Idol Sales News – Week Ending 11/27/11

By On 11/30/2011 · 181 Comments · In America's Got Talent, American Idol, Charts, X Factor

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No numbers yet. We are awaiting debut album numbers from Daughtry, James, Javier and Landau. It will also be interesting to see what the official BF bump for Scotty, Kelly and Lauren are.

Album numbers from Idol Chatter:

Daughtry, Break the Spell (129,000, debut, 129,000) (#8 Billboard 200)
Scotty McCreery, Clear as Day (88,000, +165%, 587,000) (#9 BB200)
Kelly Clarkson, Stronger (42,000, +56%, 314,000) (#25 BB200)
James Durbin, Memories of a Beautiful Disaster (28,000, debut, 28,000) (#36 BB200)
Lauren Alaina, Wildflower (18,000, +107%, 162,000) (#74 BB200)
Mandisa, What If We Were Real (7,000, +81%, 103,000) (#176 BB200)
Carrie Under2ood “Some Hearts” 4,670 (238%; lw 1,381) Total: 7,143,408
Daughtry “Daughtry” 4,326 (160%; lw 1,665) Total: 4,844,441
Carrie Underwood “Carnival Ride” 4,015 (331%; lw 932) Total: 3,224,849

Daughtry, Leave This Town (2,000 weekly/1.307 million total)
David Cook, This Loud Morning (1,000/103,000)
Kelly Clarkson, All I Ever Wanted (less than 1,000/930,000)
Josh Gracin, Redemption (less than 1,000/4,000)
Adam Lambert, For Your Entertainment (less than 1,000/829,000)

*Javier Colon, Come Through For You – 9968 – # 133

Singles Sales from Idol Chatter:

Kelly Clarkson, Mr. Know It All (60,000 weekly, +14%, 741,000 total)
Scotty McCreery, The Trouble With Girls (19,000, +23%, 189,000)
Brad Paisley/Carrie Underwood, Remind Me (19,000, -22%, 1.208 million)
Kelly Clarkson, What Doesn’t Kill You (Stronger) (18,000, -25%, 106,000)
Jennifer Lopez, Papi (18,000, +107%, 178,000)
Daughtry, Crawling Back to You (16,000, +119%, 122,000)
Jennifer Lopez, On the Floor (15,000, +59%, 207,000)
Haley Reinhart feat. Casey Abrams, Baby, It’s Cold Outside (15,000, debut, 15,000)
Daughtry, Start of Something Good (10,000, debut, 10,000)
Jason Aldean/Kelly Clarkson, Don’t You Wanna Stay (8,000, -22%, 1.795 million)
Scotty McCreery, I Love You This Big (6,000, +5%, 685,000)
Carrie Underwood, Before He Cheats (3,000, +1%, 3.334 million)

 

 

 
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  • fuzzywuzzy

    ” I can never understand how record label chooses a song to be single,
    his single Love Me Bad is one of the worst songs in the album.”

    James explains the reason for choosing LMB as his first single in the rockline interview here:
     
    http://www.rocklineradio.com/replay/replay.php

    Clip 1 ~4:40

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XU2FVZ6MCWUCR2Y62WUMZ65QEE Good Vibes

    People still say that Taylor was dropped because he didn’t sell a million albums, but that is a lie.  Taylor was dropped because he failed to establish himself in his genre, RCA felt it would be too hard to market him to such a niche audience, and those 700K-800K albums that he sold were clearly to his AI fans.

     Saying Taylor failed to establish himself in his genre is like saying Taylor failed to swim after he had 10 pound weights strapped to his feet. Someday hopefully the truth can be known as it has only been hinted at. TAYLOR initiated the split from the label on threat of breach of contract. He was alluding to it to fans as early as the spring after he won. The record company was the one who failed Taylor, not the other way around. When his record was released, he had to make his media promo rounds without so much as a single that people could buy. He was the only idol winner never given a video that his (then rabid) fans could vote on VH1. Taylor got the WORST. DEAL. EVER.

    But back to the subject at hand…Scotty has the country music establishment behind him. I also think he will make platinum, because he is perceived to be genuine in that genre (which he is) they will take care of him.

  • http://twitter.com/KariannHart Kariann Hart

    Add to what you have written Good Vibes… the show itself did not promote Taylor’s album.  It was as if he didn’t exist.  This also influences sales.  He is such a wonderful entertainer and respected by many in the business.  I still watch his performance on the Jimmy Fallon show. 

  • Anonymous

    This may be a stupid question or one nobody cares about but why is JLo’s On the Floor at 207k when in August it was at 2.9 mil? Is this some other version of the song? Is it Pitbull free or something? It really doesn’t matter but its driving me nuts trying to account for the discrepancy.  

  • Swind

    Happy Haley and Casey came in around 15,000 for a Christmas song that had little to no promotion. I hope it ends up at around 25,000 by New Years. Go Haley!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1759402889 Natalie Blake

    David Cook has hardly had a “flame out”. He’s currently on tour and done over 30 shows, most of those co-headlining with Gavin Degraw. Here in Cincinnati, I hear Cook on the radio almost daily. Not to mention that his current single “Fade Into Me” is gaining steam, sitting around #36 on the HAC chart.

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