Idol Sales week ending 2/3/08

[Astropickledeggs]

Only four remain on album chart; Blake departs

You know it's Idol season for me when my sales posts start creeping later and later into the day on Wednesdays. But here we go, with a reduced Idol presence on the Billboard album chart, as determined by sales figures from Nielsen SoundScan.

Daughtry drops from No. 19 to No. 24 but enjoys an 8% sales bump; overall album sales were up 4% this week, and a number of debuts in the top 25 pushed older albums down on the chart even if their sales were up. Daughtry sold 22,000 this week for a total of 3.73 million.

Carrie's Carnival Ride is down 22-30, but in this case is accompanied by a sales drop as well, a mild 5% decline to 19,000 that brings her total to 1.80 million.

Jordin drops 49-53 but gains 7% in sales, up to the mid-13,000s, for a total of 474,000.

And Carrie's Some Hearts falls 58-67, dropping 4%, for a total of 6.24 million.

After eight weeks on the chart, Blake falls off. You'll see how far in the non-charting Idols section that follows.

Blake's sales dropped from 4,000 to 2,900, about 500 short of the number needed to crack the top 200 this week. That's about a 27% drop, pretty much the same as his sales fell last week. His total is 258,000, which is at least comfortably above Justin and Diana's levels, insuring he won't be the lowest-selling runner-up.

His sales this week were actually about 100 fewer than Kellie's -- she sold 3,000, up from 2,900, to bring her total to 712,000.

And Kelly's ineligible-for-the-chart Breakaway was the best-selling off-chart Idol album at 3,600 copies, down from 3,700, for a total of 595,000. My December sold 1,800, down from 2,000, to total 749,000.

Elliott sold 1,600, same as last week, for a total of 491,000.

Bucky sold 1,400, up from 1,200, to hit 322,000.

Fantasia jumped back into four figures at 1,000, up from 700, and has sold 505,000 in total.

Mandisa sold 800, up from 700, to reach 70,000.

Bo sold 500, same as last week, for a total of 39,000.

The newly married Katharine sold 300, same as last week, for a total of 367,000.

Clay sold 200, same as last week, for a total of 523,000.

The five members of the 100 club this week are all repeaters:

Taylor's total is 700,000.

Ruben's is 236,000.

Constantine's is 24,000.

Paris' is 21,000.

Kimberley's is 18,000.

[Astropickledeggs]

I totally love this. Kellie goes up to 3000 last week and outsells Blake Lewis. hehe

[Young_br]

Go Kellie!!
712k!
very nice!

[jessy89]

later this month i think she will see another boost with the uso dairy on gac

[lucassmith]

I'm happy with the numbers they are not where they deserve to be but still they are consistant.

[No_Left_Turn]

two Canadian performances coming up...too bad Canada sales won't count for the U.S. totals, but they'll add to her worldwide sales.

[Kellielover101]

WHOOO HOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! GO KELLIE!!!!!!!!!
=)

[werss]

That's great! She's staying consistent.

[KellieKitty]

That is awesome, especially when you think that she is one of the best sellers of all Idol seasons, even outselling some winners and runner-ups, etc! I can't wait until she goes platinum!

[johnjmc]

thanks for the number........ Go Kellie........... creeping into the 3/4 mark of a million...

[gemiz]

Nice #'s! It's great that her numbers are pretty consistent.

[ChrisKellieFan]

Yes and the fact that they are staying this consistent despite the underpromotion proves how great her album is and it isn't getting the promo it deserves. lol