Monday Morning Mediabase Update – 12/22/08

David Cook:
à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Time of My Lifeà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ : 6 AC (5)
à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Light Onà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ : ^11 AC (11), ^23 Pop (24)

Great numbers for Dave. :smile1_tb:

Happy Holidays. :smile1_tb:

à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Light Onà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ : ^11 AC (11)

I may be mistaken, but I think that’s on HAC?

Now… back to hoping for holiday leaks.

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So – Appearantly no HDD updates today, and no Ken Barnes this week either. I’m guessing if anything comes out, it’ll only be the Top 10 from Yahoo and Billboard, or is even that out of the question?

Oh well, this might be a good time to complete my long neglected final papers. \:

I may be mistaken, but I think thatà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s on HAC?

Right you are. Thanks for the correction!

So – Appearantly no HDD updates today, and no Ken Barnes this week either. Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢m guessing if anything comes out, ità ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ll only be the Top 10 from Yahoo and Billboard, or is even that out of the question

Billboard might publish. SoundScan will have it’s numbers out and they may leak. The problem is that a lot of the leakers will likely be on vacation as well. They may leak later in the week than usual. The numbers are what they are. Knowing them sooner won’t change them. Two years ago, a bunch of us re-constructed the Christmas Top 200 based on the week after Christmas numbers (when not working on the King William’s Quiz). It’s a tough time for the numbers watchers. You’ll never know what you might get. It will eventually be figured out. Maybe we’ll get an early Christmas present. Okay, enough rambling. The answer is a firm maybe.

Honestly, Magic Rainbow’s stranglehold on the HAC is just remarkable. After all these months, to continue to be in the Top 10 is just nutty. It just will not die. Hee.

Great news about LO, too.

Thanks Kirsten. I hope BB will publish numbers, but since I’m on vacation through New Years, I can hardly grouse if others decide to rest as well.

TOML — The Magic Rainbow That Would Not Die

LOL. Crush has a bullet in AC. I love that song.

I was NOT expecting this, but HDD updated… in FINAL.

10 13 DAVID COOK 19/RCA/RMG 132,527 27%
21 22 DAVID ARCHULETA 19/JIVE/ZLG 81,735 37%

Congrats to DA on GOLD!

Top 25:

1 1 TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE 329,732 30%
FEARLESS
– 2 KEYSHIA COLE GEFFEN 324,077 –
A DIFFERENT ME
– 3 JAMIE FOXX J RECORDS/RMG 261,754 –
INTUITION
3 4 BEYONCE COLUMBIA 196,988 22%
I AM… SASHA FIERCE
2 5 BRITNEY SPEARS JIVE/ZLG 195,836 2%
CIRCUS
4 6 NICKELBACK ROADRUNNER 195,166 21%
DARK HORSE
5 7 TWILIGHT ATLANTIC 162,702 22%
SOUNDTRACK
– 8 FALL OUT BOY ISLAND/IDJMG 145,651 –
FOLIE A DEUX
8 9 AC/DC COLUMBIA 142,139 29%
BLACK ICE
7 10 NOW 29 UME 141,482 20%
VARIOUS ARTISTS
6 11 KANYE WEST ROC-A-FELLA/IDJMG 140,422 10%
808S & HEARTBREAK
– 12 ANTHONY HAMILTON LAFACE/ZLG 132,760 –
POINT OF IT ALL
10 13 DAVID COOK 19/RCA/RMG 132,527 27%
DAVID COOK
13 14 ENYA REPRISE 119,210 51%
AND WINTER CAME
9 15 HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL: SENIOR YEAR WALT DISNEY RECORDS 108,414 0%
SOUNDTRACK
– 16 PLIES ATLANTIC 106,839 –
DA REALIST
16 17 IL DIVO COLUMBIA 100,698 41%
PROMISE
14 18 FAITH HILL WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE 97,683 31%
JOY TO THE WORLD
35 19 MAMMA MIA! DECCA 94,769 118%
SOUNDTRACK
18 20 P!NK LAFACE/ZLG 86,179 35%
FUNHOUSE
22 21 JONAS BROTHERS HOLLYWOOD 81,938 39%
A LITTLE BIT LONGER
21 22 DAVID ARCHULETA 19/JIVE/ZLG 81,735 37%
DAVID ARCHULETA
17 23 ELVIS PRESLEY LEGACY 77,006 19%
ELVIS PRESLEY CHRISTMAS DUETS
– 24 ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS DGC/INTERSCOPE 76,646 –
WHEN THE WORLD COMES DOWN
28 25 TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE 71,876 41%
TAYLOR SWIFT

You just answered my headlines thread question. LMAO! Congrats Archie!

OMG. DC sold six figures again? 132K in 5 weeks? Insane.

Congrats on Archie – that’s awesome. Great 18th birthday present, too.

So by my calculations, DCTR has sold over 714k units in 5 weeks. AWESOME.

Geesh, it’s becoming redundant and rather obvious, but I must say it again, 19 and Idol should be sending the Davids a really nice Christmas gift. They lucked out with two amazing talents who seem to have be developing a growing fanbase outside of AI. Let’s hope it continues strongly for them both in 2009.

I can’t believe both David’s got gold for their birthdays! Wow! I’m so happy!

(Edited cause apparently they updated in one fell swoop to final) Woohoo for both the guys!!! Yay for Archie selling gold!

Michelle, I believe those were the final numbers. HDD didn’t publish anything before hand. Published as final.

They lucked out with two amazing talents who seem to have be developing a growing fanbase outside of AI. Letà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s hope it continues strongly for them both in 2009.

Truth!

Yay, numbers!!!!!!!! Wheeeeeee!

132k? Way to top the HDD predictions yet again, David Cook! If this holds, he’s at ~714,500, and that’s a pretty pretty number for 5 weeks out. *proud tears for Cookie*
Hopefully this holds and next week doesn’t see too much of a drop.

Congrats to Archie on reaching gold for his birthday, too!

Wow, Cookie gold after 4 weeks and Archie gold after 6 weeks. Truly amazing. Congratulations to both Davids!!!!! No lumps of coal for these two guys in their stockings for Christmas…..gold nuggets all around.

Happy Golden 18th Bday Archie!!!!

Gold in six weeks. That’s fantastic. It took Crush seven weeks to go gold and that was awesome but I didn’t know quite what to expect for the album. So proud of David. Here’s hoping for Platinum in 2009 for David Archuleta the album too.

Congrats on Cook’s awesome success as well.

HDD really surprised everyone by posting these up so soon!

This is awesome!! Go Archie!!!

Now, with these two guys doing as well as they are, can the peeps who work at Idol please stop blaming the TALENT for the drop in ratings, especially for Season 7? I’m so sick of hearing Simon say they were boring, “too many blonds” (??!), etc. The issue is with the show, clearly, and not the performers, as the public is embracing this year’s winner and runner up! Put a sock in it, Cowell, and let Season 8 contestants sing something from this century, please! *end rant*

Wow, Cookie gold after 4 weeks and Archie gold after 6 weeks. Truly amazing. Congratulations to both Davids!!!!! No lumps of coal for these two guys in their stockings for Christmasà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦..gold nuggets all around.

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tatiana- I can’t for the life of me figure out why some people act like Idol is dropping like a bomb, when it was still one of the hottest shows on tv this year. It is natural for a show after 7 years to drop a little in ratings. People have very little attention span and lose interest, but for goodness sakes, the show was still very highly rated!!

And I agree that they should let the contestants sing some newer songs. I know that DA tried to get many songs approved and couldn’t for who knows what reason. Can you imagine if he had been allowed to do 1000 miles for the show or some other newers songs?!!!

IIRC, American Idol was still the number 1 ranked TV program nationally. Their numbers (total viewing audience) might be down, but the rankings are still solid gold.

Amen Tatiana! Simon needs to put a cork in it! The producers are the culprit.. Neil Diamond week.. *snort*

Eh, who cares what Simon Cowell has to say, anyway?

HDD gifted us with a chart after telling us last week that there wasn’t going to be one this week. And the chart is so very, very nice. Makes me downright cheerful. (Probably abetted by the wine.)

tatiana- I canà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t for the life of me figure out why some people act like Idol is dropping like a bomb, when it was still one of the hottest shows on tv this year. It is natural for a show after 7 years to drop a little in ratings. People have very little attention span and lose interest, but for goodness sakes, the show was still very highly rated!!

LK – it’s ridiculous. When you consider the show had been on its 7th season (even popular shows follow a peak and then slow descent pattern) as well as the overall decline in Broadcast TV ratings due to increased Cable use, DVR’s, online streaming, etc, its crazy to blame the contestants of all things when the whole industry is in flux right now

And I agree that they should let the contestants sing some newer songs. I know that DA tried to get many songs approved and couldnà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t for who knows what reason. Can you imagine if he had been allowed to do 1000 miles for the show or some other newers songs?!!!

I’m SURE he wanted to do this song, maybe even on finale night. I think Idol should stop the “manipulations” and let things play out fairly and naturally – but then they might not get the story arc that they want out of the season. And who knows, they have produced the top rated show for all these years – maybe there is some method to their madness.

IGetCranked – I agree with you, the themes were ridiculous this year! They didn’t even get to sing semi-modern songs until what was it, Inspiration Week or Mariah week? And I think one week they should have to all write and perform their own lyrics/melody to the same backing track (they did this challenge on Rock Star and it was really cool!)

Here’s the official 2008 Mediabase year-end AC chart. Top 50 songs
4 DAUGHTRY Home RCA/RMG
12 DAVID COOK Time Of My Life RCA/RMG
13 ELLIOTT YAMIN Wait For You Hickory/RED
14 JORDIN SPARKS Tattoo 19/Jive/Zomba
16 DAUGHTRY Feels Like Tonight RCA/RMG
18 CARRIE UNDERWOOD Before He Cheats 19/Arista
31 JORDIN SPARKS f/CHRIS BROWN No Air 19/Jive/Zomba
37 KIMBERLEY LOCKE Band Of Gold Reprise/Curb
39 KIMBERLEY LOCKE Fall Reprise/Curb
41 DAUGHTRY Over You RCA/RMG
45 DAVID ARCHULETA Crush 19/Jive/Zomba

Lots of older songs because this is a very s l o w m o v i n g chart.