Comments on: Idol Sales News – Week Ending 07/06/08

By: spritely

spritely — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:00:47 +0000

I haven’t been able to get into Mediabase all day (Thursday). Are they down for anybody else?

eta: Great news about TOML breaking into Top 10 on HAC!

By: Trina

Trina — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:03:17 +0000

Not really sales related but magic rainbow moved up to #10 on the Billboard Hot AC chart! Woo!! Love that he managed to crack the Top 10 on both AC & Hot AC.

By: spanishfan

spanishfan — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:13:10 +0000

I love TOML and he changes it up every time he performs it. It took Carrie 4 years to reach 700,000 and David has 616,000 in 6 weeks. I think he is doing very very very well. With the tour now on and the rave reviews I think he will get close to platinum.

David A had all his releases on at the same time as David CÃƒâ€š ´s. Each week the studio versions were put up on itunes and we saw the outcome with the sales.

By: jpfan

jpfan — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:04:36 +0000

Elliott album sales in Japan this week were:6,281. Total Japanese sales: 90,457,

A gold record in Japan is 100K so he’s 90% of the way there. :thumbup_tb:

http://www.phileweb.com/products/cd-top20/2008/1149.html

By: latingrl2005

latingrl2005 — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:19:29 +0000

Jordin’s No Air dropped from No. 26 to No. 31 on the chart, selling 40,000 copies, down 16%, for a grand total of 2.21 million. One Step at a Time manages to hold steady at 58, but is down 5% in sales to 23,000, for a total of 175,000. Tattoo declines 142-149, selling 9,000, off 10%, for a total of 1.71 million.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/idolchatter/

By: sherryw

sherryw — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:27:17 +0000

Daughtry’s last single (which, being Daughtry, got Daughtry level support) only sold 495k and fell off the top 200 download chart two weeks ago but is still getting a hell of a lot more airplay than TOML. PSSST…. and, it’s actually a decent song….no magic, rainbows, or anything.

By: snuffles

snuffles — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:52:29 +0000

Hmmm…what happened to Jordin’s “One Step At A Time”?

By: maheshg

maheshg — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:11:11 +0000

I’ve heard it on the radio in Santa Cruz or San Jose a couple of weeks ago. I didn’t recognize it till the last words of the song.

It fits the rock format pretty well for a coronation song.

By: Trina

Trina — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:01:12 +0000

I don’t think it’s really Daughtry level. It’s done really well for what it is and he’s getting some aiplay on the all important Z100 but did any other major markets really do anything with it? I just figured Z100 jumped on it because I remember a lot of the DJ’s were fans of his during AI.

By: jpfan

jpfan — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:14:10 +0000

For Daughtry level support, his downloads since the finale are okay but not great. It’s a terrible song though so it’s still impressive that they’ve sold this many. One Step At A Time has moved up on Itunes this week so it should appear in the Top 50 on next week’s chart.

By: t2

t2 — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:10:29 +0000

They are playing the **** out of TOML in my area. Seriously, it’s Daughtry-level support he’s getting.

By: dancin

dancin — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:52:04 +0000

thanks kirsten

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:47:32 +0000

where are the one step at a time numbers? just wondering

We only really have the numbers for the top 50 (and a few others) at this point. OSAAT is probably still in the top 200 and Ken Barnes will likely get us the numbers later today.

Is it odd that ArchieÃƒ ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s runner-up song was not released as a single? I seem to remember a song from the runner-up being released every year but this year. Is my memory bad or is this a first?

Justin never got a runner-up song. Clay and Diana had one. Bo had to release the same song as Carrie. Katharine had a runner-up song, but she paired that with SOTR to be a double-A side single. Blake didn’t have a runner-up song, but they kind of pushed “You Give Love a Bad Name” as his single. Archie didn’t get a runner-up single at all. We never even heard him sing the coronation single.

Justin and Archie are the only two runner-ups to have no single available for sale after the show (Archie did have performance versions of his finale songs available on iTunes, but those were pulled a week after the finale. Archie didn’t have any studio versions of his songs available after the finale).

By: jpfan

jpfan — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:47:11 +0000

The tour is for the Idol fans already. Radio play gets the new fans. I think the single sold 400K in downloads in the first two weeks after the finale. So the Idol fanbase is the prime purchaser (just like the other corny coronation songs) even though unlike the others it’s getting played on the radio a lot. My interpretation – just like everyone else, Cook will need to put good songs out there to make it. Clive’s theory that an Idol win usually guarantees 500K seems correct.

By: GwendolynD

GwendolynD — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:30:23 +0000

Hmmmm. A possible jump in DC’s numbers because of the tour?