Idol Sales News - Week Ending 03/16/08

Idol Related Sales Numbers after the jump (Billboard issue date 03/29/08)

Digital Download Numbers
3 Jordin Sparks “No Air” 110,524 (-3%; lw 114,040) Total: 706,491 (3)
21 Paula Abdul “Dance Like There’s No Tomorrow” 38,684 (13%; lw 34,104) Total: 188,925 (26)
27 Carrie Underwood “All-American Girl” 31,103 (-7%; lw 33,619) Total: 307,628 (27)
34 Jordin Sparks “Tattoo” 29,275 (-8%; lw 31,913) Total: 1,410,745 (30)
51 Daughtry “Feels Like Tonight” 21K (-5%; lw 22K ) Total: 226K (52)
106 Daughtry “Over You” 12K (-6%; lw 13K) Total: 933K (101)
135 Carrie Underwood “Before He Cheats” 10K (-28%; lw 14K) Total: 2.23M (96)
140 Daughtry “Home” 9K (-9%; lw 10K) Total: 1.39M (129)
178 Daughtry “It’s Not Over” 7.5K (-8%; lw 8K) Total: 1.70M (171)

Idol Related Downloads:
2 Leona Lewis “Bleeding Love” 120,461 (103%; lw 59,196) Total: 317,824 (12)
10 Jeff Buckley “Hallelujah” 70,551 (-60%; lw 177,824) Total: 636,324 (1)
137 Ferras “Hollywood’s Not America” 9,578 (44%; lw 6,640) Total: 36,603 (OFF)
167 Blake Lewis “How Many Words” 8K (-12%) Total: 48K (128)

Album Numbers
21 Daughtry “Daughtry” 21,092 (3%; lw 20,576) Total: 3,883,004 (23)
32 Jordin Sparks “Jordin Sparks” 17,584 (8%; lw 16,264) Total: 571,973 (34)
33 Carrie Underwood “Carnival Ride” 17,228 (4%; lw 16,525) Total: 1,925,387 (33)
50 Randy Jackson “Vol.1 - Randy Jackson’s Music Club) 12,901 (999%; lw 13) Total: 12,914 (NEW)
57 Carrie Underwood “Some Hearts” 11,836 (3%; lw 11,494) Total: 6,326,809 (58)
166 Blake Lewis “Audio Day Dream” 4,288 (-9%; lw 4,719) Total: 277,867 (154)

Off Chart
Kelly Clarkson “Breakaway” 3K (lw 3.1K) Total: 5.97M
Kellie Pickler “Small Town Girl” 2.4K (lw 2.6K) Total: 720K
Bucky Covington “Bucky Covington” 1.4K (lw 1.3K) Total: 331K
Kelly Clarkson “My December” 1.3K (lw 1.2K) Total: 757K
Elliott Yamin “Elliott Yamin” 1188 (8%; lw 1.1K) Total: 499,039
Fantasia “Fantasia” 569 ( -4%;lw 600) Total: 509,543
Mandisa “True Beauty” 600 (lw 700) Total: 74K
Bo Bice “See the Light” 500 (lw 500) Total: 42K
Katharine McPhee “Katharine McPhee” 500 ( lw 200) Total: 369K
Clay Aiken ”A Thousand Different Ways” 300 (lw 100) Total: 524K
Ruben Studdard “The Return” 100 Total: 237K
Constantine “Constantine” 100 (lw 100) Total: 25K
Taylor Hicks “Taylor Hicks” 100 (lw 100) Total: 701K
Kimberley Locke “Based on a True Story” 100 (lw 100) Total: 18K
Paris Bennett ”Princess P” 100 Total: 21K

Idol Related Albums
Beatles 1 9,000 (70% lw 5,000)
Beatles Love 6000 (57%) (jumped from 190 to 191 on the download album chart)

From Billboard:
• Album units, current chart week: 7.94 million units
• UP 3.4% from last issue’s charts: 7.68 million units
• DOWN 6.6% from same week, 2007: 8.50 million units

Total Sales in the BB200: 2,548,098
Previous week: 2,177,548
Total this year: 128,775,196

Rounded numbers from Ken Barnes on Idol Chatter.

Please post numbers as you find them. Thanks.


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10 Responses to “Idol Sales News - Week Ending 03/16/08”


  1. 1 beachn Mar 19th, 2008 at 10:10 am

    Any numbers for Katharine after last week’s appearance ??

  2. 2 Kirsten Mar 19th, 2008 at 10:52 am

    Any numbers for Katharine after last week’s appearance ??

    We’ll probably get some numbers from her this afternoon when Ken posts them on Idol Chatter. We only have the download stats for now and she didn’t sing a song on the show that she had previously recorded for iTunes. She’ll likely get a boost on album sales.

  3. 3 gabam Mar 19th, 2008 at 4:05 pm

    Considering that the CDs of all AI Alums have been on sale for $7.99 for the last few weeks, Ken’s charts will probably show nice jumps for most of the Idols’ CDs. Great promo for all of them.

  4. 4 purplesmile Mar 19th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
  5. 5 purplesmile Mar 19th, 2008 at 4:34 pm

    Any numbers for Katharine after last week’s appearance ??

    We’ll probably get some numbers from her this afternoon when Ken posts them on Idol Chatter. We only have the download stats for now and she didn’t sing a song on the show that she had previously recorded for iTunes. She’ll likely get a boost on album sales.

    Katharine: 500; 200; 369,000. (Slight boost from Idol appearance last Wednesday.)

  6. 6 Tony Mar 19th, 2008 at 4:49 pm

    Billboard 200 Idol sales include this week’s sales and last week’s sales.

    21 DAUGHTRY DAUGHTRY 21,092 3 20,576 3,883,004
    32 SPARKS*JORDIN JORDIN SPARKS 17,584 8 16,264 571,973
    33 UNDERWOOD*CARRIE CARNIVAL RIDE 17,228 4 16,525 1,925,387
    50 JACKSON*RANDY VOL. 1-RANDY JACKSON’S MUSIC C 12,901 999 13 12,914
    57 UNDERWOOD*CARRIE SOME HEARTS 11,836 3 11,494 6,326,809
    166 LEWIS*BLAKE AUDIO DAY DREAM 4,288 -9 4,719 277,867

    YAMIN*ELLIOTT ELLIOTT YAMIN 1188 8 499039
    FANTASIA FANTASIA 569 -4 509543

    Sorry, couldn’t find any SoundScan numbers for Katharine.

  7. 7 gabam Mar 19th, 2008 at 5:09 pm

    Darn, I thought the iTunes sale would cause a large increase in sales for the Idols. Wrong again. *sigh*

    Kat’s appearance on the show increased her sales by 300 from the previous week. I wonder if the iTunes sale helped with that increase too.

  8. 8 jpfan Mar 19th, 2008 at 5:29 pm

    Next week will be the one year anniversary of Elliott’s album so very cool that it will hit 500K that same week.

  9. 9 Tony Mar 19th, 2008 at 5:57 pm

    Yeah. A 500K anniversary is pretty nice. He’s come so far since Idol.

  10. 10 ealbino Mar 19th, 2008 at 8:18 pm

    Yay…Thanks for the numbers Tony. :clap_tb:

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