Idol Related Sales Numbers after the jump (Billboard issue date 1/12/08)
(Finally! We have some numbers)
Digital Download Numbers
10 Jordin Sparks “Tattoo” 219,837 (200%; lw 73,350) Total: 859,883 (9)
36 Daughtry “Over You” 85,531 (247%; lw 24,628) Total: 704.714 (48)
64 Carrie Underwood “So Small” 54,379 (246%; lw 15,729) Total: 484,655 (82)
68 Carrie Underwood “Before He Cheats” 51,434 (343%; lw 11,599) Total: 2,018,864 (115) **Now 2xPlat**
76 Daughtry “Home” 45,861 (273%; lw 12,284) Total: 1,227,073 (105)
99 Daughtry “It’s Not Over” 36,871 (319%; lw 8,807) Total: 1,580.604 (151)
135 Carrie Underwood “Jesus, Take the Wheel” 27,902 (388%; lw 5,720) 1,140,815 (OFF)
183 Elliott Yamin “Wait For You” 22,308 (229%; lw 6,778) Total: 836,469 (OFF)
Album Numbers
11 Carrie Underwood “Carnivale Ride” 71,604 (-67%; lw 215,812 ) Total: 1,694,118 (7)
28 Daughtry “Daughtry” 43,585 (-59%; lw 107,176 (80%)) Total: 3,618,490 (21)
40 Jordin Sparks “Jordin Sparks” 36,481 (-59%;lw 88,833 (44%)) Total: 407,313 (28)
65 Carrie Underwood “Some Hearts” 22,846 (-51%; lw 46,925 (50%)) Total: 6,188,197 (55)
76 Blake Lewis “Audio Day Dream” 19,842 (-64%; lw 55,301 (-4.5%)) Total: 230,734 (44)
123 Elliott Yamin “Sounds of the Season” 10,793 (22%; lw 8,821 ) Total: 56,107 (OFF)
Off Chart
Kellie Pickler “Small Town Girl” 6k (lw 13.5K (69%)) Total: 698K (169)
Kelly Clarkson “Breakaway” 6K (lw 14K) Total: 5.93M
Kelly Clarkson “My December” 5K (lw 11K) Total: 737K
Elliott Yamin “Elliott Yamin” 5K (lw 11K) Total: 482K
Clay Aiken “Merry Christmas With Love” 3K (lw 8K) Total: 1.4M
Bucky Covington “Bucky Covington” 2.5K (lw 7K) Total: 316K
Bo Bice “See the Light” 1.5K (lw 4K) Total: 36K
Fantasia “Fantasia” 1.3K (lw 2K) Total: 501K **NOW Sold Gold**
Mandisa “True Beauty” 1.3K (lw 3K) Total: 66.5K
Katharine McPhee “Katharine McPhee” 800 ( lw 1,200) Total: 365K
Clay Aiken ”A Thousand Different Ways” 400 (lw 800) Total: 522K
Taylor Hicks “Taylor Hicks” 400 (lw 700) Total: 699K
Constantine “Constantine” 300 (lw 500) Total: 23K
Clay Aiken “All Is Well” EP 200 (lw 400) Total: 52K
Mandisa “Christmas Joy” 200 (lw 500) Total: 2.8K
Ruben Studdard “The Return” 100 (lw 200) Total: 236K
Paris Bennett ”Princess P” 100 ( lw 100) Total: 20K
Kimberley Locke “Based on a True Story” 100 (lw 200) Total: 17K
Kimberley Locke “Christmas” 100 (lw 200) Total: 2.2K
Album Updates:
Jim Verraros “Rollercoaster” Total: 4,000
Ayla Brown “Forward” Total: 3,000
Jon Paul Lewis “Stories From Hollywood” Total: 1,000
Nikki McKibbin “Unleashed” : not found in SoundScan system
Lisa Leuschner “Reality” Sold less than 100
Number of albums sold this week:14.51 million units. Down, 43.2% from last week (25.57 million units) but up 2.4% from the same week last year (14.16 million units)
Rounded numbers from Ken Barnes Idol Chatter
Digital Download Numbers from LAST WEEK
9 Jordin Sparks “Tattoo” 73,350 (11%; lw 66,046) Total: 640,046 (8)
48 Daughtry “Over You” 24,628 (9%; lw 22,564) Total: 619,183 (41)
82 Carrie Underwood “So Small” 15,729 (lw 13K) Total: 430,276 (92)
115 Carrie Underwood “Before He Cheats” 11,599 (lw 9K) Total: 1,967,430(135)
105 Daughtry “Home” 12,284 (lw 10K) Total: 1,181,212 (120)
151 Daughtry “It’s Not Over” 8,807 (lw 7.5K) Total: 1,543,733 (168)
OFF Elliott Yamin “Wait For You” 6,778 Total: 814,161 (OFF)
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Downloads for the week:
9 10 SPARKS*JORDIN TATTOO 219837 200 73350 859883
48 36 DAUGHTRY OVER YOU 85531 247 24628 704714
82 64 UNDERWOOD*CARRIE SO SMALL 54379 246 15729 484655
115 68 UNDERWOOD*CARRIE BEFORE HE CHEATS 51434 343 11599 2018864
105 76 DAUGHTRY HOME 45861 273 12284 1227073
151 99 DAUGHTRY IT’S NOT OVER 36871 319 8807 1580604
– 183 YAMIN*ELLIOTT WAIT FOR YOU 22308 229 6778 836469
What a big week for downloads. Jordin put up some major numbers.
> What a big week for downloads. Jordin put up some major numbers.
The week after Christmas always sees some HUGE gains because of all those iTune giftcards and people wanting to load up their new MP3 players.
Thanks for bringing the numbers over!
Checkout the numbers for the top 10 digital downloads:
1 1 FLO RIDA LOW 467149 163 177518 1551766
3 2 TIMBALAND FEAT. ONEREPUBLIC APOLOGIZE 318843 170 118209 2370921
7 3 BROWN*CHRIS KISS KISS 277144 233 83225 1454485
11 4 SOULJA BOY TELL’EM CRANK THAT (SOULJA BOY) 271132 299 68007 2909263
4 5 KEYS*ALICIA NO ONE 269261 161 103231 1740300
2 6 BAREILLES*SARA LOVE SONG 268936 123 120788 625491
6 7 FINGER ELEVEN PARALYZER 242258 189 83693 1354790
5 8 FERGIE CLUMSY 229600 168 85692 1012615
10 9 CAILLAT*COLBIE BUBBLY 220682 214 70200 1842189
9 10 SPARKS*JORDIN TATTOO 219837 200 73350 859883
All over 200K! The cut-off for the top 200 was 20,846. 23,508 got you in the Top 50 last week.
Is Soulja boy’s single the top download of all time? I haven’t heard of anyone cracking 3 million before.
> I haven’t heard of anyone cracking 3 million before.
Yep, Soulja will be the first to do it.
Interestingly enough, this week featured the top 2 weekly download sales of all times. Here are the top 10 (courtesy of 2m over at Pulse):
1 1/12/2008 LOW FLO RIDA FEAT T-PAIN 467,149
2 1/12/2008 APOLOGIZE TIMBALAND FEAT ONEREPUBLIC 318,843
3 1/13/2007 FERGALICIOUS FERGIE 294,797
4 1/12/2008 KISS KISS CHRIS BROWN FEAT T-PAIN 277,144
5 6/9/2007 UMBRELLA RIHANNA 276,705
6 1/12/2008 CRANK THAT SOULJA BOY TELL’EM 271,132
7 1/12/2008 NO ONE ALICIA KEYS 269,231
8 1/12/2008 LOVE SONG SARA BAREILLES 268,936
9 1/13/2007 IRREPLACEABLE BEYONCE 268,876
10 6/17/2006 HIPS DON’T LIE SHAKIRA 266,664
The top Idol on the all-time download list…well, well:
23 1/12/2008 TATTOO JORDIN SPARKS 219,837
And here are where the Idols showed up on the top 50 one week album sales of 2007 (number one was Kanye with 956,936 followed by Josh and Alicia with 758,590 and 742,426 respectively):
13 11/10/07 CARNIVAL RIDE CARRIE UNDERWOOD 527,101
31 10/06/07 REBA DUETS REBA MCENTIRE 300,536
35 7/14/2007 MY DECEMBER KELLY CLARKSON 291,213
45 1/5/2008 NOW 26 VARIOUS ARTISTS 235,000
47 4/14/2007 NOW 24 VARIOUS ARTISTS 229,998
49 12/08/07 NOW 26 VARIOUS ARTISTS 223,930
Josh’s and Alicia’s album show up 6 times on the list. The Eagles managed to appear 5 times. Norah, Kanye and HSM2 nabbed two spots each.
Again, list compiled by 2m over at Pulse.
Here is what Ken Barnes reports about Digital sales this week on his Listen Up blog:
The big news is that a record 42.9 million digital tracks were downloaded during the past week (which included Christmas Day, when people unwrapped their new iTouch-type gadgets and gift cards). That’s 43% higher than the previous record total, 30.1 million (set last Christmas week). Flo Rida’s Low led the charge, selling 467,000 copies, also a record. All but one song in the top 50 at least doubled its sales.
Album rankings:
TW LW
11 7 CARRIE UNDERWOOD Carnival Ride
28 21 DAUGHTRY Daughtry
40 28 JORDIN SPARKS Jordin Sparks
65 55 CARRIE UNDERWOOD Some Hearts
76 44 BLAKE LEWIS Audio Day Dream
Carrie Underwood (7-11 on the chart; 72,000, down from 216,000 in sales). I think Daughtry sold around 43k.
Any word on Jordin and Blake’s numbers?
We have download numbers for Jordin (very impressive), but no word on her album numbers yet.
We can guess at Blake’s album numbers. According to BB, his sales dropped 64% from last week (BB said he sold 55K last week). So, he’s looking at about 19.8K in sales during this sales period. Call it 20K
Jordin sold less that 43K so maybe somewhere in the 30s. Her album sales may be mediocre compared to the excellent downloads. This is an ongoing problem for artists who get big Top 40 hits like Rihanna and Timbaland.
Daughtry’s sales were posted on Pulse.
43,600 sold last week; 3,618,000 to date.
That’s a 60% drop, which is not bad, considering he got a 80% bump the week before.
Blake “Titties in Your Mouth” Lewis already fell below 20K and the post-holiday sales slump hasn’t officially started yet? I don’t see anything that can slow down the free-fall….
> That’s a 60% drop
A very unmerry, unbirthday to him.
With a 43.2% average drop this week, a lot of CDs fell Through the Looking Glass. Next week, there will be very few Cheshire Cat grins because sales across the board will likely be even more grim.
Daughtry in his second year outsold the winner of S6 last week.
Finally, comprehensive numbers from Ken Barnes!
Idol sales: Late but firmly packed with data
My apologies — the entire day has been spent drowning in numbers from Nielsen SoundScan’s year-end report. I will add Idol-related highlights to the end of this post, but first, the regular weekly Idol sales report (expanded to include last week’s numbers, when I was gone).
When we last left Carrie’s Carnival Ride, it was No. 9 on the Billboard album chart, having sold 138,000. The next week (Dec. 17-23, prime holiday shopping), it jumped to 7 with 216,000 sold. This past week, incorporating the record industry’s traditional post-Christmas crash, it fell to 11 with 72,000, a somewhat-larger-than-usual 67% (compared to most of the albums in the top 20). Total is now 1.69 million.
Daughtry had been 28, moved to 21 before Christmas with an 80% increase to 107,000, and then fell back down to 28 this week, dropping 59% to 44,000. Total is now 3.62 million.
Jordin had fallen 26-28 but jumped to 89,000 sales, a 44% boost. Now she’s at 40, having sold 36,000, a 59% drop. Total is 407,000, which means gold is at least in sight.
Carrie’s Some Hearts climbed 59-55 just before Christmas, selling 47,000 (up 50%), then fell to 65, selling 23,000 (down 51%). Total is 6.19 million.
Blake was one of the few albums the week before Christmas to suffer a sales decline (albeit a minor one, 4.5%), to 55,000, which dropped him 32-44 on the chart. Now he’s down to No. 76, selling 20,000, a 64% drop.Total stands at 231,000.
Kellie had leaped from 200 to 169, selling in the mid-13,000s, a 69% jump. Now, however, she’s off the chart again, selling 6,000. Her total is 698,000, meaning she should pass Taylor next week.
Making a surprise return to the chart this week is Elliott’s Sounds of the Season, which must have snagged a lot of last-minute pre-Christmas buyers. It sold about 11,000 (up from 8,800) to return at No. 123, bringing its total to 56,000.
Off-chart Idols (except Kellie, obviously) and year-end tidbits follow.
I’ll cram two weeks’ worth of sales info into a quick, efficient format:
Kelly, Breakaway: 6,000 this week (14,000 last week; 5.93 million total)
Kelly, My December: 5,000 (11,000; 737,000 total)
Elliott: 5,000 (11,000; 482,000 total)
Clay (Christmas album): 3,000 (8,000; 1.4 million total)
Clay (Thousand): 400 (800; 522,000 total)
Clay (All Is Well EP): 200 (400; 52,000 total)
Bucky: 2,500 (7,000; 316,000 total)
Bo: 1,500 (4,000; 36,000 total)
Fantasia: 1,300 (2,000; 501,000 total — a milestone passed there)
Mandisa: 1,300 (3,000; 66,500 total)
Mandisa (Xmas): 200 (500; 2,800 total)
Katharine: 800 (1,200; 365,000 total)
Taylor: 400 (700; 699,000 total)
Constantine: 300 (500; 23,000 total)
Ruben: 100 (200; 236,000 total)
Paris: 100 (100; 20,000 total)
Kimberley (Based): 100 (200; 17,000 total)
Kimberley (Xmas): 100 (200; 2,200 total)
Before I get to the year-end standings, Stormiya had a request in about album sales totals for certain more obscure Idols, so here goes.
Jim Verraros, Rollercoaster: 4,000 (rounded, of course)
Ayla Brown, Forward: 3,000
Jon Paul Lewis, Stories From Hollywood: 1,000
Nikki McKibbin, Unleashed: not found in SoundScan system
Lisa Leuschner, Reality: Found in SoundScan system but sales are what the company refers to as “negligible,” which means not yet in three figures.
> OK, year-end stats. Top 200 albums for 2007 list.
No. 5 for the year: Daughtry, 2.50 million (for calendar year 2007)
12. Carrie (Carnival), 1.69 million
17. Carrie (Hearts), 1.54 million
59. Kelly (December), 737,000
99. Elliott, 482,000
119. Jordin, 407,000
140. Katharine, 365,000
152. Kellie, 346,000
178. Bucky, 316,000
193. Kelly (Breakaway), 290,000
Ten out of 200 — very impressive. Year-end download stats will be noted in the next post, up tomorrow morning
Wow! Pickler is passing Taylor next week? Who could have seen this coming! Talk about adding insult to injury…
Lots of people. People have been pointing out that this day will come since last summer. It’s a simple matter of seeing that Kellie was selling thousands of CDs while Taylor was selling in the 100s. It’s a Grade 4 math problem.
Well, I suppose at least his precentages were good. A 75% increase followed by a 43% decrease. Better than what many experienced. These are such trying weeks. LOL
I heard an unconfirmed rumor that he actually sold 44 copies one week at some point last year. LOL. Imagine the huge jump percentage-wise he got the week after. BTW, it was from someone who had access to SS numbers. Clive & Co. couldn’t have been amused by numbers like that..
> I heard an unconfirmed rumor that he actually sold 44 copies one week at some point last year.
Ken Barnes can’t report numbers less than 100 (and NO, Ken does not round up everything, the dude knows how to round) and Ken has always reported sales stats for Taylor, so this rumour is unlikely like so much of the “Insider” information you find on the internet.
Where are you going with this? Are you trying to start a fan war? Please start it elsewhere on another board.
People can’t buy what’s not in the stores, and the majority of buyers don’t buy on-line.
Kat’s “dead” album might not be selling super big numbers, but it’s increased like 7 weeks in a row now. Good for Kat!! Not one single has been played from her in months.
While Kat doesn’t get played on the radio, she’s had some high profile TV appearances lately. They usually sell a few units. Anyway, good for her.
Elliott’s Xmas CD which is #123 on the BB200 is sold only in Target. Taylor Swift with a similiar CD has out sold him by about 30K (if my numbers are right). She’s the biggest star in country right now. The fact that he can keep up in Xmas sales with a star like Taylor Swift makes me believe he is a potential platinum selling artist. He never has the blow out week but sells thousands of albums on a consistent basis.
Combining the two albums, he sold 36K units in two weeks of one album sold only in one store and another that’s almost a year old. And that’s without any promotion.
BB 200 numbers have leaked:
7 11 UNDERWOOD*CARRIE CARNIVAL RIDE 71,604 -67 215,812 1,694,118
21 28 DAUGHTRY DAUGHTRY 43,585 -59 107,176 3,618,490
28 40 SPARKS*JORDIN JORDIN SPARKS 36,481 -59 88,833 407,313
55 65 UNDERWOOD*CARRIE SOME HEARTS 22,846 -51 46,925 6,188,197
44 76 LEWIS*BLAKE AUDIO DAY DREAM 19,842 -64 55,301 230,734
— 123 YAMIN*ELLIOT SOUNDS OF THE SEASON 10,793 22 8,821 56,107