Nielsen's SoundScan music sales tracking service yesterday released its year-end report for 2008, and a few Idol alums unsurprisingly made appearances. Jordin Sparks led all Idol alums, as she was represented by herself as an artist, "No Air" and "Tattoo" on six different charts. Daughtry and David Cook also made the year-end charts, with both landing in two categories each.
See all of the Idol representation on the SoundScan report below, with the full charts available here.
Daughtry
SoundScan Era Top 10-Selling Digital Albums: #4 - Daughtry (346,000)
2008 Top 10 Artist Airplay: #10 - Daughtry (734,000)
David Cook
2008 Top 10-Selling Albums of the Holiday Season: #7 - David Cook (811,000)
2008 Top 10-Selling Internet Albums: #10 - David Cook (55,000)
Jordin Sparks
2008 Top 10-Selling Digital Songs: #9 - "No Air" [ft. Chris Brown] (2,612,000)
2008 Top 10-Selling Digital Artists: #10 - Jordin Sparks (4,918,000)
2008 Top 10-Selling Digital Tracks: #6 - "No Air" [ft. Chris Brown] (2,586,000)
2008 Top 10 Most Played Songs: #6 - "No Air" [ft. Chris Brown] (365,000)
2008 Top 10 Video Internet Streams: #8 - "No Air" [ft. Chris Brown] (4,348,000), #10 - "Tattoo" (4,086,000)
2008 Top 10 Internet Streamed Songs: #9 - "No Air" [ft. Chris Brown] (8,160,000)
Despite being massive on the country charts all year long, Carrie Underwood was not able to make an appearance on any of the top cross-genre charts.
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Thursday, January 1, 2009
'Idol' alums in Nielsen's 2008 Year-End Report
Monday, May 19, 2008
'Idol' by the numbers
Nielsen recently released a report with its findings on the numerics of the American Idol franchise, in which different statistics were compiled to demonstrate just how gargantuan the series is. The report includes rankings of the show's top corporate sponsors, sales figures of various Idol alumni and web traffic to AmericanIdol.com. Below are a few excerpts from the report:
-Kelly Clarkson is the top selling former finalist with a combined album and digital sales total of 18.9 million, compared to Carrie Underwood's 15.7 million.
-The most-watched season on average was Season 5 (30 million viewers), while Season 7 is averaging 27 million.
-The most popular Idol contestants at the current time according to registered members of HeyNielsen.com are as follows: Carrie Underwood, Clay Aiken, David Archuleta, David Cook and Kelly Clarkson.
-The biggest month for AmericanIdol.com in terms of Web traffic was in March 2007, when the site was visited by 7,273,000 unique viewers.
-The top advertiser for Season 6 was AT&T, followed by Ford and Coca-Cola.
-The average fan voted via text message 38 times in April 2008.
To read more of the report's findings, see here.
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