Digital sales roundup: "No Boundaries" #4 (5/22/09)

Newly anointed Idol winner Kris Allen made his debut on the latest Billboard Hot Digital Songs chart, as his coronation single "No Boundaries" led the way among an insane amount of Idol-related tracks that were finally allowed to chart now that the season has ended.

"No Boundaries" landed at #4 with 134.5k downloads. In total, Kris' 11 tracks that charted pulled in cumulative sales of 478,927 downloads. Next up was Kris' chief rival, Adam Lambert, whose "Mad World" debuted at #7 with 114.8k downloads, was the first of 14 tracks that had their sales made public, accounting for a total of 380,645 downloads.

The third-highest charting Idol alum was David Cook, as his "Permanent" saw an increase of epic proportions thanks to a heartfelt performance of the song on the Idol finale. The track came in at #10 and was up exponentially to 102.6k for a total of 126.9k. Cook also saw increases for "Come Back to Me" (65%, #115-90) and "Light On" (48%, #176) with respective weekly takes of 19.2k and 9.5k for totals of 147.4k and 934.5k.

Kelly Clarkson was up next with "I Do Not Hook Up," which fell #24-30 with a 9% drop in sales. It sold 50.6k downloads and has totaled 285.5k. Daughtry followed with "No Surprise," which sold another 33.7k, down 51% and was off #14-46 on the chart side. After three weeks it has moved 206.1k. And Carrie Underwood was up next with "Home Sweet Home," which was up 67 spots to #49 and sold 32.8k downloads, up 184% in sales. It now has a total of 287.8k

The last two Idol alums to have tracks debut on the Hot Digital Songs chart were Danny Gokey and Allison Iraheta. Danny's highest-charting single was "You Are So Beautiful," which took in 15.3k downloads and took the #110 spot. In total he had three songs on the chart for cumulative sales of 35,803. Allison's highest-charting entry was her duet with Adam on "Slow Ride," which debuted at #84 with 21.7k downloads. She had two tracks on the chart for a grand total of 30,408.

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

004 --- Kris Allen, "No Boundaries" 134,458 999% 0 134,458
005 --- Kris Allen, "Heartless" 125,344 999% 0 125,344
007 --- Adam Lambert, "Mad World" 114,763 999% 0 114,763
010 --- David Cook, "Permanent" 102,595 999% 308 126,905
017 --- Kris Allen, "Ain't No Sunshine" 72,080 999% 0 72,080
030 024 Kelly Clarkson, "I Do Not Hook Up" 50,633 -9% 55,729 285,499
032 --- Adam Lambert, "Change Is Gonna Come" 48,068 999% 0 48,068
038 --- Kris Allen, "Apologize" 40,173 999% 0 40,173
043 --- Adam Lambert, "No Boundaries" 35,984 999% 0 35,984
046 014 Daughtry, "No Surprise" 33,684 -51% 68,774 206,051
049 116 Carrie Underwood, "Home Sweet Home" 32,812 184% 11,571 287,846
057 --- Adam Lambert, "One" 30,851 999% 0 30,851
072 --- Kris Allen, "Falling Slowly" 27,087 999% 0 27,087
075 --- Adam Lambert, "Cryin'" 24,580 999% 0 24,580
084 --- Adam Lambert & Allison Iraheta, "Slow Ride" 21,742 999% 0 21,742
087 --- Kris Allen, "What's Going On" 21,060 999% 0 21,060
090 115 David Cook, "Come Back to Me" 19,188 65% 11,607 147,449
094 --- Kris Allen, "To Make You Feel My Love" 18,525 999% 0 18,525
102 --- Adam Lambert, "The Tracks of My Tears" 17,130 999% 0 17,130
107 --- Adam Lambert, "Feeling Good" 16,178 999% 0 16,178
110 --- Danny Gokey, "You Are So Beautiful" 15,297 999% 0 15,297
112 --- Adam Lambert, "Ring of Fire" 14,970 999% 0 14,970
113 --- Adam Lambert, "Whole Lotta Love" 14,454 999% 0 14,454
141 --- Adam Lambert, "Black or White" 11,261 999% 0 11,261
145 --- Adam Lambert, "If I Can't Have You" 11,151 999% 0 11,151
147 --- Kris Allen, "The Way You Look Tonight" 10,884 999% 0 10,884
148 --- Kris Allen & Danny Gokey, "Renegade" 10,826 999% 0 10,826
155 --- Adam Lambert, "Born to Be Wild" 10,450 999% 0 10,450
172 --- Kris Allen, "Come Together" 9,839 999% 0 9,839
174 --- Danny Gokey, "What Hurts the Most" 9,680 999% 0 9,680
176 --- David Cook, "Light On" 9,509 48% 6,423 934,469
186 --- Adam Lambert, "Play That Funky Music" 9,072 999% 0 9,072
190 --- Allison Iraheta, "Cry Baby" 8,666 999% 0 8,666
191 --- Kris Allen, "She Works Hard For the Money" 8,651 999% 0 8,651

Total sales are in bold.