'Idol' BB 200: 'Jennifer Hudson' #2 (10/18/08)

Jennifer Hudson led all Idol alums on the Billboard Top 200 album chart for the week of Oct. 18 with the debut of or self-titled album. Jennifer Hudson landed at #2 with 217.2k copies and when factoring in the additional 535 copies sold through street date violations, its total stands at 217.7k.

The other week's Idol debut was Kellie Pickler, whose self-titled sophomore album raked in 43.2k copies, putting it at #9. The album only saw 27 copies sold via street date violations. Next up was last week's Idol pack leader, Carrie Underwood, whose Carnival Ride slipped #54-64 despite a week-to-week gain of six copies, meaning an additional 9.2k copies were added to its total of 2.36 million.

Daughtry also saw a hefty drop in the rankings despite a mere 7% decrease in sales. The 7.1k copies sold during the week puts the album's total at 4.24 million. And since Kristy Lee Cook's debut dropped off the chart after only two weeks, Jordin Sparks rounded out all Idol alums represented with her self-titled debut, which rose five spots to #109 as a result of 5.4k copies thanks to a 4% sales increase. Its total now sits at 927.2k copies.

Full numbers and chart positions courtesy of 2m on Pulse as follows:

002 --- Jennifer Hudson - Jennifer Hudson 217,185 999% 535 217,720
009 --- Kellie Pickler - Kellie Pickler 43,165 999% 27 43,192
064 054 Carrie Underwood - Carnival Ride 9,160 0% 9,154 2,359,480
082 079 Daughtry - Daughtry 7,136 -7% 7,657 4,243,558
109 114 Jordin Sparks - Jordin Sparks 5,431 4% 5,244 927,246

Total sales are in bold.