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U.S. music sales boost from "American Idol" appearance

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Music sales boost from "American Idol" appearance

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Idol track sales: Guests do well, Adam Lambert tops 'Idol' alums

As it did for album sales, Shania Twain's mentoring turn on American Idol yielded a bonanza of track downloads. Twain's biggest selling track last week, according to Nielsen SoundScan, was You're Still the One -- the song Lee DeWyze covered -- but several of her songs wound up with quadruple-digit percentage increases. And all of the performers on last week's results show -- Rascal Flatts, Shakira, Lady Antebelllum and Sons of Sylvia -- saw the songs they performed increase in sales as well.

Adam Lambert continued to have the top-selling Idol track, as Whataya Want From Me topped 52,000 for the week. Carrie Underwood's Undo It saw a week-over-week increase of 23 percent. And keep an eye on Before He Cheats: It looks to be three to four weeks away from reaching the three-million sales plateau.

Adam Lambert, Whataya Want From Me (52,000, -39 percent, 1.103 million)
Kris Allen, Live Like We're Dying (22,000, -19 percent, 1.372 million)
Carrie Underwood, Temporary Home (18,000, -30 percent, 441,000)
Daughtry, Life After You (15,000, -12 percent, 676,000)
Carrie Underwood, Cowboy Casanova (11,000, -23 percent, 1.321 million)
Kelly Clarkson, All I Ever Wanted (9,000, -11 percent, 89,000)
Carrie Underwood, Undo It (5,000, +23 percent, 90,000)
Carrie Underwood, Before He Cheats (5,000, -13 percent, 2.99 million)
Carrie Underwood, All-American Girl (4,000, -12 percent, 1.195 million)
Kellie Pickler, Best Days of Your Life (3,000, -11 percent, 1.014 million)
Danny Gokey, My Best Days Are Ahead of Me (3,000, -7 percent, 97,000)

Idol-related tracks:

Lady Antebellum, Need You Now (97,000, +2 percent, 1.681 million)
Shakira, Gypsy (24,000, +231 percent, 64,000)
Sons of Sylvia, Love Left to Lose (23,000, debut, 23,000)
Rascal Flatts, Unstoppable (16,000, +36 percent, 209,000)
Shania Twain, You're Still the One (9,000, +372 percent, 389,000)
Shania Twain, Man! I Feel Like a Woman! (7,000, +174, 486,000)
Shania Twain, Don't! (7,000, +4,470 percent, 59,000)
Shania Twain, It Only Hurts When I'm Breathing (7,000, +1,640 percent, 59,000)
Shania Twain, Any Man of Mine (6,000, +351 percent, 209,000)
Shania Twain, From This Moment On (5,000, +137 percent, 378,000)
Shania Twain, No One Needs to Know (3,000, +799 percent, 42,000)
Shania Twain, Forever and For Always (5,000, +212 percent, 340,000)
Shania Twain, You've Got a Way (5,000, +1,221 percent, 70,000)
Shania Twain, That Don't Impress Me Much (4,000, +155 percent, 234,000)

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/idolchatter/post/2010/05/idol-track-sales-guests-do-well-adam-lambert-tops-idol-alums/1?csp=34

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RE: U.S. music sales boost from "American Idol" appearance

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DeWyze, Bowersox single sales lag versus past seasons

June 01, 2010

If Lee DeWyze and Crystal Bowersox hope to sell as much music as American Idolstars from years past, they have some catching up to do.

Season 9's Idol champ and runner-up sold about 400,000 downloads last week, with nine of their tracks ranked among the week's 200 most popular downloads, according to preliminary data from Nielsen SoundScan.

"It's about half the sales total of Kris Allen and Adam Lambert following the finale last year," says Nielsen Entertainment vice president Chris Muratore. Top finishers Allen and Lambert placed 25 songs in the top 200 during the 2009 finale week.

Final SoundScan numbers will be released Wednesday.

DeWyze's official debut single, a cover of U2's Beautiful Day, was the top-selling Idol track, moving nearly 100,000 copies, according to SoundScan's preliminary information. That's 25% less than Allen did last year with his "coronation" song, No Boundaries.

Four other DeWyze songs were among the top 200: Hallelujah, The Boxer, Everybody Hurtsand Simple Man. Bowersox had three: Up to the Mountain, Black Velvet and Me and Bobby McGee. Their duet of Falling Slowly also made the chart.

The Fox show that aired after Idol on Tuesdays seems to have stolen its sales thunder. Preliminary SoundScan numbers place 11 songs from Glee in the top 200. And though Idol contestants didn't crack iTunes' top 10 last week, the Glee cast did, with its version of Lady Gaga's Poker Face.

Songs still get a sales boost from being performed on Idol. On average, downloads for the original versions of songs performed by the Idols increased at least 100% the week after the show.Shania Twain, who mentored contestants when they sang her songs, saw the greatest increase in her catalog — more than 700%.

Live viewership of the Idol finale fell from 24.4 million in 2009 to 20.1 million this year, with the largest drop (29%) in the Southeast, a traditional Idol ratings stronghold, perhaps for lack of a Southern contender.

"This year, the Northeast had the largest audience that watched the show live" with 4.4 million viewers, Muratore says. "That wasn't the case last year."

Between Week 1 of the final rounds and last week's performances, Bowersox generated the largest amount of online chatter, followed closely by Siobhan Magnus and DeWyze. Not all of that buzz was good: Bowersox and DeWyze had the highest positive sentiment, followed by third- and fourth-place finishers Casey James and Michael Lynche.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2010-06-02-idolstats02_ST_N.htm