Idol Sales News – Week Ending 03/02/08

Are there any digital download numbers for the Season 7 Idols? Are they releasing those at all?

Wow. That’s a big jump for Jordin (and Chris).

Are there any digital download numbers for the Season 7 Idols? Are they releasing those at all?

It would appear that they are keeping those secret. Hopefully, they will release the numbers after the competition is over like last year. iTunes exclusives don’t always get reported (for instance Ken Barnes checked about Melinda’s “My Funny Valentine” and he was told that it would not be reported).

Whoa. Archuleta sure did resurrect that song.

Jeff Buckley’s Hallelujah is #4 on iTunes top songs! Amazing! It wasn’t even on the top 100 before.

Numbers for Elliott & Fantasia:

YAMIN*ELLIOTT 1156 -7 496747
FANTASIA 614 -27 508382

Wow…!

iTunes Top 100 Songs
iTunes Store: Today’s Top 100 Songs in Alternative

1. Hallelujah – Jeff Buckley

2. Paralyzer – Finger Eleven

http://www.windpowersports.com/music/alternative-songs.php

Jeff Buckleyà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s Hallelujah is #4 on iTunes top songs! Amazing! It wasnà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t even on the top 100 before.

Unfreakin’ believable. Seriously.

I’ve been watching the iTunes charts for the last couple of years, and it’s rare to see a climb like that for a song that has been getting airplay in the Top 40 and then gets released for sale. Even rarer for a song that’s been out for decades and has already been played on every second Television series (including House, The West Wing, Without a Trace, The OC, Scrubs, Cold Case, Criminal Minds, ER, The Shield, Nip/Tuck, Crossing Jordan, LAX, Lost, Roswell, Ugly Betty, Third Watch, Falcon Beach, Dateline and and the movie Shrek).

The polling period of iTunes charts is longer than 24 hours so it typically takes a day or two for a hit song to appear in the top 20. Jason managed to help get a song in the top 5 in about 12 hours. Interesting.

Ken Barnes:

Jordin picks up her pace
Still the same four Idols occupying slots on the Billboard top 200 album chart, a situation not likely to change for a while. Daughtry’s tops, falling slightly from No. 18 to No. 20 thanks to an 8% sales drop to 23,000; his total is 3.84 million, according to Nielsen SoundScan, so he should be at 4 million in seven or eight weeks.

Carrie’s Carnival Ride rises 35-30, but falls 4% to 18,000 for a total of 1.89 million. Some Hearts is up 59-58, and rises 3% in sales to 13,000 (rounded), totaling 6.30 million.

Jordin returns to the top 50 (56-49) and gains 7% in sales to 15,000, bringing her total to 539,000.

Off-chart Idols follow.

Idols off the chart:

Kelly’s Breakaway sold 3,200, down from 3,500, total 5.96 million. My December held at 1,300 for a total of 754,000.

Kellie sold 2,500, down a bit from 2,600, for a total of 723,000.

Blake sold 2,000, down from 2,500 (let’s see if he gets a boost next week after his Idol appearance), for a total of 269,000.

Bucky held at 1,300, and totals 328,000.

Elliott held at 1,200, totaling 497,000. Getting close now.

Fantasia sold 600, down from 800, for 508,000 total.

Mandisa held at 600, total is 73,000.

Bo held at 500 for 41,000 total.

Clay held at 200 for 523,000.

Katharine dropped to 200 from 300; total 368,000.

The 100-sales club, all of whom sold the same approximate amount last week, consists of Taylor (701,000 total), Constantine (24,000 total), Paris (21,000 total) and Kimberley (18,000 total). Ruben is still below the quotable sales level and his total remains 237,000.

Those numbers for Hallelujah are amazing. Is Castro’s version for sale also? I think their numbers are secret or something.

I see that David A has the top rated album on iTunes for his performance of “Imagine”. How the hell does that get classified as an album?

Interesting that “Another Day in Paradise” didn’t see a bump on iTunes with all the David A. hysteria.

The boys songs from last night aren’t available yet.

It is incredible how quickly the Buckley version got to the top. Hell, I bought a version of Hallelujah this morning (Brandi Carlile) and I probably already have 5 or 6. I wonder if Jason’s version will do as well? Maybe he can knock David A off the #1 spot on the Albums chart.

I think Jason and David C will both sell a lot of downloads this week.

I was wondering why these 90 second songs are classified as “albums,” too. There are 20 Idol singles on the Top 100 albums right now.

I was wondering why these 90 second songs are classified as à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“albums,à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  too. There are 20 Idol singles on the Top 100 albums right now.

It is very odd. There must be a reason for it. It may be because they normally report tracks, but not always exclusive albums? I don’t know. It’s kind of weird. Maybe it’s because if they call them albums they can’t chart on any BB chart (they are called albums so they can’t be singles, but they have too few songs to qualify for the album charts)

I was thinking when they first did it that they would add on to the album. So, you could either by 1 track for 99 cents or all three songs that so-and-so has sung for $1.99 (last year you got a bit of a deal if you bought the entire set of singles). You would think they would at least raft up all the songs from a performance night and let you buy it at a discount.

What’s further odd is that these “albums” weren’t charting on the albums charts at all until recently. People suspected that iTunes was somehow preventing the songs from going onto the sales charts. Now we even have our popularity bars back. Looks like AI has given up on keeping this secret. Maybe they’ll give us vote totals next…woo!

Snapshot:

iTunes Top Albums
1. Imagine (American Idol Performance) – Single – David Archuleta
8. Shop Around (American Idol Performance) – Single – David Archuleta
10. Daydream (American Idol Performance) – Single – Jason Castro
14. You’re So Vain (American Idol Performance) – Single – Brooke White
16. Papa Was a Rolling Stone (American Idol Performance) – Single – David Hernandez
18. I Just Want to Be Your Everything (American Idol Performance) – Single – Jason Castro
24. Crazy On You (American Idol Performance) – Single – Carly Smithson
28. Go Your Own Way (American Idol Performance) – Single – Michael Johns
29. All Right Now (American Idol Performance) – Single – David Cook
32. Happy Together (American Idol Performance) – Single – David Cook
47. Light My Fire (American Idol Performance) – Single – Michael Johns
51. Don’t Leave Me This Way (American Idol Performance) – Single – Ramiele Malubay
53. Happy Together (American Idol Performance) – Single – Brooke White
60. More Today Than Yesterday (American Idol Performance) – Single – Alaina Whitaker
65. Hopelessly Devoted to You (American Idol Performance) – Single – Alaina Whitaker
66. Superstar (American Idol Performance) – Single – Danny Noriega
69. You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me (American Idol Performance) – Single – Ramiele Malubay
74. I Believe to My Soul (American Idol Performance) – Single – Chikezie
81. Me and Mr. Jones (American Idol Performance) – Single – Syesha Mercado
98. If You Leave Me Now (American Idol Performance) – Single – Alexandrà ©a Lushington
102. In the Midnight Hour (American Idol Performance) – Single – David Hernandez
105. Jailhouse Rock (American Idol Performance) – Single – Danny Noriega
107. Piece of My Heart (American Idol Performance) – Single – Asia’h Epperson
108. You’re No Good (American Idol Performance) – Single – Kristy Lee Cook

Can we guestimate the total for David’s No. 1 on this.?

If Janet is No. 2 as shown here..

iTunes Top 100 Albums
iTunes Store: Today’s Top 100 Albums in Pop

1. Imagine (American Idol Performance) – Single – David Archuleta

2. Discipline – Janet

3. Little Voice – Sara Bareilles

4. Shop Around (American Idol Performance) – Single – David Archuleta

5. Daydream (American Idol Performance) – Single – Jason Castro

http://www.windpowersports.com/music/pop-albums.php

Then David must have sold over 181k..am I correct?

This is article for Janet..

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003719609

Dislodging Jack Johnson from the top after a three-week reign, Janet Jackson’s “Discipline” bows at No. 1 on The Billboard 200. The Island Def Jam set moved 181,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen Soundscan, becoming the artist’s sixth chart-topper

I just re-freshed iTunes and all of the Idol albums went “poof.” I guess they really don’t want us to know. Heh.

Janet Jackson’s total sales were 180K. Itunes probably sells 10-15% of that so her sales on Itunes were around 20K or so. So David A probably sold that many downloads. I’m not sure how many dls of Buckley’s song get you to #4 though. That’s within a given time period not total sales. It could have sold 40K or more. Those numbers will be released in a week and it’ll be interesting to see what they are.

oh.. ok.. thanks for the info jpfan..I thought that would be too huge of an amount!

Then David must have sold over 181k..am I correct?

Sorry, but I don’t think so.

Janet sold 181K albums in total last week. That includes physical and digital albums (from all digital vendors, not just iTunes). Digital albums still don’t sell all that well because many people want the entire package if they are going to buy all the tracks. Digital albums account for only 10% of all albums sold last year. Last year, Maroon 5 set the record for the biggest 1 week sales numbers on iTunes at 101K (and that included 50K of pre-orders). That week, they sold 429,848 albums in total.

Plus, those are last week’s numbers (from Tuesday’s release date until Sunday). She’s predicted to have sales of 65K-70K this week (Monday morning to Sunda night). And we don’t know what the timing is for that iTunes chart. Is it for the last 7 days? 2 days? 4 days?

It’s just really hard to extract any info from that. There are just so many variables and few knowns (it would help if we had her digital album sales numbers).

Is Jeff Buckley’s Hallelujah charting higher than Lennon’s Imagine did last week?

OMG, Hallelujah is now #2 in the iTunes overall chart, beating Jordin’s No Air (*edit* and Sara Bareilles’ Love Song)

All this, in less than 24 hours!

Is Jeff Buckleyà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s Hallelujah charting higher than Lennonà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s Imagine did last week?

Yep. Lennon’s “Imagine” peaked at around 38 on Friday of last week (it was at 54 on Thursday, 103 on Wednesday).

Jeff Buckley’s “Grace” album is also seeing a surge.

OMG, Hallelujah is now #2 in the iTunes overall chart, beating Jordinà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s No Air!

To give you an idea of how well it might do if it sustains that pace, here are the numbers for the top 5 songs last week.

– 1 USHER LOVE IN THIS CLUB 197966 999 0 197966
1 2 FLO RIDA LOW 118053 -23 152622 3120515
2 3 BAREILLES*SARA LOVE SONG 112747 -6 120056 1652924
7 4 SPARKS*JORDIN NO AIR 102641 41 72915 481927
3 5 RIHANNA DON’T STOP THE MUSIC 95901 -18 116319 1267127

Thanks, Kristen. You’re amazingly quick with the charts!

From Oreo Kookie at VFTW…who is texting from the rehearsal

1) Asia’h: I Want To Dance With Somebody (a/k/a I wammuh damz wip somdoddi) – Whitney Houston

2) Kady (oreo kookie can’t remember, can’t say I blame them for that)

3) Amanda: Hate Myself For Loving You – Joan Jett

4) Ramiele: Against All Odds – Phil Collins

5) KKKristy: Faithfully . Journey

6) Brooke: Love Is A Battlefield – Pat Benatar – Is she kidding, doing this song?

That’s it – he just claimed that Nigel spotted him writing down the spoilers so he forgot the last two – obviously either CarlyPlant or Syscreecha have the pimp spot – but he’ll update us later with some more stuff.

The full spoilers are up over at TMZ.

main page http://www.tmz.com

Apparently Brooke sucks it up.

ok..Thanks Kirsten for all the chart explanation. I should have known that was too high ..LOL

Maybe this makes me a bad person because I really don’t have anything against Jordin, but…I was kind of hoping she wouldn’t outsell Taylor. I’m so sick of reading over and over again what a failure he is as the lowest-selling Idol winner, and I doubt that the media would be that harsh on Jordin if she were to assume the mantle. But she appears on-track to outsell Hicks in a few months, maybe sooner. Sigh. Good for her, but…

Wow for Hallelujah.

More numbers:

20 DAUGHTRY DAUGHTRY 23,078 24,999 -8 3,841,336
30 UNDERWOOD*CARRIE CARNIVAL RIDE 17,805 18,614 -4 1,891,634
49 SPARKS*JORDIN JORDIN SPARKS 14,737 13,801 7 538,609
58 UNDERWOOD*CARRIE SOME HEARTS 13,071 12,637 3 6,303,479

Current order of iTunes sales (Top 16 Men):

Jason – Hallelujah
David A – Another Day in Paradise
David C – Hello

(big gap)

Danny – Tainted Love
David H. – It’s All Coming Back to Me Now
Michael – Don’t You Forget About Me

(gap)

Chikezie – All the Woman I Need
Luke – Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go (just pulling ahead of Amy Davis’ Where the Boys Are…Yikes!)

Thanks so much Tony and primeminister for the info!