Billboard – Chart Date 10/13/12

By On 10/05/2012 · 13 Comments · In America's Got Talent, American Idol, Canadian Idol, Charts, X Factor

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As we all know, there are approximately 83,241 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. The date in the header is the published chart date.

We don’t normally cover these charts, but it’s not every day that somebody tops a Billboard chart for the first time…Colton Dixon’s “Never Gone” topped the Christian Digital Songs and Christian/Gospel Digital Songs Billboard charts.

Albums:
Carly Rae Jepsen “Kiss”: BB200 20 (6)
One Direction “Up All Night”: BB200 22 (20)
Carrie Underwood “Blown Away”: BB200 27 (28); Country 3 (6)
Kelly Clarkson “Stronger”: BB200 124 (104);
One Direction “iTunes Festival: London 2012 (EP)”: BB200 140 (NEW)
Mandisa “What if We Were Real”: BB200 150 (191); Christian 10 (10)
Scotty McCreery “Clear as Day”: Country 44 (36)
Bucky Covington “Good Guys”: Country 66 (49)
Casey James “Casey James”: Country 53 (52)
Jordin Sparks “Sparkle”: R&B 44 (37)
Rebecca Ferguson “Heaven” R&B 74 (RE)
Josh Ledet Walmart Album: R&B 75 (64)
Jackie Evancho “Dream With Me”: Classical Cross-Over 6 (5)
Landau Eugene Murphy Jr “That’s Life”: Jazz 15 (15)

Singles:
Owl City & Carly Rae Jepsen “Good Time”: Hot 100 10 (8); Hot 100 Airplay 8 (10); Digital 12 (8); AC 29 (29); Adult Top 40 11 (11)
Carly Rae Jepsen “Call Me Maybe”: Hot 100 15 (12); Hot 100 Airplay 21 (19); Digital 15 (14); Hot Single Sales 4 (4); AC 6 (7); Adult Top 40 13 (12)
Phillip Phillips “Home”: Hot 100 27 (22); Hot 100 Airplay 44 (47); Digital 13 (12); AC 15 (15); Adult Top 40 7 (8)
Carrie Underwood “Blown Away”: Hot 100 29 (24); Hot 100 Airplay 26 (29); Digital 23 (18); Country 4 (5)
Cher Lloyd “Want U Back”: Hot 100 39 (30); Hot 100 Airplay 67 (53); Digital 28 (24); Adult Top 40 23 (22)
One Direction “What Makes You Beautiful”: Hot 100 37 (36); Hot 100 Airplay 35 (32); Digital 53 (54); AC 8 (8)
Kelly Clarkson “Dark Side”: Hot 100 84 (74); Digital 72 (72); AC 22 (20); Adult Top 40 17 (17)
One Direction “Live Like We’re Young”: Hot 100 Airplay 57 (NEW)
Kelly Clarkson “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)”: AC 4 (4)
Casey Abrams “Get Out”: AC 28 (27); Adult Top 40 (40)
Hedley “Kiss You Inside and Out”: Adult Top 40 27 (30)
Jordin Sparks “Celebrate” featuring Whitney Houston: Adult R&B 22 (20)
Melanie Amaro “Love Me Now”: Adult R&B 32 (34)
Michael Lynche “Who’s Gonna Love You More”: Adult R&B 32 (32)
Casey James “Crying on a Suitcase”: Country 25 (27)
Lauren Alaina “18 Inches”: Country 38 (40)
Jason Castro “Only a Mountain”: Christian Songs 22 (24)
Rebecca Fergusen “Nothing’s Real But Love”: Dance Club 24 (22)
Melanie Amaro “Don’t Fail Me Now: Dance Club 31 (38)

 
  • Kirsten

    HDD Predictions:

    Mumford & Sons Babel (Glassnote) 155-165k
    *Muse (Warner Bros.) 110-120k
    *Miguel (RCA) 60-65k
    P!nk (RCA) 55-60k
    *Diana Krall (Verve) 45-50k
    *Three Days Grace (RCA) 45-50k
    *Jackie Evancho (Syco/Columbia) 38-42k
    *Cher Lloyd (Syco/Epic) 30-33k
    Little Big Town (Capitol Nashville/EMI) 29-32k
    G.O.O.D. Music Cruel Summer (G.O.O.D./Def Jam/IDJ) 29-32k
    No Doubt (Interscope) 27-30k
    Green Day (Reprise) 27-30k
    Adele (XL/Columbia) 21-24k
    Dave Matthews Band (RCA) 21-24k
    Lupe Fiasco (Atlantic) 18-21k
    Mumford & Sons Sigh No More (Glassnote) 17-20k
    *Van Morrison (Blue Note/EMI) 17-20k
    Maroon 5 (A&M/Octone) 17-20k
    *Papa Roach (Eleven Seven) 17-20k
    *Heart (Legacy) 17-20k
    The Lumineers (Dualtone) 17-20k 

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

    Congrats to Colton!

  • idolbeat

     wonder what the downloads numbered?

  • girlygirltoo

    I wouldn’t expect the download numbers to be all that big. I think Colton’s song peaked in the mid to high 20′s on overall iTunes but it slid back pretty quickly and by the end of the reporting period was somewhere around 150 on the overall chart (it has since fallen out of the top 200). In general, CCM songs don’t sell a ton of copies, although, as with everything, there is the occasional exception to this rule. If I had to guess, I’d say he might have sold around 15-20K in downloads?

  • Garrett Clayman

    Interesting article about Colton and KLC on billboard http://www.billboard.com/column/chartbeat/bubbling-under-american-idol-s-colton-dixon-1007973262.story#/column/chartbeat/bubbling-under-american-idol-s-colton-dixon-1007973262.story

    They say his song sold 22,000 copies a respectable debut considering theres not been much radio play

  • tripp_ncwy

    Wouldn’t that just be him selling to his idol fan base.

  • girlygirltoo

    Like with everybody that comes off the show, Colton’s first week sales would be almost all to his Idol fanbase. Radio play doesn’t usually factor much  into first week sales for Idols.

    It’s a decent number. Hopefully it will get strong play on CCM so he can build a strong fanbase in that genre.

  • http://twitter.com/eilonwya10 Eilonwy

    Like with everybody that comes off the show, Colton’s first week sales would be almost all to his Idol fanbase. Radio play doesn’t usually factor much  into first week sales for Idols.

    Well, and with NG, radio’s never going to factor into its sales, as this isn’t the Dixon single that was sent to radio. This one was dropped onto iTunes as a memento for fans, with no radio play and very minimal promotion.

    The worship song sent to Christian radio isn’t available for sale yet. I suspect — but I’m not sure — that it won’t be made available for sale until it’s built a base from radio play. (Slightly confusing history on Wikipedia is accurate on this one.)

    So yeah, these are fan base sales. That’s a pretty solid number of fans willing to buy a song that’s overtly Christian. As it happens, CCM singles sales in general are so low that very, very few numbers are available for comparison. 

  • mmb

    Don’t know if anyone noticed, but this week WPLJ finally started playing Home.  It will likely be autoadded on Monday. So with KBIG and WWFS, the big NYC and LA hacs finally got on board.  Song might make it to top 5 on hac after all…

  • julesb2183

     You are will actually be available Oct 19.

  • http://twitter.com/eilonwya10 Eilonwy

    nvm — sources are totally conflicting and I don’t know which one is right.

  • girlygirltoo

    oh yeah I forgot that this isn’t the real “debut” single. That one’s more of a straight worship song, right? What’s it called again?

  • http://twitter.com/eilonwya10 Eilonwy

    oh yeah I forgot that this isn’t the real “debut” single. That one’s more of a straight worship song, right? What’s it called again?

    “You Are.” It assembles large numbers of standard metaphors for God but doesn’t mix them absurdly, and it should sing well in services as a praise-and-glory song. I find Dixon’s work better-constructed than a lot of what’s getting played on K-Love, but not the absolute-omg-best (I like more twists on the metaphors, more in the manner of Needtobreathe or Casting Crowns). On principle, I’d be happy with seeing an Idol succeed with music that’s pretty good rather than utterly amazelating: that’s how most musicians do it.

    If October 19 is an iTunes release date, then YA will have had about a month to build a base on radio. I don’t know how fast the charts move there, though.