This Week’s Billboard Update

This Week’s Billboard Update

• Taylor Hicks? Chris Daughtry?   Uhhh, no.   Try Carrie Underwood?   Last year’s Idol winner charts  4th this week, after an amazing 58 weeks on the Billboard 200.   That girl’s got legs.
• Ruben Studdard drops off the Billboard 200 this week.
• DAUGHTRY stays steady, only dropping one chart position.   According to Ken Barnes from USA Today’s Idol Chatter  blog, Daughtry’s sales were up nearly 40% this week. And many Kudos and Congratulations to Chris–his CD passed the 1 million mark.   That’s Platinum baby.   One last thing–Daughtry’s single “It’s Not Over” debuts on the Modern Rock chart.   I’m impressed.
• Taylor Hicks drops from #2 to #15 this week.   And his sales dropped too–from 298,000 to 202,000.   Further drops in sales could be reversed with some radio play.   A single is due to be released to radio after the New Year.   Meanwhile, the CD has gone gold after two weeks.
• Fantasia’s CD dropped precipitously, from #63 to #19.   That’s too bad–it’s a good record.
• Katharine McPhee’s “Over the Rainbow” is #2 this week.   The single probably got a nice bounce from her appearance on “Home for the Holidays” last week.   Carrie Underwood and Bo Bice’s Coronation single are back on the Single Sales chart this week,   at #38 and #39 respectively.

For more chart news, check out Donna Reynolds Idol Chart Watch  at Foxes on Idol. To check out my Idol Billboard chart, click on the jump