It was a close call for Scotty McCreery's "Clear As Day" this week before Season 11 of American Idol begins, but the
now officially platinum certified album was able to remain in the Top 25 of the overall BillBoard Album chart and in the Top 5 of the Country chart, narrowly topping the Band Perry. Both are listed at sales of 14,000 for the week, but in
RoughStock's listing "Clear As Day" is listed at #24 before The Band Perry's debut album at #25. I know that Roughstock lists "Clear As Day" as being #24 on the BillBoard chart and
Idol Chatter lists it at #25, but in both cases it is in the Top 25 so I have no idea who is actually correct.
As expected, for the week Kelly Clarkson's "Stronger" was the top selling album of the American Idol albums with sales of 18,000. In general everybody saw sales drops of 25% to 40% for the week. January is not a good month to be selling ice cream nor albums! However, in terms of
individual song downloads, Kelly had a great week with her sales of "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" after her SNL performance. Sales of that track jumped 64% to sell 48K downloads this week for a total of 231K. "Mr. Know It All" also sold well with another 61K downloads to push its total to over 1.1 million. There is definitely no American Idol slump from Kelly Clarkson! Even though the numbers dropped a bit from last week, Scotty also sold another 36K downloads of "The Trouble With Girls" for a total of 414K. The single has a great chance of going gold to let Scotty have both his first two singles go gold and reach the Top 25 of the country singles chart.
