HITS estimates: Danny Gokey's 'My Best Days' #4 w/ 67.3k

It was a good week for albums by Idol alums, at least according to HITS Daily Double's Top 50 building album sales chart.

Danny Gokey saw his debut My Best Days bow at #4 with 67.3k copies, many of which were most likely fueled by his performance on last week's results show. Danny's big opening week was significantly higher than both HDD's 45-50k guess and my own prediction of 43k, and it is almost in the vicinity of opening week numbers for Kris Allen's release last November.

Next up was another country artist, as Carrie Underwood's Play On was up 3% in sales this week to 18.5k copies, despite sliding six spots to #28. Daughtry also saw its Leave This Town rocket back onto the chart at #35.

And Adam Lambert's For Your Entertainment was actually up another spot this week to #47 even though it was down 2% in sales to 11.3k copies.

Full sales data and chart positions courtesy of Billboard should be published later this week, so I will do my best to get actually numbers this time around.