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Phillip Phillips continues to sell a bunch more downloads of his hit single "Home", the best selling album sellers among the American Idol alumni continue to be the country stars. Leading the way as usual is Carrie Underwood's "Blown Away" which sold another 16,000 copies to push here total to over 800K (809K to be exact, orange line on my BillBoard chart) and place her #27 on the BillBoard Top 200. The two country Idols from Season 10 also both had good weeks, with Scotty McCreery's "Clear As Day" selling another 2,000 units (1.113 million total, green line on BillBoard chart above) and Lauren Alaina's "Wildflower" selling about 1,000 (294K total.) Even though Kelly Clarkson is not officially country, she is nominated for a CMA and will be performing on the show, so she must count as country too! Kelly sold another 4K of "Stronger" to push her total to 934K and place her at #97 on the chart. Kelly only needs 4 more weeks on the chart to remain on the BillBoard 200 for a full year (the dark red line on my chart). Phillip Phillips did not want to be left out of album sales and his EP continues its solid pace with 2K more to place him at #172 on the chart (blue line above) and total sales of 82K. Two other albums of note are Mandisa's "What If We Were Real" which stays in the Top 200 again this week at #166 (2K more which should put her at 214K total) and the Sparkle soundtrack which is listed this week at #191 with total sales of 67K. Since the Sparkle album was missing from the sales list for the last few weeks I am guessing at its sales between being at 49K on Aug 29th and its 67K now.
Some other folks missing numbers on the sales charts are the other contestants from Season 11 with compilation EP albums. Skylar Laine and Hollie Cavanagh are again listed on the sales list, each with sales of about 1,000 (33K total for Skylar, 13K for Hollie) but Joshua Ledet and Jessica Sanchez are again missing from the list. I guess I will just leave their lines blank for now and we can all guess! I could try estimating the numbers for Skylar, but I will leave her spaces blank too, just for fun.
