Digital sales roundup: "Live Like We're Dying" #22 (2/13/10)

It was primarily a down week for tracks by Idol alums on the most recent issue of Billboard's Hot Digital Songs chart.

Off 3% in sales was Kris Allen's "Live Like We're Dying," which was up one spot to #22 and pulled in 63.3k downloads for the week. It has accumulated 748.7k to date. Also down single digits this week was Adam Lambert's "Whataya Want From Me," as it netted 58.4k as a result of a 2% decline in sales. On the chart it was also up, four spots to be exact, to #25. Its total take is now 324k.

Next up was Daughtry with "Life After You," up 6% to 34.3k. It was up 11 spots to #50 and has sold 340.2k in all. A big winner this week was Jennifer Hudson's charity track for the "Hope For Haiti Now" benefit CD, a collaboration with The Roots on "Let It Be." The song surged 80% to 25.3k, up 70 spots to #72 for a total of 40.9k after less than two weeks.

And Carrie Underwood's "Temporary Home" moved ahead on the chart six spots to #113 despite a 1% slide to 16.9k downloads. Its total is now 145.6k and will most likely see a nice bump thanks to the music video release.

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

022 023 Kris Allen, "Live Like We're Dying" 63,329 -3% 65,325 748,716
025 029 Adam Lambert, "Whataya Want From Me" 58,433 -2% 59,421 323,978
050 061 Daughtry, "Life After You" 34,296 6% 32,338 340,233
072 142 Jennifer Hudson, "Let It Be (ft. The Roots)" 26,304 80% 14,626 40,930
113 119 Carrie Underwood, "Temporary Home" 16,889 -1% 17,041 145,630

Total sales are in bold.