'Idol' BB 200: 'Play On' #9 (12/5/09)

The assortment of albums from Idol alums grew on the Billboard Top 200 album sales chart for the chart week of Dec. 5, but not all data were amazingly good.

Carrie Underwood's numbers for her album Play On were stuffed once again, as another 86.2k copies were sold, down 33% from the previous week. It was down six spots to #9 and has sold 532.5k to date.

Next up was Kris Allen with the debut of his self-titled album, which came in right on target with estimates at #11 with 80.1k. Kris is the first winner to not have his first album debut in the Top 10, and his sales numbers are also the lowest for a winner to date.

Moving on, David Archuleta's Christmas From the Heart was up surprisingly big, gaining 83% and 31 spots to #44 with another 17.7k copies in the bank. Total to date is 67.2k Daughtry's Leave This Town was down 13% in sales to 11.4k, placing it at #68 on the chart, off 22 spots from the previous week. The disc has moved a total of 748.6k in all.

Debuting at #72 was Adam Lambert's unauthorized pre-Idol release Take One, which duped 11.1k-worth of fans into defying Adam's wishes to have people stay away from the attempt at a cheap buck by his former producer pals. Adam's real release will see huge returns on next week's chart.

And Kelly Clarkson's All I Ever Wanted finished off Idol representation at #171, down from #123 the previous week. It sold another 5k for the week and was off only 5% for a total of 755.1k.

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

009 003 Carrie Underwood - Play On 86,218 -33% 128,443 532,472
011 --- Kris Allen - Kris Allen 80,072 999% 37 80,109
044 075 David Archuleta - Christmas From the Heart 17,717 83% 9,657 67,185
068 046 Daughtry - Leave This Town 11,429 -13% 13,125 748,579
072 --- Adam Lambert - Take One 11,090 999% 289 11,379
171 123 Kelly Clarkson - All I Ever Wanted 4,956 -5% 5,208 755,093

Total sales are in bold.