Jordin Sparks “Battlefield” Debuts on Billboard Charts at #7, Daughtry Falls to #2

besides no surprise, in my quick listen to the album nothing really worth listening to. Looks like a major drop in sales coming up for D

Would be cool of Michael could snag the #1 album of the year

i’m a little sad for Jordin, I thought it would do a little better than that. It’s a solid album getting pretty good reviews and she performed great leading up to its drop. I’m hoping it’ll pick up steam!

I agree with HoldMe, I did not like No Surprise but compare to other songs NS is the only song that I can listen to and the live version was worst.

I heard battlefield the other day and it sounds like a disney song, with a stupid metaphor

Albums on a whole are really down this year that’s really too bad for Jordin. but i guess as they say the music world is a single game now and her singles do good on the charts.

I really hoped the album would do better, too. They should’ve known better than to release it the same week as Demi’s, as both have pretty much the same target audience, and of course Demi’s fans are more rabid. I’m hoping she has some more solid hits that will continue to sell the album, like with what happened in her last album. She definitely deserves the success.

I’m sorry that Jordin didn’t do better, although I am not that surprised having listened to a couple of cuts.

I’m also not surprised to see Daughtry drop 63% this week, it’s actually a bit better than I thought he would do on week 2.

It looks like SoundScan re-run their data:

2 1 DAUGHTRY Leave This Town 100826 269299
7 0 SPARKS, JORDI Battlefield 47972 67

I’ll post the other nos at the Idol sales thread.

never mind I just checked Billboard and her first album peaked at #10 so she is already doing better this time around even if its not by much…personally I think she deserves the number 1 spot, she’s a very talented singer…much better than demi lovato imho, although I think Demi writes her own songs no? I think that if she goes a little more toward the R&B route she will be better off although I;m sure she will in the future…I might buy some of her songs this coming week to help her out lol its rare to find a pop singer her age that sings like she does these days…and she also seems like a nice person.

Err… I was a bit turned off of Jordin after her “not everyone wants to be a slut” statement.

Most cds drop 60 to 70% in the second week. Success really depends upon how they maintain after that.

I really hoped Jordin would do better.

Jordin had a worse opening week last time and still went platinum.

Battlefield the single jumps to #10 on the Hot 100 becoming her 3rd top 10 single.

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I’m disappointed for Jordin because her album is really great and despite TONS of promotion, it still fails to move many units. I hope it will catch up in sales just like her debut.

Daughtry is easily on his way to platinum.

Jordin had a worse opening week last time and still went platinum.

She opened with 119,000 last time and it took her over a year to reach platinum. This is pretty different right about now. The only Idol who has managed to outperform her debut album is Kelly with “Breakaway”. If Jordin can manage Gold I would consider it an accomplishment.

I’m disappointed for Jordin because her album is really great and despite TONS of promotion, it still fails to move many units. I hope it will catch up in sales just like her debut.

She’s going to have to earn her sales through radio play, just like last time around. But, the thing is she has no trouble getting radio play, which is why I’d say she’s in a more advantageous position than, say, the Davids are– looking ahead to their second albums, I mean.

Daughtry is easily on his way to platinum.

But, I don’t foresee double-platinum based on these numbers. Looking at the sales history of Daughtry’s debut record, the numbers for the first and second week weren’t remarkable, based on 2006 standards. What was remarkable, though, was the way the album kept selling after that.

Based on its track record through two weeks, “Leave This Town”, seems to be following the standard pattern for records with a 2/3 dropoff in its second week. That means it should go gold inside two months, but once it hits about 600 -700K, then it will be a long slog to reach 1M.

Of course, a lot of this depends on how successful his singles are too. If he has a string of singles successes again then he could attain multi-platinum status once more. However, overall, I’d say his numbers thus far represent evidence that the Idol sophomore sales decline is still very much in effect, and that there are NO exceptions to the rule anymore….

but once it hits about 600 -700K, then it will be a long slog to reach 1M.

I’ve noticed that too noctem seizure. The 600-700K has become a real benchmark number for idol albums. Hicks, Archuleta, come to mind, but I’m sure there are more. When albums slow down in the 600s, 700K becomes the goal, and after that, the long slog sets in with the 1M rarely obtained.

She opened with 119,000 last time and it took her over a year to reach platinum. This is pretty different right about now. The only Idol who has managed to outperform her debut album is Kelly with ‘Breakaway’ . If Jordin can manage Gold I would consider it an accomplishment.

Eep, I was going from Billboard 200 position. I guess her situation’s pretty bad now then.

Yeah, Jordin would be doing good to hit gold. If Jive finds a way to expand her fanbase (pushing her to urban radio perhaps) that could help. She needs all her singles to do very well at this point… at least platinum for each from here on out. I don’t see how she can make a profit without it. She’s not a big touring act, she doesn’t get a lot of endorsements, etc. But she can still be fine in the end.

As far as Daughtry, I keep saying that I think his album is going to follow a sales pattern much like Nickleback’s. That middlebrow rock stuff moves albums. I do think they need to get him on rock radio with the next single however. He can’t rely so heavily on pop radio this time. He should be set for platinum, it’s just how much further he goes from there.

The only 2 idols I really care about are Chris Daughtry and David Cook, the main reason I cruise through this blog (and sites like it) is for news stories on them, all else is just ‘hmmm, that’s interesting’ territory for me. I kinda like Kris Allen for his super-underdog story and I was surprised to find myself becoming a little of a Bucky Covington fan after hearing his album (and being surprised to like it), and there really aren’t any idols that I actively don’t like, but that’s my bias, just admitting it and throwing it out there.

Seems to me that not many Idol fans are Daughtry fans, and vice versa, which I hope is not taken as a criticism of anyone’s opinion, I just find it interesting and indicative of how he has managed (through the success of his career in a genre that absolutely does *not* embrace Idol) to make himself standout as a rock artist first and somehow that has translated into non-Idol fans. Conversely it seems like a lot of fans of Idol are not all that enamored of Chris.

Again, this isn’t a criticism; everyone should like who they want and I don’t particularly care (and I don’t think it matters) whether opinions on Chris are positive or negative, but I admit I was surprised when his album debuted at #1 with a massive 270k sold to a mostly thunderous silence among the Idol fans (a few scattered ‘attaboy Chris’ comments and an even larger number of ‘meh, his album is so same old sound as the first album and I’m sure he’ll eventually fail’ type comments). I just think it’s an interesting disconnect.

In my opinion, 270k the first week and 100k the 2nd week is good indication that this album is on its way to being as massive a hit as the first one was. I admit it’s far too early to call, and we’ll learn a lot over the weeks to come about it’s staying power, but I don’t see any negative signs. The debut was 30k less than the 1st album’s debut, but please remember that the first album was released at the height of Christmas shopping. To nearly match that level in July is freaking amazing (on a side-note, this goes at least a little ways to explaining how Jordin’s album was such a low number on it’s debut as compared to the first, although there’s still no getting around the fact she very much under performed). Also Daughtry has a huge advantage in that the first album was so successful that he has generated a built in fanbase that is quite large. Even if the 2nd album wasn’t very good there exists a large enough fanbase now that he will get enough exposure to push the new album to probably at least the 700k mark, but as this 2nd album is actually miles better than the first he very well could end up doing better on the 2nd album than the first.

No Surprise is doing quite well, though honestly I’m surprised by comments that it’s the only song on the album that’s any good. Despite it’s strong performance so far I think it’s actually one of the weakest songs on the album (even though I do still very much like it). As time goes on and more singles get released I think you’ll see this album will have very long legs indeed. ‘You Don’t Belong To Me’ is a massive hit waiting to happen in the Rock radio format (and will go a long way towards cementing Daughtry’s rock cred), while I can easily see ‘September’ and ‘Life after You’ as being as big or bigger hits than ‘Home’ was for AC/pop radio. Insanely catchy upbeat numbers like ‘Every Time You Turn Around’ and ‘What I Meant To Say’ are in the zone to be hits similar to ‘Over you’ and ‘It’s Not Over’, and ‘Tennessee Line’ is a cross genre surprise hit waiting to happen very much like ‘Who Says You Can’t Go Home’ was for Bon Jovi. That’s not even touching on deeper-meaning-type tracks like ‘Open Up Your Eyes’ (my personal favorite off the album).

Also consider that Daughtry does a brand of rock that virtually no one else (who is popular) is doing. Call it ‘nice guy rock’ if you like, but Daughtry has virtually pioneered this approach. It’s the virtual opposite of Motley Crue and Poison – the sex and drugs and alcohol and wild-times-anything-goes rock. The guys in Daughtry are all married, responsible, ‘good guys’ who sing songs that are wholesome as apple pie, yet still rock. The kind of thing you aren’t embarrassed to listen to with either your mother or your kids (assuming your old enough to have kids). It often surprises me how often Daughtry is compared to Nickelback, not only because they sound completely different to anyone who likes rock, but also because theme wise for lyrical content they could be more opposite.

Personally I’m extremely pleased with how well Daughtry is doing, and I foresee continued success for him, and deservedly so. Go Daughtry!

It often surprises me how often Daughtry is compared to Nickelback, not only because they sound completely different to anyone who likes rock, but also because theme wise for lyrical content they could be more opposite.

I like rock but they’ve always sounded the same to me. In fact, the only differences musically IMO is that Daughtry writes better hooks and has the better voice. I do agree about the difference in lyrical content. I also agree that his numbers so far are great, and that he should have no problem getting to platinum. I don’t think he has much chance of outselling his debut however, not because of him but because of the market. If he did about 2 mil he’d being doing great IMO.

But you bring up a good question… why is the reaction to Daughtry so blah around the internet? I don’t think he’s that popular on any idol site I’ve ever frequented. But he’s always been popular on the show and at concerts. Things that make you go hmmm….