or less. Carrie is too talented, the album is supposed to be great and has the producers and writers behind her to ensure that, she knows her genre and fans, and Joe Galante is too big of a business mastermind–with a promotional barrage upcoming as testament–for the album to fail. It will be one if not the biggest albums of the year and will continue to sell and have hits for years just like its precursor.
turns into Britney or Paris overnight