I tell you, it sure is fun watching the
sales numbers come in for Scotty McCreery's "Clear As Day" album. You never know what to expect except for the unexpected. This week, Scotty decided to be gentlemanly and allow Lady Antebellum to take the #1 Country slot since he will probably take it back next week. The final numbers for both of them were substantially higher than the
HDD predictions with "Own The Night" selling
48,000 to be BillBoard #10 and "Clear As Day" selling 42,000 to be #11. That means for nine straight weeks Scotty has sold over 30K units every week, and over 40K for 8 out of 9 weeks. He even outsold Daughtry's second week sales of 39K. It is time for my chart of Scotty's BillBoard ranking for the past nine weeks. The Country chart ranking sure is a flat line:
This is for over two months now which is pretty crazy. The Idol Chatter article does have "Wildflower" and James Durbin's "Memories of a Beautiful Disaster" album listed with James being able to outsell Lauren this week with 11K units (39K total) to her 10K (172K total.) I think Lauren can likely surpass 200K by the end of the year, and I would like to see if James can at least break 60K or 70K. The rock market is definitely a tough place to sell a lot of records. With James' and Daughtry's albums both being out for 2 weeks now, I can now generate a American Idol Fall 2011 release sales chart using data for Scotty, Lauren, James, Kelly Clarkson and Chris Daughtry's sales so far this fall:
On the
song download numbers, "Trouble With Girls" sold another 13K to reach 205K in total downloads. Amazingly "I Love You This Big" continues to sell as a download with 4K more to bring its total to 689K. I noticed that Kelly's "Mr. Know It All" has surpassed ILYTB in sales (779K) so I may have to track down all of her numbers to generate a pretty graph there, comparing the two hits and their download numbers. I never realized so many people downloaded individual tracks so much!
