Season 3 Idol winner, Fantasia, debuts her latest album in the number two spot (and top R&B album of the week). Tate Stevens, winner of the latest season of XF US, should debut close to the top 20.
This is the weekly sales thread. please post numbers as you find them. Thanks!
- Fantasia’s Side Effects Of You opens at #2 on the Billboard chart! 91K sold. Congrats, fanty! (91,000 copies sold). It tops this week’s R&B chart.
- Tate Stevens self-titled debut opens at 16,859K and #4 on the Country Chart
- Hits Daily Double predicts the Jessica Sanchez debut album Me, You and the Music will debut next week with 15-17k sales. It’s the lowest debut for any Idol runner up. But if you consider that the album was delayed nearly 6 months, and the single has had no official radio release date (And the label doesn’t appear to be pushing it) it’s not really surprising.
I’m going to put the sales news here as well since this is where people will expect to find it when they check the archives:
From Brian Mansfield at Idol Chatter:
Idol albums
Fantasia, Side Effects of You (91,000, debut, 91,000) (#2 Billboard 200)
Kelly Clarkson, Greatest Hits-Chapter 1 (8,000, -20%, 398,000) (#43 BB200)
Phillip Phillips, The World From the Side of the Moon (8,000, -6%, 853,000) (#44 BB200)
Carrie Underwood, Blown Away (8,000, -23%, 1.42 million) (#48 BB200)
Colton Dixon, A Messenger (3,000, -7%, 95,000) (#138 BB200)
Carrie Underwood, Some Hearts (1,000, -12%, 7.316 million)
Idol-related albums
Various, Now That’s What I Call Music! 45 (10,000, -3%, 384,000) (#36 Billboard 200)
One Direction, Up All Night (4,000, -8%, 1.762 million) (#106 BB200)
Various, 2013 Grammy Nominees (4,000, -16%, 305,000) (#114 BB200)
Various, WOW Hits 2013 (4,000, +2%, 278,000) (#118 BB200)
Jason Aldean, My Kinda Party (3,000, -11%, 676,000) (#140 BB200)
Soundtrack, Rock of Ages (3,000, -8%, 317,000) (#143 BB200)
Idol tracks
Tim McGraw w/Taylor Swift & Keith Urban, Highway Don’t Care (74,000, -3%, 678,000)
Phillip Phillips, Gone, Gone, Gone (41,000, +4%, 552,000)
Rihanna feat. Mikky Ekko, Stay (34,000, +4%, 397,000)
Phillip Phillips, Home (25,000, -4%, 4.401 million)
Kelly Clarkson, Catch My Breath (21,000, -10%, 1.366 million)
Carrie Underwood, Blown Away (20,000, -41%, 2.137 million)
Carrie Underwood, Two Black Cadillacs (19,000, -18%, 734,000)
Kelly Clarkson feat. Vince Gill, Don’t Rush (14,000, -6%, 318,000)
Nicki Minaj, High School (13,000, +3%, 120,000)
Justin Bieber feat. Nicki Minaj, Beauty and a Beat (12,000, -9%, 2.185 million)
Fantasia, Lose to Win (12,000, -22%, 59,000)
Lee DeWyze, Silver Living (11,000, debut, 11,000)
Carrie Underwood, See You Again (7,000, +68%, 77,000
Smash Cast feat. Katharine McPhee, That’s Life (7,000, +60%, 12,000)
