Idol Sales News – Week Ending 01/06/08
Idol Related Sales Numbers after the jump (Billboard issue date 1/19/08)
Digital Download Numbers
9 Jordin Sparks “Tattoo” 106,398 (-52%; lw 219,837) Total: 966,281 (10)
41 Daughtry “Over You” 44,869 (-48%; lw 85,531) Total: 749,583 (36)
59 Carrie Underwood à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Before He Cheatsà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 34K (-34%; lw 51,434 ) Total: 2.05M (68)
73 Daughtry “Home” 29K (-36%; lw 45,861)Total: 1.26M (76)
102 Daughtry à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Ità ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s Not Overà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 23K (-39%; lw 36,871 ) Total: 1.60M (99)
84 Carrie Underwood à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“So Smallà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 54,379 (-53%; lw 54,379) Total: 510K (64) **NOW GOLD***
121 Jordin Sparks “No Air” 18,357 (-25%; lw 24,491) Total: 83,650 (157)
183 Carrie Underwood “All American Girl” 13,482 (9%; lw 12,338) Total: 50,085 (OFF)
187 Carrie Underwood “Jesus, Take the Wheel” 13K (-53%; lw 27,902) 1.15M (135)
Album Numbers
19 Carrie Underwood à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Carnivale Rideà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 30,054 (-58%; lw 71,604 ) Total: 1,724,172 (11)
26 Daughtry à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Daughtryà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 25,076 (-43%; lw 43,585) Total: 3,643,566 (28)
32 Elliott Yamin “Sounds of the Season” 22,857 (112%; lw 10,793) Total: 78,964
44 Jordin Sparks à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Jordin Sparksà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 17,697 (-52%; lw 36,481 ) Total: 424,620 (40)
74 Carrie Underwood à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Some Heartsà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 12,567 (-54%; lw 22,846) Total: 6,200,764 (65)
98 Blake Lewis à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Audio Day Dreamà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 9,120 (-54%; lw 19,842 ) Total: 239,854 (76)
Off Chart
Kelly Clarkson à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Breakawayà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 4K (lw 6K) Total: 5.93M
Kellie Pickler à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Small Town Girlà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 3.2k (lw 6K) Total: 700K
Kelly Clarkson à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“My Decemberà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 2.7K (lw 5K) Total: 740K
Elliott Yamin à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Elliott Yaminà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 2,380 (-56%; lw 5K) Total: 484,144
Bucky Covington à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Bucky Covingtonà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 1.3K (lw 2.5K) Total: 317K
Fantasia à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Fantasiaà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 872 (-35%; lw 1.3K) Total: 501,984
Bo Bice à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“See the Lightà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 800 (lw 1.5K) Total: 36K
Mandisa à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“True Beautyà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 700 (lw 1.3K) Total: 67K
Kelly Clarkson “Thankful” 700 Total 2.7M
Katharine McPhee à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Katharine McPheeà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 500 ( lw 800) Total: 366K
Clay Aiken à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ A Thousand Different Waysà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 200 (lw 400) Total: 522K
Taylor Hicks à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Taylor Hicksà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 200 (lw 400) Total: 699K
Constantine à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Constantineà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 100 (lw 300) Total: 23K
Kimberley Locke à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Based on a True Storyà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 100 (lw 200) Total: 17K
Paris Bennett à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ Princess Pà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 100 ( lw 100) Total: 20K
9.06 million albums sold this week. Down 37.5% from last week (14.51 million) and down 3.7% from the same week last year (9.41 million)
Rounded numbers from Ken Barnes at Idol Chatter
Please post numbers as you find them. Thanks!
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14 Responses to “Idol Sales News – Week Ending 01/06/08”
Elliott’s Xmas CD sold 23,000 units this week and is #32 on the BB chart. That means he sold more than Jordin and Blake (and possibly Daughtry). (The CD was on sale for 75% off but still this is pretty cool.)
Not that surprising about the Chrismass cd sales retail wants to get rid of the Chrismass merchandise and they put them on display . Customers have hose christmas gift cards to spend and they love a deal..
Yeah he did good but nowhere do not compare numbers to Daughtry not fair. I can say Josh Groban or the one store Eagles.
Wow. “Tattoo” will probably go platinum next week.
Holy Moly, Tatoo has sold close to a million copies? I never saw that coming,,, which shows you what I know about music!
I’m just guessing but I think many Xmas CDs were probably on sale last week (along with Xmas tree lights, etc.) Not sure how many made it to top 50 albums in the BB 200.
Tattoo has a strong pop appeal and Jordin’s voice is perfect. She’ll have more hits on Top 40. I just don’t know if she can sell albums. I wish her well and think the AI people are probably thrilled she won right around now.
I think Elliott did pretty good. K.T. Tunstall, whose holiday cd was on sale at Target right alongside Elliott’s and whom I would consider a much bigger name, is on the chart this week at #92. So, at the same price, she sold less.
Although only a few are setting the world on fire, a fair number of Idols, such as Elliott and Jordin, seem to be proving that they can hold their own with other prominent people in the business.
Daughtry’s numbers from RCA (per Daughtry’s official site):
Album is #26 (up from #28 last week) for the week ending 1/6/08!
25.1k sold!
3.644 million scanned to date!
http://www.daughtryofficial.com/node/54119
Ken Barnes at USA Today has the stats up. Kellie Pickler sold 3,200 to pass the 700,000 mark. Way to go Kellie!
http://blogs.usatoday.com/idolchatter/
Are the Christmas albums counted separately from the regular albums? I didn’t see any Christmas albums on the top 50 from HDD.
Elliott’s Xmas CD was a Target exclusive. Target probably didn’t give those numbers to HDD but they do to Billboard. So he hit #32 on the chart with a Xmas album that’s only sold in one chain.The album was very cheap but people still had to want to buy it.
Elliott has done very well but I think with major label support, he could be a platinum selling artist. Being indy is not easy even with a big Top 40 hit. Of course, being half owner of his label means he can’t really be “dropped.”
Isn’t it odd a Christmas CD got a sales surge after the Christmas? I mean, where were those buyers before Xmas and why are they buying them now? The magic of deep discount? I don’t understand it..
Ouch! Blake might drop off BB200 completely in 2-3 weeks. What a flop! And a jackass, if I may add. If the trend continues, he is the next one to be dropped.
Jobbix – surely you jest! OMG! How can you not understand the magic of a deep discount? I’ve bought xmas cds on sale numerous times after xmas and lots of other things too!
Got some numbers for Fantasia & Elliott:
YAMIN*ELLIOT NBC PRESENTS SOUNDS OF THE SEASON 22857 112 78964
FANTASIA FANTASIA 872 -35 501984
YAMIN*ELLIOTT ELLIOTT YAMIN 2380 484144 -56
Unrounded numbers off BB200? I’m impressed! It is hard to get leaked SoundScan numbers these days, even at the Pulse board. Do you have more?