Idol Albums Sales Hold Steady, Less Than A Month Until the Next Winner Release!

green = Mandisa, maroon = Phillip, dk green = Kelly, lt blue = Carrie,
orange = Fantasia, lt green = Jessica, med blue = Colton

This week there are again five American Idol albums in the BillBoard 200 chart, with Mandisa again leading the way, this time at #45 from #29 last week. Albums on the Christian charts tend to last a pretty long time, with Colton Dixon's "A Messenger" still among the Top 40 Christian albums on that chart (increasing to number #33 from #39 last week.) If you notice his darker blue line in the chart, his album first came out about 30 months ago and is still selling fine in the Christian market, with his single "Never Gone" sitting at #1 on the Christian Hot AC chart.

The other Idols on the chart all saw only slight movements on the chart. Phillip Phillip's "The World From the Side of the Moon" has been very steady for the past six weeks, just shifting around in the 50's (#57 this week after #55 last week.) Kelly Clarkson's "Greatest Hits: Chapter One" drops only a little from #75 to #84 this week, and Carrie Underwood's "Blown Away" finally drops out of the Top 100, landing at #101 after 71 weeks (that is a long time!). Fantasia's "Side Effects of You" actually improved for a second week in a row to #115, so her sales are holding pretty well too.

Now that it is September 13, that means that Candice Glover's "Music Speaks" will be released in just three weeks from next Tuesday on October 8. Unfortunately there appears to be nothing going on to promote the album yet, which is scary indeed. Scotty McCreery's "See You Tonight" album is officially on sale a week later, and he just released a new music video for the lead title single (which has been solidly stuck at around #40 on the country singles chart seemingly forever.) Scotty's fans might complain about having his single stuck at #40 for so long (thank the messed up state of country radio these days), but, frankly, that would be quite a nice "problem" for Candice to have, if she actually had a single playing on the radio at all! Candice does not even seem to have her own official website. Is her album going to be released on October 8th or not? Scotty's fans were able to figure out from the order numbers for his pre-sales, that he already should have sold around 10,000 just in first 48 hour pre-sale orders pretty easily. What fraction of that will Candice sell on her release? Somebody help her out please!!

Since Candice does not have a website or single or anything else to help promote her album, I may as well link to Scotty's new music video. At least there will be one recent Idol winner who will sell a lot of albums this fall!

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Friday, September 13, 2013