In a big debut week for the music industry, David Cook led all Idol alums on Billboard's Hot Digital Songs chart with "Light On," which had a Top 10 debut, coming in at #8. Its sales totaled 109k. If "Light On" had been released at any other time rather than a week filled with the stringent competition from Nickelback, Christina Aguilera and T.I. (his "Live Your Life" opened with 334.5k!), it is fair to speculate that it would have opened a little bit stronger.
Following eight spots behind was David Archuleta, whose "Crush" fell four spots thanks to the host of new tracks that opened above it. "Crush" took home 66.7k, or a 7% drop, and now has its total at 633.3k. Jordin Sparks' "One Step At a Time" was next up, slipping #27-28 thanks to a scant 5% decrease in sales. The additional 42.5k downloads means its total is at 789.9k.
The last four tracks to appear on the chart all were aided by album releases during the week, as Jennifer Hudson's slowburning "Spotlight" saw an uptick in sales of 145%, jumping 61 spots to #38 with a weekly total of 32.5k. Its total is now at 177.1k. Jennifer's "If This Isn't Love" also made an appearance, coming in at #195 with 6.5k downloads. Kellie Pickler's "Don't You Know You're Beautiful" rose a smaller but still respectable 71% for the week, shifting 8.6k downloads for a total of just north of 95k. Her "Best Days of Your Life" also made an appearance at #153, selling 7.7k downloads.
Full numbers and chart positions courtesy of bks on Pulse as follows:
008 --- David Cook, "Light On" 109,035 999% 0 109,035
016 012 David Archuleta, "Crush" 66,677 -7% 71,631 633,306
028 027 Jordin Sparks, "One Step At a Time" 42,520 -5% 44,762 789,856
038 099 Jennifer Hudson, "Spotlight" 32,486 145% 13,241 177,097
133 --- Kellie Pickler, "Don't You Know You're..." 8,598 71% 5,033 95,004
153 --- Kellie Pickler, "Best Days of Your Life" 7,681 999% 0 7,681
195 --- Jennifer Hudson, "If This Isn't Love" 6,455 999% 0 6,455
Total sales are in bold.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Digital sales roundup: "Light On" #8 (10/4/08)
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it's also fair to speculate that LO opened with stronger sales because of the high itunes traffic. the rock fans were already out in force to buy nickelback and so would be more likely to check out LO and spend the extra 99 cents if they liked it. so, it appears that may have been his labels strategy. who knows? good 1st week sales.
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