Digital sales roundup: "Crush" #6 (8/23/08)

As expected, David Archuleta's debut single "Crush" took a hefty fall in its second week, as its 46% decline was good for another 89.5k downloads and a #6 entry on Billboard's Hot Digital Songs chart. Its total stands at a healthy 255.7k. The next highest Idol-related track was once again Jordin Sparks' "One Step At a Time," which witnessed a two-spot climb to #16 with an eight percent increase to 58.5k downloads for the week. It is just shy of gold status, sitting at 491.k downloads.

Following Jordin was David Cook, whose coronation single "The Time of My Life" finally saw a drop, and a big one at that, as it plummeted 18 spots to #45 with another 29.3k downloads. It appears it may take a little longer than expected to reach platinum status, as it now totals 822k. Jennifer Hudson, on the other hand, saw her "Spotlight" minimally increase once again, as its gain of seven percent put its total north of 78k. It will be interesting to see how the single is effected by her "Star-Spangled Banner" performance before Sen. Barack Obama receives his party's nomination tomorrow night in Denver.

And despite the fact that there are no Carrie Underwood numbers to report this week, there are numbers to report for Daughtry's "What About Now," which enters the chart at #161 with 8.6k downloads. Its total is 300k on the dot. Full numbers and chart positions courtesy of bks on Pulse as follows.

006 001 David Archuleta, "Crush" 89,472 -46% 166,247 255,719
016 018 Jordin Sparks, "One Step At a Time" 58,494 8% 54,252 491,528
045 027 David Cook, "The Time of My Life" 29,343 -32% 43,170 822,001
149 156 Jennifer Hudson, "Spotlight" 9,417 7% 8,834 78,272
161 --- Daughtry, "What About Now" 8,626 24% 6,955 300,633

Total sales are in bold.