Music Videos, Release Dates and Pre-Sales - All Announced Today!


With Pia performing on "So You Think You Can Dance", the huge promotion for the Season 10 American Idols has kicked into high gear. First are the release dates for Scotty, Lauren and Pia's music videos:
  • Lauren Alaina "Like My Mother Does" - Mon, Aug 8
  • Scotty McCreery "I Love You This Big" - Tue, Aug 9
  • Pia Toscano "This Time" - Tue, Aug 9


All three of them now have their official websites up too, all with the word "official" stuck in them. Why have they decided to make websites with "official" in them now?
I am not sure why Scotty has a dash in his URL and the ladies do not.

I also checked for haleyreinhart.com, haleyreinhart-official.com and haleyreinhartofficial.com and none of those seem live yet. I guess she does not have a single out yet or an album close to be being completed. We will have to wait for her release dates and website.

You can also pre-order Scotty and Lauren's unnamed albums now, and from the pre-order e-mails, it sounds like Scotty's album will be released October 4, and Lauren's will come out on October 11. No official word on Pia's album, and no pre-order abilities on her website yet. They do have a 15 second clip of her music video there. In reality I am rather curious about how well Pia's album does, since I feel fairly confident that Scotty's will do extremely well and Lauren's will also sell well (although not as well as Scotty's.)


And I am finally most curious of all about Haley's album since it could go in a variety of directions and should be the most interesting of all musically. The longer wait on her album will hopefully not hurt her long term sales. With Haley, I could see her album either flopping horribly or exploding and becoming huge.

Season 10 Idols all back in BillBoard Top 100

With fifth week sales numbers out, Lauren, James and Haley continue to sell about 5,000 units a piece, allowing them all to stay within the Top 100 of the BillBoard album chart. Last week Lauren and Haley barely dropped out of the top 100 but this week they climb back up, with Lauren leading the way at #89 (with Haley at #97 and James as #98.)

And then there is Scotty who defies all explanation. His sales increased by about 13% this week to a total of 16,000 units for the week, pushing his grand total to 102,000 EP's sold. Yes, this week he outsold his other three tour mates combined. His BillBoard placement also improved to #21 from #26 last week. The record executives must be salivating looking at his numbers. The four of them have now sold 231,000 units with Scotty selling nearly half of them.

Fourth Week American Idol EP Sales - Scotty Marches On!

Wow, I am not sure who keeps purchasing so many of Scotty McCreery's EP, but somebody does. Now in its fourth week of sales it sold another 14,000 copies putting his grand total at 86,000. His sales this week of 14,000 almost matches the combined sales of the other three finalists (with 5,000 each for a total of 15,000.) It is also quite amazing how close together Lauren, Haley and James are now tracking each other in sales. You can tell from their BillBoard 200 rankings from week to week and how close they are together:

After the first week out, Lauren, James and Haley have been incredibly close in BillBoard ranking:

July 6: #24 Lauren, #31 James, #37 Haley (20K, 15K and 14K respectively) 
July 13: #35 Lauren, #37 Haley, #38 James (10,000-11,000 in sales for each)
July 20: #69 James, #70 Haley, #74 Lauren (6,000-7,000 in sales for each)
July 27: #95 James, #103 Haley, #109 Lauren (~5,000 in sales for each)

Scotty, on the other hand is a model of consistency, with his BillBoard ranking starting at #10, then going to #19, then steady to #20 and a small drop this week to #26. Even more impressive has been Scotty's iTunes singles sales ranking where "I Love You This Big" continues to stay in the Top 100 in sales for two months.

Now after four weeks the combined EP sales has surpassed 200,000 units.
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