As expected, Carrie saw a nice sales boost after the CMA Awards show, so despite not winning any awards she won some good sales! "Blown Away" sold another 24K units (compared to 15K last week) to break the 900K plateau and reach a total of 902K and land at #12 on the BillBoard chart (from #20 last week.) That marks two consecutive weeks that Carrie's sales have actually increased along with her BillBoard position.
Scotty McCreery's sales slipped only slightly this week to 16K (from 18K last week) and his chart position fell from #15 to #21 with total sales now of 75K for his holiday album. But with a GAC Christmas special coming up and his performances on the CMA Christmas Special in December he should see his sales continue well through November and December. The amazing trend after 3 weeks, though, is comparing his sales to his EP from last summer. As I showed last week, his sales again are matching extremely closely to the EP sales, for no apparent reason at all! I just needed a pretty graph to put at the top of this posting! His three week sales correlation is pretty impressive:
Week 1: EP 40K (40K) CWSM 41K (41K)
Week 2: EP 14K (54K) CWSM 18K (58K)
Week 3: EP 18K (72K) CWSM 16K (75K)
Interestingly the 5,000 copies of "Clear As Day" bundled with "Christmas With Scotty McCreery" which he sold on QVC are being shown on Roughstock as a new item instead of separately for the two albums. Luckily so since that would have messed up my pretty graph!
Later this week, once I get the BillBoard ranking for Kelly Clarkson's "Stronger", I can post the BillBoard 200 rankings graph for the three albums. It is now only a couple weeks until Nov 19th when Phillip Phillips' debut album and Kelly Clarkson's greatest hits album are both released. Hurray, more American Idol winners albums in the BillBoard 200!