Phillip Phillips’ “Home” Surges Past A Million Downloads!

By On 08/15/2012 · 58 Comments · In American Idol

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Congratulations to American Idol winner, Phillip Phillips! Although his Olympics fueled tune, “Home” dropped down to #2 on the Billboard Digital Songs Chart (behind Flo Rida’s “Whistle”) it still had a fantastic week, selling 212,000 copies–down only 7% from the previous week’s total of 228,000.

But the really fantastic news is that, added to last week’s 844,000 total sales, “Home” has surpassed 1 million downloads! The single has gone Platinum. Hooray.

As an FYI, Flo Rida’s Whistle took the #1 position with 217,000 downloads and Carly Rae Jepsen’s hit, “Call Me Maybe” was 3rd with 156,000.

More at Billboard.com

 
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  • phil_atlanta2

    He might not have won the award but he would have performed it.

    Anyway Wikipedia has an interesting fact about “Fallin Slowly” being nominated and win despite the fact that it was included in two albums that had been released before the movie:

    “There was a debate as to whether or not Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, who were awarded the Oscar in 2008 for “Falling Slowly”, were in fact eligible. “Falling Slowly” has been released on two other albums — The Swell Season, Hansard and Irglova’s duo project and The Cost, by Hansard’s band The Frames. The Swell Season was released in August 2006, and The Cost in February 2007, before the release of Once. However, the AMPAS
    music committee determined that, in the course of the film’s protracted
    production, the composers had “played the song in some venues that were
    deemed inconsequential enough to not change the song’s eligibility”.

  • http://twitter.com/eilonwya10 Eilonwy

    True, but that story has something to do with why the rules are tighter and more specific now. Check out the link I provided below with the current rules — it is very, very specific that there can be NO prior release and that the song must not only be written for the movie, but must be written by a songwriter hired for that purpose, who consults creatively with the movie-makers.

    Even if the rules had not been changed, there’s no way that being performed on one of the highest-rated shows in U.S. television, selling platinum and getting heavy use on the 2012 Olympics would be “venues… deemed inconsequential.”

  • http://twitter.com/doesmonaknow DoesMonaKnow

    Yeah, I think we have to let go of the dream of Home being Oscar nominated and performed at the Academy Awards.

  • phil_atlanta2

    Thanks Eilonwy. Those rules are indeed strict. I now remember when a song from Brokeback Mountain was not deemed eligible because it was not played long enough in the movie. It had won the Golden Globe though.
    I guess it was too much to ask for Olympics AND Oscars for P2.

  • rodolfochengcanepa

    i was looking at the billboard charts, and home is #24 in korea k-pop hot 100!! i wasnt surprised that home were on the canada hot 100 as well, but korea??? that surely was a big WOow 4 me. He is also doing good in the radio charts in germany and latinamerica.

  • windmills

    CB40: Last year, only 2 songs were nominated because the criteria for getting on the ballot is just crazy difficult for some reason.

    It’s not just because of the rule Eilonwy linked. It’s because the whole Oscar voting body is also supposed to rank the eligible songs on a scale of 6 to 10 and a song must average an 8.25 or higher in order to be nominated (source). According to this link other branches including the Best Animated Film category also use this system but use only a 7.5 average (source).

    The system is so rough Bruce Springsteen couldn’t get nominated for The Wrestler, which everybody thought was a shoo in for a nomination and win in 2009.

    I’m not 100% on this but I’m pretty sure the Golden Globes have a rule that the song must be written for a movie too.

  • http://twitter.com/Girltalkbf AlesheaDominique

    Someone mentioned his video getting tons of hit. I did hear that it is being played on CMT Pure. All they play is music videos. I’m a tad baffled by that since he is not a country artist but I’m glad he’s getting such great opportunities. 

  • Anonymous

    Phillip’s video of the song has been getting lots of hits on You Tube.

    I’ve been monitoring the hits on this video (as I do with DC) because it interests me.  In the last 14 days, it has been viewed 1,039,192 times, which is a very nice number.  It shows a lot of interest.  The comments section has been flying.  A recurring theme in the comments is that people heard it on the Olympics and/or they thought it was by Mumford & Sons.

    I’ve watched David Cook’s last official video (FIM) numbers, too.  After 13 days it  had a little over 1,046,000 views, so viewing rates for those 2 are very similar.  (Of course, DC didn’t have the advantage of the Olympics.)

    The thing to watch for P2, is whether the interest in this video continues, or whether it slows over the course of the next several weeks.  It could be that the movie trailer will keep people coming back.

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