After a full two week hiatus, we finally have numbers for all of the American Idol album sales back on Idol Chatter. Using my sophisticated subtraction skills that I learned in elementary school, I can also back track and figure out the raw numbers for last week as well. My first graph above is the BillBoard 200 chart, and now that Scotty McCreery's "Clear As Day" (green line) has not charted there for 3 weeks, I have added Phillip Phillips' EP which has been charting ever since Scotty dropped out. That keeps the winners for the past two years on the BillBoard 200 since Scotty's EP came out last July. Phillip's EP drops to #156 this week (from #123 last week) with sales of 3,000 (80K total.) The other two Idols on the BillBoard chart are, of course, Carrie Underwood's "Blown Away" and Kelly Clarkson's "Stronger". Carrie's sales are down substantially from last week , but still lead the pack with 15K sold (#24), bringing her total to 794K, just barely below the 800K mark. Kelly sold another 4K copies of her album to stay in the Top 100 again (#89) and bring her total to 929K. Mandisa popped back into the Top 200 this week with a good week with her 2K in sales (#170) bringing her total to 212K, and Bucky Covington's first week sales for his "Good Guys" album sold about the same to land him at #178 on the chart.
