After 9 weeks, the
Top 4 finishers of American Idol Season 10 still have their EP's within the BillBoard 200. I think that is pretty impressive. Scotty McCreery leads the way as usual with 11,000 in sales bringing his total over 150K to 156,000 and keeping him in the BillBoard Top 30 for the ninth consecutive week (this week at #30.) With his debut studio album, "Clear As Day" only about a month away from release, he is personally keeping a steady stream of money flowing for Interscope. The other three finalists combine for another 10,000 in sales, with Lauren Alaina leading them with 4,000 in sales (67,000 total, BillBoard #104), and Haley (52,000 total, BillBoard #178) and James (53,000 total, BillBoard #189) continuing to track very close to each other with 3,000 in sales. It is pretty impressive how close Haley and James' numbers have been every single week! Their BillBoard ranking had never differed by more than 10 until this week, when Haley is 11 slots ahead of James.
Other numbers I had tracked had been Youtube/VEVO views for the music videos for "
I Love You This Big", "
Like My Mother Does" and "
This Time".
Back on August 16 I had posted that Scotty was way ahead in video views, but now for some reason Pia has jumped considerably ahead of Scotty. She now has an astonishing 4,000,000 views of her video compared to 2,500,000 for Scotty and 640,000 for Lauren. The problem for her is that her song is still not getting any airplay and her song is not selling on iTunes. Even though Pia's video may have received more than 6x as many hits as Lauren's video, "Like My Mother Does" still sold 6,000 downloads this past week and "This Time" sold less than 1,000 (not on
Brian Mansfield's list.) And Scotty's "I Love You This Big" sold another impressive 20,000 copies, even as his new single "
The Trouble With Girls" was just released. Something tells me Scotty is about to start selling even more downloads on
iTunes very soon.
