Idol Sales News – Week Ending 09/16/07

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Idol Related Sales Numbers after the jump (Billboard issue date 09/22/07)

Digital Download Numbers
40 Daughtry “Over You” 24,343 (11%) Total: 227,583 (40)
42 Elliott Yamin “Wait For You” 23,066 (-9%) Total: 663,388 (31)
47 Carrie Underwood “So Small” 21,112 (-54%) Total: 138,612 (14)
76 Carrie Underwood “Before He Cheats” 14K (-17) Total: 1.80M (61)
89 Daughtry “Home” 12K (-5%) Total: 1.03M (86)
122 Kelly Clarkson/Reba McEntire “Because of You” 8K (-10%) Total: 142K
187 Daughry “It’s Not Over” 6K (-7%) Total: 1.46M (162)
190 Kelly Clarkson “Never Again” 5K (-20%) Total: 837K (130)

Katharine McPhee “Over It” 2K Total: 490K

Album Numbers
21 Daughtry “Daughtry” 22,815 (16%) Total: 3,105,617 (22)
48 Carrie Underwood “Some Hearts” 12,113 (-7%) Total: 5,919,215 (44)
70 [71] Kelly Clarkson “My December” 8,136 (-19%) Total: 642,080 (53)
78 [77] Elliott Yamin “Elliott Yamin” 8K (-13.2%) Total: 390,365 (63)
142 [143]Mandisa “True Beauty” 4,342 (23%) Total: 48K (195) [25,575]
181 [182] Bucky Covington “Bucky Covington” 3,681 (-21%) Total: 274,015 (130)
195 [196]Fantasia à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Fantasiaà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  3,345 (-2%) Total: 473,471 (OFF)
200 [201] Kellie Pickler “Small Town Girl” 3,290 (-13%) Total: 627,668 (177)

[The SS numbers that I found had slightly different numbers than the ones that Ken posted. Those numbers are in brackets]

Off Chart:
Kelly Clarkson “Breakaway” 4.8K (lw 4.8K) Total: 5.9M
Katharine McPhee “Katharine McPhee” 800 (lw 900) Total: 356K
Constantine “Constantine” 800 (lw 1.2K, ) Total: 19K
Taylor Hicks “Taylor Hicks” 300 (lw 300) Total: 695K
Carmen Rasmusen “Nothin’ Like the Summer” 300 (lw 400) Total:1.7K
Kimberley Locke “Based on a True Story” 200 (lw 100) Total: 16K
Clay Aiken “A Thousand Ways” 200 (lw 200) Total: 518K
Ruben Studdard “The Return” 200 (lw 200) Total: 234K
Paris Bennett “Princess P” 100 (lw 200) Total: 19K

Total Albums Sold this week: 9.16 million units
Up 24.6% from last week (7.36 million units) down 8.82% from same week last year (10.05 million units).

This week last year, Justin Timberlake debuted with 684K and John Mayer with 300K. Over the last ten years, the average the #1 album sold 358,889 during this same week.

 
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  • Kirsten

    Some pretty impressive numbers wrapped up this week for Kanye and the gang (and it’s nice to have some good news to report), so let’s sum it up:

    Albums:

    1. Kanye: 957K (15th best debut week for an album in SS history)
    2. 50 Cent: 691K (second week in SS history where 2 albums debuted with > 600K)
    3. Kenny: 387K (biggest country opening week since May, 2006)
    4. HSM2: 133K (top 4 albums this week sold 2.2M…more than last weeks Top 200 albums)

    Digital Albums (included in the above totals):
    1. Kanye: 133K (most # of digital albums sold in a week beating Maroon 5 who earlier set the record with 102K)
    2. 50 Cent: 58K
    4. Kenny: 36K

    Download Tracks:
    1 Kanye West “Stronger” 205,177 (31%) Total: 1,049,260 (2)
    3 50 Cent “Ayo Technology” 115,165 (112%) Total: 369,375 (10)
    4 Kanye West “Good Life” 95,702 (NEW) Total: 95,702 (NEW)
    14 50 Cent “I Get Money” 51,648 (NEW) Total: 60,530 (NEW)
    26 Kenny Chesney “Don’t Blink” 36,713 (NEW) Total: 36,722 (NEW)
    31 Kanye West “Can’t Tell Me Nothing 31,598 (103%)172,925 (66)

    Kanye has the number 1 album, number 1 digital album and number 1 digital download. He may very well get the number 1 on the Hot 100 which would make him the first person to manage to top both the BB200 and Hot 100 in the same week since Avril did with “Girlfriend”.

    BTW, Kanye was also number 1 on the UK chart this week. He sold more than 324,980 copies of “Stronger” to go platinum in 1 week.

    Nice start for Q4 for the industry!

    Here are some historical numbers from 2m over at Pulse

    Top one week sales in soundscan history

    1 4/8/2000 No Strings Attached ‘N Sync 2,415,859
    2 8/11/2001 Celebrity ‘N Sync 1,879,955
    3 6/10/2000 The Marshall Mathers LP Eminem 1,760,049
    4 12/9/2000 Black & Blue Backstreet Boys 1,591,191
    5 6/15/2002 The Eminem Show Eminem 1,320,000
    6 6/3/2000 Oops…I Did It Again Britney Spears 1,319,193
    7 1/6/2001 1 The Beatles 1,258,667
    8 3/19/2005 The Massacre 50 Cent 1,140,638
    9 6/5/1999 Millennium Backstreet Boys 1,133,505
    10 4/10/2004 Confessions Usher 1,096,213
    11 12/5/1998 Double Live Garth Brooks 1,085,373
    12 1/2/1993 The Bodyguard Soundtrack 1,061,000
    13 11/4/2000 Chocolate Starfish Limp Bizkit 1,054,511
    14 2/28/2004 Feels Like Home Norah Jones 1,022,149
    15 11/6/1993 Vs. Pearl Jam 950,377
    16 1/7/1995 The Hits Garth Brooks 907,000

  • ealbino

    Kirsten, Thank you for all the info. :clap_tb:I love to see numbers for all of today’s artists. I don’t know how you do it but just keep em coming.. Sending a virtual bouquet of roses for ya…and for MJ! :-)

  • http://myspace.com/saltwatercures pj

    Thanks, Kirsten. That’s interesting. 2000 was a great year for album sales.

  • Tony

    1 4/8/2000 No Strings Attached à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã‹N Sync 2,415,859

    Holy frijoles.

  • jpfan

    From Ken Barnes:
    Anyway, one-third of those collective Idol sales belonged to Daughtry, still the year’s best-selling album. This week it had a nice jump, 22-21 on the chart and a 16% sales increase to 23,000, for a total of 3.11 million.

    Carrie follows, falling 44-48 after selling 12,000 (down 7%). Her total is 5.92 million, which puts it just behind Nickelback as the biggest-selling album currently on the chart.

    Kelly drops 53-70 after a 19% slide to 9,000 copies. Her total is 651,000. Elliott also drops, 63-76, down 13.2% in sales to 8,000 for a total of 399,000.

    Mandisa has a nice rebound, 195-142, staving off a departure from the chart. Possibly sale-priced at key locations last week? It sold 4,000, up 23%, and has a total of 48,000.

    Bucky drops drastically, 130-181, selling somewhat under 4,000, a 21% drop. Total is 274,000. Kellie is also down, 177-200, selling somewhat more than 3,000, down 13%, for a total of 628,000. Likely to fall off the chart, but these things are tough to predict — see Mandisa and also the improbable return to the chart this week of Fantasia, who rebounds to No. 195 after a couple of weeks off the chart. The odd thing is she sold about 2% fewer records this week, in the low mid-3,000s, but the levels at the bottom of the top 200 dropped enough to allow her to sneak back on (and Kellie to remain on). Fantasia’s total is 473,000.

  • jpfan

    Wow. Paris has sold more albums than Kim Locke. That’s weird.

  • Kirsten

    Hot 100 Numbers:

    22 Elliott Yamin “Wait For You” (18)
    36 Daughtry “Home” (31)
    37 Daughtry “Over You” (38)
    39 Carrie Underwood “Before He Cheats” (32)
    44 Carrie Underwood “So Small” (25)

    Kanye did get #1 on the Hot 100 (to go with his #1 on the BB200). Kanye also got #14 and #41. 50 cent managed to get #5 and #20. While Kenny got 30 and 50.

    Meanwhile, Britney managed to move up to 75 from 85 despite that VMA performance and Feist got 61 (her song is being used in a Apple Nano ad)

  • Nevada

    SoundScan is in:

    21 DAUGHTRY 22,815 19,669 16 3,105,617
    48 CARRIE UNDERWOOD – SOME HEARTS 12,113 13,019 -7 5,919,215
    71 KELLY CLARKSON – MY DECEMBER 8,806 10,813 -19 650,886
    77 ELLIOTT YAMIN 8,136 9,377 -13 398,501
    142 MANDISA TRUE BEAUTY 4,342 3,523 23 25,575*
    181 COVINGTON*BUCKY BUCKY COVINGTON 3,681 4,649 -21 274,015
    195 FANTASIA FANTASIA 3,345 3,396 -2 473,471
    200 PICKLER*KELLIE SMALL TOWN GIRL 3,290 3,769 -13 627,668

    * Mandisa’s SS numbers apparently do not include sales in Christian stores.

  • gabam

    Those TV appearances that Daughtry made last week really paid off with nice increases in sales. Go Daughtry!