Digital sales roundup: "Crush" #16 (10/25/08)

Continuing to make Billboard's Hot Digital Songs chart a little boring was David Archuleta's "Crush," which led all Idol-related tracks on the chart for the week. "Crush" slipped 2% to 55.3k downloads for the week, holding steady at #16. It is nearing platinum status with 805.3k in the bag thus far.

Arch's counterpart, David Cook, was represented by his single "Light On," which witnessed a 42-spot surge thanks the availability to pre-order Cook's album on iTunes. The 33.6k downloads were up 123% from last week, putting its total at 188.7k.

Jordin Sparks followed with the venerable "One Step At a Time" at #38. Its sales take dipped 15% to 32.8k downloads, finally sending its total north of 900k. Jennifer Hudson's "Spotlight" slid six spots to #67 due to a 6% decrease in sales. It netted 18.4k downloads for the week and now stands at 239.9k total.

Full numbers and chart positions courtesy of bks on Pulse as follows:

16 16 David Archuleta, "Crush" 55,314 -2% 56,216 805,326
35 77 David Cook, "Light On" 33,598 123% 15,083 188,682
38 32 Jordin Sparks, "One Step At a Time" 32,833 -15% 38,527 903,941
67 61 Jennifer Hudson, "Spotlight" 18,369 -6% 19,447 239,930

Total sales are in bold.