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Idol Bits and Pieces - Kellie Pickler Performs on Idol This Wednesday

Published by mj March 18th, 2008 in American Idol, Kellie Pickler, Kimberley Locke and The Clark Brothers. 15 Comments

The Idol folks are wisely bringing back former Idols to perform on the big stage during the Results show this season. This Wednesday’s Top 11 Results Show will feature Kellie Pickler. Next week for the Top 10, Season 2’s Kimberley Locke returns to perform her new single “Fall”.

Check your DVRs! The big Idol Gives Back special on Wednesday April 9th, will run for 2 1/2 hours and will begin 30 minutes before prime-time, at 7:30 ET. Better to disrupt Simpson’s reruns than the FOX affiliates newscasts at 10 pm, I suppose.

Speaking of Idol Gives Back, The Clark Brothers, the winners of last Fall’s Next Great American Band, are scheduled to perform for the big fundraiser. What? You say you didn’t watch Next Great American Band? You and 99.9% of the population. The better the surprise will be, then. The Clark Brothers are incredible singer/musicians. I’m happy that they will finally be exposed to a big audience. Folks will be blown away.

I’ve been hearing that Austin Clark will be on hand for this week’s performance show. He’ll be playing dobro for one of the contestants. Watch for that!

ETA: Tonight’s show is another 2-hour extravaganza. Next week, the performance show cuts back to 90 minutes.

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Idol Billboard Update for Issue 3/22/08

Published by mj March 15th, 2008 in American Idol, Charts, Carrie Underwood, Kimberley Locke, Jordin Sparks, Blake Lewis and Jason Castro. 21 Comments

Check it out! This week’s Idol Billboard Update.

The Highlights:

Audio Day Dream, Blake Lewis, re-enters the Billboard 200 on the strength of his appearance on the American Idol Top 16 results show. He debuted his new single, “How Many Words”. ADD had a 135% increase this week, moving 4,719 units this week for a total of 273,579.
“Bleeding Love”, Leona Lewis (she’s Simon Cowell’s protege from X Factor) debuts on the Hot 100 Airplay chart at #66. It jumps from #41-#21 on the Hot 100, and debuts on the Rythmic Top 40 chart at #39.
“Fall” is Kimberley Locke’s new single. It debuts on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart at #29.
“No Air”, Jordin Sparks w/ Chris Brown debuts on the Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs and Airplay charts at 374. This is Jordin’s first appearance on the R&B charts. Chris Brown, has had serveral R&B chart hits.
“All-American Girl”, Carrie Underwood, debuts on the Hot Canadian Digital Singles chart at #75. It tops the Hot Country Songs chart at #1 for the 2nd week in a row.
“Hollywood’s Not America” the Idol boot song by Ferras debuts on the Pop 100 at #71, the Pop 100 Airplay at #48 and sits at #18 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart. Hopefully, we’ll see the Top 12 boot song, “Celebrate Me Home” sung by Ruben Studdard chart next week.
Jason Castro’s performance of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” Top 16 week, has rocketed Jeff Buckley’s version of the the song to the top of the Hot Digital Songs chart. The song sold a whopping 177,824 downloads this week for a total of 565,773. 31% of Jeff Buckley’s “Hallelujah” downloads that ever sold were sold in the past week. Wow.

Click the links to purchase at iTunes…

Sales numbers compiled by Kirsten.

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Idol Billboard Update for Issue 12/01/07

Billboard Update for Issue 01/05/08

Published by mj December 29th, 2007 in American Idol, Charts, Chris Daughtry, Carrie Underwood, Kimberley Locke, Mandisa, Jordin Sparks and Blake Lewis. 9 Comments

Here it is, the very first Idol Billboard Update for 2008. Yippee!

Highlights:

According to Billboard, only 3 artists in the Top 50 posted fewer sales this week. One of them was Blake Lewis’s “Audio Day Dream” which sold 55k, -4% from last week. His total so far is 211K. Carrie Undewood’s “Carnival Ride” increased 57%, selling 216K for a total of 1.63M. And, Daughtry’s sales jumped a whopping 80% this week. “Daughtry” sold 107K for a total of 3.58M.
Jordin Spark’s “Tattoo” hangs in on the Billboard Hot 100 at #8, while her new single, “No Air” w/ Chris Brown, climbs from #14 to #4 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart.
Carrie Underwood’s new single “All-American Girl” enters the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles Chart at #19. It climbs from #28 to #22 on the Hot Country Songs chart. Her Christmas song, “Do You Hear What I Hear” enters the Hot 100 at #90.
Mandisa has the #1 and #2 and #2 and #3 songs on the Hot Christian Adult Contemporary Tracks and Hot Christian Songs Chart respectively. The songs are “Christmas Day” w/ Michael W. Smith and “Christmas Makes Me Cry” w/ Matthew West.
Kimberley Locke’s “Band of Gold” sits at #3 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart.

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Idols Holiday Redux - Kimberley Locke and Clay Aiken on the Megan Mullally Show

Published by mj December 21st, 2007 in American Idol, Video, Kimberley Locke and Clay Aiken. 2 Comments

Megan Mullally from Will and Grace had a daytime talkshow for about 2 minutes. Last year, both Kimberley Locke and Clay Aiken made appearances around the holidays to sing Christmas tunes:

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Idol Billboard Update for Issue 12/15/07

Published by mj December 8th, 2007 in American Idol, Charts, Elliott Yamin, Carrie Underwood, Kellie Pickler, Kimberley Locke, Mandisa, Chris Sligh and Jordin Sparks. 3 Comments

Here is this week’s Idol Billboard Chart

Highlights:

Kimberley Lock’s Christmas tune, “Frosty the Snowman”, shoots up to the #1 position on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart this week. This is the third year in a row Kim has had a seasonal hit on the adult contemporary chart. The dance club mix of “Band of Gold” is #5 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart.
Jordin Sparks drops down the Billboard 200–from 10-18. She sold 51,084 albums this week for a total of 170,336. Her single “Tattoo” is still inching it’s way up the charts. It’s on the verge of entering the Billboard Hot 100 Top 10, at #11 this week. What will probably be her next single, “No Air” with Chris Brown, has entered the Pop 100 at #97. If her singles continue to do well, the album could continue to sell at a steady pace.
Carrie Underwood’s “Carnival Ride” drops a couple of notches, from 7-9. The album sold 89,313 this week for a total of 1,162,350. Expect that little black triangle to show up next to “Carnival Ride” any time now… While her single “So Small” sits at #1, again, on the Hot Country Songs chart, her next single, “All American Girl” enters the chart at #58.
Kellie Pickler’s “Small Town Girl” re-enters the Billboard 200 at #186. She sold 5,035 albums this week for a total of 664,633.
More Idol Christmas music on the charts: Elliott Yamin’s “This Christmas” debuts at #28 on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart. Mandisa’s duet with Michael W. Smith, “Christmas Day” debuts at #26 on the same chart. Mandisa has another Christmas duet, with Matthew West called “Christmas Makes Me Cry”. It debuts on The Hot Christian Adult Contemporary and Hot Christian Songs charts at #18 and #24 respectively.

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Idol Billboard Update for Issue 12/01/07

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Published by mj December 1st, 2007 in American Idol, Charts, Elliott Yamin, Chris Daughtry, Bo Bice, Carrie Underwood, Kellie Pickler, Kimberley Locke, Mandisa and Jordin Sparks. 4 Comments

This week’s Idol Billboard Update.

The Highlights:

Jordin Spark’s album debut’s at #10 on the Billboard 200. She sold 119,119 albums this week. Her numbers are the lowest first week numbers of all the Idol winners.
Jordin Spark’s single “Tattoo” continues to climb the charts: Billboard Hot 100, 16-12; Hot 100 Airplay, 29-27; Pop 100, 13-8, Pop 100 Airplay, 11-10; Hot Adult Top 40, 26-24; Canadian Hot 100, 74-30, Hot Canadian Digital Singles, 72-15; Hot Digital Tracks, 11-8; Hot Digital Songs, 12-8. “Tattoo” sold 77,247 this week, a 55% increase from last week. Total: 372,198.
Daughtry’s single, “Over You” has passed the 500,000 mark. It sold 33,622 digital copies this week for a Total of 526,009.
Now that Billboard is permitting albums with exclusive retail deals to appear on the Billboard 200, The Target-only “The Elliott Yamin Holiday Collection” is able to debut on the Billboard 200 at #170. It debuts at #15 on the Top Independent Albums Chart.
Carrie Underwood’s single “Before He Cheats” finally falls off the Billboard Hot 100 after 64 weeks on the chart. It’s the 3rd longest running song on the Billboard Hot 100 of all time.
Idol Christmas music debuts: Michael W. Smith and Mandisa’s “Christmas Day” debuts on the Hot Christian Adult Contemporary Chart at #24. Kellie Pickler’s “Santa Baby” debuts on the Hot Country Songs chart at #49. Carrie Underwood’s “Do You Hear What I Hear” debut on the same chart at #53. On the Hot Adult Contemporary Chart, “Do You Hear What I Hear” climbs from 29-13. Kimberley Locke’s “Frosty the Snowman” climbs from 22-10.
Bo Bice’s video for “Witness” is #1 again on this week’s VH1 Top 20 Countdown.

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Idol Appearances for the Week 11/25/07 - 12/01/07

Published by mj November 25th, 2007 in American Idol, Elliott Yamin, Carrie Underwood, Kimberley Locke, Melinda Doolittle, Jordin Sparks, Clay Aiken and Appearances. 2 Comments

Don’t Miss…

Wednesday, 11/28 - Kellie Pickler appears on Live with Regis and Kelly. Carrie Underwood performs at the tree lighting ceremony in Rockefeller Center in NYC, carried live by NBC. 7-9 pm.

Thursday, 11/29 - Jordin Sparks appears on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Elliott Yamin appears on the Montel Williams Show.

Saturday, 12/1 - Jordin Sparks appears on TeenNick

Idols on Tour

Three Christmas tours begin this week…

Monday, 11/26

Dave Koz and friends Christmas Tour, featuring Kimberley Locke opens in Baltimore, MD.
Clay Aiken’s Christmas in the Heartland tour opens at the Central Christian Church in Wichita, KS.

Thursday, 11/29

Michael W. Smith’s annual Christmas tour begins, with special guest star, Melinda Doolittle.

More Concert Dates After The Jump…

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Jordin Sparks Album Clips and Other Odds and Ends

Published by mj November 13th, 2007 in American Idol, Record News, Elliott Yamin, Bucky Covington, Bo Bice, Carrie Underwood, Kellie Pickler, Kimberley Locke, Josh Gracin, Mandisa, Chris Sligh, Melinda Doolittle, Jordin Sparks and Phil Stacey. 22 Comments

Hear a preview of Jordin Sparks’ upcoming album in 30 second sound clips here. I’ll reserve judgement until I hear the full album.

Kimberley Locke’s new Christmas album is available on iTunes. I love Christmas music. I have to drop by Target sometime to pick up Elliott Yamin’s Christmas EP…

Mandisa just posted a blog on her My Space

Mandisa is featured in the latest edition of People magazine! The article titled, “Idols Down Home,” features an interview with Mandisa and a few other of her Idol pals, who have moved to Nashville since the show.

Here is a list: Mandisa, Josh Gracin, Carrie Underwood, Bo Bice, Bucky Covington, Kellie Pickler, Chris Sligh, Phil Stacey. Melinda Doolittle already called Nashville home…

Am I missing anyone?

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Billboard Update for Issue 10/27/07

Published by mj October 21st, 2007 in American Idol, Charts, Elliott Yamin, Chris Daughtry, Carrie Underwood, Kimberley Locke and Fantasia. 5 Comments

Check out your Billboard Update RIGHT HERE!

Highlights

Congratulations to Elliott Yamin! His debut CD “Elliott Yamin” has officially gone GOLD. Note the lovely little gold circle next to his name on the album charts!
It’s another week of sliding numbers for the Idols on the Billboard 200, except for Daughtry, which stayed about the same–selling close to 20K this week.
In anticipation for Carrie Underwood’s new album “Carnival Ride” dropping on Tuesday, her single “So Small” climbs from #8 to #5 on the Hot Country Songs chart, and #51 to #36 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Fantasia’s duet with Aretha Franklin, “Put You Up on Game” hits the R&B charts this week. It debuts at #70 on the Hot R&B Hip Hop songs and airplay charts. It climbs from #23 to #19 on the Hot Adult R&B Airplay chart.
Kimberly Locke’s “Band of Gold” climbs from #18 to #13 on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart, giving it Billboard’s “Airpower” designation this week.

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This Week’s Idol Appearances

Published by mj September 9th, 2007 in American Idol, Jennifer Hudson, Elliott Yamin, Chris Daughtry, Jon Peter Lewis, Taylor Hicks, Carrie Underwood, Kimberley Locke, Kelly Clarkson, Diana DeGarmo and George Huff. 17 Comments

ETA: By popular demand (chat peeps!) watch Britney Spears sleep-walk through her VMA performance…

I thought I’d devote a post to upcoming Idol appearances that I lovingly gather in one place right here. If I’ve missed something, shoot me an email at mjsbigblog@gmail.com.

The MTV Video Music Awards are on TONIGHT, and I don’t know about you, but I’m tuning in for the Brit-brit crash-and-burn that promises to open the show. Heh. Idols will be there, supporting the Britney side show. Jennifer Hudson presents an award, while both Daughtry and Carrie Underwood are nominated for awards. Tune in tonight at 9 pm EDT on MTV.
Monday, Kimberley Locke performs at the 16th Annual Ella Awards honoring Gladys Knight in Beverly Hills.
Chris Daughtry and his band Daughtry have some TV appearances this week: On Wednesday they appear on the CBS Early Show and then later that night on the Late Show with David Letterman. On Thursday, they appear on Live with Regis and Kelly. Get your DVRs ready!
Opening Thursday: Jon Peter Lewis plays Jesus in the Redlands Civic Light Opera production of the musical “Godspell”. (The production answers the hypothetical question: What if Jesus were a Hobbit? Heh.)
Friday, Diana DeGarmo appears at the Otis Redding Tribute in Macon, GA 8 pm.
Saturday, Kimberley Locke appears at the Savannah Pride celebration in Savannah, GA. George Huff appears at the Brilliant Embers Fall 2007 Concert in Anaheim, CA. 5:30 pm. (that’s quite the juxtaposition…) Elliott Yamin appears in London, UK on behalf of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Kelly Clarkson appears on a repeat of the CMT special CMT Crossroads: Kelly Clarkson and Reba McEntire. 3 pm and 11 pm. Finally, Taylor Hicks performs during halftime with the Auburn University Marching band at the Auburn-Miss football game at Auburn University. Taylor attended Auburn before he quit to pursue a music career full time.

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Billboard Update: Issue 9/15/07

Published by mj September 9th, 2007 in American Idol, Charts, Record News, Bo Bice, Carrie Underwood, Kimberley Locke and Jordin Sparks. 1 Comment

Here is this week’s Idol Billboard Update. Just for You!

Highlights:

Jordin Sparks’ debut single off her forthcoming album (due to be released November 20), “Tattoo” debuts on the Pop 100 at #88 and the Pop 100 Airplay at #48.
Carrie Underwood’s new single “So Small” shoots up the Billboard 100 from #93 to #17, thanks to the digital single being released on iTunes last week. Some interesting information via Fred Bronson’s Billboard Chartbeat column: “One effect of Garth Brooks’ receiving so much airplay this week is that other artists received fewer spins than they would have if radio wasn’t devoting so much time to “More Than a Memory.” That helps explain why Carrie Underwood’s “So Small” (Arista) dips 11-13 in its fifth chart week on Hot Country Songs. The track should rebound, but meanwhile the availability of a digital single sends “So Small” soaring up the Hot 100, with a move of 93-17. That’s the second biggest jump on this chart in 2007, topped only by the 94-3 rocket ride of Beyonce and Shakira’s “Beautiful Liar” the week of April 7.” “So Small” debuts on the Pop 100 at #23, and the Hot Digital Songs at #6.
Kimberley Locke’s “Band of Gold” moves up from #20 to #19 on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart. She’ll be featured on the Dave Koz and friends Christmas Tour starting on November 26 in Baltimore MD.
Not on the chart–YET: From Bo Bice’s My Space, “Bo Bice’s new record “See the Light”, due out October 23 as the first release from his newly formed $ugarmoney/StratArt Records, teamed Bo up with producer Frank Liddell. The result is a fresh and soulful take on Bo’s Southern Rock roots; it’s the album he was born to make!”

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Published by mj August 26th, 2007 in American Idol, Charts, Taylor Hicks, Carrie Underwood, Kimberley Locke, Fantasia, Chris Richardson, Paris Bennett and Constantine Maroulis. 14 Comments

Here’s this week’s and last week’s Idols Billboard Chart for you all.

Highlights:

Constantine Maroulis debuted on the Billboard Chart at #75 last week, and then dropped to #198 this week. Unless his musical appearance on the big Bold and the Beautiful Boldface Challenge has some effect on sales this week. So far, he’s sold 12,973 units so far.
Daughtry’s new single “Over You” debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 last week at #94. It moves up to #75 this week, and is #39 on the Pop 100 and #25 on the Pop 100 Airplay.
This week, Kimberley Locke debuts a new song on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart. “Band of Gold” enters the chart at #22.
Taylor Hicks’ “Heaven Knows” reaches its highest chart position on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart this week at #19.
Fantasia has a new single, “Only One U” and it debuted on the Hot Adult R&B Tracks and Airplay chat last week at #76 and #75 respectively. It debuted on the Hot Adult R&B Airplay at #35. This week it moves up the charts at #58, #58 and #30.
Carrie Underwood’s new single “So Small” from her upcoming album debuts on the Billboard Hot 100 this week at #98. She moves from #17 to #15 on the Hot Country Songs chart. She also debuts this week on the Canadian Hot 100 at #14.
“Forever Cool” the latest CD in the celebrity-duets-with-a-dead-guy genre–that would be Dean Martin–debuts at #39 on the Billboard 200 this week. Paris Bennett “duets” with Dean on one cut, “Baby-O” and you can listen to it here. She sounds fantastic, but I can’t get passed the whole singing-with-a-dead-guy thing…

I spent today updating my Idol Appearances page. If you know of an Idol appearance and would like to add it, email me at mjsbigblog@gmail.com. Thanks.

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Billboard Update 07/07/07

Published by mj June 29th, 2007 in American Idol, Charts, Elliott Yamin, Chris Daughtry, Kimberley Locke, Fantasia and Mandisa. 9 Comments

This week’s Idol Billboard Update right here. Play along.

The Highlights:

The highest charting Idol on the Billboard 200 this week is Daughtry at #17. All the Idols on the Billboard 200 took a hit this week. Daughtry’s sales numbers decreased 33% from last week.
Fantasia is the first Idol to reach #1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. “When I See U” is the 128th #1 for the American Idol franchise.
Elliott Yamin’s “Wait For You” from his self-titled debut is a bonafide hit, and it continues to climb the charts this week: From #28 to #25 on the Billboard Hot 100, #45 to #33 on the Hot 100 Airplay, from #16 to #14 on the Pop 100, it stays steady at #12 on the Pop 100 Airplay, from #40 to #39 on the Hot Adult Top 40, from #24 to #21 on the Hot Digital Tracks and from #29 to #24 on the Hot Digital Songs. WHEW.
Mandisa’s single, “Only The World, keeps it’s #1 position on the Singles Sales chart for the 3rd week in a row.
Daughtry’s “Home” keeps its #1 position for the 4th week on the Hot Adult Top 40 chart.
Kimberley Locke’s “Change” climbs to the #6 spot on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart. Unfortunately, the album “Based on a True Story” has sold only 12,000 units.

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Billboard Update 05/19/07

Published by mj May 12th, 2007 in American Idol, Charts, Jennifer Hudson, Elliott Yamin, Bucky Covington, Carrie Underwood, Kimberley Locke, Fantasia and Kelly Clarkson. 9 Comments

This week’s Idol Billboard update–right here.

The Highlights:

Kimberly Locke’s new album “Based on a True Story” debut’s on the Billboard 200 this week at #160. Not so great considering her single, “Change” is #10 on the Hot Adult Contemporary Songs chart. She sold 4,842 units this week.
The soundtrack to Dreamgirls, featuring Jennifer Hudson jumped from #125 to #44 on the Billboard 200 this week. It also jumped from #42 to #15 on the Top R7B Albums chart, and from #5 to #3 on the Top Soundtracks chart. The movie Dreamgirls was recently released on DVD.
Fantasia’s single, “When I See U” continues to climb up the chart: From #75 to #69 on the Billboard Hot 100, from #48 to #42 on the Hot 100 airplay, from #14 to #13 on the Hot R&B Singles & Tracks and Airplay charts and from #10 to #9 on the Hot Adult R&B Airplay chart.
Bucky Covington’s single, “A Different World” is #19 on the Hot Singles and Tracks chart, making it a Top 20 country hit.
Another Season 5 contestant, Elliott Yamin’s single “Wait for You” re-enters the Billboard Hot 100 at #100. It climbs from #68 to #60 on the Pop 100 chart, and from #35 to #33 on the Pop 100 Airplay chart. His appearance on the Final 3 results show Wednesday should give Elliott a nice spike for both his album and single.
I didn’t mention it last week, but Carrie Underwood’s, “I’ll Stand By You” from the Idol Gives Back show is the first iTunes exclusive track to debut on the Billboard 100. It debuted at #6 last week and hangs on to the #6 position this week.
Talking about spikes, Kelly Clarkson is scheduled to perform on the big finale next week. I’m sure she’ll sing her single, “Never Again”–her appearance should reverse the bit of ground the single lost on the charts this week. Also, there is good news for peeps waiting for her album “My December” to drop. The release date has been moved from July to June 26…
The big Idol winner this week is not an Idol. Bon Jovi has multiple tracks on the charts this week after their appearance on Idol last week. “Wanted Dead or Alive,” “You Give Love a Bad Name,” “Livin’ on a Prayer,” “Blaze of Glory,” “It’s My Life” and “This Ain’t a Love Song” all entered the Hot Digital Songs chart. “You Give Love a Bad Name,” “Livin’ on a Prayer” and “Blaze of Glory,” entered the Hot Digital Tracks chart. Bon Jovi’s “Have a Nice Day” reentered the Hot Digital Songs and Hot Digital Tracks charts at #46 and #47 respectively. Finally, the album “Have a Nice Day” re-entered the Billboard 200 at #113. Whew.

For more chart information, check out Donna Reynolds’ chart watch on FoxesonIdols.com. And for more number-crunching goodness, check out USA Today’s Idol Chatter blog. Ken Barnes has access to Soundscan numbers, and breaks all the chart numbers down once a week.

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Happy Kimberley Locke Day!

Published by mj May 1st, 2007 in American Idol, Record News and Kimberley Locke. 3 Comments

Kimberley Locke’s second album “Based on a True Story” drops today. Her single, “Change” is currently #12 on the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart. The song goes for adds on pop radio stations May 7th.

On Tuesday, Kimberley will be at the Border’s Book store in Hollywood for an in-store appearance. She’s appearing on the Tyra Banks show, May 3. She’s currently appearing on VH1’s Celebrity Fit Club. And, she’s a spokesperson for Jenny Craig.

For more information on Kimberley’s upcoming appearances and to listen to tracks from her album, check out Kimberley’s My Space.

You can listen to “Based on a True Story” in its entirety at AOL.

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Billboard Update 4/28/07

Published by mj April 21st, 2007 in American Idol, Charts, Record News, Elliott Yamin, Katharine McPhee, Chris Daughtry, Bucky Covington, Carrie Underwood, Kellie Pickler, Ruben Studdard, Kimberley Locke, Fantasia and Mandisa. 1 Comment

Here it is. YOUR giant Idols Billboard Update!

The Highlights:

All the Idols on the Billboard 200 took a sales hit according to their Soundscan numbers–Daughtry is down -44.9% from the previous week, Carrie Underwood, -33.3%, Elliott Yamin, -46.4%, Katharine McPhee, -35.7%, Kellie Pickler, -27.5% and Fantasia -22.0%.
According to Hits Daily Double “The market was off almost 24% vs. the comparatively robust Easter weekend, down almost 32% vs. same week last year and now down nearly 17% in what has been a sobering year-to-date for the beleaguered biz.”
Daughtry’s ”Home”–this year’s Idol boot theme- makes it’s first appearance on the Hot 100 Airplay at #68. It’s also climbing other charts–from #43 to #31 on the Billboard Hot 100, from #32 to #22 on the Pop 100, from #37 to #28 on the Pop 100 Airplay and from #30 to #22 on the Hot Adult Top 40. “It’s Not Over” remains in the #1 position on the Hot Adult Top 40.
Fantasia’s new single, “When I See U” continues to climb the charts, from #20 to #17 on the Hot R&B Hip-Hop Singles and Tracks Chart. Ditto Ruben Studdard’s single, Make Ya Feel Beautiful, from #44 to #33. On the Hot Adult R&B Airplay, Fantasia’s single climbed from #20 to #17 and Ruben’s from #44 to #33.
Kimberly Locke’s single “Change” inches closer to the Top Ten on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart. It now sits at #11. Her album, “Based on a True Story” is set to be released May 1.
Carrie Underwood’s single, “Wasted” is again the #1 tune on the Hot Country Singles and Tracks chart.
Bucky Covington’s single, “A Different World” is # 24 this week. Hits Daily Double predicts the first week sales for Bucky’s debut album, released last week, at 60K. They predict he’ll be in the Top 10, or possibly even the Top 5 next week in the site’s weekly sales rankings. Watch Bucky perform songs from his new album at the AT&T Blue Room.
Look for Mandisa to hit the charts soon. She’ll be releasing a single “Only One World” to radio May 11, and the CD Single edition drops on May 22. Her album is set to be released on July 31.

For more chart news, check out Donna Reynolds Chart Watch on foxesonidol.com.

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