Idol Related Sales Numbers after the jump (Billboard issue date 6/6/09)
Digital Downloads
4 Kris Allen “No Boundaries” 134,458 (NEW) Total: 134,458
5 Kris Allen “Heartless” 125,344 (NEW) Total: 125,344
7 Adam Lambert “Mad World: 114,763 (NEW) Total: 114,763
10 David Cook “Permanent” 102,595 (22310%; lw 308) Total: 126,905 (OFF)
17 Kris Allen “Ain’t No Sunshine” 72,080 (NEW) Total:72,080
30 Kelly Clarkson “I Do Not Hook Up” 50,633 (-9%; lw 55,729) Total: 285,499 (24)
32 Adam Lambert “Change is Gonna Come” 48,068 (NEW) Total: 48,068
38 Kris Allen “Apologize” 40,173 (NEW) Total:40,173
43 Adam Lambert “No Boundaries” 35,984 (NEW) Total:35,984
46 Daughtry “No Surprise” 33,684 (-51%; lw 68,774) Total: 206,051 (14)
49 Carrie Underwood “Home Sweet Home” 32,812 (184%; lw 11,571) Total: 287,846 (116)
57 Adam Lambert “One” 30,851 (NEW) Total: 30.851
72 Kris Allen “Falling Slowly” 27,087 (NEW) Total: 27,087
75 Adam Lambert “Cryin’” 24,580 (NEW) Total:24,580
84 Allison Iraheta/Adam Lambert “Slow Ride” 21,742 (NEW) Total: 21,742
87 Kris Allen “What’s Going On” 21,060 (NEW) Total: 21,060
90 David Cook “Come Back To Me” 19,188 (65%; lw 11,607) Total: 147,449 (115)
94 Kris Allen “To Make You Feel My Love” 18,525 (NEW) Total:18,525
102 Adam Lambert “The Tracks of My Tears” 17,130 (NEW) Total:17,130
107 Adam Lambert “Feeling Good” 16,178 (NEW) Total: 16,178
110 Danny Gokey “You Are So Beautiful” 15,297 (NEW) Total: 15,297
112 Adam Lambert “Ring of Fire” 14,970 (NEW) Total: 14,970
113 Adam Lambert “Whole Lotta Love” 14,454 (NEW) Total: 14,454
141 Adam Lambert “Black or White” 11,261 (NEW) Total: 11,261
145 Adam Lambert “If I Can’t Have You” 11,151 (NEW) Total: 11,151
147 Kris Allen “The Way You Look Tonight” 10,884 (NEW) Total: 10,884
148 Kris Allen/Danny Gokey “Renegade” 10,826 (NEW) Total: 10,826
155 Adam Lambert “Born to Be Wild” 10,450 (NEW) Total: 10,450
172 Kris Allen “Come Together” 9,839 (NEW) Total: 9,839
174 Danny Gokey “What Hurts the Most” 9,680 (NEW) Total: 9,680
176 David Cook “Light On” 9,509 (48%; lw 6,423) Total: 934,469
186 Adam Lambert “Play That Funky Music” 9,072 (NEW) Total: 9,072
190 Allison Iraheta “Cry Baby” 8,666 (NEW) Total: 8,666
191 Kris Allen “She Works Hard for the Money” 8,651 (NEW) Total: 8,651
Total Sold by Season 8 (out of the Top 200 – Duets not included):
Kris Allen: 468,101 (10 Songs) Top 100: 438,727 (7 songs)
Adam Lambert: 358,912 (13 songs) Top 100: 254,246 (5 songs)
Danny Gokey: 24,977 (2 songs)
Allison Iraheta: 8,666 (1 Songs)
Songs Featured on Idol:
1 Black Eyed Peas “Boom Boom Pow” 240,382 (18%; lw 204,283) Total: 2,161,388 (1) *NOW 2xPLAT* – performed by group
18 Keith Urban “Kiss A Girl” 71,575 (425%; lw 13,633) Total: 221,784 (101) – duet with Kris
35 Jason Mraz “I’m Yours” 44,327 (70%; lw 26,128) Total: 4,048,888 (62) – Group Number with Mraz
62 Pink “So What” 29,216 (91%; lw 15,330) Total: 3,354,648 (96) – Group Number
97 Michael Andrews Feat. Gary Jules “Mad World” 17,838 (234%; lw 5,343) Total: 669,196 (OFF) – performed by Adam
134 Kiss “Rock and Roll All Nite” 11,947 (259%; lw 3,327) Total: 744,984 (OFF) – Duet with Adam
143 Steve Martin “Pretty Flowers” 11,223 (NEW) Total: 11,223 (NEW) – Duet with Michael and Megan
152 Cyndi Lauper “Time After Time” 10,633 (314%; lw 2,567) Total: 633,613 (OFF) – Duet with Allison
173 Queen “We are the Champions” 9,713 (114%; lw 4,540) Total: 964,721 (OFF) – Duet with Kris and Adam and Queen
156 Fergie “Big Girls Don’t Cry” 10,407 (110%; lw 4,956) Total: 3,285,684 (OFF) – Group Number with Fergie
194 Lionel Richie “Just Go” 8,541 (769%; lw 983) Total: 15,345 (OFF) – Part of medley with Danny and Lionel
Album Numbers thanks consumedbywords
29 David Cook “David Cook” 16,719 (111%; lw 7,926) Total: 1,150,578
33 Adam Lambert “Season 8 Favorite Performances” 15,720 (NEW) 15,720
36 Ruben Studdard “Love Is” 15,213 (NEW; lw 33) Total: 15,246
40 Kelly Clarkson “All I Ever Wanted” 13,273 (-24%; lw 17,509) Total: 581,018
44 Carrie Underwood “Carnival Ride” 12,033 (-5%; lw 12,604) Total: 2,864,087
50 Kris Allen “Season 8 Favorite Performances” 10,217 (NEW) 10,217
89 Daughtry “Daughtry” 5,886 (-19%; lw 7,226) Total: 4,450,098
90 PICKLER*KELLIE KELLIE PICKLER 5,870 26 4,653 221,898
133 Elliott Yamin “Fight for Love” 3,930 (-40%; lw 6,514) Total: 30,472
134 Jennifer Hudson “Jennifer Hudson” 3,921% (-20%; lw 4,919) Total: 735,133
193 David Archuleta “David Archuleta” 2,826 (-10%; lw 3,150) Total: 704,912
Please post numbers as you find them.
So while album sales have dropped way off this year, it doesn’t look like download sales have increased much, if at all, to compensate, does it? Or is that just me.
Here are last year’s Idol closing download stats
1 David Cook à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Time of My Lifeà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 236,024 (NEW) Total: 236,024
7 David Cook à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Dream Bigà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 111,052 (NEW) Total: 111,052
9 David Cook à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“I Still Havenà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t Found What Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢m Looking Forà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 97,868 (NEW) Total: 97,868
10 Jordin Sparks à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“No Airà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 87,518 (2%; lw 85,455) Total: 1,866,343 (7)
14 David Cook à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“The World I Knowà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 79,907 (NEW) Total: 79,907
And this year, Kris comes in at #4 with about 138,000 — which is probably similar or even a smidgen lower than what the #4 download total was in the comparable week last year, extrapolating from the Idol-related numbers that we have.
Yikes. No wonder the music industry is in a tailspin. The argument that downloads are now replacing hard-copy sales doesn’t even hold water (unless you count illegal, free downloads, I suppose) — and the recession makes a difference, too, of course. But for that argument to really hold water, download sales would actually have to be up a bit, wouldn’t it?
Wonder how much farther down it can go.
Shouldnt RCA or Jive whatever Kris’s record deal is be promoting NB?
Doesn’t singing the damn song on every talk show known to man, and then singing it to about 10,000 people every night all summer long count as promotion? It’s been out less than a week, what more would you have them do? I’d rather see him get a real single out by August and let this one die anyway.
KrisAllen1 wrote:
Shouldnt RCA or Jive whatever Krisà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s record deal is be promoting NB?
Promotion today tends to mean going on the big network tv shows and singing there, doesn’t it? Early Show, Today Show, Tonight Show, etc. — so far as I can tell by who appears to sing on those shows and when, that’s about as big as promotion gets in the recording industry. And that’s what Kris is up to.
I wonder if NB is getting radio-play.I havent heard it much on the radio.I only
hear it when Kris performs it.
So I wonder if NB will go up or down with sales.I wonder if NB is the first single to ever flop on the first week.
There is no way ring of fire got only 14,000 downloads so this is just from last week
That’s just it isn’t it? Adding airplay is just an extra unfair (and easily manipulated) factor in the calculation of chart position. If a song is popular, it will sell, and that should be the only thing that counts. I can never understand how a song getting played on radio can be any kind of measure of popularity except in the very broadest and most vague term (the whole audience impression/spin number thing as any kind of absolute measure is just nonsense to me), and the whole idea that airplay should count towards any measure of popularity is to me absurd. If the airplay drives the sales of a song, then that’s fine. But if heavy airplay of a song doesn’t drives the sales of a song much, that would mean that the song is not that popular, and it would be completely wrong to use airplay to bolster the song’s chart position.
question at one point adam was selling more singles then kelly clarkson now she is at 1.83 million singles sold Adam has been this consist all year. So I Guarantee you combined he has over 3,000,000 million total singles sold
oh and of course Kris’s 2nd highest selling song is a cover of an autotone anthem from 2008 less then 1 year ago.
And isn’t the winners first single suppose to sell more then another contestants cover from during the year. A cover is a cover but the winner’s single is a song they will become known by so big deal if it sells more then any adam performance that is why it is called a single and and the term for mad world is “studio recording”. Something that is recorded in a studio to try to make more money for idol.
The only true comparison would be season total sales, which we’ll never have. Even then, it would not be fair comparison since S8 songs will be up much longer, different number of songs, etc. I guess TOML and NB too.
I never downloaded anything last year, so I still hold out (slim) hope that IDol does “albums” for all alumns at some point.
Digital sales are actually up significantly this year overall. Hard copy album sales are way down though.
This completely ignores album sales impact on single sales. I don’t think that is a fair representation of popularity. If 1M people already own the song, of course they won’t buy the single again. That is why pre-album singles tend to sell big, then the next few taper off drastically. just look at Kelly.
Jimbo i dont think the winner has to sell more than anyone else in that season.
Didnt Clay sell out Ruben? Did Daughty sell out Taylor?
Jimbo, ..im really tired today and my eyes hurt, but did you say in your post that you thought adam sold over 3 million in downloads this year? Is that what you meant? You actually think that?
Yeah, I would not be stressing over a coronation song. It really doesn’t matter to Kris’ long term prospects. It’s not even a good song! Worry about him upcoming album and first real single if anything.
Jolene May 27th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
You, me and every Cook fan there is. I was so mad that we didn’t get ‘Yo Face’, studio version to download. I’m still not over that either. TPTB=Fail
Another addition to the Hot 100
– 84 DAVID COOK COME BACK TO ME
Speaking of charts, Elliott’s Fight for Love HAS finally entered the top 50 on one radioplay chart. He’s now #49 on the Nielsen/BDS chart, which uses audience impressions (number of listeners, based on which stations are playing and when) in addition to spins to calculate. The widely used chart uses only spins, but he’s hovering right on the edge of their Top 50, too, and he is continually gaining spins — so that one, the more or less “official” radioplay top 50 is not far away!
The thing is, saying that he needs a new single doesn’t really work based on his indie status. Because he’s indie and not major, there’s very very little that his label can do to give him the initial boost. His rise depends very very very very heavily on requests — and, of course, you don’t get requests unless people have already heard the song. It’s a Catch 22. So if you miss hearing Elliott — shoot a phone call or email or text to your local Top 40 djs, and ask them to play the song! As an indie, that’s the only tool he has to get to the top. But he’s closing in!
Obviously, Elliott’s album sales are underwhelming compared to his first, I’d say the sophomore Idol slump is the biggest problem. Everybody off Idol has sold less with each successive album. Kelly Clarkson used to be the exception but that’s sadly not true anymore. So even winners with major label support aren’t immune.
Fortunately for Elliott, while US sales are poor, his album is doing fine in Japan where he has the benefit of a major label supporting him. Going indie might work right after Idol but three seasons later, it’s really tough to make it without the promo. That said, lots of good songs on the album and FFL is still showing signs of life, so I’m feeling optimistic the total sales numbers will slowly but surely grow.
Clay outsold Ruben. Daughtry outsold Taylor by a mile. Even Kellie Pickler outsold Taylor.
More Soundscan numbers:
JONES*LAKISHA 1415 … 1425 debut
DOOLITTLE*MELINDA 754 … 47813 9