As summer blazes on the sales of
American Idol album sales continue to drop, not sizzle. Excluding the Season 11 EP sales, there are now only two Idols left in the BillBoard 200 chart, the two you would expect Carrie Underwood with "Blown Away" (13K in sales, #25 with 657K total) and Kelly Clarkson with "Stronger" (7K in sales, #50 with 877K total). One album that is noticeably absent is Scotty McCreery's "Clear As Day" which left the BillBoard 200 for the first time since its release almost 10 months ago, with only 2,000 in sales for the week. Who would have thought the Season 10 winner would have an album remain on the BillBoard 200 chart well past the start of the Season 11 tour? Of course, his total sales of 1.094 million sets the bar high for this year's winner, Phillip Phillips, who does seem to have a very successful single on his hands. I noticed that Adam Lambert's "Trespassing" is not listed in Brian's list this week, but it was barely hanging in the Top 200 last week, so I assume it has dropped out as well. In honor of Scotty's impressive 10 month run, instead of my usual BillBoard 200 chart, I decided to put the total sales chart on top instead.
Next off it is time to generate my graph for the EP sales for Season 11. For the fourth straight week, the sales go from Phillip Phillips (#56, sales of 6K for a total of 48K) to Joshua Ledet (#132, with 3K and a total of 22K) to Skylar Laine (#163 with 3K and a total of 20K), with all three of them on the BillBoard Top 200, and Jessica Sanchez dropping off the chart this week.
Interestingly, this week Hollie is listed as selling 1,000 more units to put her total to 8,000 in total but Jessica is not listed so I am keeping her tally the same as last week (13K). Hopefully that was just a data glitch and her EP has sold at least a thousand copies or so last week.
Interestingly if we look at
week #4 from the Season 10 EP sales from last summer we see that Lauren, Haley and James were all around #100 on the chart with sales of 5K, and Scotty was at #26 with sales of 14K (with a whopping total of 86K in 4 weeks). The other three, though, all still had very respectable total sales between 36K and 42K for their first month of sales. I am guessing Interscope may not be as pleased this year with anybody without the initials "PP".
