Idol Sales News – Week Ending 05/24/15

The HDD final charts are in and as we predicted last week, the new Voice winner, Sawyer Fredericks makes both charts. Sawyer moved 10,698 of his compilation album which was good enough for a top 24 debut on the sales chart. Once you add in his single sales (does HDD count youtube streams – does the BB200?) Sawyer climbs to 6th on the combined chart with 41,280 (meaning 30,592 TEAs or 305,920 singles sold last week). The Voice stars will really get a lift from these new combined rules. Those are probably pretty accurate numbers for Sawyer because he only sells on iTunes and iTunes reports to HDD.

As everybody expected, twenty | one | pilots tops both charts. This will be the duo’s first number one album. The name of the group is based on the plot of a play by Arthur Miller called “All My Sons”. It’s Arthur Miller, so you know there is some angst and soul searching. A character in the play must live with the guilt of causing the death of twenty one pilots during World War II because he knowingly sent out faulty plane parts for the good of his business.

Taylor Swift sold a monster amount of singles and answered the question “Do remixes not on the album count toward TEAs and SEAs for the album?” with a resounding “YES”. The Top 10 of the combined chart is heavily impacted by TEAs and SEAs this week. Not only does Sawyer move into the top 10, but so do Meghan, Ed and Fifty Shades. Pitch Perfect 2 (featuring a track featuring Pentatonix) gets shifted down 1, ZEDD does as well and Brantley Gilbert moves down 4. Jamie Foxx, Josh Groban, Brandon Flowers and Faith No More all fall out of the top 10. Only twenty | one | pilots and Mumford and Sons hold their ground between the two charts.

Now 54 features One Direction, Kelly Clarkson and Tori Kelly and makes the sales chart at 13th and 22nd on the combined. Fifth Harmony moves onto the combined chart for 32nd.

Sales Chart
LW TW Artist / Album Label Sales Index % Change
— 1 TWENTY ONE PILOTS BLURRYFACE FUELED BY RAMEN 134,022 —
1 2 PITCH PERFECT 2 SOUNDTRACK UME 54,649 -40%
9 3 TAYLOR SWIFT 1989 BIG MACHINE 40,233 89%
— 4 ZEDD TRUE COLORS INTERSCOPE 39,834 —
— 5 JAMIE FOXX HOLLWOOD: A STORY OF A DOZEN ROSES RCA 28,217 —
42 6 BRANTLEY GILBERT JUST AS I AM VALORY 27,965 756%
4 7 JOSH GROBAN STAGES REPRISE 27,738 -25%
— 8 BRANDON FLOWERS THE DESIRED EFFECT ISLAND 26,922 —
2 9 MUMFORD & SONS WILDER MIND GLASSNOTE 25,662 -49%
— 10 FAITH NO MORE SOL INVICTUS IPECAC 25,500 —

3 13 NOW 54 VARIOUS ARTISTS NOW 22,894 -33%
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— 24 FREDERICKS SAWYER THE COMPLETE SEASON 8 COLLECTION REPUBLIC 10,689 —
21 25 MAROON 5 V 222/INTERSCOPE 10,219 20%

23 29 EMPIRE CAST SOUNDTRACK, SEASON 1 TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX/COLUMBIA 9,302 10%

Sales Plus Streaming Chart (sales+track equivalent albums+stream equivalent albums)
LW TW Artist / Album Label SPS Index % Change [TEAs/SEAS, Position Change]
— 1 TWENTY ONE PILOTS BLURRYFACE FUELED BY RAMEN 139,022 — [5K, 0]
11 2 TAYLOR SWIFT 1989 BIG MACHINE 91,568 179% [51.3K, +1]
1 3 PITCH PERFECT 2 SOUNDTRACK UME 66,831 -38% [12.2K, -1]
12 4 MEGHAN TRAINOR TITLE EPIC 49,370 53% [24.5K, +7]
— 5 ZEDD TRUE COLORS INTERSCOPE 48,175 — [8.3K, -1]
— 6 SAYWER FREDERICKS THE COMPLETE SEASON 8 COLLECTION REPUBLIC 41,280 — [30.6K, +16]
13 7 ED SHEERAN X ATLANTIC 36,451 22% [15.8K, +7]
3 8 FIFTY SHADES OF GREY SOUNDTRACK REPUBLIC 35,003 -26% [16.9, +8]
2 9 MUMFORD & SONS WILDER MIND GLASSNOTE 34,628 -45% [9K, 0]
— 10 BRANTLEY GILBERT JUST AS I AM VALORY 34,465 392% [6.4K, -4]
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19 19 MAROON 5 V 222/INTERSCOPE 24,674 8% [14.2K, +6]
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10 22 NOW 54 VARIOUS ARTISTS NOW 22,894 -33% [0, -9]
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— 32 FIFTH HARMONY REFLECTION EPIC 15,984 — [Not on Sales Chart]
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40 39 EMPIRE CAST SOUNDTRACK, SEASON 1 TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX/COLUMBIA 12,739 11% [3.4K, -10]
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— 49 BLAKE SHELTON BRINGING BACK THE SUNSHINE WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE 10,367 69% [Not on Sales Chart]

HDD’s Sales Plus Streaming Chart

SS Digital Songs sales #s:

FREDERICKS*SAWYER PLEASE 118,125
FREDERICKS*SAWYER OLD MAN 71,876
LINSEY*MEGHAN CHANGE MY MIND 50,343
DAVIS*JOSHUA WORKINGMAN’S HYMN 30,679 +999% (total sales: 30,731)
HAWTHORNE*KORYN BRIGHT FIRE 26,715
DAVIS*JOSHUA HALLELUJAH 26,386
LINSEY*MEGHAN WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMAN 25,108
FREDERICKS*SAWYER & PHARRELL W SUMMER BREEZE 20,474
DAVIS*JOSHUA & ADAM LEVINE DIAMONDS ON THE SOLES OF HER S 18,792
HAWTHORNE*KORYN IT’S A MAN’S MAN’S MAN’S WORLD 18,224
FREDERICKS*SAWYER THOUSAND YEARS 15,835 ?68% (total sales: 65,713)
FREDERICKS*SAWYER SIMPLE MAN 12,318 +52% (total sales: 87,524)
FREDERICKS*SAWYER I’M A MAN OF CONSTANT SORROW 9,674 +102% (total sales: 94,273)
LINSEY*MEGHAN AMAZING GRACE 9,182 +34% (total sales: 51,183)
FREDERICKS*SAWYER FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH 7,902 ?81% (total sales: 49,596)

(6) FREDERICKS*SAWYER
COMPLETE SEASON 8 COLLECTION
40,827 (total with TEA)
10,956 (album sales)
298,712 (track sales)
10,956 (digital album sales)

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