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    DallasCowboyFan is offline Obsessed Carrie Fan
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    Top Selling American Idol Contestants

    The Nielsen Company Measures the American Idol Phenom Music

    Kelly Clarkson is the best selling American Idol contestant with album
    and digital download sales of 18.9 million. Carrie Underwood is second with
    album and digital download sales of 15.7 million.





    Kelly Clarkson 9.4 million 9.4 million =18.9 million
    Carrie Underwood 8.5 million 7.2 million =15.7 million
    Clay Aiken 4.8 million 469,000 = 5.3 million
    Chris Daughtry 4 million 5.2 million =9.2 million
    Ruben Studdard 2.5 million 250,000 = 2.75 million
    Fantasia 2.3 million 698,000 = 3 million
    Bo Bice 721,000 474,000 = 1.2 million
    Jordin Sparks 717,000 3.5 million =4.2 million
    Taylor Hicks 702,000 344,000 = 1 million
    Katharine McPhee 371,000 1.1 million = 1.4 miilion
    Blake Lewis 291,000 n/a
    Justin Guarini 143,000 28,000

    Source: Nielsen SoundScan, through May 4, 2008

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    damn! considering the 4 year difference, carrie will definitely be in first next year. =DD.

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    when they say download sales, does that refer to singles ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by DallasCowboyFan View Post
    when they say download sales, does that refer to singles ?
    yes, thats all of their single-sales combined per each artist....so between IYH, JTTW, DFTRM, BHC, ISBY, Wasted, SS, A-AG, and LN Carrie has digitaly sold 7.2 million.

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    wow 7.2 million in downloads alone way to go Carrie


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    They must count each album download as 13 singles?

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    wooooow thats amazing ... carrie will be number one in the near future, sorry kelly

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    No they don't count albums as how ever many singles but don't forget also that SH and BHC are still selling so things will change weekly and SH hasn't fallen out of the Top half of the billboard 200 album charts and could possibly make it to it's third anniversary still in the top 200 and break come on over's record of 151 concecutive weeks in the chart in the process and bhc could be near 2.8 million downloaded by the end of the year and join the 3,000,000 club by mid next year and at that same juncture in time SH could end up at 8x platinum in the US and 6x platinum in Canada





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    Quote Originally Posted by apac07 View Post
    wooooow thats amazing ... carrie will be number one in the near future, sorry kelly
    Remember that kelly's releasing a new album this year, and we don't know how it will do.
    And the difference between them is 3 years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by maria4hitz View Post
    Remember that kelly's releasing a new album this year, and we don't know how it will do.
    And the difference between them is 3 years.
    so kelly is finally releasing another album ... my december didnt do that well, did it? the only song i heard from that album was "never again" ... hopefully with this next one she will do better

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    Quote Originally Posted by apac07 View Post
    so kelly is finally releasing another album ... my december didnt do that well, did it? the only song i heard from that album was "never again" ... hopefully with this next one she will do better
    Yes, my december had just one single, never again. And she's releasing the new album at the end of this year. MD didn't do that well, but selling 765.000 copies with just one single and no promotion is really good. One of the producers of this new album is Ryan Tedder from One Republic, hopefully they make some great music.

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    Anyway, you go Carrie! Because not only is she at a time disadvantage, but she's also at a genre disadvantage and is still doing so well!!

    Kellie Pickler doesn't even make the list?? I knew her album at least sold pretty well, but maybe her singles weren't downloaded very much?
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    wow kelly sold 765K copies of MD with just "never again" ... thats impressive

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    that's amazing
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    Thats FANTASTIC! CARRIE IS SELLING RECORDS WITH JUST TOW COUNTRY ALBUMS!! WAY 2 GO CARRIE!!!
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    they need to update the list though because carrie has now sold 10 million albums... and i'm sure her digital download number is higher now too. That would put her in front of kelly.
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