Idol Related Sales Numbers after the jump (Billboard issue date 06/07/08)
LOTS and LOTS of Download numbers….
Digital Download Numbers
1 David Cook “Time of My Life” 236,024 (NEW) Total: 236,024
7 David Cook “Dream Big” 111,052 (NEW) Total: 111,052
9 David Cook “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” 97,868 (NEW) Total: 97,868
10 Jordin Sparks “No Air” 87,518 (2%; lw 85,455) Total: 1,866,343 (7)
14 David Cook “The World I Know” 79,907 (NEW) Total: 79,907
16 David Archuleta “Imagine” 71,178 (NEW) Total: 71,178
19 Carrie Underwood “Last Name” 64,143 (193%; lw 21,915) Total: 181,373 (54)
21 David Cook “I Don’t Want To Miss a Thing” 59,571 (NEW) Total: 59,571
24 David Cook “Billie Jean” 56,344 (NEW) Total: 56,344
26 David Archuleta “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me” 50,653 (NEW) Total: 50,653
28 David Archuleta “In this Moment” 49,134 (NEW) Total: 49,134
29 David Cook “Always Be My Baby” 46,577 (NEW) Total: 46,577
32 David Cook “Hello” 42,254 (NEW) Total: 42,254
41 David Cook “Music of the Night” 35,753 (NEW) Total: 35,753
51 David Cook “Eleanor Rigby” 28,397 (NEW) Total: 28,397
60 David Cook “I’m Alive” 25,206 (NEW) Total: 25,206
66 David Cook “Little Sparrow” 23,512 (NEW) Total: 23,512
68 David Cook “Hungry Like the Wolf (American Idol Studio)” 22,875 (NEW) Total: 22,875
69 David Cook “Innocent (American Idol Studio)” 22,785 (NEW) Total: 22,785
76 Jordin Sparks “One Step at a Time” 19,793 (446%; lw 3,627) Total: 74,065 (OFF)
81 Jason Castro “Hallelujah” 19,312 (NEW) Total: 19,312
82 David Cook “Day Tripper” 19,073 (NEW) Total: 19,073
84 David Archuleta “Longer (American Idol Studio Version)” 18,992 (NEW) Total: 18,992
90 David Cook “All Right Now” 17,948 (NEW) Total: 17,948
92 David Archuleta “Think of Me (American Idol Studio)” 17,653 (NEW) Total: 17,653
96 David Archuleta “Angels” 16,893 (NEW) Total: 16,893
97 David Cook “Happy Together” 16,853 (NEW) Total: 16,853
102 Jason Castro “Over the Rainbow” 16,484 (NEW) Total: 16,484
107 David Archuleta “When You Believe (American Idol)” 15,863 (NEW) Total: 15,863
110 David Archuleta “Love Me Tender (American Idol)” 15,108 (NEW) Total: 15,108
128 David Archuleta “Long and Winding Road” 13,675 (NEW) Total: 13,675
136 Brooke White “Let it Be” 12,254 (NEW) 12,254
149 David Archuleta “Sweet Caroline (American Idol)” 11,050 (NEW) Total: 11,050
161 David Archuleta “You’re the Voice (American Idol)” 10,279 (NEW) Total: 10,279
171 David Archuleta “Another Day in Paradise (American Idol” 9,756 (NEW) Total: 9,756
187 Michael Johns “Dream On (American Idol Studio) 9,079 (NEW) Total: 9,079
Idol Related Download Numbers:
5 Leona Lewis “Bleeding Love” 126,318 (-12%; lw 143,039) Total: 2,217,693 (2)
31 OneRepublic “Stop and Stare” 43,888 (36%; lw 32,332) Total: 1,178,903 (32)
67 Collective Soul “World I Know” 23,419 (1732%; lw 1,278) Total: 196,981 (OFF)
71 George Michael “Praying for Time” 21,488 (12109%; lw 176) Total: 41,880 (OFF)
109 Bryan Adams “Summer of ‘69″ 15,256 (138%; lw 6,411) Total: 462,647 (OFF)
111 ZZ Top “Sharp Dressed Man” 14,960 (359%; lw 3,258) Total: 346,245 (OFF)
139 Jeff Buckley “Hallelujah” 12,030 (98%; lw 6,083) Total: 740,159 (OFF)
146 Michael George “Freedom ‘90″ 11,336 (620%; lw 1,574) Total: 240,922 (OFF)
148 U2 “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m” 11,281 (440%; lw 20,89) Total: 427,047 (OFF)
152 Michael George “Father Figure” 10,840 (830%; lw 1,166) Total: 203,262 (OFF)
175 John Lennon “Imagine” 9,614 (101%; lw 4,782) Total: 299,848 (OFF)
194 George Michael “Faith” 8,768 (383%; lw 1,816) Total: 293,088 (OFF)
Album Numbers
16 Carrie Underwood “Carnival Ride” 24,932 (58%; lw 15,810) Total: 2,120,734 (24)
19 Jordin Sparks “Jordin Sparks” 20,264 (15; lw 17,642) Total: 778,240 (23)
20 Daughtry “Daughtry” 19,731 (31%; lw 15,106) Total: 4,079,650 (30)
48 Clay Aiken “On My Way Here” 12,221 (-40%; lw 20,527) Total: 126,869 (18)
64 Carrie Underwood “Some Hearts” 9,610 (9%; lw 8,791) Total: 6,432,588 (84)
Idol Related Album Numbers:
6 Leona Lewis “Spirit” 50,117 (-20%; lw 62,321) Total: 667,905 (5)
17 Donna Summer “Crayonw” 22,573 (NEW; lw 124) Total: 22,697 (NEW)
24 OneRepublic “Dreaming Out Loud” 17,255 (107%; lw 8,324) Total: 639,920 (88)
33 DisneyMania (Elliott) “DisneyMania 6″ 15,607 (NEW; lw 29) Total: 15,636 (NEW)
108 Bryan Adams “11″ 6,095 (-32%; lw 9,020) Total: 15,115 (80)
123 Reba McEntire “Reba Duets” (Kelly) 5,240 (-3%; lw 5,396) Total: 1,373,868 (127)
47 Jonas Brothers “Jonas Brothers” 12,659 (6%; lw 11,961) Total: 1,290,478 (52)
From Billboard:
• Album units, current chart week: 7.2 million units
• DOWN 3.1% from last issue’s charts: 7.43 million units
• DOWN 13.3% from same week, 2007: 8.31 million units
Download stats from here
Season 7 Idol contestants sold 1.5 million downloads last week (pretty impressive when pretty much every song was only available for 4 days)
That amounted to almost 25% of all downloads sold in the US
David Cook: 942,000 (60% of S7 downloads, 15.7% of all US downloads).
David Archuletta: 323,000 (21.5% of S7 downloads, 5.4% of all US downloads)
Jason Castro with 64,000
Brooke White with 47,000
Michael Johns with 40,000
Carly Smithson with 33,000
Syesha Mercado with 18,000
Kristi Lee Cook with 10,000
Chikezie with 5,000
Please post the numbers as you find them.
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that would make me happy :) I’d love to see Brooke turn into the little engine that could like Pickler did.
I assume some of the contestants will get picked up by smaller labels and then some will try to do their own independant type thing. I mostly wish for a cd from Brooke & Jason, and fear that I’ll probably be like PJ waiting for an Ace cd. Of course, since after they were gone I converted to Cooktardism, I’ll buy his cd too.
For the rest of the contestants, I don’t really have an interest in buying their cd, but I’d probably download a song or two if they were good.
I don’t know much about the music business, but I do know how they love to fit their acts into some type of niche. I have no idea what niche MJ fits into. To me, he works best as a band front man. I have no idea if they’ll sign him or not - but in this climate - if I were a record exec, I wouldn’t sign anyone who finished that low.
I don’t think Carly finished high enough to overcome her previous major-label flop. Speaking strictly from a profit perspective, not as commentary on her talent, I have no idea why a major label would take a second chance on her.
Thanks for these numbers…I’ve been waiting to see how DC would do. Very well, apparently!
Okay Sony/BMG, there’s your #1 chart placement…put out that label announcement already! :D
I read before that Kelly did love 19 but she decided to move on because she wanted someone to be able to provide more focus on her needs (maybe cuz they were too busy with all their other artists) so she went to the firm. She fired The Firm (I think because of the conflicts with the label over her last album) and is now with Reba’s husband. I’m sure 19 is good only because Carrie, Daughtry, etc are there and they are making a ton of money.
The debut numbers include sales of physical Commercial Singles, digital Commercial Singles and downloaded tracks of the A side (Kat had a double A side, so her more popular one is used in the total which is also what BB did)
Digital Download numbers really only start in S4. Even then, they were not all that significant in the market. 100K worth of downloads would have gotten you Gold. It was upped to 500K in 2006. Downloads go up an astronomical amount every year.
That was the excuse used last year for the poor showing of Jordin and Blake. Given that their CDs debuted with low numbers as well, it as probably more indicative of their popularity with general AI fans. Cook certainly proved this year that one can move a boatload of singles even when you are only on iTunes (and certainly, other artists have similar success on iTunes).
Some (like Ken Barnes) would argue that it’s unfair for those with B-Sides. Cook’s song cost 99 cents which can be a total impulse buy. The Idol CD singles have run from $4-$7 (S3 was quite expesensive, it might have even be $8) which is a lot to pay for a couple of songs. Plus, then you are stuck with a stupid CD that only has two songs on it. Finally, you have to haul your butt off to a physical store that actually still sells CD singles (few and far between) or order it from an on-line vendor, pay shipping and wait a few days for it to arrive.
BTW Somebody else mentioned international buyers buying from Amazon. Amazon accounts for a very small part of the CD market and buying international is expensive due to shipping charges. I imagine that most people would buy from their local version of Amazon (e.g. Amazon.ca or Amazon.uk) and those would not count in the SoundScan totals.
There are so many variables, it’s difficult to argue which seaons have the sales advantage.
Hmmmmmmm, Where is Syesha in the downloads? I don’t even see her name. And you all really think she came in 3rd? I don’t think so! Jason should have been there. Syesha’s so called fans don’t even download a song of hers!
See… this is what leaves me wondering…. of the four songs of final week, how is it possible that the order for downloads is TOML - Dream Big - SHFWILF and only last TWIK?!?
Dream Big is a good song, sure, but TWIK is in a different league completely.
Who’s driving the downloads???
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003808894
OMG COOKIE!
IMO, a rose by any other name is still a rose.
DC’s numbers are impressive, I don’t think anyone can argue that point.
Seeing these numbers makes the “upset” look like not so much of a surprise victory at all, as those who were paying attention knew all along.
Also, the 99cent single download may be seen as an advantage by some when compared to previous seasons but it certainly didn’t benefit last year’s finalists. And, the industry is constantly changing, and this is a good way of seeing who is coming out of the gate with the greatest potential in the industry as it is today (with the right material, of course).
DA’s numbers aren’t that bad but they aren’t good either, especially considering that his highest charting track had an entire week on the chart as opposed to 4 days.
It’s also rather impressive that DC still sits at #1 today, a week later. While his airplay is decent for one of these songs, he certainly isn’t breaking any radio records (yet). Either his fan base is a lot larger than any of us ever realized or the general public is taking a liking to him (which is entirely possible - my local pop radio station has added TOML to their playlist, something they haven’t done since Clarkson’s MLT).
I also do not believe that the dl numbers for all of the contestants are complete. A small common sense observation: Jordin’s OSAAT is new to the top 200 dl chart this week but it does not say new, it says off because the track was already available for download and its previous figure carried over into this week’s additions. All of the AI performance tracks say NEW. It will be a while before we see the total dl’s from this group (if we ever do). I have no doubt, however, that DC sits right on top. But, if they had shown that to the general public all along, his win wouldn’t have been such a “shock”, now would it? I am also sure that a couple of DA’s and JC’s songs (especially Hallelujah) have done a lot better than it shows on this listing.
Just my two cents. Feel free to take it or leave it.
Congrats to DC. May he ride that magic rainbow out of the ashes and find his wings so he can deliver me some awesome music to buy!
Re: Archie’s “Imagine”
That’s not the one from the beginning of the season, is it? That’s his performance from Tuesday night, right?
For those of us who have been avid viewers of AI for many seasons now, some just don’t realize that what we may term, “conspiracy theories,” is in fact, more along the lines of manipulations. However, none of us really know what goes on behind the scenes. But, this year in particular, that curtain has been pulled back a little further, and, even those who believe this show is on the up and up, are questioning some things.
For example, how do people relate the fact that Syesha had only one song, “One Rock & Roll Too Many,” to ever be downloaded on ITunes this season. She has virtually no representation on any of the message boards, and, came in 3rd? These are things that make you go, huh? It seems that Jason was truly in 3rd place, and, some weeks on ITunes, he matched Archie’s sales.
Call it what you want, but, if it looks like a duck, talks like a duck, then………………
Help the slow girl here… Are these performances along with songs because I thought some of these songs weren’t done in the studio? I haven’t bought any songs from anyone so I’m not in the loop on this.
Speaking of Sales… Looky here!
http://www.myspace.com/officialdavidcook
Yay! imo RCA >>> the rumored J Records, for Cookie anyway. Single, album, let’s go, I’m ready!
Trina
May 28th, 2008 at 11:53 am
GO COOKIE!
3 Doors Down And ‘Idol’ Winner David Cook Rule Charts
3 Doors Down — My Homeboys!!! Glad to see they are back!
Very nicely done, Mr. Cook!
Just to be clear, the “NEW” and “OFF” are conventions that I follow to make it simpler for people to understand. I take the SoundScan numbers and try to make them a little easier to read (SS numbers look like something sent via Telex and the columns can be cryptic to new readers). Plus, depending on the source for the SS numbers, they columns are different. So, I standardize things.
The actual SS representation for both NEW and OFF is –. The percentage increase is limited to three digits, so it’s 999 for percentages greater than that. Because the previous week’s sales are 0, there is in a infinite increase in sales (divide by 0). For non-new singles with large increases, I calcuate the correct number.
All of the Season 7 Idol numbers were:
– Position LASTNAME*FIRSTNAME SONG NAME AMOUNT 999 0 TOTAL
example:
– 1 COOK*DAVID TIME OF MY LIFE 236024 999 0 236024
There were listed as being off the charts last week, having sold 0 items last week and having AMOUNT=TOTAL. So, I noted them as NEW.
I just didn’t want anybody to think that SS had given them that notation or that it had some sort of deeper meaning.
Thank you Kirsten as always keeping us up to date on sales numbers. YOU RAWK!! :)
Ok….I’m STUNNED. Not for DC’s Magic Rainbow numbers, but for his total DL’s this week. HOLY CRAP!!! And to think, most of the older songs, BJ, ABMB, HELLO, etc are for this week only. I would kill to know the total numbers for all of his songs throughout the season. TPTB at RCA and 19( pick a letter) have to be giddy right about now. They got themselves one hell of a winner this year.
Hope like hell DC has one great accountant working for him.
Congratulations David Cook….Well Done!!!
Thanks for the stats Kirsten, as always! :)
My jaw hit the floor when Bax emailed me these numbers earlier today. Just wow.
I am going to beg and plead Ken Barnes, when he gets back from his vacation, to request the overall sales of the tracks from iTunes, like he got last year. I am REALLY curious about how the tracks did throughout the season. I can understand why TPTB didn’t want the tracks to chart during the season, but what can it hurt now, right?
Album sales (non Cook related) from Billboard:
16 UNDERWOOD*CARRIE CARNIVAL RIDE 24,932 58 15,810 2,120,734
19 SPARKS*JORDIN JORDIN SPARKS 20,264 15 17,642 778,240
20 DAUGHTRY DAUGHTRY 19,731 31 15,106 4,079,650
48 AIKEN*CLAY ON MY WAY HERE 12,221 -40 20,527 126,869
64 UNDERWOOD*CARRIE SOME HEARTS 9,610 9 8,791 6,432,588
I just wanted to weigh in here about the d/l’s. I was one who downloaded quite a few of JC’s songs and a couple of videos.
Thanks Kirsten for your number crunching. I’m from the world of engineering and numbers are something I know. I’m sure Kirsten knows this, when doing comparisons you need to compare apples to apples and not oranges. But I’m glad for DC that he has done so well. Good for him
I don’t usually follow sales but it is interesting to see. I would have added another sale for DC and Jason but they had cut them off by the morning after the finale. That suprised me since they had given an extra few days last season. I’m happy to see Michael’s “Dream On” get a flurry at the end which is one of my favorites of his studio mp3s.
One thing these numbers show is how consistently great DC’s performances were on the show.
Almost ALL his songs are in the top 100- I count out only Baba and All I Really Need — but were they available to download at all? can someone tell me? i would be surprised if they were because they were two good ones and they’re not on the chart.
(sorry but I can’t access iTunes US so don’t know)
It’s crazy. DC fanatic madness going on!!!
From the numbers above, I would guess that David Cook would probably have the following figures for overall download tally:
over a million:
Time of My Life (eventually)
Billie Jean
Always Be My Baby
Hello
over 500K
I Don’t Wanna Miss A Thing
I’m Alive
Little Sparrow
Hungry Like A Wolf
Eleanor Rigby
Day Tripper
Music of The Night
500K and below
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
The World I Know
Dream Big
I think Baba O Riley and All I Really Need Is You was not available for downloads.
So all the performances and studio versions are no longer available except from Time Of My Life, what is the logic of not making them available, when they are selling?
In the midst of the exciting AI7 news, I have exciting (for me, LOL) AI5 news about Elliott. His recently released song, “Wait For You” is #6 on the Japanese Hot 100 chart.
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts/chart_display.jsp?f=Japan Hot 100 Singles&g=Singles