HITS estimates: 'Leave This Town' 61.3k

For the third week in a row, the Idol representation on HITS Daily Double's Top 50 building album sales chart was fronted by a guy from North Carolina and his band.

Daughtry's Leave This Town came in at #5, down two spots from the previous week, for a weekly take of 61.3k according to estimates. The drop of 38% was not as steep as the drop from its first week, which is common and suggests the album is stabilizing.

Jordin Sparks, on the other hand, saw her sophomore album Battlefield take a tumble in its second week of release, sliding 65%. Although this generally is in line with most second week sales depreciation rates, the fact that the album opened to low figures in the first place does not help. The album slipped 19 spots to #29 and took in 16.8k.

Finalized figures courtesy of Billboard should hopefully be out this week, but if not, chart positions will once again surely be posted later on in the week.