HDD is predicting top 50 album sales for American Idol winners Phil, Carrie and Kelly plus X-Factorers One Direction times two. HDD should give us a prediction for Season 11’s Colton Dixon who released an album this week. Christian artists are a little hard to predict because they tend to sell a lot of product through Christian bookstores who are not part of the SoundScan system. Over the weeks, you will see the album totals not make any sense because even SS will estimate the sales for each week, but the running totals will be the actually reported sales.
This is the weekly sales thread. Please post the numbers as they become available.
Idol Chatter numbers:
Idol albums
Phillip Phillips, The World From the Side of the Moon (19,000, -25%, 663,000) (#16 Billboard 200)
Carrie Underwood, Blown Away (10,000, -1%, 1.257 million) (#37 BB200)
Kelly Clarkson, Greatest Hits-Chapter 1 (10,000, -9%, 250,000) (#40 BB200)
Kelly Clarkson, Stronger (3,000, +14%, 1.016 million) (#167 BB200
Carrie Underwood, Play On (3,000, +19%, 2.174 million) (#172 BB200)
Daughtry, Daughtry (2,000, +33%)
Carrie Underwood, Some Hearts (2,000, +11%, 7.293 million)
Carrie Underwood, Carnival Ride (1,000, +26%, 3.31 million)
Jason Castro, Only a Mountain (1,000, -30%, 5,000
Scotty McCreery, Clear as Day (less than 1,000, -5%, 1.154 million)
Casey James, Casey James (less than 1,000, +10%, 68,000)
Idol-related tracks
Phillip Phillips, Home (96,000, -20%, 3.815 million)
Justin Bieber feat. Nicki Minaj, Beauty and a Beat (84,000 -18%, 1.738 million
)Kelly Clarkson, Catch My Breath (68,000, -3%, 777,000)
Carrie Underowod, Two Black Cadillacs (39,000, +25%, 279,000)
Carrie Underwood, Blown Away (28,000, -6%, 1.789 million)
Nicki Minaj, Va Va Voom (27,000, -20%, 693,000)
Kelly Clarkson, Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You) (16,000, +1%, 4.055 million
)Carrie Underwood, Good Girl (12,000, -6%, 1.593 million)
Casey James, Crying on a Suitcase (11,000, 0 change, 286,000)
Nicki Minaj, Starships (9,000, -16%, 2.896 million)
Kelly Clarkson feat. Vince Gill, Don’t Rush (7,000, +19%, 156,000)
Carrie Underwood, Cowboy Casanova (7,000, +114%, 1.970 million
Carrie Underwood, Before He Cheats (5,000, +7%, 3.693 million)
Carrie Underwood, Jesus, Take the Wheel (4,000, +4%, 2.123 million)
Colton Dixon, You Are (4,000, +5%, 55,000)
Mandisa feat. TobyMac, Good Morning (3,000, +15%, 253,000)
Jason Castro, Only a Mountain (2,000, -26%, 37,000)
Carrie Underwood, Temporary Home (2,000, -5%, 932,000)
Carrie Underwood, How Great Thou Art (2,000, +2%, 404,000)
Jason Castro, Hallelujah [Album Version] (1,000, -18%, 126,000)
Mandisa, Stronger (1000, -10%, 227,000)
