Some of you may have noticed that Glee didn’t stomp all over the iTunes single chart last week like it usually does every week. That’s because they decided to release an EP and stomp all over the Album charts. Glee’s “The Power of Madonna” was the third album from that series (in less than a year) and it’s their first album to reach number 1. It sold 98K last week which is lower than the first weeks for those previous albums (Glee 1 debued with 113K and Glee 2 with 173K). This is the first television soundtrack to hit Number 1 since Sept 2007 (HSM2). Combined, the series has sold 1.4M albums.
On a more Idol-centric front, fans of Adam will be waiting to see how sustained his Idol bump has been. His song WWFM managed to stay in the top 10 all week. Also anticipating bumps will be the country Idol fans since the ACM awards were a week ago Sunday. Carrie should do quite well.
Please post numbers as you find them. Thanks!
Billboard date 05/08/2010
Download Numbers
Adam Lambert “Whataya Want From Me” 86K (-14%) Total: 1.051M **NOW PLATINUM**
Kris Allen “Live Like We’re Dying” 27K (-27%) total: 1.35M
Carrie Underwood “Temporary Home” 25, 000 (+36%) Total: 424K
Daughtry “Life After You” 17K (-11%) Total: 661K
Carrie Underwood “Cowboy Casanova” 14K (+23%) Total: 1.31M
Kelly Clarkson “All I Ever Wanted” 11K (+7%) Total: 79K
Carrie Underwood “Change” 9K (+2, 001%) Total: 53K
Carrie Underwood “Before He Cheats” 5K (+16%) Total: 2.986M
Carrie Underwood “All-American Girl” 4K (+18%) Total: 1.191M
Carrie Underwood “Undo It” 4K (+97%) Total: 85K
Kellie Pickler “Best Days of Your Life” 4K (-4%) Total: 1.011M
Carrie Underwood “Jesus, Take the Wheel” 3K (+26%) Total: 1.672M
Danny Gokey “My Best Days Are Ahead of Me” 3K (-4%) Total: 94K
Album Numbers
1 Cast of Glee “The Power of Madonna” 98K
• Album units, current chart week: 5.6 million units
• UP 2% from last week’s charts: 5.5 million units
• DOWN 10% from the comparable week in 2009: 6.2 million units
