Idol Sales News – Week Ending 12/23/12

By On 12/27/2012 · 32 Comments · In American Idol, Charts, X Factor UK

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Christmas fell on a Tuesday this week which appears to be messing up Billboard’s schedule. We didn’t get numbers yesterday and now the concert stats seem to be delayed. So, since we have sales numbers being released today, we’ll slide a day as well. Traditionally, last week was the biggest sales week of the year for albums. This week will be the biggest sales week for downloads.

Albums:
4 (4) One Direction “Take Me Home: 177K +39% (moves into #6 on YTD. Their “Up All Night” is #3 on YTD making them the first act to have two albums in the year-end top 10 since Swift in 2008)

7 (7) Phillip Phillips “The World From The Side Of The Moon” 98K +44% Total 475K
First debut album since Carrie’s “Some Hearts” to spend five weeks in the top 5 (Cook and Scotty spent 4 weeks, Carrie spent 12 weeks, Kelly 8 weeks, Ruben 9 weeks)

Downloads:
9 (11) Phillip Phillips “Home” 110K +17%

From Idol Chatter
Phillip Phillips, The World From the Side of the Moon (98,000, +44%, 475,000) (#7 Billboard 200)
Carrie Underwood, Blown Away (58,000, +42%, 1.166 million) (#22 BB200)
Scotty McCreery, Christmas With Scotty (48,000, +1%, 337,000) (#32 BB200)
Kelly Clarkson, Greatest Hits-Chapter 1 (35,000, +49%, 178,000) (#40 BB200)
Kelly Clarkson, Stronger (8,000, +64%, 1 million) (#173 BB200)
Scotty McCreery, Clear as Day (8,000, +62%, 1.145 million) (#183 BB200)
Carrie Underwood, Some Hearts (5,000, +42%, 7.283 million)
Carrie Underwood, Carnival Ride (4,000, +56%, 3.303 million)
Mandisa, What If We Were Real (3,000, -7%, 243,000)
Mandisa, It’s Christmas (3,000, +13%, 64,000)
Casey James, Casey James (2,000, +40%, 64,000)
Casey Abrams, Casey Abrams (less than 1,000, +28%, 20,000)

Idol tracks (not this week’s chart, this is last week’s pre-Christmas numbers)

Carrie Underwood, Blown Away (35,000, +20%, 1.5 million)
Carrie Underwood, Two Black Cadillacs (19,000, +30%, 99,000)
Casey James, Crying on a Suitcase (12,000, +51%, 199,000)
Carrie Underwood, Good Girl (9,000, +31%, 1.468 million)
Carrie Underwood, Before He Cheats (7,000, +13%, 3.633 million)
Scotty McCreery, Christmas in Heaven (4,000, +3%, 25,000)
Carrie Underwood, How Great Thou Art (3,000, +15%, 392,000)
Jason Castro, Hallelujah [Album Version] (3,000, +223%, 118,000)
Clay Aiken, Mary, Did You Know? (2,000, +8%, 143,000)
Colton Dixon, You Are (2,000, -13%, 38,000)
Mandisa feat. TobyMac, Good Morning (2,000, +14%, 237,000)

 
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  • TheOther

    It’s a testament to Phillip as a singer song writer how well The World From The Side Of The Moon is doing.

  • Anny_nanny

    I think the Voice can eat crow and calm down. Their girl exceeded the starting sales of Joshua, but was not included in the Top 100, as Hollie.
    I remind you:

    http://www.billboard.com/#/news/american-idol-winner-phillip-phillips-charts-1007574152.story
    “”American Idol” winner Phillip Phillips earns his second top 40 hit album on the Billboard 200 this week, with the debut of his “American Idol: Season 11: Highlights” EP at No. 25. The set, released exclusively through Walmart, features five songs from his run on the show and sold 20,000 in its first week according to Nielsen SoundScan.

    It’s his second album to chart on the Billboard 200 so far, following “Journey to the Finale” (No. 11). It debuted the week after he was crowned champion on May 23. Combined, “Journey” and his new “Highlights” EP have sold 65,000.

    Both albums offer material recorded during his tenure on “American Idol.” The singer is currently at work on his first studio album, due out before the end of the year.

    Phillips’ new EP is one seven “Idol” titles Walmart released last week. Each of the top five finishers on the show has their own EP, while two compilations round out the offerings.

    On the Billboard 200, Phillips is joined by the debuts of third place Joshua Ledet’s EP (No. 59 with 9,000), fifth-place finisher Skylar Laine (No. 64 with 8,000) and runner-up Jessica Sanchez (No. 77 with 6,000). Also bowing is a “Top 10 Highlights” set (No. 127 with 4,000) and fourth-placer Hollie Cavanagh (No. 176 with 3,000). The only Walmart release to miss the chart this week was “Duets and Trios Highlights,” which sold a little under 3,000.”

  • maymay

    Cassadee`s collection debut sold 11k on iTunes.  Its billboard ranking isn`t in the top 100 because of Christmas season. PP`s collection debut sold 24k.

    Nicholas and Terry`s collections debut sold under 6k but more than Jessica`s 4k.

    Joshua, Hollie and Skylar didn`t release collection on iTunes. Cassadee, Terry and Nicholas didn`t release physical ep.

  • girlygirltoo

    Not necessarily, since the song that is driving the sales (“Home”) is one he didn’t write, and the 2nd most popular song of his on iTunes (GGG) is another one he didn’t write. We won’t really know a lot about how the public responds to Phillip as a songwriter until he releases a single that he wrote or co-wrote

  • windmills

    TheOther: It’s a testament to Phillip as a singer song writer how well The World From The Side Of The Moon is doing.

    I disagree, despite the fact that Man On The Moon, a song P2 wrote by himself, is probably my favorite song on his album. These first month and change of album sales are all about the AI fanbase, and Home did a good job in helping P2 to retain a good portion of them for when his album came out and Home made his album a good holiday gift.

    P2 can write a good song though IMO not everything he writes is good. Sales would not be how I would decide that question. I don’t know if he can write a hit song (despite digging Man On The Moon I don’t think it’s a hit single) – single sales and radio play would be a better gauge at answering that question and like girlygirltoo says we haven’t had a chance to really see how that will play out.

  • getaway1

    Chart News?@chartnews WW sales: Phillip @Phillips, The World From The Side Of The Moon 106,000 (506,000 total).

  • iani

    We won’t really know a lot about how the public responds to Phillip as a
    songwriter until he releases a single that he wrote or co-wrote.

    single sales and radio play would be a better gauge at answering that question and like girlygirltoo says we haven’t had a chance to really see how that will play out.

    It’s true, and Phillip should now enjoy the AI-franchise’s success, not his own music’s success. He might be happy with the nice dough in his bank account and for his TPTB, involved in this success, one. This success is nice and warm for some years, the testament of the “right after the show” success when the material given to you is the right one. But as a songwriter, it is more to prove in MO that “It’s a testament to Phillip as a singer song writer how well The World From The Side Of The Moon is doing” when the people will buy his music based on sound like MOTM, HO… other than Home or GGG.

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