RoughStock.com Confirms Scotty and Lauren's EP Sales Continue


Just as HitsDailyDouble predicted, Scotty McCreery once again increased sales of his EP, selling nearly 17,000 units to reach 119,000 in total sales. This was confirmed on the RoughStock.com blog. He maintains a steady BillBoard placement of #20, now in the sixth week of sales. Lauren's numbers came in with sales again of ~5,000, pushing her total over 50,000 with a BillBoard ranking of #85. Since James and Haley have been consistently selling about the same number of units as Lauren during the tour, I bet they also sold around 5,000 units and should both be in the BillBoard Top 100 again.

Video View Numbers -- The Day After Release


Now that Scotty McCreery and Pia Toscano's videos have both been released I thought I would compare total views, of Lauren Alaina and Scotty on CMT.com, and for all three of them on Vevo.com and YouTube.com. We do have to remember that Lauren did have a one day lead on the other two, but actually on Vevo, her video is already behind Scotty's in total views at 112K versus 165K for Scotty. Pia trails the other two with only 30K views as of right now (almost noon central time.) On CMT.com Scotty is listed as the #1 video of the day, but if you check the total views, Lauren leads him there with 76K views compared to his 48K. Since she did have an extra 24 hours over Scotty that puts the two of them fairly even on the CMT site. I do find it interesting that even though both Scotty and Lauren now have substantially more VEVO views than CMT views, even their CMT view counts are significantly higher than Pia's VEVO view count. If you check the numbers on YouTube, the numbers seem more current as they are slightly higher than the VEVO numbers:

 Scotty 221K, Lauren 134K, Pia 44K

I always find it interesting if you do a YouTube search, for example, for "scottymccreeryvevo" you will see the video listed with 221,830 views, but if you then go to the video the view count drops down to 207,589:
The same is true with "laurenalainavevo" and "piatoscanovevo".

Due to Idol Chatter's Brian Mansfield not being in his office this week, the sales numbers for the Top 4 EP's may not be available today. However, the numbers for Scotty and Lauren should be out on the RoughStock.com later today. The site HitsDailyDouble has already predicted another good week for Scotty with his sales actually going up again to be almost 17K for the week. That puts him at about 120K total which is a pretty impressive number for a compilation EP of cover songs.



Lauren Alaina's Music Video Currently #1 on CMT

I will have to admit when I first saw Lauren Alaina audition for American Idol, I thought she was fairly talented and had a lot of potential, but I did not think she was quite "ready for prime time". What I forgot was she is just a teenager and still growing up and improving even as we speak. With the release of this music video, it is hard to believe that rather goofy girl we saw during her audition is the same gorgeous young woman showcased in this video.

It is amazing what professional production, styling, makeup and a lot of training and practice can do, because now I believe Lauren is indeed ready for "prime time". As of right now (12:00pm central time) her video has received over 15,000 views on CMT.com and is the #1 video on their site. With Scotty's video coming out tomorrow it will be interesting to see how their views and rankings compare on that site. Lauren will have a one day head start on number of views, so I will be curious if and when Scotty catches up. In any case, I do like Lauren's video which seems like typical CMT fare, and I hope it helps her sell her single and album (once it is released.) Yes, I will have to say I am now in fact a Lauren fan too! (as well as a Haley and Scotty fan -- Pia I am still not so sure about...)

With Pia's video not being released on CMT for obvious reasons, the only site that will likely have all 3 of them will be Vevo.com, although it does not seem to attract as much traffic (For example, right now Lauren has over 15,000 views on CMT.com and only ~300 on Vevo.) I need some numbers to compare!


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