Taylor Swift looks to top the Hot 100 this week with a very impressive 623K in sales and a first week of airplay out of this world (although she will see a big drop this week as last week’s Tuesday rolls off the charts). “We are Never Getting Back Together” had the best selling week for any song by a female artist on the digital download charts. It has the second best week of any song behind Flo Rida’s “Right Round” back in 2009 (it sold 636K).
How will our Idols do on the charts? What did the opening of “Sparkle” do for the soundtrack? This is the weekly sales chart. Please post the numbers as you find them. Thanks!
ETA: Taylor Swift’s “We Are Never Getting Back Together” rises from 72 to No. 1 in its 2nd week. 623 downloads marks the highest one-week digital sales total by a female artist and is second among all acts only to Flo Rida’s “Right Round,” which sold 636,000 the week of Feb. 28, 2009. “Never” becomes Taylor’s fourth No. 1 on the Hot Digital Songs chart. Via Billboard
Idol Album Sales via Idol Chatter
Carrie Underwood, Blown Away (18,000, +15%, 707,000) (#17 Billboard 200)
Kelly Clarkson, Stronger (10,000, +81%, 900,000) (#35 BB200)
Phillip Phillips, American Idol (5,000, -26%, 67,000) (#89 BB200)
David Archuleta, Begin (4,000, -68%, 14,000) (#138 BB200)
Scotty McCreery, Clear as Day (3,000, +42%, 1.103 million) (#141 BB200)
Mandisa, What If We Were Real (2,000, -24%, 202,000)
Hollie Cavanagh, American Idol (less than 1,000, -11%, 11,000)
Mandisa, Remixed: Get Movin’ (less than 1,000, debut, less than 1,000)
Casey Abrams, Casey Abrams (less than 1,000, -15%, 12,000)
Idol-related albums
One Direction, Up All Night (29,000, +1%, 1.133 million (#7 Billboard 200)
Soundtrack, Sparkle (16,000, +111%, 35,000) (#21 BB200)
Various, Now That’s What I Call Music! 42 (7,000, -17%, 416,000) (#53 BB200)
Tyga, Careless World (6,000, +42%, 284,000) (#77 BB200)
Jennifer Lopez, Dance Again … The Hits (4,000, -26%, 32,000) (#126 BB200)
David Guetta, Nothing but the Beat (3,000, +5%, 368,000) (#142 BB200)
Civil Wars, Barton Hollow (3,000, +18%, 494,000) (#156 BB200)
Soundtrack, Rock of Ages (3,000, -19%, 188,000) (#179 BB200)
Aerosmith, Greatest Hits (2,000, +70%, 5.418 million) (#199 BB200)
Idol Singles Sales via Idol Chatter
Phillip Phillips, Home (161,000, -24%, 1.217 million)
Carrie Underwood, Blown Away (87,000, +20%, 523,000)
Kelly Clarkson, Dark Side (44,000, -3%, 381,000)
Kelly Clarkson, Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You) (22,000, -8%, 3.692 million)
Carrie Underwood, Good Girl (15,000, +4%, 1.297 million)
Jennifer Lopez feat. Pitbull, Dance Again (9,000, -27%, 999,000)
Brad Paisley/Carrie Underwood, Remind Me (6,000, +1%, 1.623 million)
Jason Aldean/Kelly Clarkson, Don’t You Wanna Stay (5,000, -7%, 2.144 million)
Casey James, Crying on a Suitcase (5,000, +43%, 25,000)
Carrie Underwood, Before He Cheats (5,000, +11%, 3.552 million)
Mandisa, Good Morning (5,000, -4%, 173,000)
Carrie Underwood, How Great Thou Art (2,000, +9%, 355,000)
Jason Castro, Only a Mountain (2,000, -68%, 7,000)
Mandisa, Stronger (1,000, -4%, 201,000)
Jason Castro, Hallelujah (Album Version) (less than 1,000, -20%, 103,000)
