Since I am a numbers person, I love to look at lists of numbers. Now that
Lee DeWyze's debut album has been out for about a week, the preliminary sales numbers are in and they do not look very promising. The
Hits Daily Double site currently has him at #24 with sales of 10,593 with 31.77% of the tally collected. If you divide that out 10,593/0.3177 = 33,342 which is not very encouraging.
They estimate the final number will be more like 40,000 to 45,000 but that is still only about half what
Kris Allen sold his first week almost exactly a year ago with 85,000 units, which was then the lowest total of any Idol winner. Consider that Taylor Swift's "Speak Now" has been out almost a full a month now and it is still selling 4x what "Live It Up" is selling, and even her "Holiday Collection" album is selling more than twice that of Lee's debut week sales. Lee is still heavily
promoting his album and hopefully he can keep his sales numbers steady. With
Crystal Bowersox's album officially releasing in just three weeks today, I am surprised she has not officially released her single and title track "
Farmer's Daughter" more fervently to radio stations. It sounds like they filmed the video just the other day and hopefully that is ready to be premiered somewhere soon. She did perform
live in Chicago this past weekend and she also has a
four part interview being broadcast on the
FOX TV station in Toledo this week. With Lee's sales numbers being so low, I can see Crystal may have problems selling too many albums either, but I am not sure how much she really cares.
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