Plus piracy is very bad too.. many people regardless if they like an artist will download the album and thats all.. so there goes album sales also.. its only getting worse, if all of the online album sales sites would take DRM out of the mp3s and various types of music they sell, I think artists would sell a lot more too. Now if 100,000+ is just CD sales, then shes not doing bad, I wonder if thats a TOTAL amount including Digital sales too.

The further away from their year on idol people release their albums, the more they need publicity and are in the “pool” competing with the non-idols on equal footing.

Clive Davis once said that the promotion of being on Idol should bring at least 500K to sales, anything more than that is the real popularity of the performer.

Of course, sales have dropped off this year, but not by 50%! So, even though it just matters how the final sales go and we don’t know the future career of any idol and show business has it’s ups and downs, this is very bad for the hottest selling week of the year.