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Carrie Underwood gets CD sales bump from ACMs, 'Idol Gives Back'
Get high-visibility performances on two major networks during prime time, and your CD sales are bound to rise. Between her Entertainer of the Year win at the Academy of Country Music Awards show and her performance of Change on Idol Gives Back, Carrie Underwood saw week-to-week sales of her Play On album jump 54 percent. Some Hearts and Carnival Ride sales also saw increases. In fact, according to Nielsen SoundScan, Carrie's combined album sales increased 48.4 percent over the previous week -- with an additional 89,000 individual Carrie Underwood songs being purchased online. (For a great gallery of Carrie Underwood photos, click here.)
Overall country album sales were up 18 percent over the previous week and 2 percent over the same week in 2009.
Various, Now That's What I Call Music! 33 (37,000, -18 percent, 393,000 total/10,000 digital total)
Carrie Underwood, Play On (18,000, +54 percent, 1.485 million/3,000 digital, +71 percent, 169,000 digital total)
Glee Cast, Glee: The Music, Vol. 1 (12,000, +2 percent, 799,000/5,000 digital, -8 percent, 180,000 digital total)
Glee Cast, Glee: The Music, Vol. 2 (10,000, +3 percent, 594,000/4,000 digital, -13 percent, 138,000 digital total)
Adam Lambert, For Your Entertainment (10,000, -23 percent, 615,000/1,000 digital, -50 percent, 82,000 digital total)
Jason Castro, Jason Castro (7,000, -64 percent, 27,000/2,000 digital, -79 percent, 9,000 digital total)
Daughtry, Leave This Town (6,000, -7 percent, 1.03 million/1,000 digital, -11 percent, 182,000 digital total)
Various, Now That's What I Call Music! 32 (5,000, -6 percent, 883,000)
Various, WOW Hits 2010 (5,000, +4 percent, 352,000)
Kidz Bop Kids, Kidz Bop 17 (5,000, -11 percent, 190,000)
Danny Gokey, My Best Days (4,000, -9 percent, 139,000)
Various, Now That's What I Call Country, Vol. 2 (3,000, +7 percent, 278,000)
Carrie Underwood, Some Hearts (3,000, +34 percent, 6.971 million)
Carrie Underwood, Carnival Ride (2,000, +29 percent, 3.082 million)
Various, Now That's What I Call Country (1,000, -5 percent, 423,000)
Kellie Pickler, Kellie Pickler (1,000, +10 percent, 404,000)
Mandisa, Freedom (1,000, -10 percent, 100,000)
Various Artists, Letters to God: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (features Anne Marie Boskovich's Everything Is Beautiful) (less than a thousand, -24 percent, 3,000)
Adam Lambert joins the million-download club
With week-over-week sales falling a mere 14 percent, Adam Lambert easily eclipses the million mark for Whataya Want From Me downloads, according to Nielsen SoundScan. And, with more than 86,000 downloads, it's still the week's best-selling Idol track.
Carrie Underwood also had a good week, her downloads boosted by appearances on the Academy of Country Music Awards and Idol Gives Back. Temporary Home, Cowboy Casanova, Before He Cheats, All-American Girl, Undo It and Jesus, Take the Wheel all saw double-digit percentage increases, and the studio version of Change, her Idol Gives Back song -- rocketed a jaw-dropping 2,001 percent.
Adam Lambert, Whataya Want From Me (86,000, -14 percent, 1.051 million)
Kris Allen, Live Like We're Dying (27,000, -27 percent, 1.35 million)
Carrie Underwood, Temporary Home (25,000, +36 percent, 424,000)
Daughtry, Life After You (17,000, -11 percent, 661,000)
Carrie Underwood, Cowboy Casanova (14,000, +23 percent, 1.31 million)
Kelly Clarkson, All I Ever Wanted (11,000, +7 percent, 79,000)
Carrie Underwood, Change (9,000, +2,001 percent, 53,000)
Carrie Underwood, Before He Cheats (5,000, +16 percent, 2.986 million)
Carrie Underwood, All-American Girl (4,000, +18 percent, 1.191 million)
Carrie Underwood, Undo It (4,000, +97 percent, 85,000)
Kellie Pickler, Best Days of Your Life (4,000, -4 percent, 1.011 million)
Carrie Underwood, Jesus, Take the Wheel (3,000, +26 percent, 1.672 million)
Danny Gokey, My Best Days Are Ahead of Me (3,000, -4 percent, 94,000) |
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Post time 22-4-2010 09:26 PM
so it's quite painful to watch them...
