Digital sales roundup: "Cowboy Casanova" #19 (11/21/09)

It was a very big week for debuts from Idol alums on the latest edition of Billboard's Hot Digital Songs chart, with six new entries in all.

In keeping with the theme of "Carrie Underwood week" thanks to the release of the fourth season's champ's Play On, four album tracks sold well enough to make the chart in addition to lead single "Cowboy Casanova." The latter moved up #33-19, an increase of 66%, and sold 63.7k for the week, putting its total at 432.3k.

Other tracks by Carrie to make the chart include "Change" (#75, 19.8k), "Quitter" (#101, 15.1k), "Play On" (#126, 11.9k) and "Someday When I Stop Loving You" (#140, 10.4k).

Also continuing to show chart success was Kelly Clarkson's slow-burning masterpiece "Already Gone," which was up 11% in sales to 47.3k. It jumped six spots to #25 and has sold 663.7k to date. Next up was Adam Lambert's debut single "For Your Entertainment," which had an odd release after being available only on Wednesday of last week. The single debuted at #82 with 18.4k, which, if you're keeping score, is a little higher than Kris Allen's first week sales for "Live Like We're Dying" (15.8k), though to be fair Kris' single became available on a Friday, so it most likely would have done better than Adam's single if released on a comparable time frame.

This week, "Dying" was up 36 spots to #103 thanks to a 41% sales increase to 14.8k. It has now sold 98.2k in all. And Allison Iraheta's debut single "Friday I'll Be Over U" entered at #162 with 9.1k. This is another single that has had a fumbled digital release, as it was originally made available a few weeks back but was pulled before officially going for release last Monday. It has sold 9.8k when factoring in the early sales.

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

019 033 Carrie Underwood, "Cowboy Casanova" 63,664 66% 38,459 432,312
025 031 Kelly Clarkson, "Already Gone" 47,293 11% 42,786 663,658
075 --- Carrie Underwood, "Change" 19,772 999% 1 19,773
082 --- Adam Lambert, "For Your Entertainment" 18,397 999 0 18,397
101 --- Carrie Underwood, "Quitter" 15,060 999% 0 15,060
103 139 Kris Allen, "Live Like We're Dying" 14,754 41% 10,444 98,151
126 --- Carrie Underwood, "Play On" 11,869 999% 0 11,869
140 --- Carrie Underwood, "Someday Whhen...Loving You" 10,431 999% 0 10,431
162 --- Allison Iraheta, "Friday I'll Be Over U" 9,073 999% 60 9,822

Total sales are in bold.