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Since we keep getting numbers for country albums from
RoughStock but nothing consistent elsewhere, I will have to stick to looking at album sales numbers from the top two selling country American Idol winners: Carrie Underwood and Scotty McCreery. Carrie's "Blown Away" and "Christmas with Scotty McCreery" have been doing a cute little dance on the BillBoard 200 album chart for the 4 weeks since Scotty's album was released. As Scotty's chart position had slowly but expectedly decreased (#4, #15, #21), Carries' actually increased for his first weeks (#25, #20, #12). But this week they reversed the dance with "Blown Away" seeing a more natural decrease to #25 (now that the CMA Award show is in the past) but Scotty's Christmas album improved to #18 as Christmas approaches. It is like they are working together to make sure one American Idol winner stays in the Top 20 of the BillBoard chart. They will have to try again for one more week before they will receive help from Phillip Phillips and Kelly Clarkson. This week Scotty sold 20K units (up from 16K last week) to put his total up to 95K. With his extra 5K in QVC sales that really means he has hit 100K in 4 weeks. Carrie saw her sales go down, but her 17K this week (from 24k last week) is still better than her 15K two weeks ago (before her CMA boost.) Interestingly both Scotty and Carrie sold more albums this week than they did two weeks ago.
With Scotty's numbers I can continue my meaningless comparison of his Christmas album sales to his EP from last summer. This week I have added a third line that shows the "complete" CWSM sales from the extra 5K in sales from QVC. Knowing that the EP sold about 200K in total, I find it difficult to believe that CWSM will sell less than that total amount. The big question will be to see how much more than the EP it will sell by then end of 2012 when its sales should come to an abrupt halt (once the "after Christmas" sales are over.) I wonder how much they will be charging for CWSM starting on December 26.
By next Tuesday or Wednesday we should see some Hits Daily Double sales estimates for Phllip Phillips' debut "The World From The Side of the Moon" and also Kelly Clarkson's "Greatest Hits: Chapter One". HDD just posted
the label's estimate of 150K for Phillip's album. We shall see how close to the estimates the actual sales numbers will be next week.
