Comments on: Idol Sales News – Week Ending 01/18/09

By: Tatiana

Tatiana — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 04:59:44 +0000

Who: KDWB Jingle Ball: David Archuleta, Boys Like Girls, Lady GaGa, Shontelle, Chris Brown
Where: Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul, Minn.
When: Dec. 15, 2008
Gross Revenue: $608,492
Tickets Sold: 12,686
Tickets Available: 14,576
Percentage Sold: 87%
Ticket Price: $103.30, $17

So has this station added ALTNOY yet??? :innocent1_tb:

And when are the other big markets going to add it? Come on B96, Archie made it to the Jingle Bash in a freakin Chicago snowstorm!

By: cmom

cmom — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:45:42 +0000

It is fun to see that Vanessa Carlton’s “A Thousand Miles” sales have gone up because just the other day on youtube or somewhere someone commented that those sales were going up because Archuleta has been singing that song at the keyboard since December at a Tree Lighting ceremony (and at the Jingle Balls and last week at the Hard Rock Cafe) to a great response and his youtube hits of when he played it at age 14 are up to 2.9 million as well as 171,000 on the tree-lighting event. That, combined with the Idol tryouts means good sales for Carlton.

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:23:45 +0000

We got a couple of concert stats this week:

Who: KDWB Jingle Ball: David Archuleta, Boys Like Girls, Lady GaGa, Shontelle, Chris Brown
Where: Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul, Minn.
When: Dec. 15, 2008
Gross Revenue: $608,492
Tickets Sold: 12,686
Tickets Available: 14,576
Percentage Sold: 87%
Ticket Price: $103.30, $17

Who: Staind, David Cook
Where: Lifestyle Communities Pavilion, Columbus, Ohio
When: Dec. 11, 2008
Gross Revenue: $36,660
Tickets Sold: 940
Tickets Available: 1200
Percentage Sold: 78%
Ticket Price: $39

Just for fun: The biggest grosser on this report: Vincente Fernandez – $5.8M over 9 concerts. Biggest single concert reported: AC/DC in Fargo North Dakota, $1.87M. And who knew the Trans-Siberian Orchestra was so big? They made over $12M in this report (but those concerts were reported seperately).

By: soundscene

soundscene — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:42:00 +0000

Hot 100
39 23 DAVID COOK LIGHT ON (great bounce!)
47 39 DAVID ARCHULETA CRUSH (still not going recurrent)
– 97 KELLY CLARKSON MY LIFE WOULD SUCK WITHOUT YOU (go Kelly!)

By: SashaB

SashaB — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:44:04 +0000

Also from Brian Mansfield – Idol Chatter

The premiere of American Idol did wonders for former Idol finalists that weren’t country singers. David Cook jumped back into the Top 10, as 31,000 people bought his debut album, 58 percent more than the previous week’s 19,000. Cook did even better on the digital side, with a whopping 140 percent increase, going from nearly 3,000 to 7,000. That’s enough to push from from 35 on SoundScan’s Current Digital Albums chart to 7. He’ll pass 100,000 digital-album sales next week — he’s at 892,000 overall. (Only seven albums on the 50-spot Current Digital Albums chart saw sales increases last week. David had the biggest percentage increase of any of them except for the Boxer Rebellion’s Union, which made its debut.)

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

By: SashaB

SashaB — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:43:11 +0000

10. David Cook, David Cook, 31,000. The album rebounds from #18 to #10 in its ninth chart week. Sales jumped by 58% compared to last week, a bigger increase than any other album in the top 10. A special video of Cook was shown on last week’s season opener of American Idol. It was good cross-promotion: Cook is the biggest star to emerge from the show since Daughtry in Season 5. Two songs from Cook’s album are listed on Hot Digital Songs. “Light On” vaults from #43 to #17. “The Time Of My Life” re-enters at #131

http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/26665/week-ending-jan-18-2009-soundtracks-on-a-roll/

Apparently LO is extremely limber, and has now “vaulted” up from #43 to #17. Hee!

By: sma11ie

sma11ie — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:32:11 +0000

Saw this interesting bit from Idolchatter:

Cook did even better on the digital side, with a whopping 140 percent increase, going from nearly 3,000 to 7,000. That’s enough to push from from 35 on SoundScan’s Current Digital Albums chart to 7. He’ll pass 100,000 digital-album sales next week

By: SashaB

SashaB — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:49:45 +0000

Jodeb: Anybody think the big jump in David CookÃƒ ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s numbers have anything to do with the break-up between him and Kimberley Caldwell?

^^ LOL. Uh no. Cuz it’s rather anonymous this downloading stuff. Wouldn’t an admirer want him to know? Hee. That’s funny.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:56:07 +0000

LOL jodeb — I was about to say “no”, but I think what is in effect is that the Idol public just had to be reminded about DC and informed that he has an album out there to purchase…so in this case any publicity is good publicity!

But I think the effect of the AI pimpmercial of David Cook far far FAR outweighed that of the little gossip items about their breakup

Yay for the Davids and Kelly bumps in the midst of the January slump!

By: Pam

Pam — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:38:02 +0000

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/swift-makes-it-lucky-seven-atop-billboard-1003932876.story

Swift Makes It Lucky Seven Atop Billboard 200

Meanwhile, David Cook’s 19 Recordings/RCA self-titled debut experiences a 58% sales surge to 31,000, bumping it up 18-10. Reigning “American Idol” champ Cook’s “A Daily Anthem” was featured in “Idol” debut week programming last week.

By: GwendolynD

GwendolynD — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:31:37 +0000

Anybody think the big jump in David CookÃƒ ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s numbers have anything to do with the break-up between him and Kimberley Caldwell?

I don't think so. I think the people who were that worried about that whole relationship are pretty much in the minority. Perhaps, they were just more vocal about it. I certainly believe it was attributed to the Idol premiere/pimping and his JK appearance. He wasn't promoted on last night's show, and I don't think they'll do much tonight, either. We'll have to see if his numbers are affected.

By: cookbunny

cookbunny — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:23:04 +0000

I don’t think it’s anything as nefarious as that…more likely it’s an Idol Season Premiere boost. They featured Cook on the opening episode and really pimped him during the Kansas City auditions. That plus his appearance on Jimmy Kimmel probably reminded viewers (those who are more about the show than the singers) that last year’s winner had an album out.

Which gets me curious…don’t suppose there was any boost for the album track “A Daily AntheM,” since it was featured in Cook’s montage on last week’s opener?

By: jodeb

jodeb — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:37:49 +0000

Anybody think the big jump in David Cook’s numbers have anything to do with the break-up between him and Kimberley Caldwell?

Women fans are very possessive and a lot of them are very happy about the break-up and are spending. Coincidence? Maybe? Maybe not?

Where is the devil icon, lol?

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:23:06 +0000

I see ALTNOY around 53 on itunes pop and TOML around 50 on itunes pop, so since you have TOML, would you know the digital numbers on ALTNOY, current and to date?

Sorry. Only the top 50 songs leak and then songs the leaker thinks are interesting (usually because they’ve debuted or had a big move). Perhaps Brian over at Idol Chatter will post numbers later today.

By: JudyOhio

JudyOhio — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:07:18 +0000

I see ALTNOY around 53 on itunes pop and TOML around 50 on itunes pop, so since you have TOML, would you know the digital numbers on ALTNOY, current and to date? I’m sure they are small, but I’d kind of like to know if you have them.