Digital sales roundup: "The Time of My Life" #1 (5/24/08)

In this week's digital sales roundup, an influx of Season 7 tracks clog the Top 200 of the latest edition of Billboard's Hot Digital Songs chart, led by David Cook's coronation single, "The Time of My Life." The song raked in an astounding 236k in just four days, which should be good for a #3 debut on the Billboard Hot 100. Cook is represented by 17 tracks in the Top 200, and could see many Hot 100 debuts on this week's chart, which will be published tomorrow.

David Archuleta also had a strong showing, as his 12 tracks on the chart were led by his finale performance of "Imagine," which took in 71k. The only other Season 7 finalists to chart were Jason Castro (#81, "Hallelujah," #102, "Over the Rainbow"), Brooke White (#136, "Let It Be") and Michael Johns (#187, "Dream On").

Carrie Underwood saw a big boost in sales of "Last Name," as it rocketed #54-19 with 64k downloads on the heels of her sexed-up finale performance. Jordin Sparks also saw a boost for her latest single, "One Step At a Time," as it entered the chart at #76, selling nearly 20k downloads. Her hit duet with Chris Brown, "No Air," stayed consistent, rising 2% and remaining in the Top 10.

This week's chart supports the assumption that had Idol decided to report sales throughout the entire competition, the sales charts would have looked very similar to this. The chart is credited to bks over on Pulse, and all Idol highlights are posted below:

01 -- David Cook, "The Time of My Life" 236,024 999% 0 236,024
07 -- David Cook, "Dream Big" 111,052 999% 0 111,052
09 -- D. Cook, "I Still Haven't Found..." 97,868 999% 0 97,868
10 07 Jordin Sparks, "No Air" 87,518 2% 85,455 1,866,343
14 -- David Cook, "The World I Know" 79,907 999% 0 79,907
16 -- David Archuleta, "Imagine" 71,178 999% 0 71,178
19 54 Carrie Underwood, "Last Name" 64,143 193% 21,915 181,373
21 -- David Cook, "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" 59,571 999% 0 59,571
24 -- David Cook, "Billie Jean" 56,344 999% 0 56,344
26 -- D. Archuleta, "Don't Let the Sun Go Down..." 50,653 999% 0 50,653
28 -- David Archuleta, "In This Moment" 49,134 999% 0 49,134
29 -- David Cook, "Always Be My Baby" 46,577 999% 0 46,577
32 -- David Cook, "Hello" 42,254 999% 0 42,254
41 -- David Cook, "The Music of the Night" 35,753 999% 0 35,753
51 -- David Cook, "Eleanor Rigby" 28,397 999% 0 28,397
60 -- David Cook, "I'm Alive" 25,206 999% 0 25,206
66 -- David Cook, "Little Sparrow" 23,512 999% 0 23,512
68 -- David Cook, "Hungry Like the Wolf" 22,875 999% 0 22,875
69 -- David Cook, "Innocent" 22,785 999% 0 22,785
76 -- Jordin Sparks, "One Step At a Time" 19,793 446% 3,627 74,065
81 -- Jason Castro, "Hallelujah" 19,312 999% 0 19,312
82 -- David Cook, "Day Tripper" 19,073 999% 0 19,073
84 -- David Archuleta, "Longer" 18,992 999% 0 18,992
90 -- David Cook, "All Right Now" 17,948 999% 0 17,948
92 -- David Archuleta, "Think of Me" 17,653 999% 0 17,653
96 -- David Archuleta, "Angels" 16,893 999% 0 16,893
97 -- David Cook, "Happy Together" 16,853 999% 0 16,853
102 - Jason Castro - "Over the Rainbow" 16,484 999% 0 16,484
107 - David Archuleta, "When You Believe" 15,863 999% 0 15,863
110 - David Archuleta, "Love Me Tender" 15,108 999% 0 15,108
128 - David Archuleta, "The Long and Winding Road" 13,675 999% 0 13,675
136 - Brooke White, "Let It Be" 12,254 999% 0 12,254
149 - David Archuleta, "Sweet Caroline" 11,050 999% 0 11,050
161 - David Archuleta, "You're The Voice" 10,279 999% 0 10,279
171 - David Archuleta, "Another Day In Paradise" 9,756 999% 0 9,756
187 - Michael Johns, "Dream On" 9,079 999% 0 9,079

Total sales are in bold.

There are also many tracks that were either performed on the finale or in some other way were tied into the show that saw huge boosts and were able to chart, and can be seen in the full chart here.