'Idol' BB 200: 'Play On' #6 (12/19/09)

Sales were mostly down this week among albums by Idol alums on the Billboard Top 200 album sales chart for the chart week of Dec. 19.

Leading the pack was Carrie Underwood's Play On, which took in another 80.8k copies. Despite sliding 35% sales-wise, the album was up three spots in the rankings to #6, and its total is now 737.1k in just over one month. Carrie also had the last Idol-related album to place on the Top 200, has her Carnival Ride re-entered the chart at #197, up 4% to 5.7k copies for a total of 3.008 million, which means her sophomore album officially passed the triple platinum mark last week.

Adam Lambert's For Your Entertainment, which was down a whopping 74% sales-wise to 51k in its second week. The album dropped 19 spots to #22 and has sold 249.9k so far.

Up #52-34 this week was Christmas From the Heart by David Archuleta. The Christmas album sold another 33.6k for the week, up 57%, and now boasts a total of 122.2k. Meanwhile, the latest debut album from a Season 8 alum, Allison Iraheta's Just Like You came in at #35 with 31.7k in its first week. My prediction of 35k was a little high, but pretty much right on the money.

Kris Allen, on the other hand, saw his self-titled album decline 31% to 22.3k copies. It was down #35-52 and has sold 135k to date. Daughtry's Leave This Town was also off 5% to 17.1k copies, down six spots to #68 for a total of 783.6k copies. The band's first album was able to hang onto a spot in the Top 200, collapsing #83-195 thanks to a sales depreciation of 61% to 5.8k copies for a total of 4.581 million.

And Kelly Clarkson's All I Ever Wanted fell #121-143 as a result of a 19% drop in sales. It sold 8.6k copies for the week and has now sold 774.3k in all.

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

006 009 Carrie Underwood - Play On 80,789 -35% 123,870 737,131
022 003 Adam Lambert - For Your Entertainment 50,999 -74% 198,466 249,902
034 052 David Archuleta - Christmas From the Heart 33,612 57% 21,449 122,246
035 --- Allison Iraheta - Just Like You 31,656 999% 11 31,667
052 035 Kris Allen - Kris Allen 22,345 -31% 32,531 134,985
068 062 Daughtry - Leave This Town 17,117 -5% 17,976 783,583
143 121 Kelly Clarkson - All I Ever Wanted 8,591 -19% 10,584 774,268
195 083 Daughtry - Daughtry 5,804 -61% 14,901 4,580,629
197 --- Carrie Underwood - Carnival Ride 5,731 4% 5,493 3,008,365

Total sales are in bold.