DeWyze, Bowersox single sales lag versus past seasons
Season 9's Idol champ and runner-up sold about 400,000 downloads last week, with nine of their tracks ranked among the week's 200 most popular downloads, according to preliminary data from Nielsen SoundScan.
"It's about half the sales total of Kris Allen and Adam Lambert following the finale last year," says Nielsen Entertainment vice president Chris Muratore. Top finishers Allen and Lambert placed 25 songs in the top 200 during the 2009 finale week.
Final SoundScan numbers will be released Wednesday.
DeWyze's official debut single, a cover of U2's Beautiful Day, was the top-selling Idol track, moving nearly 100,000 copies, according to SoundScan's preliminary information. That's 25% less than Allen did last year with his "coronation" song, No Boundaries.
poor season 9.
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