Idol Sales News – Week Ending 10/18/09
Sales numbers for the Billboard Release Date 10/31/2009 after the jump.
Download Numbers
18 Carrie Underwood “Cowboy Casanova” 56,723 (6%; lw 53,687) Total: 286,462 (22)
25 Kelly Clarkson “Already Gone” 46,106 (-2%; lw 47,040) Total: 526,755 (26) **NOW GOLD**
43 Carrie Underwood “Mama’s Song” 31,323 (NEW) Total: 31,323 (NEW)
Jordin Sparks “Battlefield” 22K (-8%; lw 23K) Total: 1.071M
Daughtry “No Surprise” 14K (-13%; lw 16K) Total: 852K
Kris Allen “Live Like We’re Dying” 10K (-26%; lw 13K) Total: 63K
Kellie Pickler “Best Days of Your Life” 8K (4%; lw 8K) Total: 848K
195 Jordin Sparks “No Air” 7,396 (114%; lw 3,461) Total: 3,009,168 (OFF) **NOW 3XPLATINUM** (actually, last week, but we’ll celebrate it now)
Glee
28 Glee Cast “Keep Holding On” 43,200 (127%; lw 19,029) Total: 62,229 (86)
34 Glee Cast “No Air” 36,237 (86%; lw 19,498) Total: 55,735 (81)
38 Glee Cast “It’s My Life/Confessions Part II” 33,387 (-55%; lw 74,400) Total: 107,787 (12)
48 Glee Cast “Halo/Walking on Sunshine” 29,012 (-54%; lw 62,511) Total: 91523 (15)
63 Glee Cast “Hate on Me” 22,821 (NEW) Total: 22,821 (NEW)
101 Glee Cast “You Keep Me Hangin’ On” 14,877 (NEW) Total: 14,877 (NEW)
Album Numbers
30 David Archuleta “Christmas From The Heart” 16,776 (NEW) Total: 17K Digital 4K
Daughtry “Leave This Town” 11K (-6%) Total:698K Digital: 1K (0%) Digital Total: 127K
Kelly Clarkson “All I Ever Wanted” 6K (-7%) Total: 729K Digital: 1K (-11%) Digital Total: 157K
Kellie Pickler “Kellie Pickler” 3K (+14%) Total: 323K
Carrie Underwood “Carnival Ride” 3K (4%) Total: 2.977M
Carrie Underwood “Some Hearts” 2K (-8%) Total: 6.851M
Brooke White “Live Session” 2K (NEW) Total: 2K
Idol Related
Various “WOW Hits 2010″ 14K (-2%) Total: 28K
Various “Now That’s What I Call Music! 31″ 12K (-10%) Total: 725K
Various “Now That’s What I Call Country Vol. 2″ 7K (-18%) Total: 127K
Soundtrack “Hannah Montana 3″ 5K (-9%) Total: 468K
Various “Now That’s What I Call Club Hits” 5K (-20%) Total: 36L
Various “Now That’s What I Call Music! 30″ 3K (-8%) Total: 709K
Rounded numbers from Brian at Idol Chatter.
Please post them as you find them.
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Hey girlygirl – I wouldn’t be tremendously surprised if LLWD got some legitimate Rhythmic spins, but there has also been an apparent station classification error in Mediabase over the past two weeks that might be causing this. David Cook’s Time of My Life has logged 18 Rhythmic spins in that timeframe according to the QuickCut, after a year and a half of…um, pretty much zero Rhythmic airplay. LOL. I’m pretty sure Mediabase has an HAC, AC, or CHR station incorrectly tagged as Rhythmic in their monitoring system right now. That kind of thing happens occasionally (either a glitch or sometimes due to station format changes), and usually gets resolved sooner or later in the QC.
Last week, KCHZ in Kansas City added LLWD and Mediabase called it Rhythmic.
Like many stations, it has had a lot of format changes over the years. In 2005, it became a Rhythmic station, but over the years, it’s moved closer to CHR (Top 40) and officially switched over to that format on October 8, 2009 (and started adding Rockish songs).
That probably explains most of the Rhytmic spins. Mediabase just hasn’t updated yet.
Ahh, thanks Kirsten. I knew about the KCHZ format change but didn’t bother to look closely at Kris’s adds (or TOML’s spins) to notice that was the culprit, and that Mediabase hasn’t caught up yet.
KCHZ was an interesting case because they apparently made the programming switch based on new data about listener trends and audience size as Arbitron moves from diary-based audience tracking to the PPM system in the KC market. The press release about the format switch mentioned specifically the addition of Daughtry, David Cook, and Kelly Clarkson to KCHZ’s new playlist (the release actually made it sound more like a switch to HAC then CHR, but whatev’). It appears that similar shake-ups are happening in a lot of the markets where PPM has been introduced. Early results seem to indicate that the diary system led to over-estimation of the audience for certain formats such as Talk and Rhythmic, and under-estimation of some of the adult-leaning mainstream formats and stations. I’m sure the PPM program is making some ad sales managers very twitchy right about now.