Idol Sales News – Week Ending 08/31/08
Idol Related Sales Numbers after the jump (Billboard issue date 09/13/08)
Digital Download Numbers
17 Jordin Sparks “One Step at a Time” 53,109 (-9%; lw 58,494) Total: 544,637 (16) **NOW GOLD**
22 David Archuleta “Crush” 48,122 (-46%; lw 89,472) Total: 303,841 (6)
59 Carrie Underwood à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Just a Dreamà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 21K (-5%; lw 22K ) Total: 136K (60)
61 David Cook à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Time of My Lifeà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 21K (-29%; lw 29,343) Total: 843K (45)
64 Jordin Sparks à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“No Airà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 19K (-16%; lw 23K) Total: 2.43M (57)
95 Jennifer Hudson “Spotlight” 13,440 (43%; lw 9,417) Total: 91,712 (149)
101 Carre Underwood à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Last Nameà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 13K (-13%; lw 15K) Total: 542K (95)
140 Daughtry “What About Now” 8,800 (2%; lw 8,626) Total: 309,433 (161)
Idol related Downloads
19 Leona Lewis “Better in Time” 50,812 (-2%; lw 51,829) Total: 429,993 (22)
42 Leona Lewis “Bleeding Love” 27,724 (-14%; lw 32,156) Total: 3,085,607 (51)
82 Arists Stand up to Cancer “Just Stand Up!” 15,204 (NEW) Total: 15,204 (NEW)
Off Chart
Jordin Sparks “Tattoo” Total 1.76M (7K for acoustic version)
Jodin Sparks “This is My Now” Total: 225K (54K for Idol version)
Album Numbers
42 Carrie Underwood à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Carnival Rideà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 11K (-3%; lw 11,223) Total: 2.31M (35)
78 Daughtry à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Daughtryà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 7K (-1%; lw 6,963) Total: 4.20M (78)
80 Jordin Sparks à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Jordin Sparks 6K (-9; lw 6,874) Total: 898K (80)
Off Chart
Carrie Underwood à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Some Heartsà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 5,100 (lw 5,000) Total: 6.53M
Bucky Covington à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Bucky Covingtonà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 1,500 (lw 1,400) Total: 362K
Chris Sligh à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Running Back To Youà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 1,300 (1,300) Total: 28K (SS 300 Total: 10K)
Kelly Clarkson à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Breakawayà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 1,200 (lw 1,400) Total: 6.02M
Kellie Pickler à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Small Town Girlà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 1,000 (lw 1,000) Total: 783K
Josh Gracin à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“We Werenà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t Crazyà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 800 (lw 900) Total: 62K
Clay Aiken à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“On My Way Hereà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 600 (lw 800) Total: 150K
Kelly Clarkson à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“My December 400 (lw 400) Total: 774K
Kelly Clarkson à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Thankfulà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 300 (lw 300) Total: 2.71M
Mandissa à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“True Beautyà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 300 (lw 300) Total: 96K
Taylor Hicks à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Early Worksà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 300 (600) Total: 3.1K
Blake Lewis à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Audio Day Dreamà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 200 (lw 200) Total: 302K
Phil Stacey à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Phil Staceyà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 200 (200) Total: 35K
Bo Bice à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“See The Lightà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 200 (200) Total: 60K
Elliott Yamin à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Elliott Yaminà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 200 (lw 300) Total: 516K
Ace Young à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Ace Youngà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 200 (lw 300) Total: 8k
Fantasia à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Fantasiaà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 100 (lw 200) 516K
Katharine McPhee 100 (lw 100) Total: 373K
Clay Aiken à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Thousand Different Waysà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ 100 (lw 100): 528K
Brooke White “Songs from the Attic” 100 (lw 200): Total 9K
rounded numbers from Ken Barnes at Idol Chatter
Please post numbers as you find them. Thanks!
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Please not that the above numbers are the Top 50 song from the download charts plus a few extra songs that have made “interesting” gains in the top 200. Later today, Ken Barnes at Idol Chatter (USA Today) will come out with the full list of Idols in the top 200. We get data as it dribbles out.
Here is the airplay chart (this is a differential from last week so the numbers in brackets are gains or losses in millions of audience impressions since last week).
No. 19 – Jordin Sparks ( 5.0 million)
No. 28 – Leona Lewis ( 4.4 million)
No. 29 – David Cook (-1.8 million)
No. 48 – Jennifer Hudson (-0.8 million)
No. 71 – Daughtry ( 1.8 million)
No. 90 – Artists Stand Up ( 1.4 million)
No. 94 – David Archuleta ( 3.5 million)
Here was an update from the streaming chart that was leaked last week:
1. Carrie Underwood – Before He Cheats
9. Kelly Clarkson – Sober
12. Kelly Clarkson – Never Again
Hot 100 is 55% airplay, 40% sales and 5% streams.
Where is David Cook’s TOML numbers they are not up there under sales?
Did he fall off the chart?
So, not surprisingly, TOML fell off the top 50 again… Guess that means we’ll wait for Ken Barnes to know where it stands now.
Since the little rainbow that could is now the 3rd best selling coronation song, the next big hurdle is Platinum, and I don’t know how likely that is right now, with 160K (give or take) to go.
Hmmm… If the Oprah thing pans out, that could help a little, I guess. (-;
It looks like TOML has peaked on all three radio charts. But this song has legs. If he’s doing it on Oprah, that will sell some downloads. So platinum is a possibility. Once the song loses the bullet, it usually goes down the Top 40/HAC charts fairly quickly. But it’ll be on AC radio forever.
Jordin continues to be the “stealth” Idol champion. Another major hit although not a monster like the other two. To me Jordin’s a true “new artist.” I don’t think Idol gave her much lift off. She’s just somebody who’s made tons of new fans.
He’s on Oprah next Monday with the Olympians. As the only musical guest, my guess is that he will sing Magic Rainbows. I’ll bet it makes a reappearance.
jpfan I totally agree with you. She has done very well for herself for not having that huge of a fan base after idol. Her album didn’t do much for me at first…but I find myself singing along to her songs on the radio;)
Wishing Jordin continue success…she seems to be the only idol from season 6 still going strong.
Is it official that he’s on the Monday telecast, as a musical guest? That would be quite a lift, I would think.
Even without the Oprah appearance I still think TOML has a decent shot to ultimately go platinum. I know it seems inconceivable, but the numbers are there.
The tour will wrap in three more weeks and TOML should have sold somewhere in the neighborhood of 880-900K at that point. Kelly’s ‘A Moment Like This’ was released in 2002 but has sold almost 350K additional copies within the past 3-4 years. Taylor sold 60K additional copies of ‘Do I Make You Proud’ after the end of the S5 tour, and he did that without the benefit of a hit album outside the AI fanbase. If Cook makes a splash with his record release in November, I don’t think it’s a stretch that he could sell another 100K to new fans who want the complete Cook catalog for an additional $0.99.
Or maybe I’ve just been tasting too much of the magic rainbow. But I still think we have not heard the end of this song, even as radio airplay finally starts to wane.
I think TOML will go platinum! Seems the right song for this year.
Congrats to Jordin, love that song.
Archie’s sales not bad either. I estimated 45k for last week.
It does look as if TOML has peaked on all three charts, which makes it kind of sweet and funny that it got one day at #1 on one of them. (I wonder if Ken Barnes realizes that, since he was off on Labor Day.) Of course, if there’s anything I’ve learned from my new (thank you, Mr. Cook, lol) chart obsessions, it’s that You. Can. Never. Tell. What goes up inevitably goes down. . .and then sometimes back up again. It’s not called the Magic rainbow for nothin’.
Oprah! Olympians! David Cook! Rainbows! Pot o’ Gold!
Personally, and esp. after reading LadyMadonna’s historical perspective above, I think platinum is a strong probability rather than just a distant possibility.
I also agree about Jordin– her success is almost as organic as any artist in the industry. She never started with the initial sales surge that first propels the more popular Idols. Of course we should also point out that she owes Chris Brown a huge thank you.
TOML is the highest rating on Mediabase out of all the Idols ´coronation songs. The nearest were Kelly at No. 4 and Carrie at No. 12.
There is no one “Mediabase.” Mediabase is the name of a company that keeps tracks of radio play on a variety of radio stations of different formats. So there is a Mediabase rolling chart for country stations, Adult Comtemporary, Top 40 stations, etc.
TOML went to #1 on the AC chart. This may be the first time a coronation single hit #1 on any Mediabase chart however. That I don’t know for sure. The #1 that TOML hit only lasted for a day so I don’t think it will be reflected in the published charts. Kristen is the expert here not me.
I don’t know either. I know that “A Moment Like This” went to number 4 on a couple of the BB charts, but I don’t know where it got to on Mediabase. BB uses BDS (part of the Neilsen family) for monitoring stations. They are usually pretty close though.
I’m sorry, but I don’t know when Mediabase “officially” releases it’s charts if ever. It kind of looks like it does them on Saturdays based on when their “Published” charts are dated on AllAccess (that would likely mean polling from Friday to Friday), but that’s just speculation. For BB, airplay charts are from Monday to Sunday (like the sales charts), but for the mixed data charts like the Hot 100, it’s Wednesday through Tuesday.
Here is BB’s info about charts: BB Chart Methodology
That said, even if TOML doesn’t make it to number 1 on a published chart, it’s still an accomplishment in my book. Dates for charts are pretty arbitrary if you ask me, so what does it matter what day it goes to number 1? Just my opinion.
Here is the complete list of Idol album sales #’s from Idol Chatter HERE.
I’ve always been confused about the Mediabase charts and the different ones than Ken Barnes uses. I think his are the ones that music insiders use and are published weekly. I didn’t mean to downplay getting a #1 even for a day. It’s a big thing. But I just remember when I followed Wait for You, there was a difference between Mediabase and the more official, published Billboard charts.Too bad, Ken stopped doing his radio play updates for the Idols.
Anyway, a big boo to Mediabase for making their more extensive charts no longer available to the general public. Boo.
Here are the download numbers from Idol Chatter HERE
I agree, Jordin wasn’t my favorite on the show, but she has surely come further than expected thanks to her management’s and label’s strategic marketing and her likability that continues to win her new fans, especially in the younger crowds. A big congratulation to her for her success!