Phillip Phillips “Home” Goes Triple Platinum!

By On 12/27/2012 · 166 Comments · In American Idol, Charts, Phillip Phillips

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Congratulations to American Idol winner, Phillip Phillips! His mega hit song “Home” has now gone mega platinum! The ubiquitous tune sold 110K downloads this week, putting sales just over the 3M mark.

“Home” has captured the No. 1 spot on six Billboard Charts, according to Hollywood Reporter, including on Rock Digital Songs, Hot Digital Songs, Hot Digital Tracks, Triple A and Triple A Audience. It has also been played on Adult Contemporary, Hot Adult Contemporary, Triple A, Pop and Alternative Rock radio formats.

Like I said..ubiquitous! The next single, to be released to radio after the first of the year, is “Gone Gone Gone”.

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  • fuzzywuzzy

    “Home is the real winner here and P2 got lucky enough to go along for the ride.  If he’s pulled in fans of his “style”, well good for him. ”

    I agree. Thing is, P2′s own songs aren’t like Home (or even GGG) in that they aren’t very melodic or catchy (=hummable), so it remains to be seen if there’s too much of a disconnect between Home/GGG and P2′s own songs that will prevent fans from liking his own music.

  • Anny_nanny

    In those seasons was who and with whom to fight. Now here is Phillip and burned the steppe around. And on the other end of the scale there are stolid fans Phillip (me) and very vocal rest of the contestants. I expect the emergence of choirs everywhere as soon as the album release Jessica’s. And a short yelp when release Colton. But I’ll wage war with them will not, laziness to me.

  • girlygirltoo

    I asked the Entertainment Weekly reporter who reviewed Phillip’s album whether he thought it would hurt P2 having 2 straight singles that were not written by him, since he is being marketed as a singer/songwriter in the AAA genre. I thought his response was interesting — he said it probably wouldn’t hurt him that much, as AAA radio is becoming more pop oriented, so the artists are not necessarily expected to write all their own stuff. He said it would have hurt Phillip more if his music had been released  a few years earlier.

  • Karen C

    AAA radio is becoming more pop oriented, so the artists are not necessarily expected to write all their own stuff. He said it would have hurt Phillip more if his music had been released a few years earlier.

    That’s very interesting.  Maybe that is also why AAA was also more accepting of someone from Idol than they were in the past also.   It also means that Home and the album came out at just the right time. 

    As for not releasing songs Phillip wrote, it might affect the second album more, if it is more his own sound.  I hope they release a third single he did write while the album is still popular. 

  • http://twitter.com/lucy__luz Luz Mae Salvador

    Congrats PP!!!  i love gone gone gone too!! it would be a great 2nd single!

    haters?? hello?? u there?  lol 

  • marcoUpstate

    I’ve seen that Home sold over 3million units but haven’t seen where it was triple platinum.  Has that actually happened yet?

  • mjsbigblog

     If it had happened, I would have used the word “certified” and mentioned the RIAA. So the answer is clearly no.

  • fantoo1

    Happy that he has proven a ton of haters wrong :)

  • fantoo1

    At first there was a lot of negative controversy over PP being another WGWG winner and a lot of people even said they were never watching again if he won.

  • TheOther

    The record buying public must be happy with what they are hearing.  The World From The Side Of The Moon is now #13 on Itunes.  It was only 25K away from Gold in the U.S. with the last set of sales numbers. 

  • IrisandLilies

    Phillip listed a Jonny Lang song as one of the five songs that should be on everybody’s iPod and has stated in several interviews that Jonny Lang is his favorite singer.  However, I did read somewhere that Phillip wanted to perform ”Old Love” by Eric Clapton on AI but wasn’t allowed to, either because the song couldn’t be cleared or the producers nixed the song choice.  “Still Rainin’” by Jonny Lang may have been the backup choice.

  • ADRIANAARG1980

    @Phillips The World From The Side Of The Moon is moving back up at #3 iTunes Album Top 100 Chart & #1 iTunes Pop Chart

  • jpfan2

    I wonder why the album is moving up so quickly. Maybe the Idol promo kicking in….scratches head.

  • maymay

    Because PP`s standard album price is 6.99 on iTunes now. Mumford and Son is also 6.99 to reach #1.

  • http://twitter.com/JoMartinezMusic Joe Martinez

    Congrats to Phillip for an amazing hit. I really hope he doesn’t become a one-hit wonder

  • marcoUpstate

    Thanks for the clarification!  There were some posts that offered comparisons to other platinum albums that confused me.

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