Billboard – 1/7/12

By On 12/30/2011 · 62 Comments · In America's Got Talent, American Idol, Charts, The Voice

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As we all know, there are approximately 79,123 Billboard charts. This is a summary of just some of those charts and how the Idols/AGTers did on them this week. Please feel free to post rankings from your favourite BB chart or any other numbers you care to share. This is the daily numbers thread.

Lauren Alaina:
Wildflower: BB200 90 (96); Country Album 17 (17)
Georgie Peaches: Country Songs 44 (40)

David Archuleta:
Glad Christmas Tidings, Mormon Tabernacle Choir/Orchestra At Temple Square Feat. David Archuleta With Michael York: Christian Album 17 (13); Classical Cross-Over Album 8 (7); Independent Album 23 (13)

Kelly Clarkson:
Stronger: BB200 39 (44);
Mr. Know It All: Hot 100 32 (21); Hot 100 Airplay 16 (16); Digital Tracks 34 (38); Adult Top 40 1 (1); Hot 100 Single Sales 12 (17); Adult Contemporary 19

Javier Colon:
A Very Acoustic Christmas: R&B Album 41 (54)

David Cook:
Fade Into Me: Adult Top 40 38 (36)

Daughtry:
Break the Spell: BB200 21 (27); Digital Album 22 (RE)
Crawling Back To You: Adult Top 40 9 (9); Hot 100 Airplay 72 (72)

James Durbin:
Memories of a Beautiful Disaster: BB200 129 (128);

Jacki Evancho (AGT):
Heavenly Christmas: B200 40 (18); Classical Cross-Over Album 2 (2); Holiday 7 (5); Internet Album 25 (RE)
O Holy Night: BB200 115 (74); Holiday 22 (16); Pop Catalog Album 23 (12);
Dream With Me: BB 200 65 (57); Classical Cross-Over Album 4 (4);

Dia Framptom:
Red: Top Heatseekers Album 6 (3)

Jennifer Hudson:
I Remember Me: R&B Album 68 (71)
I Got This: Adult R&B 23 (23); R&B Hip Hop 93 (85)

Casey James:
Let’s Don’t Call it a Night: Country Songs 34 (32)

Adam Lambert:
Better Than I Know Myself: Hot 100 76

Mandisa:
What If We Were Real: BB200 155 (154); Christian Albums 6 (6)
Waiting for Tomorrow: Christian Songs 21 (12)

Scotty McCreery:
Clear as Day: BB200 11 (9); Country Albums 2 (2)
The Trouble With Girls: Hot 100 55 (84); Country Songs 24 (25); Digital Track 48 (RE); Digital Country Song 9 (17)

Landau Eugene Murphy:
That’s Life: BB200 76 (62); Internet Album 22 (25); Jazz Album 3 (3)

Carrie Underwood:
Play On: Country Catalog Album 24 (RE)
Remind Me: Country Digital Songs 25 (24)

Xenia:
Sing You Home: Heat Seekers Album 5

*I don’t think they reported numbers for X-Factor US contestants because I could not find them charting anywhere. Surely, Chris should have at least made the Bubbling Under 100 chart.

 
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  • Anonymous

    Well, you know if they have to take the word “damn” out then they certainly are going to have a problem playing a gay man’s music.  Whether anyone wants to admit it or not, homophobia plays a big part in sells and radio play for Adam and always will.  He may still do well anyhoo because of his talent, but it does hinder him.  My guess is cumulus had no problem playing Kris but did have a problem playing Adam for this reason.

  • http://twitter.com/LexieONeill Lexie O’Neill

     Thanks, EmyR! 

    And the sales numbers for TTWG and ILYTB are exciting…wish Christmas came more often:)  Of course, we’d all be broke, but hey, gotta love a 300+ increase…

     

  • Anonymous

    So, what’s the excuse for why they censored The Script’s song “Breakeven”, or the word ass in Zack Brown’s song Toes?

     

    My guess is cumulus had no problem playing Kris but did have a problem playing Adam for this reason. 

    Little problem with that assessment, they did play WWFM, a lot, and the stations are still playing it.  They also had no problem playing Adam’s next song.  I also don’t see what playing LLWD has to do with whether or not they played, or when they started playing, WWFM.

  • Anonymous

    Idol fans aren’t the only ones who buy multiple copies of cds and donate them to charities.  At least (most) AI fans aren’t this scary.  
    http://gawker.com/5864603/the-unstoppable-rampage-of-the-beliebers

    The Beliebers had gathered that night for a buyout, a unique form of Justin Bieber fandom and one of the reasons why he consistently posts huge CD sales despite the fact the majority of his fanbase came out of the womb with iPod earbuds on. In a buyout, Beliebers descend in a biblical swarm on a store that sells Justin Bieber CDs. They buy out the entire stock, two or three copies per girl if they’ve got the cash. Of course these die-hards already have all of Justin’s music, so the CDs are donated to charity after the buyout, usually a local children’s hospital. Buyouts are happening all over the country now, to celebrate the release of Justin’s new Christmas album,Under the Mistletoe.At about 8:00pm a pair of older girls mounted a wall in front of the tittering crowd, shouting like generals marshaling an army. This isn’t really a metaphor: The buyout was organized via Twitter and Facebook by a Justin Bieber fan group called BieberArmy, which consists of four longtime fans with a popular Bieber fansite and 340,000 Twitter followers. Stephanie, a 19-year-old BieberArmy leader shouted out two ground rules for the evening: 1) Buy as many Justin Bieber CDs as possible and 2) “don’t freak out” if Justin Bieber showed up. “Just don’t attack him,” she stressed.  

  • Karen C

    Most likely the songs really didn’t sell that well.  Even the itunes numbers were much lower than for Idol and even the Voice. And I agree, people that were fans would buy the live singles. 

  • Anonymous

    “So, what’s the excuse for why they censored The Script’s song “Breakeven”, or the word ass in Zack Brown’s song Toes?”

    I thought that was clear.  It’s because cumulus is conservative.  That was my whole point.  Anyway, I only mentioned the homophobic thing because WWFM took a long time to get played whereas LLWD did not.  Whatever happened doesn’t really matter now but my point still stands that homophobia does play a part in Adam’s sales and radio play.  There’s no way around that.

     

  • Anonymous

    I thought that was clear.  It’s because cumulus is conservative.  That was my whole point.  Anyway, I only mentioned the homophobic thing because WWFM took a long time to get played whereas LLWD did not.  Whatever happened doesn’t really matter now but my point still stands that homophobia does play a part in Adam’s sales and radio play.  There’s no way around that.  

    Wouldn’t it make more sense to show their homophobia by not playing the song at all, or at the least, stop playing it once the song peaked?   Your theory doesn’t explain why the song is still getting a lot of spins by their stations, why they added the second song early on, and you haven’t explained what adding LLWD has to do with waiting to play WWFM.  What’s the connection?  I’m pretty sure that they weren’t under any obligation to play either song, and that the block add of LLWD shows how hard the people at Jive were promoting that song to radio.  There’s a reason why the RCA radio people are gone, and now the Jive radio promotional staff are in charge.

  • Anonymous

    Reminder:

    Dear God: Has the Hot Tub Time Machine wooshed us back to 2009? If not, let’s move off the dead horse topics and get back to discussing today’s charts.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BHCD4X7GHJ23SMJ2M2RCQUSNUM Pat

    At a certain point WWFM became so popular that it was impossible for them to continue to ignore it.
    BTIKM is streaming on cumulus stations isn’t it? I don’t think Adam will have the same trouble at least with cumulus,this round.

  • Kylee

    TTWG has a good chance of going gold :)

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BHCD4X7GHJ23SMJ2M2RCQUSNUM Pat

    Thats great!

  • mchcat

    Here’s hoping – I am so excited to see what Scotty can do in 2012

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