Idol Sales News – Week Ending 09/28/08
Idol Related Sales Numbers after the jump (Billboard issue date 10/11/08)
Digital Download Numbers
12 David Archuleta “Crush” 71,631 (-20%; lw 90,005) Total: 566,629 (10) **NOW GOLD**
27 Jordin Sparks “One Step at a Time” 44,762 (-9%; lw 49,457) Total: 747,336 (24)
99 Jennifer Hudson “Spotlight” 13,241 (3%; lw 12,875) Total: 144,611 (100)
Album Numbers
54 Carrie Underwood “Carnival Ride” 9,154 (-13%; lw 10,555) Total: 2,350,320
65 Daughtry “Daughtry” 7,657 (-19%; lw 9,423) Total: 4,236,434
114 Jordin Sparks “Jordin Sparks” 5,244 (-25%; lw 7,000) Total: 921,833
153 Kristy Lee Cook “Why Wait” 3,789 (-60%; lw 9,548) Total: 13,341 (153)
Idol Related Albums:
39 Now Country “Now That’s What I Call Country” 13,196 (-18%; lw 16,075) Total: 131,769
Total Sales for the Top 200: Total 2,203,068 (-9%; lw 2,422,936) Total: 103,607,499
Please post numbers as you find them. Thanks!
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56 Responses to “Idol Sales News – Week Ending 09/28/08”
@Soundscene:
It ´s like watching Rocky, but the one in wich Rocky did win…
^^ LOL. I don’t know which one Rocky won–not the first one.
Thanks soundscene. I agree, it’s a good showing for Crush to stay in the top 20 after last week’s big spike in sales. It was poised for a bigger drop but managed to hang on. I’m going to predict that Crush’s airplay takes a big jump in the next cycle, even with the onset of Womanizer, Better than Ever, I Don’t Care, etc. Big market stations seem to be adding or poised to add (I even heard our Top 40 station in Seattle finally advertise David Archuleta in the same breath with Britney, Christina and Fall Out Boy). With added airplay, some live promos (like today’s satellite interviews), and another jump in sales as a result, I’m going to predict it hits Top 10 in three weeks.
seattle – really?? That’s exciting news! I had been worried that Crush might be stalling but if its finally reaching Seattle….wooo! Many people have mentioned that it is not playing yet in California. Wonder if this might be the rumored double-secret strategy by Jive to have it peak just at the right time…
It makes me so happy to see how well David is doing. I was so CRUSHED for him at the end of Idol esp in the last three weeks, I’m glad to see how things are going for him and that he’s looking to be a very successful runner-up
Well, a HAC station and an AC station in Fresno just started playing Crush today. A couple of top 40 Houston stations are playing it in medium rotation this week (#6 market). The Boston station that cut its spins in half a few weeks back has started playing it in medium-heavy rotation again (9-10 times a day). Boston is the #10 market. A new NC top 40 station (#25 market) started playing it today and KHKS, the Dallas KISS station has it playing in medium rotation (#5 market). Z100 in NY has it playing about 4-5 times a day now. That’s a drop from its initial airplay, but that station drops songs and brings them back all the time. Plus, apparently Crush was #1 or #2 (can’t remember) on a Sacramento top 40 station countdown. It’s slowly working its way west.
I think today’s press release about iCarly, the front page ad for Crush’s video on AOL Music, the Yahoo! Entertainment story about the corn maze and all of David’s radio interviews today and tomorrow are the beginning of promotion. Call it a “mini” promo before the massive promo closer to the album release (although I’m not sure of the corn maze was just a happy/weird coincidence).
So the next few days may still see a bit of a lull in the daily radio spin increase numbers, but ultimately I think this song is on track to do very well. It still has about a month and a half before the album drops to reach heavy rotation.
KLC’s album is pretty good. i of course don’t like it better than carnival ride or SH but definetly better than phil, josh, bucky, and pickler