Scotty's EP Hangs in BillBoard 200 One Last Week

This marks the final week of Season 10 EP sales remaining in the BillBoard Top 200 as Scotty McCreery's EP sells 3,000 more units (185,000 total) to hold on to position #187. Lauren Alaina's EP sells 2,000 more (79,000 total) and falls off the chart, having stayed in the top 200 for an impressive 12 weeks. It looks like Scotty will only beat that number by one week, but his new album, "Clear As Day", should debut very well on October 4.

It will be interesting to see how high "Clear As Day" will place on the BillBoard charts next week. HitsDailyDouble just released 1 day sales results for this week and this week's top seller is J Cole with 225K-250K, so next week he could be in the 125K-150K range which is likely where Scotty may be. Tony Bennett's album will be in its third week, Lady Antebellum in their fourth and Blink-182 opened with 130-150K this week, so they likely will not be competing for the #1 spot next week. The only other album who might make it close is Hank William's "Lost Notebooks" which has been selling quite well on pre-orders on Amazon (typically above "Clear As Day"). By this time next week preliminary numbers should be out so we should know how he placed. One person who definitely believes in Scotty doing well is Brad Paisley who has decided to add Scotty to his tour for next year. That is definitely a great opportunity for Scotty.

Since Scotty's iTunes samples were released last Thursday, hopefully tomorrow we can finally hear the clips for Lauren Alaina's "Wildflower". Scotty actually had 3 of the 12 tracks from his album "available" for people to hear ("I Love You This Big", "The Trouble With Girls", and the leaked "Out of Summertime") but so far for Lauren the only track from the album to be heard has been "Like My Mother Does".  It will be good to hear how she sounds on the other 11 tracks on her album. The first review on her album I have seen has been very positive.