Scotty and Lauren remain the only two solo Idols in the top 200. Scotty’s album saw a 40% decline? Waning stock, waning spins or waning interest? I think it’s safe to say that all the EPs probably exceeded sales expectations with Scotty’s exceeding them by the most. Sony is probably planning on X-Factor EPs and regretting they never thought of that idea before.
Idol albums (Idol Chatter)
51 Scotty McCreery “American Idol Season 10: Scotty McCreery EP” 8K (-41%; lw 13, 541) Total: 178K (26)
148 Lauren Alaina “American Idol Season 10: Lauren Alaina EP: 3K (-13%; lw 3, 816) Total: 74K (132)
James Durbin, “American Idol Season 10: James Durbin EP”: 2K (-15%) Total: 60k
Haley Reinhart, “American Idol Season 10: Haley Reinhart EP”: 2K (-16%) Total: 59k
Jennifer Hudson “I Remember Me “2K (-19%) Total: 398K
Carrie Underwood “Play On” 2K (+36%) Total: 2.035M
Mandisa “What If We Were Real” 1K (-50%; lw 3K) Total: 66K
Carrie Underwood “Some Hearts” 1K (+2%) Total: 7.127M
Daughtry “Daughtry” 1K (-16%; lw 1K)
Idol-related albums:
11 Jason Aldean “My Kinda Party” 24K (-14%; lw 28, 470) Total: 1.815M (13)
18 David Guetta “Nothing but the Beat” 19K (-66%; lw 55, 730) Total: 75K (5)
31 Brad Paisley “This is Country Music” 12K (+10%; lw 10, 922) Total: 471K (36)
104 Aerosmith “Essential Aerosmith 3.0” 4K (+565%) Total: 5K
128 Big Time Rush “BTR” 4K (-13%; lw 4, 175) Total: 582K (116)
165 Aerosmith “Best of Aerosmith–Millennium Collection” 3K (+2%) Total: 330K
Digital track sales from Idol Chatter:
9 Kelly Clarkson “Mr. Know It All” 107K (NEW) Total: 107K
Brad Paisley/Carrie Underwood “Remind Me” 51K (-9%; lw 57K) Total: 906K
Scotty McCreery “The Trouble With Girls” 27K (+12%; lw 24K) Total: 51K
Jennifer Lopez feat. Pitbull “On the Floor” 20K (-8%; lw 22K) Total: 2.822M
Jason Aldean/Kelly Clarkson “Don’t You Wanna Stay” 18K (-3%; lw 18K) Total: 1.664M
Scotty McCreery “I Love You This Big” 17K (-10%; lw 19K) Total: 582K
Tyga feat. Chris Richardson “Far Away” 10K (+9%; lw 9K) Total: 131K
Jennifer Lopez feat. Lil Wayne “I’m Into You” 8K (-28%) Total: 411K
Lauren Alaina “Like My Mother Does” 6K (-5%; lw 6K) Total: 271K
Kellie Pickler “Tough” 4K (+1%; lw 4K) Total: 50K
Carrie Underwood “Before He Cheats” 4K (+2%) Total: 3.298M
From Billboard:
Total Album Sales: 5.49M (down 17% from last week (6.65M) up 14% from the same week last year (4.83M))
YTD Album Sales: 212.06M (up 3% compared to the same point last year (205.38M))
It is the 16th week in a row where year-to-date album volume is greater than the same time in the prior year.
Total Track Sales: 21.26M (down 5% cmopared to last week 22.43M, up 6% compared to the same week last year (20.03M))
YTD Track Sales: 889.59M (up 11% compared to same point last year (801.84M))
