From Idol Chatter:

Elliott racked up 1,800, down from 2,400, for a total of 488,000.


(I think Ken is wrong and Elliott sold 1700 the previous week but I may be wrong myself)

Okay 12,000 albums to 500K.

Thanks jamie, you are right. I looked back and found this:
2,380 sold - Jan 9th
1,700 sold - Jan 16th

So Elliott's sales went up this week ( a little). That's better than going down.
Thanks for checking for me.

Soooooooooooooo close!!!!!!!!!!
It's gonna happen!!!

Thank you for the weekly updates on various numbers. I appreciate it. 500,000 is within reach :)

I believe Elliott sold that many already.. There are areas that are not counted so they include the areas they don't count from what I understand.. Elliott could have passed the 500, 000 mark.

not all sales are done through SoundScan. Mnay independent stores don't report; any sales made from tour sites may also not have been included.

I wonder if Elliott included international sales in that number?

yep, on the radio disney interview he said his album had sold OVER a half a million copies;)

I'm pretty sure Soundcan (the number from Idol Chatter) is just US sales so it wouldn't include the Philippines for example. Since the album was certified gold, it sold 500K to the retailers already as well. However, as we know, many albums certified don't always reach their number so it's always good to make it.

If every Etrainer were to buy 3 albums this week and next week, I think we can get the album to pass 500,000. So, who's gonna start the campaign?

Didn't we hear quite some time ago, like, November, maybe, that there were over 50,000 in international sales at that point?

Didn't he say in his interview that's he's sold over 500,000? I remember something about the international sales figures - I will go shopping for more sometime soon - Elliott is so worth it. I'll just cut back on something else.

according to Pulse, Elliott has sold over 50K internationally. That was an estimate, so who knows the accuracy.

last week was the 2nd WORST week ever for album sales. The #1 album was Alicia Keyes, who sold only 60K for the #1 spot. The January slide has NEVER been this bad. I wonder who the recording industry will blame this time?

http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_wat...west-tally-ever

Just so they don't blame our boy! He is doing his part in selling far better than they expected.

Well, I think they pretty much blame all of the artists, don't they? After all "they" are the ones who are "not selling the way the old artists did." That's stupid, obviously, but that seems to be the recording executive's lament, a lot of times.

They probably blame iTunes and the consumer. Why buy an album if you can just download the one or two songs you want? or download it illegally for free.
I don't think anyone is blaming the artist. New technology has created serious problems for the music business today.

Yeah, I know they blame consumers and downloading. And correctly, too, I guess. I keep reading that the Digital Native generation has a whole new set of beliefs, one of which is "music should be free." ... I'm not sure what the Digital Natives think about musicians' need to eat, but you see it that "music is free" thing a lot.


Nevertheless, when you look at the struggles between artists and record labels over the past few years, and listen to some things the execs grumble, I still conclude that they hvae also sort of blamed the artists, too, in the sense of saying "get off my label; you're not performing" a lot faster than they may have in the past.

That's disgruntlement with how much people are selling, and rather than doing a complete rethink of how the whole industry needs to operate going forward, I do think there's been a lot of reliance on just dumping various people. I'm sure that's ending now, though, as it becomes clearer that it's the market that's changing in uncontrollable ways. But I think it was easier for a long time to dump artists as if it was their fault, rather than come to grips with the idea that you needed to somehow change your whole industry model in a complicated, fast-changing world. Always easier to blame somebody else than to blame what you're doing.