Idol Sales News – Week Ending 08/26/07

Idol Related Sales Numbers after the jump (BillBoard issue date 09/08/07)

Digital Download Numbers
33 Elliott Yamin “Wait For You” 32, 532 (19%) Total: 586, 66 (38)
66 Daughtry “Over You” 17K (27%) Total: 162K (89)
67 Carrie Underwood “Before He Cheets” 16K (-8%) Total: 1.75M (64)
79 Daughtry “Home” 15K (4%) Total: 989K (80)
111 Kelly Clarkson/Reba McEntire “Because of You” 9K (8%) Total: 118K (127)
119 Kelly Clarkson “Never Again” 8K (-13%) Total: 818K (110)
134 Daughtry “It’s Not Over” 7K (2%) Total: 1.44M (141)
158 Bucky Covington “A Different World” 6K (-10%) Total: 166K (145)

Album Numbers
33 Daughtry “Daughtry” 20, 206 (-2%) Total: 3, 043, 302 (33)
45 Kelly Clarkson “My December” 15, 107 (-20%) Total: 618, 991 (36)
47 Carrie Underwood “Some Hearts” 14, 052 (-12%) Total: 5, 880, 312 (42)
76 Elliott Yamin “Elliott Yamin” 9, 086 (14%) Total: 370, 558 (89)
115 Bucky Covington “Bucky Covington” 5, 809 (-21%) Total: 260, 326 (97)
129 Mandisa “True Beauty” 5, 123 (-12%) Total: 36K (122) [19, 762]
147 Kellie Pickler “Small Town Girl” 4, 856 (-9%) Total: 616, 365 (140)
188 Fantasia “Fantasia” 4, 015 (3%) Total: 463, 207 (193)

Off Chart:
Kelly Clarkson “Breakaway” 5K (lw 6K) Total: 5.84M
Constantine “Constantine” 2.3K (-40%) Total: 15K (198)
Katharine McPhee “Katharine McPhee” 900 (lw 1.2K) Total: 353K
Taylor Hicks “Taylor Hicks” 400 (lw 500) Total: 694K
Clay Aiken “A Thousand Ways” 300 (lw 300) Total: 517K
Ruben Studdard “The Return” 300 (lw 300) Total: 233K
Paris Bennett “Princess P” 200 (lw 200) Total: 19K
Kimberley Locke “Based on a True Story” 200 (lw 200) Total 15K

Dreamgirls Soundtrack: 1.1M (232K for the deluxe edition included in that total)

Rounded numbers from Ken Barnes at Idol Chatter

Albums sold this week: 8.05 million. Down 4.9% from last week and 15.6% from the same week last year. Only 1 album sold more than 100K this week.

Please post numbers as you find them. Thanks.

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