'Idol' BB 200: 'Leave This Town' #2 (8/15/09)

It was another good week for Idol alums, particularly Daughtry, on the Billboard Top 200 chart for the chart week of Aug. 15.

Chris and the boys saw their sophomore release Leave This Town hold steady at #2 despite a 38% drop in sales to 62k. The album's total is 432.4k after three weeks. Their other entry, Daughtry, saw positive movement as it climbed #84-78 with 4.9k, down 8% for a total of 4.504 million.

Last week's new entry, Jordin Sparks' Battlefield, tumbled 63% to 17.7k for a two-week total of 65.6k copies. On the chart side it fell 14 spots to #21. Next up was Kelly Clarkson's All I Ever Wanted, which surged ahead 27 spots to #59 thanks to a sales bump of 30%. It claimed another 6.8k copies for the week for a total of 661.4k.

Following Kelly was the Season 8 Walmart exclusive album, which received an additional 6k despite a 26% decrease in sales for a 49.3k total. It slipped #53-65 for the week. Kellie Pickler saw her sophomore album slip in sales but rise on the chart, as it was down 5% to 5.7k but up three spots to #69. It has sold 283.7k copies to date.

Carrie Underwood's Carnival Ride saw positive activity on both fronts, as its sales jumped 9% to 5.5k copies and it rose on the chart 16 spots to #72 for a total of 2.940 million. And David Cook familiarly closed out Idol representation on the Billboard 200, as his self-titled album took in 4.1k copies, off 14% from the previous week, for a total of 1.214 million. In the chart rankings, it was only off three spots to #93.

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

002 002 Daughtry - Leave This Town 62,040 -38% 100,826 432,424
021 007 Jordin Sparks - Battlefield 17,671 -63% 47,972 65,629
059 086 Kelly Clarkson - All I Ever Wanted 6,810 30% 5,248 661,449
065 053 Various Artists - American Idol: Season 8 6,023 -26% 8,164 49,276
069 072 Kellie Pickler - Kellie Pickler 5,656 -5% 5,965 283,698
072 088 Carrie Underwood - Carnival Ride 5,494 9% 5,045 2,940,237
078 084 Daughtry - Daughtry 4,902 -8% 5,348 4,504,184
093 090 David Cook - David Cook 4,101 -14% 4,794 1,213,813

Total sales are in bold.