Hits Daily Double released their predictions in their "
Rumor Mill" for this week last night, and it was no surprise to see "
Clear As Day" still perched in their list of 15 top selling albums (although it is at the very bottom of the top 15 this week). They are predicting another 35K to 40K in sales for Scotty McCreery's sixth week which should give him the #2 Country album for the third week in a row. If we add the bottom of the prediction to his existing 425K that puts him at 460K or 92% of the way to gold. That keeps him ahead of Adam Lambert's pace since week 6 for Adam was the week after Christmas. Scotty is still headed into the holiday shopping season so all bets are off on his total sales. Adding the 460K for "Clear As Day" with the 191K for his EP and the 42K for his iTunes compilation album puts him at 693K in total album sales which would place him #16 on the all time
American Idol sales list just nudging out Elliot Yamin. It is hard to imagine how much further up that list he will move in the coming weeks.
Once again Lauren Alaina's "
Wildflower" is not on the top 15 list, but with her also being on the CMA Awards show (and my slight under of guessing her numbers for last week) I will estimate her sales will dip by the same ratio as Scotty did. So I am guessing 11K for her next week to bring her total to 135K after 5 weeks. That puts Lauren ahead of Crystal's sales after 6 weeks.
I also grabbed the
track download numbers from Idol Chatter to update my download sales graph. This week shows another increase in sales for "Trouble With Girls", selling 17,000 downloads (up 22%) for a total of 137K. "I Love You This Big" added another 5,000 to reach 668K and "Like My Mother Does" added 5,000 to reach 325K. I am surprised "Georgia Peaches" has not reappeared back on the list.
Incidentally, "Wildflower" is still available at Amazon.com for only $
4.99 as a download and now "Clear As Day" is available there for only $
5.99. That means you can download both albums (24 tracks) for only $10.98 total. What are you waiting for?
