Idol Sales News – Week Ending 05/27/07
Idol Related Sales Numbers after the jump.
Digital Download Numbers (Top 50, plus a few extras):
Songs from Idols:
5 Daughtry “Home” 85,925 (17%) Total: 603,125 (4)
7 Kelly Clarkson “Never Again” 80,451 (26%) Total: 385,199 (7)
9 Jordin Sparks “This is My Now” 74,303 (New) Total: 74,303 (-)
11 Blake Lewis “You Give Love a Bad Name” 70,133 (New) Total: 70,133 (-)
14 Carrie Underwood “Before He Cheats” 53,429 (-6%) Total: 1,339,043 (12)
29 Elliott Yamin “Wait For You” 33,357 (-3%) Total: 148,989 (26)
35 Daughtry “It’s Not Over” 27,528 (12%) Total: 1,271,333 (39)
46 Jordin Sparks “A Broken Wing” 21,903 (New) Total: 21,903 (-)
58 Jordin Sparks “I (Who Have Nothing)” 18,162 (New) Total: 18,162 (-)
70 Blake Lewis “Time Of the Season” 14,748 (New) Total: 14,748 (-)
76 Blake Lewis “This Love” 13,288 (New) Total: 13,288 (-)
91 Blake Lewis “When the Stars Go Blue” 11,434 (New) Total: 11,434 (-)
121 Blake Lewis “I Need to Know” 8,814 (New) Total: 8,814 (-)
170 Jordin Sparks “To Love Somebody” 6,681 (New) Total: 6,681 (-)
176 Blake Lewis “Imagine” 6,558 (New) Total: 6,558 (-)
Songs featured on Idol last week:
39 Green Day “Working Class Hero” 24472 (440%) Total: 60,048 (-)
45 Maroon 5 “She Will Be Loved” 22,630 (123%) Total: 996,335 (102)
65 Gwen Stefani “4 In the Morning” 16,088 (247%) Total: 42,484 (-)
Ken Barnes also provided an update on numbers for Kat’s CD Single:
Physical Single: 165,000
Somewhere Over the Rainbow Download: 131,000
My Destiny Downloads: 79,000
Album Sales:
6 Daughtry 74,218 (45%) Total: 2,601,220
8 Carrie Underwood 51,443 (10%) Total: 5,532,746
29 Elliot Yamin 19,900 (-22%) Total: 236,940
61 Bucky Covington 10,429 (-14%) Total: 141,498
85 Fantasia 8,109 (3%) Total: 388,586
109 Kellie Pickler 6,670 (5%) Total: 539,793
158 Katharine McPhee 4,492 (6%) Total: 330,316
Off Charts:
Taylor Hicks 3,016 (50%) 682K
Ruben Studdard 900 (2%) 227K
Posted in 38 Responses to “Idol Sales News – Week Ending 05/27/07”
Didn’t want to duplicate any numbers.
Is this mostly based on downloads because they haven’t gotten much radio play? I’m guessing Taylor made it on sales of the single because (again) he didn’t get much radio play.
Yes, they are based mainly on sales, but the Idols always get at least a tiny bit of airplay for their coronation single. They are competing against artists that are getting a lot of airplay though, so they have to sell a lot more units to compensate in order to get into the top 10.
For instance, Jordin was #9 on the download chart yet on the Hot 100 she was behind Pink who was #22 on the download chart.
Regarding Kelly, from September 25, 2002, from E! Online News:
Kelly Clarkson’s march to world domination has begun.
The big-voiced American Idol trophy winner (and onetime Texas cocktail waitress) backed up her TV win with chart supremacy as her double-A-sided single, “Before Your Love”/”A Moment Like This” rocketed to number one in its first week in stores.
Released to radio stations shortly after the September 4 show finale, the single had been languishing on the pop singles chart. A week ago, it was number 52. But that ranking was based on radio airplay alone. Once the single was released in stores on September 17, it took off, jumping 51 spots to number one (a new Billboard record) and selling a staggering 236,000 copies for the week ended Sunday, according to SoundScan figures.
Oh, and by the way…Fantasia’s single had street violations, so despite the Idol myth machine operating at full tilt, it did not debut at # 1:
à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Based on first-day Nielsen SoundScan sales of her debut single, “Believe,” Fantasia is expected to knock Usher from his throne on next week’s chart. The third season “American Idol” winner bows on Billboard’s Hot 100 Singles Sales a week early at No. 14 because of street-date violations and is predicted to open with 150,000 copies. The single likely needs to move 125,000-140,000 copies to nab the top slot of the Hot 100.à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬
Source: Billboard
I do wish fact checkers would actually check facts…
Nevada: She debuted at #14 on the Hot 100 Single SALES due to street date violations.
She did not debut on the HOT 100 until the following week and she debuted #1. It was big news. http://www.realitytvworld.com/index/articles/newssection.php?x=||2
From J Records website:
“For good measure, FREE YOURSELF includes “I Believe” which went to No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 Chart in June as Fantasia was celebrating her 20th birthday. Fantasia made Billboard history with the single by becoming the first artist in the history of Billboards Hot 100 chart to debut at Number 1 with her first solo record, “I Believe.” “I Believe” is currently the best selling single this year according to Neilsen Soundscan charts. ”
So my understanding is she debuted #14 on Hot 100 Single Sales.
Following week moved to #1 on single sales and then debuted #1 on the Hot 100.
Maybe my fact checking is wrong but that’s what I remember because the press made a really, really big deal out of it.
Now that the Billboard charts are out, we can do a rough (very rough) estimate of how many EPs Jordin and Blake sold this week.
Jordin’s EP was number 22 and Blake’s was number 30 on the BB Comprehensive Album chart. This chart monitors all ablums sold including those ineligible for the BB200 (either because they are older than two years or are exclusive to a certain vendor).
We don’t have the BB200 sales numbers so far this week, but we do have the HDD ones which are estimates. So, we are going to interpolate between two estimates which just tells you that this is a very rough guess (I can’t say that enough), but it will give a ballpark range for sales.
The following is, chart position on Comprehensive Album, artist’s name, HDD estimate (for Elliott, SS number):
21 Gretchen Wilson 27,540
22 Jordin Sparks
23 Nickelback 27,021
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29 Justin Timberlake 21,408
30 Blake Lewis
31 Elliott Yamin 19,900
So, Jordin sold about 27K and Blake sold about 21K
The known album numbers have been added to the post.
Why does it suprise you that Taylor has not sold any records? He’s horrible. If I wanted to hear some old gray haired man sing akward old fashioned music I would listen to my grandpa.
Someone asked for an exact number for Taylor this week:
W/E 5/27/07 3,016 sold for a total of 682,000
mosheeaka
May 31st, 2007 at 2:39 pm
Why does it suprise you that Taylor has not sold any records? Heà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s horrible. If I wanted to hear some old gray haired man sing akward old fashioned music I would listen to my grandpa.
It surprises his many, many fans because he was so HUGELY popular and should have done much better. Did not get the backing he should have and deserved to get from AI/Clive.
Has anypost posted numbers anywhere for Paris Bennet, Kimberley Locke or Clay Aiken for this week?
Also Paris’ number for last week (BB chart 6/2) ?
Hey Kirsten — was wondering if the title to this and future threads might include a date, e.g., “Idol Sales News and Figures Week Ending 99/99/9999″ or some such thing? The thread title disappeared to me amongst the list on the front page and I made a comment on the headlines thread that more appropriately belonged here.
Then again, I could just up the meds.
LOL. I’ve added the date…how about that?