I’ve not been keeping any eye on the charts lately, I see by the top 10 figures sales are still sluggish overall in musicland, though they have been more sluggish over the past year.

85K.. not bad!!!! (considering everything all u KA regs brought up)
I really could care less about these numbers. Because of the kind of artist (& person) Kris is, I knew his sales were not gonna make a big bang in the market. But I think they’ll grow slowly but steadily.
LLWD still has life in it. Plus, second single will bump up sales.

All I want from Kris is that he continues to make music he truely believes in. You’re guaranteed songs that are soul stirring but also have a dash of cheek.

And all I want for Kris is longevity.

All numbers are screwed this year, Kris’ number are low but I dont think he would have sold less than Jordin in a regular year. My perception, no data to base it despite my personal experience with idol. He is having great promo and maybe can keep selling reasonably.

Adam is not following many normal idol patterns, so I think its really hard to compare at all.

..and AWM for summer song, please?

i think thats a great idea!!!

p.s i’m still familiarising myself with the acronyms of kris’s songs….LIR, LLWD, BWCU, INK etc etc so at first i didnt know what AWM was. does that make me a bad kris fan? plus the fact that i dont care how many copies he sold?

Kris claims he isn’t worried about this stuff’ ¦

then i guess we shouldn’t either….

I think I have to correct myself here. I forgot that Carnival Ride and Some Hearts are still selling well, perhaps 4-5K each a week, so there is a possibility that Carrie Underwood can overtake Kelly Clarkson this week in US sales, although it is going to be close.

yup. it’s pretty close.

The Amazon super discounts for this week were offered long before Adam.

·Amazon does this ALL THE TIME, and this year, it’s mega daily deals have included brand new releases during release week. Bon Jovi last week, Rihanna and Adam this week, heck, even the BEP’s new album had that same $3.99 price tag at release and folks were dying to hear what they put together upon reunion. (That doesn’t even scratch the surface, it’s just what I recall. And, more times than not, the price is 1.99 or 2.99.)

·Now, Amazon has all it’s Black Friday sales, which include 500 albums all priced at $5. ALL the big selling recent releases seem to be over there on sale. Just look at the 10 bestsellers, which now include Kelly Clarkson, Weezer, Regina Spektor, the BEPs (again), Jay-Z, Dashboard Confessional, etc, and of course, Adam.
Also, the Amazon $3.99 MP3 do not count as Billboard sales ‘” mus be at least 50% of MSRP to count. They are doing that to promo Amazon MP3 [3% of total music sales and about 1% of album sales}.
The only thing the Amazon $3.99 offer does is reduce Adam’s first week sales.

Amazon is #2 in the US digital music business but has only 9% share of the digital music business ‘” iTunes has 69% ‘” it is in Amazon’s, the artists’ and the labels’ interest to increase Amazon’s share. ANd oddly ‘” it is in iTunes best interest ‘” because if their share stays at 69%, they will eventually face FTC scrutiny for non-competitive practices.
The Amazon super discounts for this week were offered long before Adam.

·The discounted sales do not count on the Billboard album chart ranking.Digital or not. Product that is sold at 50% below manufacturer’s list price at a venue will not be processed.
But it doesn’t matter ‘” the label care about revenue and profits NOT units. You cannot put units in the bank. ANd Adam is apparently selling a lot of $17 deluxe album.
Link to SoundScan procedures: http://ca.nielsen.com/etc/content/nielsen_dotcom/en_ca/home/industries/entertainment_practice.mbt.77438.RelatedLinks.0542.MediaPath.pdf

It doesn’t count. It is in mp3 form and there are dozens of top 100 mp3s at Amazon for $5.(you can use the $3 coupon on those also) Rihanna’s cd is also $3.99. Last week, the $3.99 specials were Weezer and Bon Jovi.

How does this differ from iTunes, wherein you don’t get the physical copy, but just the MP3 of the album? Does iTunes sales count?

Last week FYE wasn’t even out! So people didn’t choose to buy FYE over KA. They just didn’t buy KA. You can’t blame Kris’ poor #s on Adam. KA had a whole week to itself-and the album did poorly.

Kindly refer to my comment after that where I corrected myself for the wrong phrasing of ideas (dang, can’t edit comments XD).

Bottomline is, weekly- perfomance-wise, we’re talking about NUMBER of units sold, not VALUE of units sold. Taking this into consideration, temporarily dropping the price can boost the number of copies sold; therefore, artificially boosting the number of units sold.

I posted my comment with a disclaimer about not being too familiar with the backend process on counting the number of units, so hopefully, you take that comment about the album price drop with a grain of salt.

As for performing “poorly,” I beg to disagree. Comparing it with his other competitors, I think he did just fine. Not good, but not bad either. YMMV

1. Adam’s album being sold in Amazon at a $3.99 price tag (0.99 cents if you get the $3 off discount coupon) for his first week of sales can entice more people to purchase a copy. Between Adam’s $3.99 tag and Kris’s $10+ price tag, those on a tight budget would probably buy the former. Plus, it seems like a better deal: Get 3 copies of Adam’s album for the price of one of Kris’s.

It doesn’t count. It is in mp3 form and there are dozens of top 100 mp3s at Amazon for $5.(you can use the $3 coupon on those also) Rihanna’s cd is also $3.99. Last week, the $3.99 specials were Weezer and Bon Jovi.

Last week FYE wasn’t even out! So people didn’t choose to buy FYE over KA. They just didn’t buy KA. You can’t blame Kris’ poor #s on Adam. KA had a whole week to itself-and the album did poorly.

http://www.mtv.com/videos/news/459269/does-kris-allen-feel-any-album-sales-pressure.jhtml

If Kris can get the ‘boot’  song for Idol next season with ‘Let it Rain’  (which I still think would be an excellent choice), that would be huge promotion for him.

I’m loving this idea. I adore that song.