Hurray more
numbers from Brian at USA Today! Kelly Clarkson's "Mr. Know It All" is now just a stones throw away from 500K in downloads, but, hey, she is already a big star! I am much more interested in the newer folks from recent seasons, and that means Scotty McCreery and Lauren Alaina. Since Scotty's
video for "The Trouble With Girls" came out last Monday, I was curious to see how its download sales would do, especially now that many Scotty fans already have copies of his whole album, "Clear As Day." It looks like there must be some folks who do not own it, since his sales for TTWG went up 61% to 14,000 which is also the first time since its first two weeks of release when TTWG has sold more than "I Love You This Big." Today total YouTube/Vevo views of the video are approaching a million after a little over a week version
4.5 million for ILYTB so it is definitely generating some traffic. However, TTWG in 9 weeks has sold 119K in downloads versus 661K for ILYTB and I doubt it will ever go Gold or come close to those kind of numbers. But who really cares since "Clear As Day" will definitely be certified Gold in just a few more weeks.
Speaking of album sales,
SoundScan's final numbers came out and they were only 1K off from the
Hits Daily Double numbers from yesterday so I am just leaving my old chart for now. The actual numbers were 42K for Scotty (384K total) and 16K for Lauren (111K total.) So the total for both of them is 495K instead of the 497K I reported yesterday. Hey, that is still close to half a million for the two of them.
