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| American Idol Season 11 EP Sales Totals |
Now that the
womens gymnastics events are over on the
2012 Summer Olympics we can clearly see that the big winners for the United States, were Aly Raisman, Gabby Douglas... and American Idol winner, Phillip Phillips! For the week Phillip saw big increases in sales of both
his hit single, "Home" and for his
American Idol EP which includes that single. Whereas the other Top 5 finalists saw there sales "tumbling" for the week (-8% for Joshua Ledet, -12% for Skylar Laine, -13% for Hollie Cavanagh, Jessica Sanchez again not listed), Phillip saw his sales "vault" 12% for sales of 7,000 and total sales for his EP jumping and flipping to 55K. His Olympic driven single has done even better, with a 15% increase to 47K downloads, bringing his total to 617K, a golden effort for sure. Joshua is still at #151 on the BillBoard chart but, Skylar just barely hangs into the Top 200 at #199. Hollie and Jessica are both still off the list, but Phillip actually improved slightly to #51 after 5 weeks.
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| American Idol Season 11 EP BillBoard rankings |
As for the rest of the American Idol alumni album sales, the same artists remain at the top of the list. Repeat after me, Carrie, Kelly, Scotty, Adam. They have all held very consistent sales over the summer. Carrie Underwood had an especially good week seeing not only a big jump in sales for her current album "Blown Away" (16K more sales to reach 673K total, #20 on the BillBoard 200) but even her debut album "Some Hearts" which sold 2K units to reach its current astonishing total of 7.224 million units. Kelly Clarkson's "Stronger" also had a good week which matched her sales last week of 7K (#55 on the chart, 884K total) and Scotty McCreery's "Clear As Day" sold another 2K, which although a slight decrease still continues to increase his impressive total to 1.097 million. Adam Lambert's "Trespassing" also sold another 2K bringing his total to 148K. Idol Chatter also listed a few other Idols who have sold 1,000 to 2,000 more in sales including Mandisa's "What If We Were Real", Lauren Alaina's "Wildflower", and the debut albums from the two Caseys (Casey Abrams and Casey James).
Scotty and Adam's departure from the BillBoard Top 200 leave only Carrie and Kelly left (excluding the Season 11 EP releases), but I will leave "the guys" on the graph just so it does not look so empty. Plus it is fun to compare to see how Scotty's chart record stayed low better than Kelly's initially, but how after nine months Kelly has become even more consistent than "Mr. Consistency" with 40 straight weeks in the Top 75 albums in the country.
