Just how high were the Olympic fueled sales of “Home”? Will Carly Rae Jepsen give up the top of the Hot 100 after 8 weeks? And what is up with the album sales?
UPDATE: Carly Rae DOES NOT give up the top spot on the Billboard 100 this week! Via Billboard
Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” maintains its perch atop the Billboard Hot 100 for a ninth week, passing the chart’s prior champ, Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know” (eight) for most frames atop the chart in 2012. With a combined 17 weeks at No. 1, the two most recent No. 1 songs hold the longest stint among back-to-back chart-toppers since The Black Eyed Peas spent a cumulative 26 weeks at No. 1 with “Boom Boom Pow” and “I Gotta Feeling” in 2009.
This is the weekly sales thread. Please post numbers as you find them. Thanks!
Idol albums
Carrie Underwood, Blown Away (16,000, +23%, 673,000) (#20 Billboard 200)
Phillip Phillips, Home (7,000, +12%, 55,000) (#51 BB200)
Kelly Clarkson, Stronger (7,000, 0 change, 884,000) (#55 BB200)
Joshua Ledet, American Idol (3,000, -8%, 25,000) (#151 BB200)
Skylar Laine, American Idol (3,000, -12%, 23,000) (#199 BB200)
Carrie Underwood, Some Hearts (2,000, +38%, 7.224 million)
Scotty McCreery, Clear as Day (2,000, -7%, 1.097 million)
Adam Lambert, Trespassing (2,000, -13%, 148,000)
Mandisa, What If We Were Real (2,000, +30%, 198,000)
Carrie Underwood, Play On (1,000, -2%, 2.128 million)
Hollie Cavanagh, American Idol (1,000, -13%, 9,000)
Lauren Alaina, Wildflower (less than 1,000, +3%, 290,000)
Casey Abrams, Casey Abrams (less than 1,000, -19%, 11,000)
Casey James, Casey James (less than 1,000, -5%, 46,000)
Idol-related albums
One Direction, Up All Night (34,000, +1%, 1.074 million) (#4 Billboard 200)
Soundtrack, Sparkle (12,000, debut, 12,000) (#26 BB200)
Jennifer Lopez, Dance Again … The Hits (9,000, -40%, 23,000) (#43 BB200)
Jason Aldean, My Kinda Party (8,000, -7%, 2.708 million) (#45 BB200)
David Guetta, Nothing but the Beat (3,000, -18%, 361,000) (#139 BB200)
Tyga, Careless World (3,000, +1%, 275,000) (#162 BB200)
Via Idol Chatter
