Now that Phillip Phillip's "World From the Side of the Moon" has been released for 11 weeks, it saw sales of 16K this week to drop him out of the BillBoard Top 25 for the first time, landing at #26. But to make sure a Season 11 Idol is still in the Top 25, Colton Dixon's "A Messenger" debuted, selling 22,000 copies to land him at #15 on the BillBoard 200 and #1 on the Christian Chart. That is a respectable number for a Christian album, and even compares well to the Season 10 efforts by 4th place finalist James Durbin (28K first week) and 3rd place finisher Haley Reinhart (20K.) That is not too shabby for a 7th place finisher releasing an album at the end of January.
The only other Idols in the BillBoard 200 this week are yet again Carrie Underwood and Kelly Clarkson. Carrie's "Blown Away" saw a nice sales boost, selling 13K copies to bring its total to 1.271M and land her at #34 this week (from #37 last week.) Kelly's Greatest Hits album stayed about the same as last week in sales (9K, 258K total) but dropped slightly with more debuts to land at #49. Interestingly "Stronger" sales stayed about the same as well (3K, 1.019M total) and it was able to stay on the BillBoard Top 200 again, at #180.
Looking at the Idol Chatter album sales list, it is interesting to see four Carrie Underwood albums listed, with "Play On", "Some Hearts" and "Carnival Ride" all continuing to see some sales. Daughtry's debut album also showed up with sales of 2K. Jason Castro's "Only a Mountain" sold another 1K, as did Scotty McCreery's "Clear As Day", and the two Caseys (James and Abrams) with their debut albums.
