If last week was all about how many units Gaga could sell, this week is all about how far Gaga will fall. Gaga looks to be on track to have the record for the lowest selling week following a million+ selling week. Of course, her stans would say that you have to take into account the Amazon 99cent special last week while last week they were arguing it was irrelevant. The Idolsphere is not the only place where numbers are spun.
UPDATE: Read the official press release summarizing Scotty’s chart successes and upcoming schedule, “I am humbled and shocked by this news, ” says Scotty. “I can’t tell you what it means to me to be on the same charts as my musical heroes. I want to thank my fans and especially country radio for their support.”
As Billboard expert Fred Bronson predicted last week, Idol has reached its 300th number one on Billboard charts this week. The latest number one comes from the latest winner Scotty McCreery. He and Lauren’s new coronation singles are 1 and 2 on the Billboard Country Digital Songs chart. As they would say, with a bullet!
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UPDATE: Scotty’s “I Love You This Big” official radio add date was 5/31. “It seems like the biggest opportunity this format has ever had.” says UMG/Nashville Sr. VP/Promotion, Royce Risser, about Scotty. According to Risser, Scotty will begin his country radio tour while on the Idol tour beginning July 1.
UPDATE2: Album numbers are in! Scotty’s compilation album bows at #12 on the BB200. More inside.
Scotty McCreery – “I Love You This Big” 171, 404 – #3 Hot Digital Songs, #1 Country Digital Songs
Lauren Alaina – Like My Mother Does: 121, 000 – #11 Hot Digital Songs, #2 Country Digital Songs
Given that their label has already taken out an ad bragging about their success, it’s pretty clear Scotty and Lauren are off to a really good start. Scotty has already racked up a record breaking Country radio debut, the 3rd best selling iTunes single for the week, has the 3rd best selling iTunes album for the week and a 171K in coronation single sales. He should achieve his first Billboard number 1 and have the record for the best selling debut week for a male country artist download track (recently set by Blake Shelton at 138K). Scotty’s single was added on 34 radio stations and HDD is predicting that he had the 11th best selling album of the week for his compilation of singles from the season (23, 785). Today, he reached Top 40 on the Mediabase Country chart. Not bad for a half a week’s worth of numbers.
Yesterday was the Memorial Day Stat Holiday, so HDD did not issue any sales reports. I expect they will have one today since the news is so big. Billlboard is predicting that Gaga will move 1.15 units this week which is the biggest opening since ‘NSYNC moved 1.88M units back in 2001. Those numbers have been juiced by Amazon selling the album for 99cents for two days last week, a Monday opening and a performance on Idol.
FINAL HDD NUMBERS:
1 LADY GAGA – Born This Way – 1, 110, 420
4 GLEE CAST GLEE: THE MUSIC, VOL. 6 – 78, 075
11 SCOTTY MCCREERY – AMERICAN IDOL SEASON 10 – 23, 785
39 LAUREN ALAINA AMERICAN IDOL SEASON 10 – 11, 318
Billboard announced today that Scotty and Lauren have made a big initial splash on Country Radio. Scotty’s debut is the highest for a new artist on the Country charts in the SoundScan era (Billboard has used Nielsen’s BDS monitoring service since Jan 20, 1990). “I Love You This Big” shattered the previous records by debuting at 32. The previous records had been 42 and 41.
Coronation Single Watch:
Scotty McCreery’s “I Love You This Big” has arrived on the Mediabase Country Top 50. The song has reached 48th with 287 monitored spins and an AI of 2.912. It had a total of 373 spins (AI 3.186) across 109 stations since being released to radio. It is the number one song on the Taking off Chart with 11 Starters spinning the song a total of 125 times. It continues at number one on iTunes.
Lauren Alaina’s “Like My Mother Does” has received 115 spins across 56 stations. It is number 5 on the Taking off chart with its 3 Starters playing it 28 times. The song is number 5 on iTunes.
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