Allison Iraheta's Dissapointing First Week Sales

Susan Boyle vs. Andrea Bocelli for #1 next week

As the holiday season heats up, the Syco/Columbia matron of the U.K. heartlands and Decca’s blind Italian tenor will battle it out for the top spot, each of them flirting with the 350k level. Can that figure go even higher? Stay tuned.

Building on a number of TV appearances this week, including Oprah, Leno, CBS Morning Show and Larry King Bocelli, now #1 at iTunes is picking up some serious steam, while Boyle has strong momentum carrying over from her chart-topping, 700k debut.

The new releases taper off some before the year-end rush, with Jive/JLG’s R. Kelly album, Untitled, the biggest, expected to debut in the 95-105k range.

19/Jive/JLG Idol contestant Allison Iraheta is the next-highest newcomer, in the 25-30k range for her label debut, Just Like You.

Adam Lambert ended up pulling more first week sales than both Allison and Kris Allen's numbers together!