'Idol' BB 200: 'Carnival Ride' #42 (8/9/08)

Carrie Underwood's Carnival Ride actually improved in rankings on the Billboard Top 200 album chart for the week of Aug. 9 despite another 6% dip in sales. The disc shifted an additional 11.8k copies but inched up #43-42. Daughtry stayed even at #87, and managed to only fall 3%. Total sales now stand at 4.16 million. Jordin Sparks' self-titled album continued to slide, falling 7 spots to #108, but her 6.4k copies for the week put her total at 863k.

Noticeably missing this week were Ace Young and Jon Peter Lewis, as the former fell off the chart from #160 last week, whereas the latter's sophomore album, Break the Silence, debuted last week and missed the chart entirely. Full chart positions courtesy of 2m over on Pulse are as follows:

042 043 Carrie Underwood - Carnival Ride 11,860 -6% 12,634 2,255,032
087 087 Daughtry - Daughtry 7,142 -3% 7,353 4,164,681
108 101 Jordin Sparks - Jordin Sparks 6,448 -7% 6,908 863,581

Total sales are in bold.