BEAM ME UP SCOTTY
Mercury Nashville/19/Interscope artist Scott McCreery’s debut studio effort, Clear as Day, will debut at #1 on next week’s HITS Album sales chart with between 150-175k.
That was based on one-day sales figures from those music retailers who aren’t otherwise occupied selling albums to the Wall Street protestors.
The only previous Idol winners who can make that claim are first-season champ Kelly Clarkson, whose RCA debut Thankful, went straight to #1 in 2003, and second season winner Ruben Studdard's album Soulful, later that same year. Carrie Underwood didn’t debut at #1 until her second album, Carnival Ride, entered at the top spot in 2007. Daughtry was an Idol runner-up whose second album, 2009’s Leave This Town, debuted at #1.
Sire group Jack’s Mannequin, fronted by ex-Something Corporate member and cancer survivor Andrew McMahon, will see its third album, People and Things, with between 35-40k in first-week sales.
Cherrytree/Interscope Canadian singer-songwriter Feist, who nabbed four Grammy nominations, including Best New Artist, for the 2007 album, The Reminder, returns with Metals, her first release since then, on target for between 30-35k.
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Veteran Curb country artist Rodney Atkins’ fourth studio album, Take a Back Road, should do in the neighborhood of 20-25k.
Longtime Epitaph emo-rockers New Found Glory are back with their seventh album, Radiosurgery, boasting a projected sales total of 15-20k.
Teleprompt/Warner Bros.’
Album sales were up 5% vs. last week, up 5% vs. same week last year and up 3% year to date.
Track sales were down 2% vs. last week, up 5% vs. same week last year and up 11% year to date.
TEA (Track Equivalent Album) were are up 3% vs. last week, up 5% vs. same week last year and up 5% year to date.
C’mon, being up is better than being down.
