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| Phillip = green, Carrie = orange, Kelly = lt blue, Colton = dk blue |
This week the Season 12 American Idol contestants helped previous album sales as Angie Miller's performance of "Never Gone"
boosted sales of Colton Dixon's "A Messenger" 94% to put it back into the BillBoard Top 100. Next week should show another good boost in sales for the Idols, since not only were Scotty McCreery, Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood songs highlighted last night, but tonight Phillip Phillips will be performing "Gone, Gone, Gone" to help boost sales of his own album, "The World From the Side of the Moon". Phillip's album actually leads the Idols this week in sales with 12K more units sold, bringing his total to 749K and placing him #33 on the charts in its 16th week. Both Carrie and Kelly's latest albums remain in the Top 50 as well, with Carrie's "Blown Away" at #40 with 11K sold (1.346M total) and Kelly's "Greatest Hits" also with 11K (320K total) sitting at #42. All four of the Idols on the BillBoard chart saw their positions improve.
If we look at the total sales, this actually marks the 75th week since Scotty McCreery's "Clear As Day" was released (and it STILL sold another 1,000 units) and that incredibly long progression of continued sales makes my graph much too long. Sorry, Scotty, your album sales have been too strong too long to make my graph very readable:
So I thought I would create another zoomed in graph that just stops after 30 weeks and goes up to a maximum of 500K in sales for all the albums:
This way you can see the trends of slower selling Idols better (i.e. ones not named Carrie, Kelly, Scotty or Phillip.) I was curious how Colton's sales were comparing to folks like James Durbin, Adam Lambert or Haley Reinhart, and with my old graph skewed to track the platinum selling albums, their lower numbers were harder to see.
