Idols on the Billboard Decade End Charts

By On 12/28/2009 · 15 Comments · In American Idol, Charts

Last week, I brought you the Idols Billboard 2009 chart, now here’s where the Idols stand on Billboard’s decade-end charts.

American Idol debuted in the summer of 2002, giving its artists plenty of time to make their mark on the decade, and that they did.

  • See the entire chart HERE.

Check out these highlights:

There’s one #1:   Carrie Underwood’s debut album, Some Hearts is the #1 Country Album of the 00′s. It’s the highest-ranking Idol album on the Billboard 200 chart at #14. Carrie is the #10 Country Artist of the decade. “Before He Cheats” is the #14 country song and Carrie is the #13 Top Country Songs Artist.

Kelly Clarkson is #14 on the Artist of the Decade chart, #9 on Hot 100 Artists, #18 on Hot Digital artists. She’s the #2 Pop Songs Artist of the decade and #8 on Hot Adult Artists. Kelly makes 3 appearances on the Pop Songs chart. Her smash, “Since U Been Gone” is #6, “Because of You” #7 and “Behind These Hazel Eyes” #16.

The album Daughtry is #17 on the Internet Albums chart and #15 on the Digital albums chart. Daughtry are #6 on the Hot Contemporary Artists chart and #9 on the Hot Adult Artists chart.

Clay Aiken’s coronation double-sided CD single, “This is the Night/Bridge Over Troubled Water” is #5 on the Single Sales Chart. He’s the #7 Single Sales Artist. His holiday album, Merry Christmas with Love is #12 on Christian Albums, and #10 on Holiday Albums.

Jordin Sparks is the highest charting Idol on Hot Digital Songs.   Her duet with Chris Brown, “No Air” is #33, while David Cook is the highest charting Idol on the Hot Adult Contemporary Songs chart. His coronation single, “Time of My Life” is #23.

Fantasia’s “When I See U” is #8 on the Top R&B/Hip Hop Songs chart. Jennifer Hudson’s “Spotlight” is #14 on the Hot Adult R&B chart. Ruben Studdard’s Gospel Album, I Need An Angel, is #1 on the Gospel Albums chart.

All of the Idol winners make an appearance. Yes, including Taylor Hicks. His coronation single, “Do I Make You Proud” is #39 on the Singles Sales chart. A couple of Idols you wouldn’t expect made their mark this decade–Josh Gracin on the country charts and Kimberley Locke on the Dance charts.

For more, check out the Idols on Billboard’s decade-end chart right HERE.

 
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  • caroleinfla

    Of all the idols and their songs listed. I like Taylor Hicks “Do I Make You Proud” the best. He is a super entertainer.
    check out Taylor singing Maybe You Should from the cd THE DISTANCE
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXrUeW_7LLU&feature=player_embedded

  • ggdoorsfan

    kudos for ”crush” making the list for best hot digital songs for the decade… the decade… next milestone will be it hitting 2 million in downloads officially… come on ”crush” :D

  • heidijoy

    Hooray for Archie’s Crush makes 99 for Hot digital song of the DECADE=quite an accomplishment for such a young man.
    P.S. Happy 19th birthday David and the best always. We first saw you @age 16. Two years ago on American Idol ! Time flies!!!

  • goboywonder

    heidijoy
    12/28/2009 at 3:31 pm
    Hooray for Archie’s Crush makes 99 for Hot digital song of the DECADE=quite an accomplishment for such a young man.
    P.S. Happy 19th birthday David and the best always. We first saw you @age 16. Two years ago on American Idol ! Time flies!!!

    Yep, he’s hangin’ in there with the big dawgs. :)

  • hicksaholic

    carole
    Taylor’s my favorite too. Season five of AI was when the show was at it’s most popular(as evidenced by the kickoff of Season 6 getting the largest viewing audience in Idol history). Even though Taylor has not had the commercial success that others have had I still think he was responsible in large part for that popularity.

  • abbysee

    Yay Archie, Taylor and Ruben! Gotta root for the guys who get so much crap talked about them!

    Ruben just for those who won’t go and check it out has more entries for his coronation single which ranks #9, and for Change Me, which was from The Return, if I remember correctly.

  • Ladybug

    abbysee
    12/28/2009 at 6:23 pm

    Yay Archie, Taylor and Ruben! Gotta root for the guys who get so much crap talked about them!

    Thumbs up from here. Three of my very favorites. Taylor, far and away my favorite Idol ever, but love both Archie and Ruben. They have wonderful, appealing voices. Ruben was aptly named the Velvet Teddy Bear, and I always enjoy his vocals.

  • wordnerdarchie

    It’s great to see my 2 most favorite guys from Season 7 on the Billboard Decade charts. Way to go Cook and Archie for managing it with less than two years to do it in. I love “Time of my Life” (#23 on the Hot Adult Contemporary Songs chart) and “Crush (“99 on the Hot digital song chart).

  • abbysee

    Ladybug, I love them all, and I still listen to all of their music. I have a soft spot for Taylor, I love his unique voice, I love Ruben’s velvety smooth, soulful voice, and Archie’s pure amazing tone just amazes me. Say what you will about idol, but they produce stellar vocalists.

  • wand3rful

    whoop! regardless of the cheese factor…idol has produced some golden finds. i couldnt imagine not having kelly, carrie or even clay aiken in my musical/celeb life.

  • skeeter226

    NICE!! to see TAYLOR HICKS back on MJ’s blog once again! He is the ULTIMATE “LIVE” performer, and IMO the best one to come out of the show “American Idol”! He “oozes SEX appeal” without even trying, and puts on a show like nothing I have ever seen before! And I have seen LOTS~

    I wish him the BEST in this storm of comparisons to others who came out of the “show”!

    There are BIG music stars who would KILL to sell the number of CD’s that Taylor has, but as long as he will be compared to others in the AI world, he wont get the credit for what he has done…

    MJ..I “see” that you don’t seem to think much of Taylors tour with “Grease”????…thats cool….MANY feel the same way…….I just WISH you would show some of his interviews and performance videos that are EVERYWHERE! It would be NICE to show them the same way that you do for all of the other idols.

  • http://twitter.com/dianeramos4real Diane

    skeeter226, I was never a big fan of Taylor, but I do like him. I loved his enthusiasm on AI. I was watching the TV Guide sexiest stars of idol or whatever tonight, and some lady said she saw Grease, and when Taylor came onstage the place went crazy!

  • CathyMK

    It’s great to see so many Idols on those charts, especially to see all of the winners there. Idol has definitely been a force to be reckoned with in the music industry.

  • Grammie Kari

    Diane, I saw that TV Guide show and they had some great photos of Taylor. Not much to watch tonight, so I watched several episodes from Season 5. It was a great season, and Taylor was the ultimate performer. I hope he’ll have musical success in the coming year.

  • skeeter226

    I can attest to the fact that the crowd goes WILD when Taylor appears on stage at “GREASE” and it never ends until hes off. SO—- the man is doing “something” right!

    Taylor seems to NEVER stops working, and keeping himself out there, even on his OFF TIME. I give him a lot of credit for that.

    Yeah….Grammie, I think I will go and watch some more of season 5 too~ So much talent that year!