After appearing on American Idol last week, James Durbin saw sales of his "Memories of a Beautiful Disaster"
shoot up by over 500% to 6,000 units for the week. That pushes his total to 106K and is his best sales week in months. Nonetheless the top two Idols in album sales this week are still the same two who are usually there, Kelly Clarkson and Scotty McCreery, both of which outsold James' album. Kelly's "Stronger" saw a 55% sales drop, but still sold 15K units, good enough for #27 on the BillBoard chart and brings her total to 746K. Scotty's "Clear As Day" dropped to 7,000 in sales for the week, which drops him to #65 on the BillBoard chart after two strong weeks following his Idol appearance and ACM New Artist award win.
After his big two week spike Scotty is back to selling about what he was before the Idol surge.
All the other Idols saw sales drops as well this week, from Daughtry selling 4K more (#117 BillBoard with total sales of 427K), Casey James with 3K more (#168 with total sales of 28K), Lauren Alaina with 2K more (271K total) and Kellie Pickler with another 1,000 in sales (67K total.) I see Elliott Yamin released a new album, but I did not even watch Idol back then!
