HITS estimates: Kelly 41.6k, Carrie 32.7k

The ACM Awards and Easter had a lot of things to do with two Idol alums' sales gains in their respective albums on HITS Daily Double's Top 50 building album sales chart this week.

Leading the charge with a 23% sales increase was Kelly Clarkson, as her latest album All I Ever Wanted took in 41.6k copies for the week, marking a two-spot increase to #12.

Carrie Underwood was the other alum to see her album advance this week, as her Carnival Ride shot up 99% to 32.7k copies, which was a whole 17 spots ahead of last week's chart ranking of #32. This was mostly due to her big win at the ACMs and partially due to her album being a popular gift to fill kids' Easter baskets.

The only other two Idol-related albums on the chart were David Cook's self-titled album, which took in 20.9k with an eight-spot drop to #28 as a result of a 20% sales dip, and Chris Botti's Chris Botti In Boston, which was down 56% to 15.1k copies. The later fell #13-37 on the chart.

Final numbers courtesy of Billboard should be out by the end of the week.