With Scotty McCreery's "Clear As Day" album having its
ridiculous sales jump this week, it is easy to miss how well Lauren increased in sales over Black Friday weekend as well. Her "Wildflower" album sales more than doubled to 18K in sales putting her at 162K in just 7 weeks. For today's graph I have therefore posted the first 12 weeks in sales for the winners and runners up for the past 3 seasons for fun comparison sake. "Wildflower" in 7 weeks is about where "Farmer's Daughter" was in 12 weeks, and about as much as "Live It Up" has sold since its release. Adam Lambert's "For Your Entertainment" took only 11 weeks to break the half million mark which would have his sales tower over all the other Idols here if Scotty McCreery was not there. Yes, then there is Scotty with sales of 587K in 8 short weeks. With over three more weeks in sales until Christmas Scotty and Lauren (and James too) still have plenty of the holiday shopping season to help boost there sales further. You can see in Kris and Adam's sales patterns when the holiday shopping stopped, so the Season 10 Idols still have a few more weeks of solid sales before they slow down in January. Now the question for Scotty is when (not if) he hits the platinum level of sales. I know better now, and I am not going to make a prediction! James' sales came in slightly higher than estimated at 28K which places him at #36 on the chart.
