Daughtry Leads American Idols on BillBoard Album Chart

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFpDn1p2wmR7PJOoaX-4iR4CLfL1kVg4YhGH1CyZnjREHgB0Z9EwswNNRTlRwefKe0cqv4p-s-ymWN0iqPuwVajSmYGuYwZmcD6Buq4B_-6tlgRUpZSBBG8_Onc1mIaGP4oWfsu-DN9Cer/s1600/bb200-20140110.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFpDn1p2wmR7PJOoaX-4iR4CLfL1kVg4YhGH1CyZnjREHgB0Z9EwswNNRTlRwefKe0cqv4p-s-ymWN0iqPuwVajSmYGuYwZmcD6Buq4B_-6tlgRUpZSBBG8_Onc1mIaGP4oWfsu-DN9Cer/s1600/bb200-20140110.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">orange = Daughtry, dk green = Kelly, red= Scotty, lt blue = Carrie, maroon = Phillip</td></tr></tbody></table>Now that holiday shopping is over, the top selling album by an American Idol artist is no longer a Christmas album, and in fact is not even by a winner. Daughtry's steadily selling "Baptized" leads the other Idols on the <a href="http://www.mjsbigblog.com/billboard-chart-date-01182014.htm" target="_blank">Billboard album chart</a> at #38 and Kelly Clarkson's platinum selling "Wrapped in Red" finally drops out of the Top 10, tumbling to #64. Another album that saw a big post holiday tumble was Carrie Underwood's "Sound of Music" NBC TV special soundtrack which falls from #71 to #186, which means Carrie's best selling album on the chart is again her 2012 released "Blown Away" album which moved from #112 to #129. And speaking of Idols with two albums on the chart, Kelly actually still has her 2012 "Greatest Hits" album on the chart as well, which improved from #165 to #157 this week. So the two top selling Idols ever still each have two albums on the Billboard 200 chart including two albums over a year old.<br /><br />The other two Idols with albums on the Billboard 200 are the last two male winners (or you could say the last two Idol winners who actually released an album.) Scotty McCreery's "See You Tonight" remains in the Top 100 at #95 after 12 weeks with <a href="http://www.roughstock.com/blog/country-album-chart-news-the-week-of-january-8-2013-with-news-on-latest-albums-from-luke-garth-cassadee-danielle-and-scotty" target="_blank">5K in sales for a total of 183K</a>. His single of the same name has been solidly stuck at around #20 on the airplay charts over the holidays too, which is not a bad place to be. The other Idol winner hanging in the Top 200 is Phillip Phillip's 2012 release, "The World From the Side of the Moon", which sits at #175 this week from #163 last week. Having these last two winners have albums that hold strong on the charts is a good lead in to the new season of Idol, but I am afraid they may be forgetting one other even more recent American Idol winner. Hmmm, who could that be? I believe her album should be <a href="http://store.interscope.com/Product.aspx?pc=IXCDAI02" target="_blank">released in just a few weeks</a>, so I hope they do not forget about her!

Daughtry Leads American Idols on BillBoard Album Chart

orange = Daughtry, dk green = Kelly, red= Scotty, lt blue = Carrie, maroon = Phillip Now that holiday shopping is over, the top selling albu...

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