HITS predix: Kelly 210-230k

In what promises to be an exciting week on the charts, HITS Daily Double today released its predictions for the first week sales of Kelly Clarkson's latest disc All I Ever Wanted. The magic number is now somewhere between 210-230k, being upped from 200-225k earlier today.

These figures are a good 100k below IDOL LIVE's prediction of 334k, which makes me think the prediction is being underestimated in the face of a few huge appearances this week (Idol's results show tonight and SNL on Saturday). Hopefully things trend upward for her going into the weekend.

As for Taylor Hicks' new album The Distance, HITS neglected to predict any numbers for it, meaning it will most likely finish below the 14k predicted for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs (the lowest number HITS lobbed our way in its predictions). That would be on target with IDOL LIVE's prediction of 12k for the gray-haired one.