GAMES: GameSpot: Best of 2008 | GameFAQs | SportsGamer MUSIC: Last.fm | MP3.com MOVIES: Metacritic | Movietome TV: TV.com
Daughtry lands '07's top-selling album
By Jim Welte - MP3.com
December 14, 2007 at 04:52:00 PM | more stories by this author

One year after landing fourth place on American Idol, rocker and his band are the kings of 2007.

He was a complete unknown nearly two years ago.

Daughtry Daughtry

Now Chris Daughtry's band has the top-selling album of 2007. Billboard revealed its end-of-year charts today, with Daughtry's self-titled debut landing the number one slot for the year with 3.2 million copies sold.

Akon's Konvicted was second at 2.7 million, followed by the Hannah Montana Soundtrack at 2.5M, Fergie's The Dutchess at 2.4M, and Carrie Underwood grabbing the fifth slot with 2.3 million units sold of her album, Some Hearts, which was the top seller of 2006.

Beyonce scored the biggest single hit of 2007 with "Irreplaceable," followed by Rihanna's "Umbrella" Featuring Jay-Z, and Gwen Stefani's "The Sweet Escape" Featuring Akon.

Not surprisingly, the reunited Police rang up the biggest tour of the year, grossing more than $212 million, dwarfing the second-place finisher, a reunited Genesis, which took in nearly $130 million.

Check Billboard.com for more detailed listings.


Top 25 Albums of 2007

1 Daughtry - Daughtry - 3.2M

2 Akon - Konvicted - 2.7M

3 Hannah Montana Soundtrack - 2.5M

4 Fergie - The Dutchess - 2.4M

5 Carrie Underwood - Some Hearts - 2.3M

6 Nickelback - All The Right Reasons Roadrunner

7 Justin Timberlake - Futuresex/Lovesounds

8 High School Musical 2 Soundtrack

9 Various Artists - Now 23

10 Linkin Park - Minutes To Midnight

11 Beyonce - B'day

12 Kanye West - Graduation

13 Rascal Flatts - Me And My Gang

14 The Beatles - Love

15 Gwen Stefani - The Sweet Escape

16 Miley Cyrus - Hannah Montana 2/Meet Miley Cyrus

17 Josh Groban - Awake

18 Norah Jones - Not Too Late

19 Taylor Swift - Taylor Swift

20 Jay-Z - Kingdom Come

21 Maroon 5- It Won't Be Soon Before Long

22 Robin Thicke - The Evolution Of Robin Thicke

23 Hinder - Extreme Behavior

24 Amy Winehouse - Back To Black

25 Avril Lavigne - The Best Damn Thing


Top 10 Singles of 2007

1 Beyonce - "Irreplaceable"

2 Rihanna Featuring Jay-Z - "Umbrella"

3 Gwen Stefani Featuring Akon - "The Sweet Escape"

4 Fergie - "Big Girls Don't Cry"

5 T-Pain Featuring Yung Joc - "Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin')"

6 Carrie Underwood - "Before He Cheats"

7 Plain White T's - "Hey There Delilah"

8 Akon Featuring Snoop Dogg - "I Wanna Love You"

9 Nelly Furtado - "Say It Right"

10 Fergie Featuring Ludacris - "Glamorous"


Top 25 Tours of 2007 (11/15/2006 - 11/13/2007)

1. The Police - $212,227,302

2. Genesis - $129,076,860

3. Justin Timberlake - $126,791,211

4. Kenny Chesney - $71,222,931

5. Rod Stewart - $69,993,284

6. Cirque du Soleil’s Delirium - $59,477,450

7. Roger Waters - $53,213,983

8. Tim McGraw & Faith Hill - $52,351,712

9. Christina Aguilera - $48,173,773

10. Rascal Flatts - $41,685,834

Back to Today's News »

2 Comments

Oldest First | Newest First
Registro de Refresque.
Posted 05/30/2009 12:57pm
Ik denk uw plaats groot is.
Posted 05/30/2009 5:51am
Sign up now to post a comment!

Picture Galleries

Related Artists

Chris Daughtry Chris Daughtry

NONE

Akon Akon

Aliaune Thiam -- aka Akon -- grew up in Senegal before he and his family (including his father, jazz percussionist Mor Thiam) eventually settled in New Jersey. There he discovered hip-hop for the first time, as well as crime. He was eventually jailed, but he used the time to work on his musical ideas. Upon release, Akon began writing and...

Fergie Fergie

Like Martika, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and Rahsaan Patterson, Stacy "Fergie" Ferguson got her first major break as a youngster on the television program Kids Incorporated. Born in 1975, she did voice work for The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show, as well as commercials, prior to becoming a Kids Incorporated regular from 1984 through 1989. Along with...

Beyoncé Beyoncé

Born in Houston in the fall of 1981, Beyoncé Giselle Knowles started performing at age seven. From dance classes to singing in the church choir, Beyoncé was a natural. She and cousin Kelly Rowland met Latavia Roberson during this time, and the trio formed a group with Letoya Luckett. Mathew Knowles, Beyoncé's father and Rowland's legal guardian,...

The Police The Police

Nominally, the Police were punk rock, but that's only in the loosest sense of the term. The trio's nervous, reggae-injected pop/rock was punky, but it wasn't necessarily punk. All three members were considerably more technically proficient than the average punk or new wave band. Andy Summers had a precise guitar attack that created dense,...

Related Albums

Chris Daughtry "Daughtery"
Chris Daughtry
Akon "Star Is Born"
Akon
Fergie "The Dutchess"
Fergie
Through all the twists and turns taken by Stacy "Fergie" Ferguson during her 20-year career as an entertainer -- including a stint on Kids Incorporated, background vocals for Martika, two albums with adult contemporary/dance-pop group Wild Orchid, and superstardom with Black Eyed Peas -- she has always sounded as if she is trying really, really...
Beyoncé "B'day"
Beyoncé
"The Police (Remastered)"
The Police

Tags

add
Data Warehouse Clear Gif