Finale Week Facebook Fan Numbers

With just a few days left in the American Idol Season 9, it has predictably come down to Crystal Bowersox and Lee DeWyze for the finale. I have my latest Facebook Fan numbers from this morning, and as expected Crystal and Lee are the only two seeing any real change. However, for the first week ever Lee has gained significantly more new fans than Crystal, even though his total number still lags hers substantially. Since my last snapshot on the 17th, Lee has gained almost 30,000 fans (from 59,101 to 88,394) while Crystal gained over 11,000 (from 104,050 to 115,444.) In typical post elimination fashion, Casey James gained the most fans that he has in a while also, gaining about 1,500 to go from 37,990 to 39,433. Not much has changed with anyone else, and I will probably not have another update until some time on Wednesday. The final performance episode tomorrow should be interesting since I believe the title could easily go to either contestant, all dependent on what happens tomorrow night. In either case, though, I believe both Crystal and Lee will do fine, releasing an album in the fall. After hearing them perform not only "Falling Slowly" and "Take Me Out to the Ballgame", I could see them working together in the future too, since their sounds blend together quite well, better than say a Kris Allen and Adam Lambert duet.

As a comparison I also checked Kris and Adam's Facebook fan numbers and Kris has 392,743 and Adam has 676,426. Since these numbers are actually incredibly similar to the unit sales of their debut albums, perhaps that means Crystal and Lee should both sell a minimum of 100,000 units of their debut albums. When the Idol tour progresses throughout the summer, I could see them both gaining substantially more Facebook fans too, so hopefully both will see a lot of success in their album sales.