I've added the November 22 airplay update. Good news across the board. The increase in airplay accelerated a lot last week -- from +10 the previous week to +30 last week. And the best news is that her audience impressions more than doubled, meaning that about twice as many people heard it last week compared to the previous week. Still a long way to go, but the signs are good.

The one area that's still kind of stagnating is the time-of-day data (which I don't include here). The overnight hours are still the big time for the song to get played, which I think suggests that stations haven't really committed to the song. If they start playing it more during the daytime, and especially during drivetimes, her audience impressions will go up a lot more. But I'm very happy that her AIs doubled as it is.

Well, I think it's both Jive's responsibility as her label, and 19M's responsibility as her management.

It's now clear that they've been working closely with Radio Disney -- that's an obvious sign of progress. It's hard to know much else about what's going on behind the scenes. But we do know that they're testing several songs -- it's been reported that HitPredictor.com is playing some in their surveys -- I haven't gone back to dig up the list, but I think it included DWTP, Scars, maybe RL, and one other (damn well ought to be Trouble Is!). Can't remember whether RateTheMusic.com is playing anything of hers. But anyway, Jive is definitely doing some research for future singles.

And as for releasing her second single -- as I mentioned in another thread, Radio Disney has already added DWTP to their request form, which is good evidence that it's the next single, as we expected.

Presumably they're doing other behind-the-scenes work, such as trying to get play either on radio or on TV shows and such, and trying to get her booked as an opening act for a spring tour. At the very least, hopefully they'll get her on some of the festival tours this summer.

John M

That is all very encouraging news. "DWTP" would be a great next single release. If not, I think it should be "Trouble Is" or maybe even "Holiday". I like "Scars" also, but in my opinion, I don't believe it would trigger the same response as "Trouble Is" would. "Trouble Is" is a very powerful rock ballad that I believe would be a smash number 1 hit. I even think "Holiday" or "D Is For Dangerous" or "Robot Love" would all be better second single releases than "Scars" simply because those 3 songs seem to be more upbeat & fun & all 3 of those have a rock/pop fast somewhat hard edginess to them. I think "Scars" is obviously a beautiful song & very very worthy of being on her cd. I just think it is too slow & too deep & I'm not sure it would stimulate the younger demographic (say 13 to 20 something years old) who listen to the radio.

Allison's debut album "Just Like You" doesn't appear to be available yet in NZ. On NZ Itunes Friday I'll Be Over U is available - her only song, released on 16 October - has been rated well by purchasers but not on top 200 (which really doesn't seem to make sense). I'll post as soon as I see the album available either on Itunes or CD shop sale.

I've added the December 20 sales update in the original post above. The album sold approximately 12,000 (rounded to the nearest thousand), down about 12% from her previous week sales of about 14,000. Her total is now about 58,000.

She was surely helped by the Christmas traffic last week, keeping her sales up very close to the previous week's number. In any event, I'm happy she's still above 10,000 per week. I'm sure she'll drop below that when everyone's sales crash after the holiday season. But she'll be above 60K and maybe 70K going into the new year, and I think that's good.

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I've added the January 3 sales update in the original post above. Due to the industry-wide drop in sales after Christmas, the album sold approximately 4,000 (rounded to the nearest thousand), down from 12,000 the previous week, giving her a total to date of around 74,000. I expect the weekly total to be even lower next week, as we get completely past the holiday season.

In response to jdfanforlife's comment/question in another thread:

My prediction for her first week sales was somewhere between roughly 8,000 and 30,000, and I thought it'd be much closer to the low end of that range, so it exceeded my expectations. I've been quite happy with her results so far, given -- yes -- the fact that she didn't have a particularly big AI fanbase and is a new, relatively unknown artist with almost no presence on radio. You can say, as you did in the other thread, that you don't want to hear it, but that's just reality -- for the time being. Obviously we all hope it'll change soon.

As for your question about how high it will go, there's no way at all to predict that. If she were to not have any success with singles (and I do not think that will be the case), I could imagine that it wouldn't get much past 100K. If she has big success with singles etc., I could imagine it going platinum eventually, though given the current climate I think that's highly doubtful. I expect she'll end up somewhere in between.

I've added the December 6 airplay update in the original post above. FIBOU is just treading water. It had only one more spin than in the previous week. The interesting number is the audience impressions. Most of her spins have been at night in small-to-medium markets, meaning that not many people have heard her. But of course, last week she was on the Elvis Duran show from Z100, the largest station in the country, also broadcast on various other stations. Because of that one spin for FIBOU, its audience impressions more than doubled, from 149,000 the previous week to 319,000 last week. That's the power of Z100 and a syndicated show.

The minor momentum that FIBOU had on Hot AC has reversed. It's almost non-existent on Hot AC.

Another interesting tidbit is that Don't Waste The Pretty showed up on the Top 40 airplay chart this week, again because of her Elvis Duran appearance. As those of you who heard her appearance know, she and "Interesting Dave" did their acoustic version of DWTP -- and that gets counted as a spin for the song. So, I've added it to the original post above.

DWTP also had 2 spins on Hot AC and, believe it or not, one on Rhythmic. I didn't check the details, but it looks like one or two of those spins may have been a result of syndicated broadcasts of Elvis Duran. But it appears that at least one of the Hot AC spins was just an individual station playing the song on their own. So that's cool.

This week, FIBOU got added by 3 radio stations (all Top 40 as always) -- Portland OR, Tulsa OK, and Honolulu. Better than the last week or two, but still just a trickle. Interestingly, Portland is the biggest market to add her so far -- #23 in the nation. So, if they actually start playing her now that they've added her, that should be a decent number of audience impressions. It'll be interesting to see if more of the bigger stations add her in the next couple of weeks.

"Here goes that word again, I just HOPE, they have an aggressive plan in place for her in 2010 to increase her visibility."

I could not have said it any better LulaSan!

JohnM:
But (and you know I'm a sound guy, not a lyrics guy), from the standpoint of how the songs sound, both of those are among the three that sound out of place IMO (the third being Robot Love). The rest of the album sounds very cohesive to me.
Couple of comments:
1. I agree that Robot, Friday, and BMU are more pop than rock, and thus, may seem out of place. But being three songs, I see them as another sound of the album, not as a complete departure from the rest.
2. Regarding the sound of BMU, I have to say that, lyrics aside, this is one of my top 4 songs in the album. Love her voice and sassy vocals in the verses and pre-chorus. Regarding the lyrics, I stand by my previous post.

I've added the December 27 airplay update in the original post above. FIBOU lost 42 spins for a total of 147 for the week. With the increase in airplay for Christmas songs and countdown shows in the last half of December, apparently it's not unusual for current songs to stagnate or decrease during this period -- we'll see in a couple of weeks whether that's what's happening with FIBOU or whether it's sliding anyway.

On the flip side, the song got some good news in the form of Radio Disney adding it to their list of new songs to request, as I think Lula has already mentioned. It'll be interesting to see if it starts getting play there.

JohnM, and All,
I am going to say something controversial, even for this blog: I like FIBOU a lot.
I think the acoustic performances she has been doing lately got me hooked.
It's a fun song, and, I think, it's very unique. Maybe that's what Lyndsey Parker saw in it when she called FIBOU the best first single ever by an Idol alumn. Lyndsey does like girl-powered funky rock, so FIBOU probably hit the spot.
Maybe my problem is the produced track, and not the song itself. The album track does not have enough use of her low register, but in the acoustic performances, she lowers some notes. I think the lower notes balance the song.
Or maybe my fanboyism has hit another high. Bottom line is, I really like it now.

I've added the November 29 airplay update in the original post above. Not good. On Top 40 / pop, FIBOU is slipping backwards. The spins for the week were exactly the same as the previous week -- 104 -- and her rank dropped from 73 to 77, and the particularly bad news is that her audience impressions dropped way back down, from 0.181 million to 0.102 million. I imagine that’s because the Memphis station, which has a pretty big market and has been by far the song’s biggest supporter (because of the jingle ball she’s doing there), is dropping back significantly. She got more spins in Las Vegas, which is the biggest market that has added her, but it obviously wasn’t enough to keep her audience impressions up.

On Hot AC, her rank went up from 162 to 128, on an increase in spins from 6 to 11. Her audience impressions went up from 0.025 to 0.047. So, positive movement, but such small numbers that it’s basically negligible.

It'll be interesting to see how things play out now that we're finally at the bigger publicity push -- will that make any headway against the Christmas slowdown in adding new songs?

I've added an airplay section to the original post above, so that we can track both sales and airplay. Last week her spins increased by 10 -- heading in the right direction, but still very slow. Hopefully it'll accelerate now that she's on her radio tour.

Yeah, I was pretty happy with that number, as I was expecting closer to 5K. I expect the numbers to be very low for at least the next couple of weeks, as we're between the initial fanbase buying and the album-release promo that will hopefully start to expand her base.

I didn't particularly hate the song, I (erroneously) thought it was too poppy and (also erroneously) thought that it was too "young". I wasn't the only one, so there most be something about the song that causes that effect on people. I just can't figure it out. Is it the use of days of the week? Is it the clapping? Is it the "oh yeahs"? Don't know.

classicrocker,

Your right. It's almost like Jive or her management/promoters (whatever) aren't listening or considering the older crowd. The teenagers are too into this hip hop crap right now. It is the slightly older, like 20 somethings & up that are appreciatling Allison for what she truly is. Jive needs to take the hent! Sometimes less is more, meaning that Allison doesn't need anymore tweeking. She is an older soul in a young vibrant body. I think the older demographic, meaning the 20 something year olds & up appreciate Allison because she prefers the style of music that the older demographic grew up listening to & she is trying to bring that back, atleast to some degree. If Allison goes totally pop, Jive would be making a HUGE MISTAKE! Allison is "rock", maybe pop rock, but she is NOT POP!

DO YOU HEAR US JIVE???????????????????????

Didn't know DWTP was getting airplay.
I guess I read somewhere that a station doesn't need to wait for a single to be released to start playing it. So maybe the stations are some of the ones where she performed the acoustic version.

I can see in different places that her popularity is going up, and her album selling 10k+ every week is a good sign that more and more people are finding more about her. I'll do as much as i can to help her get more fans, by gifting Cd's and telling friends. -,_,-

LoveDaRocker,

Yeah, I still think one of her other songs off of the album would have maybe been a better first single release. Having said that, I still like 'FIBOU". It has grown on me a lot. I just think she may have expperienced a little better immediate success with one of her other songs, simple because "FIBOU" is very poppy, maybe too poppy. I stiil hope "FIBOU" does well though. But I don't think they (Jive) should wait too much longer to release that second single.

classicrocker: It may be that producers and managers are still taking her youth in consideration, thinking her age will appeal to the younger demo , hence the push toward pop.

Could be. The thought that occurred to me, though, is that they might simply be cashing in on the relationships they were building with Top 40 stations while pushing FIBOU -- I think all of the stations that have added Scars so far are ones that she has visited. Maybe Jive figures they've got some stations that are open to picking up this new single because of the previous relationship-building, so they're going to run with that for now and then start pushing it to HAC later. From what I hear, it's not unusual for a label to push a single to one radio format and then turn to another later on.

Nearly 10000 is decent seeing no PR from Jive... I think last week would have been slow, but next week hopefully we'll see more promo and maybe the video.

Here's hopin'!!!!!!

Yeah, almost all the DWTP spins came from the acoustic performance on the Elvis Duran show, which of course airs on multiple stations (and thus the multiple spins). Even though it wasn't the album version, it still gets counted.

But there was at least one spin of the album version too.

After that week, I didn't see it anymore on Mediabase, so I'd say it's not getting any airplay now. But it will -- when it gets released as a single.

Guanacopower,

That's a great idea! I've been doing that quiet a lot. Maybe doing that will really help!

I've added the January 17 airplay update in the original post above. FIBOU gained 5 spins for a total of 179 for the week. The highest weekly spin count as far as I know, but pretty much the same as the previous week.

Meanwhile, it's #28 on Radio Disney.

Stop dreaming, she wasn't going to experience immediate success with ANY song given that she's an unknown artist. Also, have you paid attention to the crap on radio? You think FIBOU is too pop? Almost anything that's a hit right now on Top 40 stations it's 100x more pop than FIBOU. Her other songs wouldn't fare any better right off the bat because they're even less Top 40 friendly than FIBOU. The only thing that makes FIBOU sound young is that Max Martin over produced her voice and doesn't let her sound like her a lot of times, but compared to the crap on the radio, FIBOU is a masterpiece.

I've added the December 27 sales update in the original post above. It's a carbon copy of last week's update -- once again, the album sold approximately 12,000 (rounded to the nearest thousand). Her week-to-week change is listed as a drop of 4%, so she probably dropped from a little over 12K the previous week to a little under 12K last week.

Her total is now about 70,000. I'm quite happy with that -- it's a good base on which to build as she gets more exposure.

Sales should be lower this week because it's after Christmas, but I don't imagine they'll be horrendously lower because there's still a lot of post-Christmas buying using gift cards etc. Next week will be when everyone's sales fall off a cliff. But for now, I'm celebrating her progress so far.

Two more radio stations have added FIBOU today. One is in Albany, NY, which happens to be my local Top 40 station. The other is in Corpus Christi, TX -- that one was an auto-add.

After not getting anything but an auto-add since before the Christmas season, it was starting to seem like maybe no more stations were going to add it. But it just won't quit -- it's a spunky little song!

LulaSan,

I really agree with you. Your right! The crap on the radio these days is terrible, but I think the crap you hear on the radio these days is more of that hip hop crap. I don't even think you hear a lot of pop compared to that hip hop, baby's mama, shorty shorty crap we hear on the radio. Some of it is even rap. I know Allison is at a disadvantage because we are not in a time frame where rock rules the radio stations & top 40 countdowns. It all seems to be about thug-anomics now. Having said that, I just think "FIBOU" is still a bit too poppy for Allison, but I still like the song, just not as much as some of her other ones.

Yesterday Gina Orr from Jive tweeted this to an Allison fan:

Allsion's single isn't stuck at radio. Stations freeze there playlists around Dec 15. All good for January

So, we'll see what the new year brings, hopefully there's some inside information that we just don't know of.

I think 12,000 is good news. Go Alli!

I've added the January 17 sales update in the original post above. The album sold about the same as last week, dropping 6% and still selling approximately 2,000 (rounded to the nearest thousand), giving her a total to date of around 79,000.

I was lukewarm to FIBOU when I first heard it. However that changed when I saw Allison and that great sounding band behind her perform it live on Good Morning America. It was like all the post-production was stripped away and it became a rock song like most of the rest of the album. My guess is that Robot Love will be the same way.

I'm kind of curious about her overseas sales. I know Twitter is horrendously unreliable but she seems to have a considerable amount of fans outside of the US.

I think her sales are ok. I expected worse, even if I had hopelessly hoped for more. Here goes that word again, I just HOPE, they have an aggressive plan in place for her in 2010 to increase her visibility.

Someone at TWoP reported hearing FIBOU on KIIS-FM in LA today. I can't find it in the KIIS song log at yes.com, but if true, it might mean they're going to start pushing her. That would be huge.

I've added the February 7 airplay update in the original post above. FIBOU gained 38 spins for a total of 337 for the week, the first time over 300. On the Top 40 chart, it gained 24 spins to 239 for the week, another new high.

The song's audience impressions took a big jump this week, topping half a million for the first time -- in fact, closing in on 600K. The audience impressions number seems to bounce around a lot from week to week, but this week's number is about 100K higher than we've seen before. So, it's getting into quite a few more ears.

This song just keeps plugging away!

Thanks for the info JohnM.
I believe this Album will have legs. As more singles roll out I think people will notice that Friday is but a small sample of what this CD is all about.
I am starting to disagree with those who say that Friday is out of place in this Album. As La Princesa has said, there are a variety of sounds in there, and Friday is a fun / in-your-face song, very much in line with Alli's overall description of the Album. If anything (and here I go again), BMU might be the oddity here, because the girl is willing to put up with crap (emotionally, if you wanna go that route) in exchange of other things she likes of the guy. I don't get that vibe from other songs, or from Alli herself.
I hope that a new single is selected and released early next year, that she goes around promoting it via live TV performances, that she gets a chance to perform in Idol, and that she goes in some sort of tour with an established act.

Well, since you brought up overseas sales -- do you have any information on how many countries it's available in? I know that some people have worked out gift arrangements to get copies from the US, but certainly it's better if people can buy it directly in their home countries.

Yeah, I can't understand why she's not getting more of a push. I still think the first release should have been one of her other songs, but "FIBOU" is still a pretty good song. The second single release really needs to be pushed & needs to be a smash hit so Allison can get off & rolling. I'm still not sure "FIBOU" is going to do that for her. I really hope I'm wrong about that! Hopefully Jive is starting to get more aggressive pushing Allison. It's TIME!

FIBOU continues to chug along -- 3 stations added it this week. That's the biggest add week in 2 months. Two were auto-adds -- Buffalo and Wichita. The other was Canton, OH -- she just visited the station there yesterday on her current radio tour. This is the first time a station has added the song after she visited. The DJs certainly love her. Here's a tweet from a DJ in Lansing, MI, where she visited today:

joshstrickland Met @allisoniraheta and saw her rock it today.. SO impressed. She's PHENOMENAL. Jammed the CD -- PACKED full of great stuff! Get it!

Vegas has played FIBOU?

News to me... lol, guess I must listen at the wrong times. lol

Some of you may not be too happy about this but FIBOU has been added to the Radio Disney request songs.

This is good. Hopefully they start playing her. That audience would eat up that song.

I have no idea. I know it's availabe in the Phillipines and it seems like Korea and some other asian countries, based on some tweets I've seen. I haven't seen it here in Puerto Rico, it's not out in Brazil or the UK either. They need to get on that.

I've added the January 24 airplay update in the original post above. FIBOU gained a whopping 84 spins for a total of 263 for the week, the highest weekly spin count we've seen. I'm guessing that some of the increase is due to Radio Disney (where she's now #26), but according to the Pulse discussion board, her spins on Top 40 stations in general have also been increasing nicely over the last several days -- for the past week she had 190 spins, the most yet. So, maybe the song is going to build some momentum after all??

It'll probably get a spin on KIIS-FM in LA tonight when she's on JoJo Wright's show (7-10PM Pacific) -- that should bump up her audience numbers quite a bit.

Why am I seeing the comments out of chronological order?!

Yeah, according to Mediabase, Vegas station KFRH played it 3 times during the week before last, and 8 times last week. Four of last week's spins were during the overnight hours, 3 were in the evening, and one was in the afternoon.

Hey, folks! I've been kind of quiet here for the last few days but I'm ready to jump in with both feet. I am really enthused by the reports here about airplay and album sales. I do believe from polls I have seen on Twitter that Allie's popularity seems to be gaining momentum. She is in 12th place right now in the Top YouTube Musician for 2009, beating out artists such as Michael Jackson, Selena Gomez and Ashley Tisdale. We need to keep on voting in those polls to help her. I will be making a separate thread on these Twitter polls since I think these particular polls help the impression in people's minds about the artist.

I do feel that Allie's numbers should increase once sales of Christmas albums are out of the way. Let's wait a few weeks to see what occurs.

I've added the January 3 airplay update in the original post above. FIBOU gained 6 spins for a total of 153 for the week -- so, roughly holding steady during the Christmas-to-New-Year's week. We'll start to see whether radio is going to take another look at the song, not only with next week's numbers but also tomorrow (Tuesday) when Top 40 stations report their song adds for the week.

Do spins on Radio Disney count? I've read somewhere that they keep their own different chart or something, so it's possible those numbers have all come from regular radio stations, not counting radio disney.

I've added the February 14 airplay update in the original post above. FIBOU gained 9 spins for a total of 346 for the week. On the Top 40 chart, it lost 8 spins, down to 231 for the week.

The audience impressions stayed dead flat this week, just under 560,000.

So, it seems to have reached a plateau. It has done this before, so the question is, will it start rising again after hanging out at this plateau, or will it start falling back?