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| BillBoard Album ranking: orange = Carrie, lt blue = Kelly, green = Phillip, dk blue = Colton |
This edition of the weekly
American Idol album sales post is brought to you by the same winners who keep appearing on the performance shows. Kelly Clarkson may have had some weird looking makeup on the performance show a couple weeks ago, but that did not keep her album sales from jumping (Bad makeup cannot disguise a great voice!) Her greatest hits album saw a jump in sales to 14K units to land at #30 on the BillBoard charts and bring its total sales to 379K. Not to be outdone, Season 4 winner Carrie Underwood actually outsold Kelly with 15K in sales of "Blown Away" which landed at #28, to put its total past 1.4M (1.402M to be precise) and take it off my lovely chart below. I could increase the Y axis label to 1.5M but not even Scotty McCreery's "Clear As Day" sales will get that high:
Scotty, of course, performed on the same appearance show on April 11 as Kelly, but unfortunately he does not have a current album to promote, so instead people could only buy up digital downloads of his single "See You Tonight" which amounted to a very solid 46K in one week sales. And his 1 1/2 year old debut album "Clear As Day" actually sold another 2,000 units to reach 1.166M in total sales. There rarely seems to be a week he does not sell 1,000 copies of his album.
The two guys from last year with albums also continue to do well. Season 11 winner Phillip Phillips hangs on at #50, to mark his 21st consecutive week in the BillBoard Top 50 as he sold another 10K units of "The World from the Side of the Moon". With total sales of 835K and his single "Gone, Gone, Gone" still improving in airplay, he still has a good chance to seeing the album hit platinum. Colton Dixon's "A Messenger" has seen its sales jumping up and down, first in response to Angie Miller's performance of one of his songs, and then with his own appearance on Idol. His album sales are now starting to slow back down, but with sales of 5K he remains in the Top 100 at #91 and total sales of 88K. He should easily surpass 100K which is a pretty strong number for a Christian artist.
