David Cook Set to Move 125-130k Per HDD

Wow. Happy birthday, David Cook. Impressive. It just keeps getting better. Thanks MJ.

Way to go, David!

Thanks MJ!

I wrote it before, but it makes me happy so I’ll write it again: Happy birthday, David Cook, and congrats on going Gold with the albums. May Platinum get here sooner rather than later.

I’m not expecting the album to stay in the Top 10 another week (the very fact that HDD predicts it could boggles my mind, I was sure it’ll be knocked off with so many new releases this week).

But I don’t really care about the placement, as much as the overall total number. If it manages to reach 700k total this week (which would “only” require 118k sold, less than the HDD prediction), I’ll be ecstatic.

Also, it’s great to see that even though David is on vacation until the new year, we still get to see him on TV. SNL rerun and Disney Parade FTW.

I don’t remember seeing this posted, if it was… I’m sorry.
It’s a ETonline clip with David (and Miley and JoBros) from the Christmas parade, Here

And Happy Birthday to David. (I do actually think he reads MJ’s blog so maybe he’ll read this )

Way to go for a really fabulous birthday, Mr. Cook!

Wow. 125-130K? Even if he doesn’t make that, it still stands to be a very, very good week to be DC.

Here’s hoping people fill up those Christmas stockings. On to Platinum!

Happy Birthday Mr Cook! ***pretend birthday cake icon HERE***

His success makes me so happy… and a little smug, actually.

I take personal offense to haters.

Yeah I don’t care so much about chart position either I just mainly wanted him to reach 700k this week. The HDD projections FAR exceed my expectations, and if he did somehow manage to squeak into the Top 10 I might find myself getting lightheaded. I’m REALLY shocked he’s neck and neck with Kanye though. I thought by now Kanye would be more on par with say Beyonce or Britney’s numbers. Very proud of my Cookie though!

Does anyone happen to have a link to that article, I think maybe USA Today? where some music guy said he might sell 500,000 as long as RCA got a different single out by Christmas? :lol_tb:

Happy birthday David! Your music has changed my life. Thank you for the past year! Here’s to more years of you creating music and sharing your amazing talent and wonderful personality with the world! Cheers to David and all DC fans! It’s our day, too!!!

Yeah I donà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t care so much about chart position either I just mainly wanted him to reach 700k this week.

This week I just kinda of care because if he makes the Top 10 we might get his numbers… If he doesn’t, we’ll probably have to wait one more week.

Does anyone happen to have a link to that article, I think maybe USA Today? where some music guy said he might sell 500,000 as long as RCA got a different single out by Christmas?

Have fun

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m lovin’ it!!! Happy Birthday David! Right now it’s golden, but here’s to that platinum b-day gift on it’s way!! Woo Hoo!

Thank you leome! I forgot the guy also said RCA needed to pump money into him lol

You’re wecome.

Here is an article from KC magazine.
They should ask him to guest on Tropic Thunder 2, he makes good pub to the movie…

MJ, why is it that you always manage to pick better pictures of DC than the label did for his album or single covers?

Man, I hope that HDD is right. The bottom margin of that would be enough to push him over 700K by a nice margin.

I was dismayed at the time by that quote in the USA Today, but with DC selling so well, and with time, I’ve kind of come to peace with it. They got one guy to come in and say something that was extraordinarily negative (because, to me, saying that the label could not recoup its money is the equivalent of saying that he would be one and done) and another guy to come in and say something that was extraordinarily positive (the next Bryan Adams-type hitmaker). I’m sure that USA Today left on the floor all of the quotes from people saying, “What a solid record. It’s going to be a good seller with some possible radio hits.”

Oh, yeah. I forgot to say that is a REALLY cute picture!

Wow, great numbers for David Cook!
Hope HDD is spot-on or underestimated

Folkfan:

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MMMhmmm, that’s what I’m talkin’ about!

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You’re right about that, and that’s something I haven’t really considered… No HDD updates this week (right?) means no estimates on Mon-Tues. So that leaves only the leakers from SP (which IIRC didn’t come through last week), who only leak the Top 10.
And we already know Ken Barnes is on holiday this week.

Urrrgh. Well fingers crossed we’ll get the numbers one way or the other. Of course, if DCTR sticks around in the Top 10 this week, that would be like gravy on top of icing (which, taken literally – ewww).

OK, just found the exact figure from last week. Sorry if this is old news by now…

10 10 David Cook 103,544 19% 87,069 582,048

Really impressive.. WTG Cook!

Great picture!

Great numbers!

Way to hang in the Top Ten (crosses fingers)!

SP estimates David with a 70% increase. That would be the icing on the cake.

I’m seeing 53% on SP. They’re evil though! Evilll!!

I was in Circuit City this morning and he’s on sale in there, and thankfully they had him very prominently displayed and well stocked on an endcap with Nickelback, Metellica and Taylor Swift. Which of those does not belong ha!!

Nice job Cook!!

Wow, Taylor Swift. Well I did buy two copies of her CD for friends, so yeah. Ahem.

StreetPulse routinely overestimates the percentage increase for artists. I try not to put too much stock in it.

Yeah, I don’t get SP’s method, and I try not to buy into their numbers, because usually they have very little to do with the end result.

I’m not counting on DCTR staying in the Top 10 this week, but I am curious to see if it can go back up there next week even if it does drop off now.
Is next week already considered the start of a downturn with post Christmas sales, or will the last 3 shopping days keep the numbers relatively steady? I know it’s all speculation, of course, just want to know when the big drop offs usually occur.

I’m not too concerned if Cook doesn’t stay in Top 10 because being in Top 10 for 4 straight weeks is very impressive considering the competition and all the new releases by well-established artists such as Taylor Swift, Nickleback, Beyonce and Britney so #10 is very impressive during that time-frame. That in itself speak volumes to me. As far as estimates by HDD, they have been pretty close for him so I can easily see him reaching 700K this week.

Well Ken Barnes :dunce_tb: are you still maintaining 2-1/2*? :lol_wp:

I haven’t seen that picture before. There’s something vaguely Big Brother-ish about that giant 19 next to Cook. Somehow I now imagine a secret underground lair where Simon Fuller is sitting in a giant leather chair, stroking a cat, saying…yes, yes, go on, buy David Cook’s record, muah ha ha! Well, Fuller, you got me, you bastard. Hee. Kidding, mostly. ANyway, very happy for Cook and hope he gets six figure sales again. I’d freak if he somehow managed to stay in the top ten. Unlikely to happen, though. Also, I’m surprised Jamie Foxx’s 15 minutes aren’t up. Yes, I am bitter that he has an Oscar for Ray and Joaquin Phoenix was denied for Walk the Line. But that’s a topic for another blog.

For those interested, you can find that pic’s photoshoot here.

I don’t think it would in any way be bad if DC is not in the top 10. I do think that it would be great if he made top 10 again, not only in and of itself, but also because I suspect that we’ll be likely to get his numbers faster if he’s in the top ten.

The following week’s numbers should also be strong for the music market (well, insofar as anything is “strong” in this particular music market) because it will include (1) the last three shopping days before Xmas and (3) the first three shopping days after Xmas, when people are using itunes gift cards and otherwise buying stuff at various sales that they didn’t get for Xmas.

I agree, Folk Fan. DC’s numbers are nothing short of great, especially in our troubled economy. Top 10 is great, but if he moves 125k units and is ranked 11th, um, yeah, I will not really mind or care. Seriously.

I totally expected David Cook’s new album to do well, and he has even exceeded my expectations. RCA doesn’t even want to apply for gold certification since they know he’ll be going platinum soon, and he would have to wait an extra 5 months if they had applied for the gold certification. His single TOML went platinum in no time, too. I wonder what the #’s are for Light On. I know it’s doing well, too, with being one of the top videos of 2008, and all. Cook against Britney, West, Beyonce, all the big hitters. It doesn’t seem to phase his numbers any at all…WOW! This guy is already a SUPERSTAR!

LO was at 319,505 in sales through Sunday 12/14 according to last week’s Billboard update.

I’m very excited and happy for David Cook. It’s a thrill to watch his continued success.

HDD final estimates are in!

10 13 DAVID COOK 19/RCA/RMG 132,527 27%
21 22 DAVID ARCHULETA 19/JIVE/ZLG 81,735 37%

Great numbers for both David’s!

Unbelievable numbers, he sold more than HDD’s projections! Wow. 132K?! Congrats DC.

Fabulous! 132K? That’s well over 700K with another week of sales for 2008, right? I was estimating 750K by Jan 1, but I may well be too low!

I like that. More of that!

714,500 (give or take, we’ll see when the final numbers leak) with one more strong week projected (though not as strong as this one has been). I think he could possibly still bring in around 100k this week (fingers crossed), and if he does, he’ll have less than 200k to make up for Platinum in the new year.

AWESOME!

These numbers are fantastic. I had thought before that the good numbers for the year end would be in the vicinity of 650-700k, but am I glad to be wrong. Just 85k short of 800. And he’ll hopefully be ending the new year with 800k. Are the any projections here or elsewhere of sales and when he’ll end up with platinum based on these numbers?

Dang, David Cook!!

I was shopping at Nordstrom yesterday and what was prominently displayed at the cash register in the Women’s Shoe department? None other that Mr. David Cook’s cd…only one copy left I might add. Now that’s product placement!

Way to go Cookie!

That’s hilarious because a couple of weeks ago I was in Bloomingdales and his CD was on a display near one of the registers. I thought that was a total WTF thing. I wonder if sales from these stores count in Soundscan?

I believe they do, Trina. I think that soundscan now covers all record sales. I don’t have a cite for that, though.

sleepyinsomniac, we’ve been talking quite a bit about that today on DCO’s Chart Thread. Long story short: the five weeks starting after the New Year should be ugly for the entire music industry. They always are, and this year, if anything, could be worse, given how badly the music industry has been doing and what’s going on with the economy. So, a record selling around what DC has been selling now that manages to scrape out 100K during those five weeks would be doing very, very well.

That said, DC is making the most of this high-selling time by increasing his sales in December, so while Platinum is extremely unlikely in January or early February, he is at least creating the possibility of it occurring by the end of March. Which would be awesome.

Oh, and the Today show used Magic Rainbow as a montage song. We could be seeing a rebound of the Rainbow, and/or some Rainbow-connected increases in record sales. Man, I love Magic Rainbow. It really does not know the meaning of the word quit.