IDOL LIVE Blog - Top 10 Results (3/31/10)

It's not too hard to believe that last night's exhibitions were better than last week's, but there's still no reason to keep 10 people alive in this competition. Thankfully, we get to say goodbye to someone else tonight, unless the judges screw it up by using their stupid save gimmick.

Tonight's results show will include performances from Usher, Diddy with his band Dirty Money and possibly T.I. (fresh out of jail) and NOT Ryan's best new buddy Justin Bieber as first reported, but Ruben Studdard instead.

To see who I predict will be leaving tonight, see here. Please feel free to add your two cents throughout the two-hour blogcast, with coverage starting just prior to 9 p.m. ET.

Tonight's blogcast features the music of Brooke White, Carrie Underwood, Chris Daughtry, Ruben Studdard and Ryan Starr.

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David Cook special music survey on RateTheMusic.com

The radio industry's premier music testing site, RateTheMusic.com, is now hosting a special music survey for David Cook. The songs included on the survey that are being testing for possible release as a single are "Lie," "Come Back to Me" and "Declaration." It looks like RCA is contemplating one of those (and if so, IDOL LIVE is encouraging people to rate "Declaration" as the best!) The special music survey appears under the Top 40 section and will end on Sun., Jan. 11.

Cook's single "Light On" is also now being included in the Top 40 music survey that includes various pop hits like T.I. and Rihanna's "Live Your Life" and Katy Perry's "Hot N Cold" among other songs. RateTheMusic.com is billed as "the internet's first music rating website" and is powered by Mediabase.

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Digital sales roundup: "Light On" #8 (10/4/08)

In a big debut week for the music industry, David Cook led all Idol alums on Billboard's Hot Digital Songs chart with "Light On," which had a Top 10 debut, coming in at #8. Its sales totaled 109k. If "Light On" had been released at any other time rather than a week filled with the stringent competition from Nickelback, Christina Aguilera and T.I. (his "Live Your Life" opened with 334.5k!), it is fair to speculate that it would have opened a little bit stronger.

Following eight spots behind was David Archuleta, whose "Crush" fell four spots thanks to the host of new tracks that opened above it. "Crush" took home 66.7k, or a 7% drop, and now has its total at 633.3k. Jordin Sparks' "One Step At a Time" was next up, slipping #27-28 thanks to a scant 5% decrease in sales. The additional 42.5k downloads means its total is at 789.9k.

The last four tracks to appear on the chart all were aided by album releases during the week, as Jennifer Hudson's slowburning "Spotlight" saw an uptick in sales of 145%, jumping 61 spots to #38 with a weekly total of 32.5k. Its total is now at 177.1k. Jennifer's "If This Isn't Love" also made an appearance, coming in at #195 with 6.5k downloads. Kellie Pickler's "Don't You Know You're Beautiful" rose a smaller but still respectable 71% for the week, shifting 8.6k downloads for a total of just north of 95k. Her "Best Days of Your Life" also made an appearance at #153, selling 7.7k downloads.

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

008 --- David Cook, "Light On" 109,035 999% 0 109,035
016 012 David Archuleta, "Crush" 66,677 -7% 71,631 633,306
028 027 Jordin Sparks, "One Step At a Time" 42,520 -5% 44,762 789,856
038 099 Jennifer Hudson, "Spotlight" 32,486 145% 13,241 177,097
133 --- Kellie Pickler, "Don't You Know You're..." 8,598 71% 5,033 95,004
153 --- Kellie Pickler, "Best Days of Your Life" 7,681 999% 0 7,681
195 --- Jennifer Hudson, "If This Isn't Love" 6,455 999% 0 6,455

Total sales are in bold.

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VMA wrap-up: Jordin steals the spotlight

Although she went home empty-handed Sunday at MTV's 25th annual Video Music Awards, Jordin Sparks shook up the scene at the Paramount Pictures lot with her heat of the moment defense of the Jonas Brothers after their decision to wear purity rings was mocked by host Russell Brand (who?) in his opening monologue.

Jordin was so upset by his remarks that she had to give her two cents when it was her turn to introduce T.I. alongside John Legend. Watch her response below:



The comeback has been receiving a lot of press and online buzz, mostly positive. On the awards front, Jordin's video for "No Air" lost out to Tokio Hotel's "Ready, Set, Go!" for Best New Artist and Britney Spears' "Piece of Me" for Best Female Video. Maybe next year, but it's not like it's a Grammy or anything.

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