Idol Sales News – Week Ending 08/09/09

If the pattern continues, we should get two weeks worth of concert stats today. In anticapation of that, I’ll post the previous year’s stats (I’ll be out when the concert stats come out so the normal stats thread would be delayed):

July 25: N. Little Rock, AR – Kris Allen
S6: 5,324 : $333,171
S3: 2,837 : $127,570

July 26: Memphis, TN – Lil Rounds
S6: Not Available
S2: 8,622 : $348,337 – Trenyce, Kimberley, Locke

July 28: Tampa, FL
S7: 11,157 : $684,198 – Syesha Mercado
S6: 9,032 : $562,462
S5: 15,221 : $823,340
S4: 9,510 : $406,153 – Jessica Sierra
S2: 6,887 : $268,000
S1: 8,541 : $266,635

July 29: Sunrise, FL
S7: 9,183 : $571,260 – Ramiele Malubay
S6: 7,738 : $429,359
S5: 12,950 : $729,962
S4: 9,750 : $420,958 – Vonzel Solomon, Nadia Turner
S3: 5,208 : $240,042
S2: 10,220 : $376,986
S1: 10,204 : $339,462

July 31: Duluth, GA
S7: 10,016 : $627,239 – Michael Johns
S6: 7,405: $441,785
S5: 10,605 : $598,353 – Paris Bennett
S5: 10,156 : $536,435 – Paris Bennett
S4: 9,986 : $453,402
S3: 7,506 : $347,362
S2: 12,645 : $445,229
S1: 12,216 : $349,915 – RJ Helton, Ejay Day

August 1: Charlotte, NC
S7: 9,511 : $580,672
S5: 12,556 : $632,566
S2: 14,645: $477,963 – Clay Aiken

August 2: Greensboro, NC
S6: Not Available
S5: 15,337: $773,655 – Kellie Pickler, Chris Daughtry, Bucky Covington
S4: 8,374: $357,280

August 4: Washington, DC
S7: 10,441: $633,315
S6: Not Available
S5: 14,180 : $763,248
S4: 12,328: $552,194
S3: 8,071: $383,848
S2: 12,718: $493,544
S1: 13,046: $426,040 – Tamyra Gray

August 5: Baltimore, MD
S7: 9,478 : $580,464
S6: 6,824: $417,726 – Lakisha Jones

August 7: Atlantic City, NJ
S7: 12,473: $741,949
S6: Not Available
S5: 12,343: $720,068
S1: 5,272: $160,380

Note: This report contains the highest grossing concert (S5: Tampa $823,340) and highest attended concert (S5: Greensboro, 15,337) in Idol Tour history.

If these 10 Concerts report, that will be a total of 23 reports from this year.

Statistics from S7 (23 and 24 concerts reported together)
Summary (22 concerts): 213,071 of 249,497 (85%) Total Revenue: $12,943,708 Avg Revenue: $588,350
Summary (24 concerts): 235,412 of 273,701 (86%) Total Revenue: $14,291,993 Avg Revenue: $595,500

Statistics from S6:
Summary (23 concerts): 150,539 of 241,582 (63.2%) Total Revenue: $9.149 million Avg Revenue: $397,787

Not surprisingly, S5 kicked butt with S7 not far behind.

More like S5 kicking butt, S1 & S2 on its heels, then S7 not far behind.

Were those the highest rated seasons?

Did seasons 1 and 2 have the same number of venues as the later seasons?

from pulse:

JORDIN SPARKS – Battlefield = 42.420 ( 0.560)
DAUGHTRY – No Surprise = 41.861 ( 0.608)
DAVID COOK – Come Back To Me = 18.950 ( 0.116)
KELLY CLARKSON – Already Gone = 4.121 ( 0.248)

Are those the airplay #s, Anijsch?

Those are mediabase AI numbers. The usual leaker is traveling today and won’t be getting out soundscan/billboard numbers until later.

More like S5 kicking butt, S1 & S2 on its heels, then S7 not far behind

I’m not sure if that is correct. There were fewer shows in S1 and S2 and the ticket prices were considerably cheaper (ticket prices are now almost double what they were). I don’t know if the number of tickets sold in S1 and S2 did better percentage-wise for the whole tour than S7, but in terms of total number of tickets sold and revenue grossed they certainly did much worse. Taking everything into consideration, I’d say S5 is the top, next S4 or S7, followed by S1 and S2, S6 next to bottom (although the much higher ticket price means that the revenue may be greater than S1 or S2), with S3 being the most unpopular and least profitable.

Those are mediabase AI numbers. The usual leaker is traveling today and won’t be getting out soundscan/billboard numbers until later.

Sorry, was in a little bit of a hurry, should have looked more closely.

13 American Idols Live Verizon Arena
North Little Rock, Ark.
July 25, 2009
$820,823
14,288 /
14,288
1 /
1

24 American Idols Live Arena at Gwinnett Center
Duluth, Ga.
July 31, 2009
$609,458
10,050 /
10,050
1 /
1

25 American Idols Live Time Warner Cable Arena
Charlotte, N.C.
Aug. 1, 2009
$592,314
9,567 /
13,067
1 /
0

26 American Idols Live St. Pete Times Forum
Tampa, Fla.
July 28, 2009
$579,523
9,347 /
13,036
1 /
0

27 American Idols Live BankAtlantic Center
Sunrise, Fla.
July 29, 2009
$576,137
9,003 /
12,209
1 /
0

31 American Idols Live FedExForum
Memphis, Tenn.
July 26, 2009
$506,216
8,034 /
11,689
1 /
0

Wow, it took me forever to check this thread again. Sorry about that.

I’m not sure if that is correct. There were fewer shows in S1 and S2 and the ticket prices were considerably cheaper (ticket prices are now almost double what they were). I don’t know if the number of tickets sold in S1 and S2 did better percentage-wise for the whole tour than S7, but in terms of total number of tickets sold and revenue grossed they certainly did much worse. Taking everything into consideration, I’d say S5 is the top, next S4 or S7, followed by S1 and S2, S6 next to bottom (although the much higher ticket price means that the revenue may be greater than S1 or S2), with S3 being the most unpopular and least profitable.

I was actually talking about the percentage of seats sold. On the numbers Kirsten posted, it looked like they sold more seats in their venues for the most part than season 7. But I’m sure your analysis is also correct.

Arggh. I hate it when we can’t get numbers until late in the day or week. I know that all of the numbers are by the grace of the leakers/sources, but I get used to having at least some numbers by now….

Not sure how to say which seasons did the best, other than that Season 5 kicked ass on the tour, and that it definitely looks like the least popular seasons (3 and 6) did the worst. It’s messier comparing the ones in between.

I’m surprised AI didn’t do another concert in Arkansas. Nice that Kris’s home town sold out.

Numbers from Idol Chatter –

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/idolchatter/post/2009/08/american-idol-sales-daughtry-jordin-sparks–the-walmart-ep/1

Albums:

Daughtry, Leave This Town (44,000, -29 percent, 476,000 total/6,000 digital, -36 percent, 95,000 digital total)

Soundtrack, Hannah Montana 3 (34,000, -17 percent, 339,000/1,000 digital, -25 percent, 27,000 digital total)

Various, American Idol Season 8 EP (24,000, debut, 24,000)

Jordin Sparks, Battlefield (11,000, -33 percent, 77,000/1,000 digital, -53 percent, )

Kelly Clarkson, All I Ever Wanted (6,000, -9 percent, 668,000/1,000 digital, -18 percent, 142,000 digital total)

Kellie Pickler, Kellie Pickler (5,000, -3 percent, 289,000)

Carrie Underwood, Carnival Ride (5,000, -7 percent, 2.945 million)

Various, American Idol Season 8 (5,000, -17 percent, 54,000)

Daughtry, Daughtry (5,000, -4 percent, 4.509 million/377,000 digital total)

David Cook, David Cook (5,000, 12 percent, 1.218 million/150,000 digital total)

Carrie Underwood, Some Hearts (3,000, -6 percent, 6.825 million)

Digital Tracks:

Jordin Sparks, Battlefield [Main Version] (65,000, -15 percent, 686,000 total)

Daughtry, No Surprise (32,000, -10 percent, 607,000)

Kellie Pickler, Best Days of Your Life (26,000, -7 percent, 723,000)

Kelly Clarkson, Already Gone (24,000, 41 percent, 125,000)

David Cook, Come Back to Me (11,000, 5 percent, 309,000)

Kelly Clarkson, I Do Not Hook Up (11,000, -25 percent, 595,000)

Kelly Clarkson, My Life Would Suck Without You (10,000, -12 percent, 2.053 million)

Some more numbers:

11 13 SPARKS*JORDIN BATTLEFIELD 65077 -15 76793 686001
35 37 DAUGHTRY NO SURPRISE 33692 -10 37508 613664

A FEW BONUSES:
100 68 CLARKSON*KELLY ALREADY GONE 23885 41 16993 125460
151 139 COOK*DAVID COME BACK TO ME 10942 5 10445 308939

Here’s how Hot 100 Airplay ended up before recurrents were removed:
No. 19 – Jordin Sparks ( 2.5 million)
No. 27 – Daughtry ( 3.3 million)
No. 82 – David Cook ( 0.8 million)
No. 501 – Kelly Clarkson ( 1.7 million) Already Gone

And Streaming:

No. 17 No Surprise
No. 19 Battlefield

Hot 100:
13 16 JORDIN SPARKS BATTLEFIELD
32 27 DAUGHTRY NO SURPRISE
87 87 DAVID COOK COME BACK TO ME
– 89 KELLY CLARKSON ALREADY GONE

There may be others in the Hot 100, etc., but this is just what has leaked.