Of the three network music competition series that operated during the traditional 2013-14 television season, one is no longer active.
It is that series, however, that produced the most commercially viable winner.
According to Hits Daily Double, the duo of Alex & Sierra, which won the third and final season of FOX’s “The X Factor,” is pacing to move 28-32,000 copies of debut album “It’s About Us” this week. Projected to be one of the week’s five best totals for a newcomer (behind Jason Aldean’s “Old Boots, New Dirt” and Hozier’s “Hozier” and in the same general ballpark as Weezer’s “Everything Will Be Alright in the End” and Stevie Nicks’ “24K Gold”), the tally also crushes those achieved by recent “American Idol” and “The Voice” winners.
Tessanne Chin, who won the season of NBC’s “The Voice” that ran concurrently with Alex & Sierra’s “X Factor” stint, scored 7,000 first week sales for her “Count On My Love.”
Caleb Johnson, who was named the most recent winner on FOX’s “American Idol,” moved 11,000 copies of post-show release “Testify.”
Season six “The Voice” winner Josh Kaufman, whose run ended in the spring, has yet to release his post-show album.
Alex & Sierra’s sales figure will also best the opening week tallies for season twelve “American Idol” winner Candice Glover, season one “The Voice” winner Javier Colon and season two “The X Factor” winner Tate Stevens.
Interestingly, it will fall considerably below the total earned by the debut from season two “X Factor” act Emblem3 and in the same range as that for the debut EP by season two’s Fifth Harmony. The two acts placed fourth and third, respectively.