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After a plethora of milestones last week, there wasn’t much of a chance for the songs to reach another milestone. Daughtry’s “September” did manage the feat on HAC, though. The song reached top 40 last

This is the second weekend after the Idol finale, so let’s see how things are trending. Are our new Idols sustaining sales or are they already fading from the charts? But, first, some album news

Last week was kind of slow on the Mediabase charts, but this week is all kinds of exciting. There was not 1, not 2, but 3 Idols that made it into the top 10 this

This is the week that every Idol numbers watcher waits for. It’s time to sift through the tea leaves. Time to make dire and optimistic predictions. Time to look forward and backward. Time to discuss

This was a rough week for Mediabase watchers. The site had a server upgrade on Wednesday and there were no updates until Sunday. I think that a lot of people were hoping for big updates,

This is the calm before the storm. There are three exciting times of the year for Idol number fans. November, when the new crop of Idol albums drop. Just after Christmas when all those iTune

Carrie Underwood’s new single, “Undo It”, goes for adds this week, but Country music was not prepared to wait. The song has already been added on 120 stations and reached a new milestone of top

Mother’s day has passed, so we will likely see a drop in Idol albums this week for the most part. Fantasia and Daughtry appeared on Idol last week, so their downloads and albums might see

It almost seems the only songs reaching milestones this week are songs that are debuting on charts. Fantasia’s new single, “Bittersweet”, went for adds last Tuesday and already landed on the Urban chart this week.