This week's Digital Tracks chart represents the first week that iTunes released
American Idol sales data to SoundScan, and as a result it has an
Idol quotient of 17.5%; season-seven winner David Cook placed 17 of his songs on last week's chart (all in the top 100, with three in the top ten and the coronation song "The Time Of My Life" at No. 1 with 236,000 paid downloads), second-place finisher David Archuleta got 14 songs on the big board (his highest-placing song, at No. 23: "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me," which was downloaded 51,000 times), and third-place runner-up Syesha Mercado didn't sell enough of any tracks to crack the 200-song list. (So much for the strength-in-numbers of the
Fanesha 300.) Jason Castro, Brooke White, and Michael Johns also cracked the digital-tracks top 200, and White's pre-
Idol album, the Billy Joel-cover-free
Songs From The Attic, even managed to make the digital-albums chart, selling 1,900 copies. Chris Molanphy will have more on these numbers, and their impact on the big board, in tomorrow's 100 & Single, but for now we've got sales totals after the jump.
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Those scrooges at American Idol are thwarting runner-up David Archuleta's quest to give back to his hometown and to charity! Archie was slated to play a "thanks for voting for me" concert at the E Center in Salt Lake City this coming Friday, with proceeds from the show going to an unspecified charitable organization But the show's bigwigs put the kibosh on the show, perhaps because they were afraid that after last year's soft ticket sales for the annual Idol summer tour, effectively giving a whole market a reason to say "oh, I saw who I wanted to see already, so I'll spend my money on a gallon of gas instead" when given the option to pony up for a show was maybe not the best strategy for bringing in revenue. (But I thought Brooke White was a Mormon, too?)
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