"Clear As Day" Sales Top Predictions, Remain Over 40,000 for Week 6

On Friday I thought I would be conservative and pick the bottom of the Hits Daily Double estimates for Scotty McCreery's "Clear As Day" sales to make my graph for this week. Boy, I should really learn not to be so conservative! Scanned sales for "Clear As Day" ended up going up 4% this week (due most likely to Scotty's CMA appearance and weekend performances) to end up at 42,000, topping the 35-40K estimate. That means for the last three weeks he has had sales of 42,000 then 41,000 and now 42,000. Can you say consistent? What are the odds his sales would stay the same like this week after week? This drops the album to #14 on the overall BillBoard chart and keeps it steady at #2 on the Country chart for the third week in a row. Over the first six weeks the album has impressively remained in the top 10 for the first 4 weeks, and the Top 15 for weeks 5 and 6. Hey, that sounds like another graph:

The sales of Lauren Alaina's "Wildflower" have also stayed steady with sales of 12,000 this week (1K over my own guestimate, and only a 1K drop from last week) to bring her to 136,000 after 5 weeks to stay in the Top 50 at #49 for the week. Last week she was at #7 on the Country chart after being #6 the week before, so after the CMA festivities it will be interesting to see where she ends up this week (Brian did not give Country chart numbers). Hits Daily Double had a bunch of country albums in the 10K to 14K range, so their rankings there could shift around a bit. I will have to wait for the RoughStock.com numbers to see where she ended up.

Next Tuesday James Durbin's new album "Memories of a Beautiful Disaster" will be released along with a ton of other albums hoping to cash in on the Black Friday sales the following weekend. It will be interesting to see his first week sales numbers. I do not think he has a shot of touching Scotty's sales numbers, but with the shopping weekend he may have a chance of coming close to Lauren's first week number of about 70,000. I have no idea how big his fan base is, so we will see.