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| lt green = Phillip, orange = Carrie. lt blue = Kelly, dk blue = Colton |
I am not sure if it was the dual wins of Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood on Grammy night, or just having American Idol Season 12 move out of audition mode, but all the American Idol albums saw nice numeric sales increases this week, with most of their BillBoard placement rankings improving. Leading the pack was Grammy winner Carrie Underwood who saw her "Blown Away" album increase sales by 70%, selling 24K units and placing #27 on the BillBoard album chart, its best placement in 6 weeks. Her total increased past 1.3M to 1.308M which means I had to increase the upper limit on my chart again! Kelly Clarkson saw not only the sales of her more recent "Greatest Hits" album jump 46% (16K to reack 284K), but also her Grammy winning "Stronger" album jumped 116% with 8K in sales to reach 1.031M. Both albums also placed on the BillBoard Top 100 albums, with the "Greatest Hits" album at #45 and "Stronger" at #70. That means her 24K in sales for those two albums matched the 24K Carrie sold for "Blown Away". Carrie also sold 3K copies of "Play On", 3K copies of "Some Hearts", and 2K of "Carnival Ride", so she sold 32K total albums this week. Whew! Between Carrie and Kelly they sold 56K albums together this week.
The male American Idols with albums also saw sales increases this week. Season 11 winner Phillip Phillips saw his "World From the Side of the Moon" increase 23% to 19K to bring his total to 713K (#35 on the album chart) which is a slight improvement from last week. Colton Dixon's "A Messenger" had a sales decrease from 10K to 7K this week, but in 3 weeks he is still in the Top 100 at #83 with total sales of 38K. Scotty McCreery and Casey James both saw nice increases in their sales as well, with Scotty selling another 2K of his "Clear As Day" album (1.157M) and Casey adding another 1K to bring his total to 71K.
