Digital sales roundup: "No Surprise" #7 (5/8/09)

The Idol representation on Billboard's Hot Digital Songs chart was alive and well for the week, as a few performances on last week's results show played a large role in songs that debuted (or in some cases, re-entered) on the chart. The following songs are the ones that had their sales figures made public.

Daughtry stormed backed onto the chart with its new single "No Surprise," and it's no surprise that it debuted to 103.6k downloads for a #7 entrance. This was of course thanks to the band's performance of the song on the show, and some of its older tracks were also beneficiaries of the performance.

"What About Now" was up 224% and re-entered at #113 with another 11.8k downloads sold for a total of 685.1k. "Home," on the other hand, was up 190% and splashed back at #148 thanks to another 8.7k sold, for a grand total of 1.780 million.

Last week's champ, Kelly Clarkson, saw her current single "I Do Not Hook Up" climb 7% in sales to 52k downloads sold, representing a one-spot increase to #20 on the chart. Its total stands at 179.1k. Her other charting song at the moment, "My Life Would Suck Without You," fell #34-38 and dipped 4% in sales to 33.6k for a total of 1.802 million.

A fresh face to the chart was Paula Abdul, as her new single "I'm Just Here For the Music" got off to a good start at #61 thanks to a much hyped performance on the results show, opening with 24.6k. She also had a second song representing her (and Randy Jackson), as last year's "Dance Like There's No Tomorrow" rose exponentially to 9.3k and marked a re-entry at #138, with its total resting at 373.2k.

And David Cook's latest single "Come Back to Me" rose 23 spots to #137 thanks to a 16% uptick in sales to 9.3k (65 more tracks sold than Paula's second one, to be exact). It has sold 116.7k in all to date.

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

007 --- Daughtry, "No Surprise" 103,593 999% 0 103,593
020 021 Kelly Clarkson, "I Do Not Hook Up" 51,989 7% 48,761 179,137
038 034 Kelly Clarkson, "My Life Would Suck Without You" 33,603 -4% 35,090 1,802,464
061 --- Paula Abdul, "I'm Just Here For the Music" 24,615 999% 0 24,615
113 --- Daughtry, "What About Now" 11,826 224% 3,654 685,111
137 160 David Cook, "Come Back to Me" 9,344 16% 8,039 116,654
138 --- Paula Adbul, "Dance Like... (ft. Randy Jackson)" 9,279 999% 706 373,182
148 --- Daughtry, "Home" 8,707 190% 3,005 1,780,298

Total sales are in bold.