“American Idol” runner-up Lauren Alaina will open with a perfectly-acceptable sales total for her debut album “Wildflower,” but she has no chance of claiming the top spot on the Billboard 200.<\/p>\n
Based on opening-day sales data, Hits Daily Double projects Alaina’s debut will sell 60-65,000 copies in her first week. Though down markedly from the first-week total for season ten winner Scotty McCreery, whose “Clear as Day” sold nearly 200,000 copies, it will be an improvement over the debut total for season nine runner-up Crystal Bowersox.<\/p>\n
At that level, Alaina also outpaces runner-ups like Justin Guarini and Diana DeGarmo but falls short of the opening-week performances for Clay Aiken, Bo Bice, Katharine McPhee, Blake Lewis, David Archuleta and Adam Lambert.<\/p>\n
Winning this week’s album sales race will either be Adele’s holdover “21” or Evanescence’s new self-titled entry, the latter of which is forecast to move 110-120,000 units. Five Finger Death Punch’s “American Capitalist” will be behind at 85-90,000, topping Ryan Adams’ “Ashes to Fire” (45-50,000) and Martina McBride’s “Eleven” (35-40,000).<\/p>\n
In the “not-so-impressive” column this week will be Joe Jonas’, whose solo debut “Fastlife” is pacing for just 24-27,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n