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Sales News – Week Ending 01/22/16

01/22/2016 Kirsten 48

HDD is only reporting at 78%, but man, are those some depressing numbers. 11K gets you in the top 10 right now. The music biz continues to find ways to be depressing. That number 10

Idols In Concert – Stats – 01/21/16

01/21/2016 Kirsten 6

Original Pop Idol Will Young performs in London while American Idol Colton Dixon opens for Christian music superstar tobymac in Nashville. Casey Abrams is featured with Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox. Radio music concerts feature Pentatonix

Billboard – Chart Date 01/30/2016

01/20/2016 Kirsten 1

Idol auditioneer Lauren Daigle returns to the top of the Christian album chart with “How Can It Be” for the third non-consecutive week. David Bowie debuts at the top the Artist 100 chart. His songs

Monday Morning Mediabase Update: Jan 11-17

01/18/2016 Kirsten 8

Fantasia, winner of the third season of American Idol, sails up the Urban AC with her latest single. “No Time For It” entered the UAC chart last week as it went for adds. This week,

Sales News – Week Ending 01/15/16

01/15/2016 Kirsten 7

David Bowie is headed for his first number one on the Billboard 200 charts. “Backstar” was released days before his death and the outpouring of sadness has helped to boost sales as happens when any

Idols In Concert – Stats – 01/14/16

01/14/2016 Kirsten 53

Pentatonix appeared at the KOST 103.5 Christmasland radio concert in LA with Train and former Dancing With The Stars contestant, Andy Grammar. Back in November, Casey Abrams, Joey Cook and Haley Reinhart were touring as

Billboard – Chart Date 01/23/2016

01/13/2016 Kirsten 18

As we all know, there are approximately 50,023 Billboard charts. This is a summary of just some of those charts and how the Idols/Voicers/XFactorers/Sing-Offers/AGTers did on them this week. Please feel free to post rankings

Sales News – Week Ending 01/08/16

01/08/2016 Kirsten 7

Adele tops the album sales chart again (I feel like I should get a macro for that). It will be news when she does not. She bookends the top 10 this week with “25” easily

Tuesday Daily Number’s Thread – 01/05/16

01/05/2016 Kirsten 6

Today’s number thread is brought to you by the numbers 10 and 30. Billboard Hot 100 reports a top 10 that is still fairly stagnant. Adele continues to top the Hot 100 for her 10th

Idols In Concert – Stats – 12/31/15

12/31/2015 Kirsten 0

Happy New Year’s Eve everyone! I thought we’d have nothing to report this week, but our reality singing show competitors have been busy entertaining America. Pentatonix from “The Sing Off” performed at the Star 94