Idol Sales News – Week Ending 05/10/09
Idol Related Sales Numbers after the jump (Billboard issue date 5/23/09)
Digital Downloads
7 Daughtry “No Surprise” 103,593 (NEW) Total: 103593 (NEW)
20 Kelly Clarkson “I Do Not Hook Up” 51,989 (7%; lw 48,761) Total: 179,137 (21)
38 Kelly Clarkson “My Life Would Suck Without You” 33,603 (-4%; lw 35,090) Total: 1,802,464 (34)
61 Paula Abdul “I’m Just Here for the Music” 24,615 (NEW) Total: 24,615 (NEW)
113 Daughtry “What About Now” 11,826 (224%; lw 3,654) Total: 685,111 (OFF)
137 David Cook “Come Back To Me” 9,344 (16%; lw 8,039) Total: 116,654 (160)
138 Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson “Dance Like There’s No Tomorrow” 9,279 (1214%; lw 706) Total: 373,182 (OFF)
148 Daughtry “Home” 8,707 (190%; lw 3,005) Total: 1,780,298 (OFF)
Songs Featured on Idol:
125 Aerosmith “Dream On” 10,382 (238%; lw 3,068) Total: 895,024 (OFF) – Danny
127 Styx “Renegade” 10,050 (351%; lw 2,230) Total: 484,083 (OFF) – Duet by Kris and Danny
Album Numbers – thanks Jolene
17 Kelly Clarkson “All I Ever Wanted” 23,290 (27%; lw 18,268) Total 550,236
26 Elliott Yamin “Fight For LOve” 19,877 (NEW, lw 49) Total: 20,028 (NEW)
27 Carrie Udnerwood “Carnival Ride” 19,206 (23%; lw 15,627) Total: 2,839,450
47 David Cook “David Cook” 12,068 (57%; lw 7,699) Total: 1,125,933
50 Daughtry “Daughtry” 11,630 (305%; lw 2,870) Total: 4,437,029
86 Jennifer Hudson “Jennifer Hudson” 6,668 (20%; lw 5,569) Total: 726,293
107 Kellie Pickler “Kellie Pickler” 5,299 (16%; lw 4,564) Total: 211,375
119 David Archuleta “David Archuleta” 4,994 (21%; lw 4,144) Total: 698,936
Please post numbers as you find them. Thanks!
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31 Responses to “Idol Sales News – Week Ending 05/10/09”
Yes, it’s impressive. The key today is to make a record with 2 or 3 potential radio hits and the rest of the songs don’t matter, the album is gonna sell well. I think this apply to Daughty’s debut album, it only has 2 or 3 hits and the others are so average, and despite that see the sales.
See DC’s album, all songs are good, but it doesn’t have true potential radio hits, so it’s selling good but not great.
^^ I think that’s so subjective. I don’t have Daughtry’s album but I know many people say it’s a great album overall. I do love DC’s album and think it has very few clunkers, but again, that’s just my opinion and some would disagree.
You can’t disregard the importance of singles. They’re what the world gets to hear and that’s what’s going to determine, for the most part, how many people choose to purchase the album to hear more. I do think RCA has chosen the weakest songs on the album as singles for DC, but again that’s just my opinion. I think despite that issue, the album has been selling very well and I’m satisfied with that.
I mean, some perspective is in order. Daughtry has the best selling album on the current BB 200. Comparing anyone else to him, even Taylor Swift, will make their numbers seem lackluster.
I didn’t like the Daughtry album at all. In fact overall I’d say David Cook’s album is better, certainly more enjoyable, than Daughtry’s. What the Daughtry album has however is two really good songs, and those songs sell the album. The problem with the David Cook album is that most of the songs are OK, but none of them outstanding apart from possibly one, and that one is Permanent. It’s just unfortunate that it’s a song that simply can’t be a single.
I think a lot of best-selling albums are like Daughtry’s, a couple of really good songs, the rest not-so-good. I think David Cook should make sure that his next album will have at least one really outstanding song that can work as a single, and that is what will sell his album.
^^Yay, Dave Cook’s album is timeless and I think it will be the one people remember 10 years down the road. I’ll take quantity over quality (sales) anyday.
I think Dave will get there in numbers eventually. In today’s market I would say platinum is about equal to triple platinum anyhow.
I sort of see what you’re saying, although I think Lie can be such a hit. To me, there’s a lot of bipolarity in Cook’s album, and it’s amazing to me that the finished product came out as well as it did, considering this point.
It seems to me that what they did for most of the songs was take poppy melodies and then apply one, two, or three or more coats of grunge– depending on the track– to create the final version of the song. Rob Cavallo talked about how his intent was to “split the difference” between who DC was an artist and what his Idol fans may have been accustomed to, and I see the hallmarks of that all over the record.
There’s also it seems to me a distinct effort to be “UnDaughtry”on the album. Ironically, that effort was all for naught, because most reviewers just lumped him in with Daughtry and other similar bands anyway.
It is good to see all the idols getting a bump. I don’t know how David Cook’s album will eventual do. In today’s market he is doing very well. I read somewhere that sales are down across the board 29% from 2007. So maybe the market will improve maybe not. We are operating in a different climate than two years ago.