'Idol' BB 200: 'Leave This Town' #9 (9/5/09)

After going without complete, reliable album sales data for Idol alums for a month, we finally have a full update!

Upon analyzing the numbers, what we found was a host of steadily declining entries that accurately represent the performance of most albums on the overall chart. Leading things off was Daughtry's Leave This Town, which slid 12% in sales to 33.3k copies, accompanied by a #8-9 decrease on the chart. It has sold 547.4k in its first month-and-a-half of release. The band's first effort, however, saw a 4% uptick in sales to 4.3k and actually went up one spot to #104, marking a current tally of 4.517 million copies.

Up second was Jordin Sparks' Battlefield, which fell #54-63 thanks to a 14% sales dip to 7.3k. It has only sold 92.6k to date. Following Jordin was another winner, Kelly Clarkson, who witnessed her All I Ever Wanted slip a similar 14% in sales to 5.8k for a total of 680.2k. On the chart side, it was down 13 spots to #80.

Next up was the random exclusive Season 8 5-song EP, which was down #85-108 to 4.1k following a sales dip of 21%. It has sold 33.7k copies in a matter of weeks. The other Season 8 entry, the Walmart exclusive album, was off 31 spots to #147 with a weekly take of 3k for a current total of 60.9k It was down by 20% compared to the previous week.

A pair of female country artists had albums separated by just three spots, as Carrie Underwood's Carnival Ride was down #96-114 and Kellie Pickler's Kellie Pickler fell #93-117. The former album was down 13% to 3.9k for a total of 2.954 million, while the latter slipped 21% to 3.8k for a total of 297.8k.

David Cook's self-titled post-Idol album was off 18% and down 23 spots to #122, selling 3.6k for a total to date of 1.226 million copies.

Full chart positions and partial sales numbers courtesy of jameson95 on Pulse as follows:

009 008 Daughtry - Leave This Town 33,311 -12% 37,782547,387
063 054 Jordin Sparks - Battlefield 7,319 -14% 8,490 92,610
080 067 Kelly Clarkson - All I Ever Wanted 5,816 -14% 6,732 680,176
104 105 Daughtry - Daughtry 4,283 4% 4,105 4,517,259
108 085 Various Artists - American Idol: Season 8 EP 4,105 -21% 5,187 33,704
114 096 Carrie Underwood - Carnival Ride 3,938 -13% 4,523 2,953,820
117 093 Kellie Pickler - Kellie Pickler 3,805 -21% 4,794 297,770
122 099 David Cook - David Cook 3,606 -18% 4,383 1,226,376
147 116 Various Artists - American Idol: Season 8 2,950 -20% 3,690 60,894

Total sales are in bold.