Idol Sales News – Week Ending 01/25/15

Fall Out Boy’s “American Beauty/American Pscyho” exceeds 200K in sales to top the chart which it easily holds on the combined chart. Taylor sticks at second for another week and Meghan slides from first to third (within the expected range of the drop for a second week). Joye Bada$$ takes fourth on both charts.

Former Idol judge Nicki Minaj makes a big move from the album chart to the combined chart and Mark Ronson makes an even more impressive move (up 22 spots). Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith moves up while Marilyn Manson and the Grammy Nominees move down on the combined charts. That makes sense because Ed and Sam have big singles out there (and Mark has the biggest with Bruno Mars) while rock fans buy albums and if you want to buy a track off of the Grammy compilation album, just buy it off the original album

One Direction and Ella Henderson moves up on the combined chart while Carrie moves down. As expected, Pop acts improve on combined charts, while Country acts don’t do quite as well/

Final Sales Chart.
— 1 FALL OUT BOY AMERICAN BEAUTY/AMERICAN PSYCHO DCD2/ISLAND 204,063 —
2 2 TAYLOR SWIFT 1989 BIG MACHINE 81,471 -12%
1 3 MEGHAN TRAINOR TITLE EPIC 53,326 -73%
— 4 JOEY BADA$$ B4.DA.$$ CINEMATIC 50,956 —
— 5 2015 GRAMMY NOMINEES VARIOUS ARTISTS RCA 46,365 —
— 6 MARILYN MANSON PALE EMPEROR LOMA VISTA/CONCORD 42,000 —
3 7 KIDZ BOP KIDS KIDZ BOP 27 RAZOR & TIE 41,765 -46%
— 8 DECEMBERISTS WHAT A TERRIBLE WORLD, WHAT A BEAUTIFUL WORLD CAPITOL 40,000 —
4 9 ED SHEERAN X ATLANTIC 35,533 -3%
— 10 LUPE FIASCO TETSUO & YOUTH ATLANTIC 32,000 —
12 17 MAROON 5 V 222/INTERSCOPE 16,884 -21%
18 22 ONE DIRECTION FOUR SYCO/COLUMBIA 12,485 -3%
— 28 BLAKE SHELTON BRINGING BACK THE SUNSHINE WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE 9,990 —
22 29 NOW 52 VARIOUS ARTISTS NOW 9,503 —
23 31 CARRIE UNDERWOOD GREATEST HITS: DECADE #1 19/ARISTA 9,053 -19%
11 39 ELLA HENDERSON CHAPTER ONE COLUMBIA 6,903 -69%
— 50 VARIOUS WOW HITS 2015 SPARROW 4,791 —

SPS Numbers (TEAs/SEAs, ordinal change from sales chart)
— 1 FALL OUT BOY AMERICAN BEAUTY/AMERICAN PSYCHO DCD2/ISLAND 227,348 — (33K, -)
2 2 TAYLOR SWIFT 1989 BIG MACHINE 116,891 -12% (45K, -)
1 3 MEGHAN TRAINOR TITLE EPIC 83,850 — (30.5K, -)
— 4 JOEY BADA$$ B4.DA.$$ CINEMATIC 54,956 — (4K, -)
6 5 NICKI MINAJ PINKPRINT YMCMB/REPUBLIC 51,241 -9% (24K, +6)
3 6 MARK RONSON UPTOWN SPECIAL RCA 49,894 -33% (41K, +22)
4 7 ED SHEERAN X ATLANTIC 46,891 -36% (11K, +3)
— 8 MARILYN MANSON PALE EMPEROR LOMA VISTA/CONCORD 46,805 — (0.4K, -3)
— 9 2015 GRAMMY NOMINEES VARIOUS ARTISTS RCA 46,365 — (0K, -3)
7 10 SAM SMITH IN THE LONELY HOUR CAPITOL 45,718 -10% (19K, +2)
8 13 MAROON 5 V 222/INTERSCOPE 43,600 -12% (27K, +4)
14 18 ONE DIRECTION FOUR SYCO/COLUMBIA 24,293 -1% (12K, +4)
11 24 ELLA HENDERSON CHAPTER ONE COLUMBIA 17,147 -50% (10K, +15)
29 34 CARRIE UNDERWOOD GREATEST HITS: DECADE #1 19/ARISTA 13,533 -8% (4.5K, -3)
— 41 BLAKE SHELTON BRINGING BACK THE SUNSHINE WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE 11,104 — (4K, -2)

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