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Idol sales - 10/19/11

Pi314CA

Pi314CA

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Some sales data from USA Today. Will post singles data when available.

Idol albums

Scotty McCreery, Clear as Day (88,000 weekly, -55%, 285,000 total) (#4 Billboard 200)
Lauren Alaina, Wildflower (69,000, debut, 69,000) (#5 BB200)
Lauren Alaina, American Idol Season 10: Lauren Alaina EP (1,000, -29%, 84,000)
Carrie Underwood, Play On (1,000, -2%, 2.041 million)
Scotty McCreery, American Idol Season 10: Scotty McCreery EP (1,000, -29%, 190,000)
Carrie Underwood, Some Hearts (1,000, +4%, 7.132 million)

Idol-related

Tony Bennett, Duets II (55,000, -23%, 396,000) (#6 Billboard 200)
Jason Aldean, My Kinda Party (19,000, -5%, 1.923 million) (#14 BB200)
Brad Paisley, This Is Country Music (6,000 -7%, 506,000) (#75 BB200)

Idol tracks

Kelly Clarkson, Mr. Know It All (52,000 weekly, +8%, 328,000 total)
Brad Paisley/Carrie Underwood, Remind Me (25,000, -11%, 1.069 million)
Daughtry, Crawling Back to You (18,000, -62%, 65,000)
Lauren Alaina, Dirt Road Prayer (17,000, debut, 17,000)
Lauren Alaina, Like My Mother Does (15,000, +159%, 305,000)
Scotty McCreery, I Love You This Big (14,000, -20%, 645,000)
Scotty McCreery, The Trouble With Girls (11,000, -5%, 96,000)
Jason Aldean/Kelly Clarkson, Don't You Wanna Stay (10,000, -8%, 1.725 million)
Lauren Alaina, The Middle (6,000, debut, 6,000)
Lauren Alaina, One of Those Boys (5,000, debut, 5,000)
Kellie Pickler, Tough (4,000, -21%, 71,000)
Lauren Alaina, Georgia Peaches (4,000, debut, 4,000)
Carrie Underwood, Just a Dream (4,000, +197%, 1.011 million)
Lauren Alaina, She's a Wildflower (3,000, debut, 3,000)
Carrie Underwood, Before He Cheats (3,000, -10%, 3.314 million)
 
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Pi314CA

Pi314CA

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Some Scotty and Lauren info form Chart Watch:

4. Scotty McCreery, Clear As Day, 88,000. The former #1 album drops from #1 to #4 in its second week. It's #1 on Top Country Albums for the second week. Two songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs. "I Love You This Big" drops from #83 to #113. "The Trouble With Girls" drops from #137 to #161.

5. Lauren Alaina, Wildflower, 69,000. This new entry is Alaina's first album. Alaina was runner-up on Season 10 of American Idol. Two songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs. "Dirt Road Prayer" enters at #95. "Like My Mother Does" re-enters at #109.

Some album stats in the Country Women category:

Martina McBride's 11th studio album, Eleven, debuts at #10. It's her sixth top 10 album. Only two other core country female artists, Reba McEntire and LeAnn Rimes, have had as many or more top 10 albums. They have each had eight. One crossover star, Linda Ronstadt, has had 10 top 10 albums, but her sound and appeal went far beyond country.

My comment:
With 8 as the most top 10 albums by a country female artist, Carrie is well on her way to claim the top spot some time this decade.
 
clh_hilary

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Lauren Alaina actually outperformed initial projections so that's good actually. And she's only outsold by Scotty, Kris Allen, Adam Lambert, David Cook and David Archuleta's debut's opening sales for the past few seasons.

Marina McBride is very unlucky. "Shine" only sold 1000 copies more than "Eleven", and it debuted #10 on the Billboard 200 with a #1 peak in country. Now she's at #4 behind Scotty, Lauren, Lady Antebellum ("Own The Night").

For whether Carrie will claim the top spot some time, she definitely will but it might take longer than you thought. While LeAnn Rimes will be highly unlikely to get even another Top 40 album, and Martina McBride will never be a real threat, Reba McEntire actually might get some more, or actually get all her coming studio albums to go Top 10 before Carrie catches it. Carrie now only has 3 Top 10 albums ("Some Hearts", "Carnival Ride" and "Play On"), and she'll get her fourth in 2012. Assuming that she keeps her release schedule fairly constant, it'll be 2020 before she pulls off 8 Top 10 albums. Of course she might have compilations, live albums, remix albums and all so it might be sooner than that (Though she might also extend her album cycle like she did this time). Nevertheless, Reba McEntire is currently releasing albums more frequently than Carrie does, and it won't be surprising to actually see her racking up Top 10 albums until she retires. If she never retires, of course Carrie will have no way to catch it until she really wanted to and decided to keep releasing stuff. At how things are going now, Reba might indeed be able to get Top 10 albums until 2020 at least, but it of course would be reasonable for her to go into half-retirement again, so I suppose we can assume her to have 3-5 albums released in this time-frame, which would actually take Carrie perhaps even a decade more to catch her up. And seeing "If I Were A Boy", "When Love Gets A Hold On You" and "Somebody's Chelsa"'s underperformance, I suppose Reba might actually release another album in fall/holiday 2012.
 
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paulsjoliebebe2

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can't wait for the digital numbers to come out later today and wonder when Idol chatter will start keeping a talley of the Christmas songs as Billboard already published their first holiday digital songs and albums charts in last weeks issue dated October 22nd & Mariah Carey's All I Want For Chirstmas Is You was the #1 digital download holiday song
 
clh_hilary

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The '#1' on that chart didn't even have enough sales to chart in the Top 200, I doubt the sales will be shown. Plus, there isn't exactly a particularly big Idol Christmas tune either.
 
Pi314CA

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Track sales came out this morning. Just A Dream had a large increase in sales and made the list. :)
 
Pi314CA

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From Pulse, here are the albums that have sold between 7 million and 8 million copies:

41 BREATHLESS KENNY G 8,037,381
42 ALL THE WAY - A DECADE OF SONG CELINE DION 7,968,000
43 GREATEST HITS JOURNEY 7,939,872
44 GREATEST HITS TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS 7,903,230
45 THE HITS GARTH BROOKS 7,821,000
46 LION KING SOUNDTRACK 7,806,646
47 THE WOMAN IN ME SHANIA TWAIN 7,661,419
48 O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? SOUNDTRACK 7,660,636
49 DAYDREAM MARIAH CAREY 7,600,457
50 UNPLUGGED ERIC CLAPTON 7,558,000
51 FALLEN EVANESCENCE 7,555,194
52 SIGNIFICANT OTHER LIMP BIZKIT 7,534,000
53 ALL THE RIGHT REASONS NICKELBACK 7,526,205
54 DR. DRE -- 2001 DR. DRE 7,493,708
55 SOME GAVE ALL BILLY RAY CYRUS 7,480,000
56 SPICE SPICE GIRLS 7,412,000
57 PIECES OF YOU JEWEL 7,387,000
58 CRAZYSEXYCOOL TLC 7,281,000
59 MIRACLES: THE HOLIDAY ALBUM KENNY G 7,229,000
60 MUSIC BOX MARIAH CAREY 7,210,536
61 SOME HEARTS CARRIE UNDERWOOD 7,130,937
62 THE MISEDUCATION OF LAURYN HILL LAURYN HILL 7,069,106
63 JANET JANET JACKSON 7,025,727


Maybe SH will pass Mariah Carey within the next couple of years.
 
clh_hilary

clh_hilary

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But then, "Just A Dream" was a way bigger hit then "Don't Forget To Remember Me" and "Mama's Song", so the effects wouldn't have been as big on those two than on JAD. But yes, I would really love for them to do the discount on them for a few times so she can finally go Gold with two more singles! Or, they can leave until the next Mothers' Day to discount them to create the biggest boost.
 
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