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Good Morning!
This pic is so cool… stunning! Thanks to all the people that tweeted about it and to the photographer/graphic artist, whose name I don’t know but that made an awesome job!
Update: The pic belongs to Woodlabel Photography.
Twitter: kiady
Good morning lovely ihearties!!
lol
Love Danny’s new pair of glasses they’re huuuge lol seems like he’s about to dive or snowboard, he’s so funny
Today i really have to start to study my exam it’s on 7th January and i have to study for the whole semester again
I’ll be in and out today because of that.
Twitter: kiady
Forgot to mention the photo of the day… That photo has something…it’s very beautiful and artistic! Go Danny lol
Twitter: steph6449
Erika, just my comment on the browser / site viewing question last night. I don’t know if it’s IE. I used to see all the components fine, until recently when the page has had a lot more on it.
When I have problems at this site (or others) with the page locking up, usually my first suspect is the adware.
station playing Danny last night?
us101country: Danny Gokey – My Best Days Are Ahead Of Me – 11:09 PM visit http://www.RadioTAGr.com/WUSY to TAG this song
about 3 hours ago from API
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someone tweeting a friend about the mysterytwitter business the night before last
Sorry about last night lol. A lot of us were being stupid and glamberts and Gokey got involved and it’s all a blur now.
about 5 hours ago from web in reply to insomniac19
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another confused person about Danny’s twitpic with the 3D glasses last night (Kris fan)
lol gokey kinda looked cute there. WHAT AM I EVEN SAYING TAKE IT BACK TAKE IT BACK
about 8 hours ago from web
Twitter: steph6449
Jason trying to play matchmaker for Danny with Mallory Hope, lol
Just wanted to say that I thought you and @dannygokey would make a cute couple…..just sayin….and I love ur music….
she answered him
malloryhope: aww. thank you. he is super sweet & very talented.
person in Oregon (D.C. = Dream Center here I guess?)
@dannygokey My son Steve got to talk to you @ D.C. he said he has spoken to you before, He says ur very humble keep it up.
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from the malls
I saw u @ brookfield square sat.! i was staring at u cuz i couldnt tell it wuz u!! and then i started freaking out cuz i saw u!
about 7 hours ago from web in reply to dannygokey
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hello! good evening to all DG fans! It’s Tuesday night here in the Philippines! Happy New Year everybody! I’m so happy for the past few days, why? First of all i would like to thank starworld asia a cable channel here for showing again AI season 8 a recap from audition week, hollywood week, and i watch Danny Gokey AGAIN! OMG he’s so charming and awesome sooooo cuteee! tomorrow it’s the group presentation and i can’t wait to see Danny’s group! From the very start Danny was so talented he was gifted with a soulful voice! Danny Congratulations to all your success in music industry and God will bless you always! By the way i got a shirt with a print of Danny’s face I LOVE IT i bought it from ebay! Goodnight!!!
Hi everyone.
The numbers for Danny’s download sales come out today.
Hi FOGS, I hope Danny’s sales are up…what’s the figures?
Some download sales have come out so far, but numbers for Danny haven’t come out yet. It looks like last week was a big week for download sales because of the holiday season. Kris sold over 109,000 downloads last week. Adam’s song FYE sold over 15,000 downloads last week. I don’t know when we will see the numbers for Danny.
Steph,
Michael J from WMZQ at DC played My Best Days this morning at 8:28 am. YAY!!!! I sent him an email at 8:00 before I left for work and asked him to play it for me on my drive in to work – I told him I was going to keep asking until he played it. He announced on the air that he was playing it for Liz in Columbia and said here ya go Liz, hope you enjoy it. After the song was over he said that was Danny from American Idol and that he played it for Liz and that he broke the rules for me. I emailed him back and thanked him and told him he made my day. I finally heard My Best Days Are Ahead of Me on my local radio station – I am thrilled.
Thanks FOGS. I’m from the Philippines and I asked my sisters in US to purchase Danny’s songs in iTunes & emailed them to me (I asked them to purchase 5 times LOL)….Just my small way of showing my support for Danny. Hope the sales are up
Twitter: karatemom34
Good Morning Everyone, What an Awesome picture above! Hi to Cjmac7 and leah, don’t think I’ve ever talked to you before! Nice to meet you! FOGS very excited about seeing Danny’s download sales!! Hi Claudia, sorry I missed you.. How do you like your new phone? Good luck with your studying today! I’ll be back this afternoon! Everyone have a great morning!
Twitter: karatemom34
Lizzy , great job on being so persistent to get Danny’s song played!
Thanks New Cindy. I’m one of the silent but frequent lurkers
Love this site because it’s where I get the latest Danny news. Amy and owlki are really doing an awesome job
I just read some of the download sales at MJ’s. Congrats to Kris. Those numbers are really good. Adam sold 15,000 of FYE and 45,000 of WYWFM. I am hoping with the sales being way up that even though MBD was not ranked high on Itunes, it still sold a respectable amount. Brian Mansfield at USA Today should have the numbers up soon.
Twitter: karatemom34
cjmac7 Yes, Amy and Erica do an amazing job and also a lot of other ihearties who contribute so much to this site!
Yes New Cindy. Everyone here keeps on sharing and that says so much about Danny’s fans.
Got to go..it’s almost midnight here….
I would like to take the time and welcome our nternational fans Leah and cjmac7 !! Welcome!! and goodmorning to the remaining ihearts!! I hope Danny has good sales numbers!! have a great day!
Hey guys! Beautiful picture today! Praying for some good news, with regard to Danny’s sales. Either way, it is all good.
Heading out to a day of skiing. Hopefully, I’ll be back late.
Welcome cjmac & hellow to all our regulars!
Twitter: kiady
Hi!
Cindy, i love it! it’s so cool lol but it has a touch screen so i’m getting use to it yet
The study it’s going… lol didn’t study not even 1/5 of what i have to study until the exam but it’s all good…
Danny didn’t tweet today yet, he must be tired from all the excitement of seeing Avatar..lol j/k!
Twitter: kiady
When will the numbers be out? Sorry for not knowing
I am expecting Brian Mansfield to post the digital track sales numbers sometime this afternoon.
Twitter: kiady
Ok, Lizzy
Brian has the numbers of digital of some idols. Carrie. Adam. Daughtry. And Kris. But no Danny.
Twitter: BLfolsom
Love this pic of Danny!
All other weeks, Brian posts the digital sales of all the Idol. I am wondering if he is having trouble getting all the numbers due to the holidays and freeze on the charts. I asked him for Danny’s numbers.
From: @dannygokey
Sent: Dec 30, 2009 2:48p
Forget ur past & drop NY resolutions-Be convinced that in 2010 ur best days r ahead of u-Listen 2 my new single & let it motivate u forward!
Twitter: kiady
dannygokey
I know its hard forgetting all the hurts of the past but those things will never push u 2ward ur dream. U might have fell but get back up
10 minutes ago from web
I know I am the impatient one – but I am very frustrated that it is late afternoon and we don’t have Danny’s debut sales numbers. It’s driving me crazy.
Twitter: Owlki
Hello, peeps.
Well, I don’t know what to do about the browser stuff. I use Firefox and Chrome and for me the page loads okay every time.
What I can do is take away the things that I put there (twitter feed, music, video, link to buy the CD) so things can go back the way they were. Let me know if I should do that.
I can’t take the ads off or change them, for that matter. Believe me, I want to, but Amy needs them to pay for the costs of the site.
I don’t know if we are going to get Danny’s numbers. Brian Mansfield only had access to the the top 200 downloads and Danny was not in the top 200 which we knew already because he never made it to the top 200 overall on Itunes.
Erika,
I always use Firefox and the page loads okay every time. My suggestion would be for everyone to download Firefox and use it instead of Internet Explorer. It is s really sophisticated browser.
Also, you are less likely to have problems with viruses and malware. I had major problems using Internet Explorer this past summer and finally had the Geek Squad come out and install Kaspersky security software. Since then, I have not had any viruses or Trojans.
Just my two cents.
Using Firefox and Kaspersky completely eliminated my computer problems (knock on wood).
Don’t know about Apple computers, as mine is window based.
Hi Ihearties,
Hope all of you had a blessed Christmas season. I was back looking for “Back ot One” mp3 gift from Erika, on 12/23 posts, I somehow lost it off my media player, and reread Mr. C Bing’s post on how much he liked being Danny’s fan, his first ever.
I liked your piece Mr. Bing. You opened up your heart here for all of us to see how much you love Danny. I especially liked how you said that Danny helped you, because his grief was more than your troubles, and you were inspired by Danny’s overcoming his grief over his wife, to help you to choose to overcome your troubles. Very profound Mr. Bing.
I just want to say that Danny’s love, instead of hate to those who have hurt him in the past, I’m thinking in particular of those Idol reporters, is wonderful and such an inspiration of the way I need to forgive and then get on with my life without the “weight” of anger or bitterness weighing me down and making the past a heavy bag to carry into the future.
And also, Danny has mde me more aware of the need around me and I see more clearly how I spend my “extra” money (not really that much) on clothes and skin care and makeup. All those things are good, and we all need some, but there are people without life’s necessities. Anyway, I’m beginning to rethink some of my selfish spending habits.
I do, through my church give, and often spend a day a week helping to hand out free food to families in need in my community through my church, but I still feel I need to do more. (I hope I don’t sound too sanctimonious.)
Danny’s song, It’s Only”, when he sings “Lord open my eyes and help me see”, I need to open my eyes and “see” the need around me and be more giving.
So I’m with you Mr. Bing, Danny has made an impact on my life too for the better, more than just me enjoying his music, which I dearly love.
I would love to hear how Danny has impacted your lives too, Ihearties.
Betty, I didn’t know the Geek Squad made housecalls. I bet that cost a pretty penny!!!! I don’t trust them because they really screwed my computer up big time, so much so in fact, that I had to hire someone to come in and clean up their mess. They closed my computer down as upgrades were downloading/installing automatically…and boy, did that ever do damage! Of course they said they’d fix the problem BUT wanted ME to pay for it when it was THEIR mistake. I would never get them to even so much as dust my keyboard now.
But after the holidays I’ll try downloading Firefox. I hate to do anything on here because it always never turns out right but maybe I’ll get brave and try Firefox because IE really sucks a big one.
ERIKA, the general links to what’s new on the site are very important to me. If I were going to get rid of something, I would get rid of the “Top Commenters” sidebar, or the “Upcomings Events” sidebar (with the caveat that upcoming events would be listed elsewhere, most likely under “Appearances”). In fact, you could just include a permanent link to upcoming events as part of the box that includes general links.
Or you could just wait. Eventually the video of “Oh Holy Night” will be deactivated, and you could take down that link at that time. Maybe that would restore the missing stuff.
But don’t make any changes on my account! I use Firefox at home, so I can see everything then!
Erika,
I use IE and I have it all ok. I really like the new page setup where we can listen to Danny’s music on here. I might give firefox a try though, expecially if it keeps down trojans and virus’s. I’ve had a problem with them three times this past summer and fall.
Have to go fix lunch. Be back later.
Marilyn, very nice post! I know Danny has certainly made me more aware of a need to help others, donate more time to my church, and think of others first. He has also taught me not to let certain situations (in my case, health concerns) define me, and keep me from looking to the future and not giving up hope. Danny has taught me to have a much stronger faith in God, and to rely on Him in prayer. I have learned how much good it does my heart to make a small donation to SHF rather than go out and spend it on a new purse or a pair of earrings. Danny has definitely had a positive influence in my life and I consider him a blessing. He is also proof that all the angels are not in heaven….we have some right here on earth.
Twitter: kiady
Olwki, i use Firefox i usually have no problems accessing the page but yesterday it took me ages to load the page but i guess that was a connection problem due to my internet, because i usually have no prob at all
Shirl, I don’t consider myself to be computer-savvy at all, but I had no problems downloading Firefox. I know that is no guarantee, but I thought you might find my experience reassuring.
I guess we are going to have to wait until Danny makes the top 200 on Itunes before we can get download numbers for him. Hopefully he will eventually break into the top 200 on Itunes once gets a lot more radio airplay and his music video comes out.
Twitter: Owlki
Thank you for the feedback, peeps.
I recommend Firefox as well. Although I do get crashs from time to time, it’s the browser that crashes the least for me. I understand when it crashes, though… I abuse my computer so much…
IE is crap, seriously. I tried yesterday but it’s just an awful experience. It wants you to make all the decisions that Firefox makes for itself, asking for permission every nanosecond and blocking everything else. Poor excuse of a browser…
Ellen,
I can’t put “Upcoming Events” under “Appearances” because they are accessed from different parts of the site. “Upcoming Events” comes from updating the “Calendar” (click on it, on the top of the page, I think you’ll like it). “Appearances” is a category of post (kind of a ‘box’ we put the posts in, to try and make it easier to find them later).
The “top commenters” column was there before and I’m not taking any of the things that Amy put on the site out. She was nice enough to give me ‘carte blanche’ to do whatever I wanted on the site but I don’t really want to change what she did.
I was thinking about putting a different video every week or something on the space where ‘O Holy Night’ is but if that is the thing causing the problem, I can just wipe it out altogether… even if I’m fond of the idea of having a space for a “featured video” that is not an ad…
Twitter: kiady
Owlki, i think that’s a great idea like “Video of the Week” right? if it’s not that part of the page that causes the problem i think you should go ahead
The photos from Woodbury Photography are so cool. Be sure to check out the other two pictures posted on the main page.
Just found this cute video on Danny’s OS, taken in August before one of the Idols shows. This girl is very bold!
correction: Woodlabel Photography.
Twitter: Owlki
Yeah, Claudia, something like it. My wish was to put it where the video ad is (damn video ad, hate it… it uses a lot of my broadband download allowance because it plays every time I preview a post or refresh a page… and I do it A LOT) but it’s a no-no… can’t even turn off the autoplay
Woodlabel, Suz, Woodlabel… LOL!
I think I posted that video before, during AI Tour.
Twitter: steph6449
This is interesting re 2009 AI album sales. Helio will like the result
http://media.herald-dispatch.com/blog/idol/2009/12/wrapping-up-year-on-charts.html
Matt Giraud update for the manny fans
http://www.americanidol.com/news/view/pid/2388/?ref=socialmedia_2009_12_30_MattGiraud_Interview
If this is today, wonder what Danny was doing at a radio station… Two people on twitter, seem to be from Chicago area
(first person) my brother in law is a radio guy in wisconsin and Danny Gokey came in and they hung out for a while. Lol
(friend answers) omg really? Dats soo coool dude!
(#1) Yeah, he said he was a really cool dude
(friend again) yeah he is! Lol gotta love gokey!
(#1) I know(: I wish he told me that he was with him. My brother in law didn’t know i liked him
Erika, sometimes I just skim through things quickly and don’t think before I post, LOL
I do wish we had the ability to correct our posts.
Twitter: steph6449
those pics are really nice. the one had struck me as very professional in quality, but I couldn’t think why it would be taken since Danny’d done his photo shoot for the album already and it had a very different look. Hadn’t thought about SHF.
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for Lizzy, yay that Michael J played Danny’s song on the DC station. I did have the radio on this morning around that time, probably just barely missed hearing it
I guess I’ll have to email him again to ask about it, huh.
wonder what he meant by “breaking the rules” though, any idea?
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I’m not really willing to redo all my browser settings to go to firefox, but really appreciate all the work Amy and Erika do on the site. Will just use it as best I can. Maybe sooner or later, if IE does have issues with the site design either IE or WordPress will update something to make that go away.
Steph, that’s great news about David’s album!
I certainly hope we see something like that happen with Danny’s album.
Thanks for posting!
I was watching my local news tonight and they showed a clip of danny doing some charity work. Not sure who it was for but I think it’s great that he finds the time in his busy schedule to contribute to charities. The only turn off is that he was smoking a cigarette in the clip that they showed. Dont get me wrong, there is nothing morally wrong with smoking and it may have helped him get that raspy voice which made his career flourish, but I think we should get together and see if we can help him quit. I would like to appoint myself the leader of the movement. Whose in?
Hello steph. Sorry for being rude and not saying hi to you first
Twitter: steph6449
mighty, I think you forgot to share the link to that video with Danny smoking demon tobacco? I have a feeling Danny could give up his smoking habit in no time,though. Probably zero time, to be exact.
and hello to you as well, nice that you could bounce over this way.
Twitter: Owlki
To ban or not to ban, that’s the question…
Twitter: steph6449
Erika, I see it as comic relief
Twitter: Owlki
LOL, Steph. You really have a better sense of humour than me. I’m so in a no bullsh*t, no nonsense kinda mood nowadays…
Twitter: steph6449
Erika, some days. Not all, for sure.
Was sorry to see on twitter about your milk mishap. If that was how my day started, wouldn’t be feeling the happiest either
[ ps - Always good advice someone gave me once, everything is better with chocolate. ]
Mighty, yes…Danny has a bad smoking habit. He smokes up the stage whenever he performs and always looks smokin’ no matter what he wears.
I agree, Steph. Mighty is comic relief. He always makes me laugh.
helio (or anybody) where is the link to the pics from Woodlabel Photography? Are there pic of Danny there? I scrolled back through the messages but I must keep missing it.
Ellen, after the holidays I might get brave and download Firefox! Things have been running pretty well since the Comcast guy came out here and uninstalled Dell’s remote access program from my computer, and I kinda don’t wanna rock the boat right now after 5 days of not being able to get to iheart.
The twitterfeed used to be on the page…it might pop back up on here again. Nothing about what my computer does surprises me anymore, it has a mind of it’s own
steph, Mighty is fulla more shizz than a Christmas turkey but seeing his posts is just like seeing a funny cartoon now and then. You get a few gigglesnorts, and then you move on and forget about it.
Shirl, it was posted on the main page but here is the link. I have also posted it on Danny’s OS.
http://woodlabelphoto.com/blog/?p=163
Twitter: Owlki
Not milk that went off, Steph… that, even chocolate can’t make taste better! LOL!
Suz, you made me LOL!
Shirl, it’s on the front page, on the Woodlabel Photography post. You gotta click on the link that says HERE on ‘There are two other pictures there, both stunning as well so be sure to check them out HERE.’ I wanted to link to their page ’cause I already posted it without asking their permission…
Twitter: kiady
Owlki, yeah i know
Well peeps i have to go. Have a rest of a great day bye
Good night!!
Twitter: steph6449
Allison did say on the show also that Danny had a “smokin’ awesome” voice. Hmm.
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Erika, thanks for posting that new video of Danny with the NA. I still have absolutely no idea where he was on the field, lol. Making the video full-size at least you can make him out several times on the big monitors though. And it is nice to hear the full song.
It struck me kinda funny to realize watching a clearer video that when Danny sings about the SSB “waving” they actually shake that huge USA-shaped flag to make it “wave.” Ha. Seemed more jiggly to me than a wave, but it’s the idea that counts I suppose.
Twitter: steph6449
Erika, lol! I wasn’t meaning the chocolate to go with the nasty milk, ha.
Just a separate recommendation altogether when you’re having a crappy day.
Or maybe yogurt if I’m being a good girl.
I’m so paranoid about bad milk I barely drink milk at all. For my milk-like requirements, I tend to go with ice cream
Thanks, helio! I did see the mention of it on the main page but missed the link wanting to get here ASAP. I rush through everything so fast nowadays that I don’t get a chance to stop and smell the roses. But those pics remind me once again what beautiful hands Danny has.
I’m kind of focused on his hands tonight because of a dream I had about him last night. We were on some kind of sightseeing tourbus and it was hot and sunny outside. I forgot to bring my sunblock with me so when we made a stop, Danny mixed up some weird potion along the side of the road and rubbed it on my sunburned arms. We hugged and kissed (no idea where my dh was! LOL) and I remember thinking how warm and soft his lips were…..of course then I had to go and wake up….
I’m not sure how useful this is, but there is someone on DCO who has access to the latest sales figures and charting positions of the season 8 idols.
Here are the Billboard radio placements for this week for Kris, Adam, Allison and Danny.
01/09/09
Kris Allen
LLWD: Top 40 TW # 27, LW # 27
Top 40 Indicator: TW # 29 LW # 29
HAC: TW #12 LW # 13
HAC: Indicator Chart TW # 14 LW # 14
AC Indicator Chart: TW # 26 LW # 27
Adam Lambert
WWFM: Top 40 TW # 34 LW # 35
HAC indicator chart TW # 40 LW # 37
Danny Gokey
MBDAAM: Country National Airplay TW # 53 LW # 52
Allison is nowhere on any chart.
I am not sure what TW and LW stand for–Steph, Lizzy, FOGS?
Thanks too, Erika. Like I said, I was gone most of the day and way too anxious to get in here to read everybody….and overlooked your link to the photography page. My bad. I’ll learn!
Twitter: steph6449
Helio, I can’t explain much with those charts (Lizzy and FOGS are our gurus) but do know that TW is This Week, LW is Last Week.
So with that, Danny would have just dropped one spot, which would be pretty good if that was the Christmas week data.
I am still just soooooo confused why all these stats and charts are coming out when I thought there was a freeze for the holidays thru New Year’s and all the end-of-year/end-of-decade recapping.
Twitter: Owlki
TW – This week
LW – Last week
Twitter: Owlki
That’s alright, Shirl. Glad you found it. What a dream, LOL!
Steph, I had to go back and watch the flag ‘wave’. LOL!
Helio, thanks for the charts figures.
Steph, when I changed to Firefox, it asked me if I wanted to retain the same browser settings. I said yes, so Firefox looks just like Internet Explorer for me.
You’re welcome!
There’s an extremely annoying and clueless Danny hater at IDF named “Kworb” who is already saying MBD is an abysmal failure and was gloating about how it dropped off the charts after peaking the first few days it came out.
Here is what he said:
Gokey’s sales were abysmal. He peaked outside the top 200 on iTunes and quickly plummeted. We’ll probably never know the real figure, but I estimate he sold about 5,000 his first week.
Here was my reply to Kworb:
Um…I think it’s a little premature to call Danny or his single a failure. He has had no national promotion yet nor a video out. RCA’s doing the slow roll-out and we can’t really tell how well his single will do until his video is released, which I believe is sometime in January. According to his official site, RCA is going to start national promotion as it gets close to when his album is released in March. Kris’s single has been out for three months and also took a long time to get to where it is now. It didn’t really start climbing the charts until his video was released and his album came out.
I keep trying to put out these little fires but they just keep appearing elsewhere. Sigh.
Shirl, I got your email, will reply tonight.
Twitter: steph6449
Erika, I know that wasn’t supposed to be funny, but it really was. Lol! (As you said, I have a weird sense of humor though.)
In person I’m sure there would have been a much more stately impression than the jiggly-flag it looks like online.
Shirl, what an incredible dream! I forgot to tell you before. Wow!
The projections were for Danny to be #53 this week on Billboard Country Songs Chart. Last week he was #52 so he only dropped one spot and lost a few spins. I didn’t want to see him drop on the chart at all because only current songs are eligible for Billboard (no Christmas songs). So Danny did lose a spot in comparison with the other country songs. This chart is only based on radio airplay which is why it is so important that we keep requesting Danny’s single. When Michael J. from WMZQ in DC played Danny’s single for me this morning he told me he broke the rules. When I thanked him for playing the song I mentioned and for breaking the rules (whatever that means). He responded back and told me that it meant Danny’s single was not in the rotation yet. I then responded that I hoped it would be on rotation soon because it is a good song. I really believe there is a pecking order with country radio, especially for new artists. If Danny were an established artist his single could move up the charts faster (like Carrie’s Temporary Home is which was released the same week as MBD’s). Danny is going to have to move up the charts slowly and we cannot give up. His song may not be on your local country radio stations rotation yet but the radio stations need to know there is interest and people want to hear it.
As to Danny’s single sales. My Best Days has dropped to #123 on the Itunes country songs chart (I just downloaded it a few more times). Didn’t plan to use my entire Itunes gift card for Danny’s single but WTH. I am extremely disappointed that we don’t know how many singles he sold for the week. In the past, Brian has always posted the numbers for Idols selling under 10,000 but I guess the top 200 sales were so inflated due to the holidays that those numbers were not available. He posted when Allison sold 9,000 her first week. At first I thought Danny might sell only 4,000 but seeing how high the numbers are I am hoping he sold between 5,000 and 10,000.
Helio,
Do you think that individual at DCO could get the numbers for MBD’s first week sales? I can’t seem to find them anywhere and I can’t believe that we are never going to know.
Twitter: Owlki
Lizzy, I know you’re a statistics lover but breathe and calm down. Danny is going to climb the charts up slowly. There’s nothing wrong with that. He’s a new artist in Country and he’s doing great.
Danny dropped to 123 on the country chart? I honestly didnt even know there was 123 country songs that have been released recently. Danny will survive though. I predict he will switch to a different style of music for his next album and leave country alone. Ive been told that he was considering switching to disco or maybe even trying something more mainstream. Hopefully he does.
I cnat believe owiki (sorry if mispelled) wants me banned. Most fan sites would love to have an internet icon dropping in from time to time. Thanks for having my back steph and helio. Im gonna send the both of you tennis balls in the mail as a token of my appreciation.
Mighty1,
Danny DID NOT drop to #123 on any country chart. He is #53 on Billboards Hot Country Songs (which is fine because it was just released). He did drop to #78 on mediabase but that is because the airplay chart was full of Christmas songs. Once the Christmas songs are gone I fully expect him to be back in the 50′s which is where he was before the two week Christmas freeze. What I said is that Danny’s single is #123 on Itunes sales chart which fluctuates minute by minute which means absolutely nothing and is not an official chart of any kind. Danny is doing just fine. His music video will be out soon and his spins will increase and he will move up the charts like he is suppose to.
Danny only dropping one spot on the Billboard chart is not bad. Not only is Danny competiting with Christmas songs on the radio he is also competiting with new songs by Lady Antebellum (“American Honey”) and songs by established artists like Alan Jackson.
Also I believe that Lady A’s “American Honey” along with Blake Shelton/Trace Adkins “Hillbilly bone” were released for sale last week, which was more competition for Danny.
If I had to guess for his single sales, I would say around 4,000 maybe a little higher, since sales were higher overall for a lot of artists. Hopefully he will get more sales, once he gets a lot more airplay.
Helio
I agree about that Kworb poster. They are always posting rude stuff about Danny. I think that they are a Kris/Kradam fan.
Erika, I agree, I think Danny will do just fine. Wait until his video comes out and he starts getting national promotion. It’s natural to panic because we love Danny so much we want him to have a #1 hit single and go platinum right away, but really there is nothing to panic about.
Mighty, I am eagerly awaiting a bright yellow tennis ball in my mailbox.
Lizzy, I’ll PM the poster at DCO and try to get those figures.
Owlki, I know Danny fans are always cool and calm (maybe too calm IMO lol) but sometimes getting a little hyped up is a good thing. I’m sure Danny doesn’t mind his fans getting a little hyped up when it comes to buying his single, requesting his song from radio stations or hyping him up on country blogs.
Twitter: steph6449
Helio, I added a (long, lol) post at idf just after yours.
Lizzy, I hope that means (from Michael J) that they will be adding Danny’s song when they update their rotation. I get the feeling that they don’t do that terribly often a month at either the Baltimore or DC stations. When I look at the “new artists” section for one, the list of people and they order they appear in is static for days if not weeks. I’d hope at least to see Danny on that before long, but have been guessing these stations may not change their programming til next week.
I’ll send him a thank you also.
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Lizzy, I guess a balance is the ideal thing.
Mighty1, don’t stop believing…
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Lizzy, email #2 sent to Michael J
If there’s anyone else you’d suggest pestering from either of those two stations let me know.
Steph, I thought your post at IDF was excellent.
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Helio, thanks — it bears a remarkable similarity to some stuff I posted at mj’s last week when there was some Danny bashin’ going on in the thread about his video.
But truthfully, if his label really was all worried about Danny’s first week iTunes sales there is no way in the world Danny would spending his time hanging out in malls in Milwaukee as his apparent first order of business when not visiting with family.
Being at #53 for the first week of a single that hasn’t started any national promotion, where there isn’t a video or album out yet, and going on sale at a time where radio was flooded with Christmas music – is a very respectable showing, especially for a new artist.
Danny was not in the finals of AI – and thus did not get all the promotion usually afforded to those in the finals. Yet it took Kris close to 2 mos before LLWD saw any solid movement. And Adam’s album took a huge drop after the 1st week – but it has since picked up momentum.
Honestly, Kris and Adam are doing ok – but they have yet to set any records on the charts.
Country music normally takes a longer ride up the charts. And MBD needs build momentum for the album’s debut in Mar – which is a good 2 mos away.
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Hi everyone. This is just my opinion, but honestly I don’t mind that the single sales number wasn’t reported this week. I have a very high degree of confidence that Danny is going to have a successful album, but it gets so tedious when deliberately obtuse and hostile people take things out of context in order to be irritating. I think that there are many good things coming up for Danny, with the video and Opry appearance, and more promotion (like that Fox piece that was posted yesterday – he looked and sounded so great in that!). It’s very early days, and time is on our side I think.
I hope everyone is getting to enjoy some time off this week! My husband and I are preparing for a NYE game with our friends, and among other things we’re supposed to come up with a list of the best things that happened in the world in the last decade. I think we all here share one thing in common with what would be on our own personal list!
I think that if Danny’s label treats him as new country artist and continues to support him, by doing stuff like letting him continue the radio tour, giving him a video, getting him more gigs. And then giving him good promotion, he has a chance of doing fine. I think that RCA Nashville signed Danny thinking that he could do well for their label.
And while they might think that he could do better than other new country artists because of his exposure on Idol, they are in some ways treating him as a new artist without using his time on AI a whole lot. When compared to other new Country artists Danny is doing fine. And while he did have a lot of exposure from AI, he’s not the winner or runner-up so expectations for him are lower.
See my persistence paid off. My answer from Brian Mansfield at USA Today – respectable numbers for Danny YAY!!
Don’t have “Temporary Home” numbers for this week, but Nielsen SoundScan says Danny Gokey’s “My Best Days Are Ahead of Me” debuted at 8,000 digital tracks.
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Lizzy, that’s good to hear about the numbers from Brian, especially given the context in which those numbers were earned.
Since FOGS and Lizzy are both here, do you have any theory on whether / how the pre-order album sales (which include a free download of MBD) might count toward the sales data for MBD as a single?
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8000 is not bad for not having performed the song in public since the nineteenth and no real radio play during the week of neverending xmas music. My guess was in the neighborhood of 7200 so he did better, but this week will be rough as everyone that has heard the song has purchased it, but the following should be back to the plus side with the radio tour and the Opry appearance.
I read somewhere that Taylor Hicks didn’t even get a music video for his first song. I think that’s messed up especially since he was an AI winner.
I was watching “Backstory: Blake Shelton on GAC and Blake was talking about his first album and some of the problems he had when he was first starting out as a new country artist.
His first song did really well, and went to #1 on the Country chart, and he got a video for that song. His second song didn’t do well, and his label told him they weren’t giving him any more videos.
He made a bargin with them, he told them that if his third song didn’t do well, then don’t give him a 3rd video, but if it did well to give him a video.
It ended up doing well and he got a video for it. Early on in his career he got dropped from a label (Giant Records) and then went to Warner Brothers.
Also he recorded a song called “I wanna talk about me” which his record label said was a song that wouldn’t be successful for him and thought was too risky. But the song did end up being successful for Toby Keith.
But in spite of the problems he encountered early on in his career, Blake is doing well now, his song Hillbilly Bone with Trace Adkins, shot up into the top 10 on the Itunes country chart like the first day or two it was released. He’s had five number one hits and sixteen songs that have charted on the Country chart.
While things might seem kind of slow for Danny right now I think that he has a good chance of doing fine. There have been other country artists (like Blake Shelton) who have went through bigger obstacles (in the music business) than Danny has when they started out as new country artists but they ended up doing fine. If RCA continues to support Danny he could do well.
Thanks for the information, Lizzy.
8,000 is not a awful number especially considering that Danny never cracked the top 200 on Itunes and was fluctating on the overall Itunes chart. It’s double what I predicted.
He was in the top 300 on Itunes for a couple of days but then went down to 800 something, then back up to 700 than 600 something. I wouldn’t be surprised if Danny got a lot of his downloads from Amazon. He was ranked much higher on the chart over there than he was on the Itunes chart.
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station in Asheville NC tweeting again about playing Danny’s song. not sure I get what the tagging is about though, maybe to show listeners are motivated to follow up?
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I think Danny’s sales are fine.
This were the first week sales for the other three:
Kris LLWD – 15,755
Adam FYE – 18,000
Adam WWFM – 11,197
Allison – 9,000
Danny – 8,000
Plus remember there was a Kradison fan who admitted buying 1,000 downloads each for Kris, Adam and Allison and a lot of Adam fans admitted to buying Allison’s single. I suspect not to many Kradison fans bought MBD.
steph I am not sure if the downloads from his album pre-orders would count in his download sales total. Wasn’t the single for his album pre-order free? If so, then I think that it wouldn’t have counted in the total number of sales for his downloads for last week.
I agree with FOGS. I don’t think the free single with the pre-order counted towards Danny’s sales plus I’m not even sure if buying the single from the official website counted towards the first week sales.
LMAO at Mighty suggesting Danny Does Disco on his next album!!!! *gigglesnort*!
I can’t get on Twitter tonight for some reason…
Just heard Danny on 107.9 WIRK West Palm beach! The DJ afterwards came on and said he had to play this because his best days were ahead of him.
Great to hear Danny on the radio, I get excited every time!
YAY Danny on the radio. We love to hear that. Thanks for sharing. They played My Best Days Are Ahead of Me on my local radio station today too. It was very exciting to hear it for the first time.
8,000 is pretty good for his first week! Thanks for your persistence, Lizzy!
8,000 is a very good number. I personally am very happy. There was an expectation of 4,000 floating around and this is double that estimate. Think about all the money that Jive spent on Allison and she only got 1,000 more sales then Danny.
My only suggestion to him would be more self promotion. In his tweet today he could have pushed the sale of the song on itunes and amazon and maybe a push to DGO. I know some people are very humble about self promotion so that is where we come in.
My birthday is coming up soon. (Not gonna say when — don’t like to put too much info on the Internet.) So, Lizzy, you think I might have a better chance of getting MBD played if I contact the radio stations on my birthday and ask if they’ll play it for me for me birthday?
Here’s a 6:13 minute interview clip of Danny from WSOC. Don’t think I remember seeing this one but there were so many of them for a few weeks so I might have forgotten. Anyway, here it is if anyone hasn’t seen it yet.
http://americanidol.netne.net/1037-wsoc-danny-gokey-interview-with-charlie-debbie-show/
So, can anyone tell me how to get rid of my gravatar? I like it but don’t want Danny showing up if I’m posting away from this site. Or, alternatively, any idea how to create a separate e-mail address to use for posting?
Ellen B I had the same problem. Sign up for a free google gmail account and when you sign up for an account at the other sites, use the new email. Gravatar is associated with the email address that you us.
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It was posted, Shirl, straight from the radio website some weeks ago. Now the station is posting the videos on YouTube.
Thank you, Connie. I think I would feel more comfortable doing that.
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Good Evening Ladies!
Good evening, GG! I always seem to miss you when you’re here so nice to see you again
Erika, figures that the video linke I posted was already on here. Too many years of taking a med that is now banned, but has done a job on my short term memory
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LOL, Shirl! Hello GG!
Read an interesting except from an Arbitron report titled “What Happens When New Music Gets Played: The Impact of New Songs on the Country Radio Audience” http://www.arbitron.com/study/country_radio_2007.asp
“Established artists perform better than new artists, uptempo songs perform better than slower titles and songs from male artists perform better those from female artists. The study also reveals that it takes about 25 weeks for a new song to have its maximum impact on a Country station’s audience levels.” “The cycle of all songs from introduction to maximal audience change is about 25 weeks or approximately 450 spins.”
25 Weeks!!!!
Not sure if this is a good time, since traffic is slow, but thought I’d share the reaction to Danny’s rendition of “Oh Holy Night,” which I sent to pretty much everyone in my electronic address book.
I’m not sure I converted anyone to a Danny fan, but the feedback overall was positive. My coworker and his wife said, “Nice voice. Thanks for sharing that.” Other friends said, “It was very enjoyable”; “Beautiful song!”; “It was beautiful. Oh Holy Night is one of my favorite X-mas songs. I especially like the part about ‘fall on your knees.’”
One friend said, “Gave me goosebumps!” I didn’t expect that comment from that particular friend, since I’ve never had any indication that she is even that fond of music generally.
And Dee, the Adam fan from NJ that I stay in contact with, said, “Danny did a great job with Oh Holy Night — one of my favorite X-mas songs.”
(I was surprised how many people mentioned that Oh Holy Night was a favorite.)
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25 weeks, Connie?!? I’m patient but not THAT patient! LOL!
Nice to hear that people enjoyed OHN, Lizzy! It’s a stunning performance for sure!
Hey GokeyGuy, welcome back! Hope you had a nice holiday!
Connie, I think Arbitron is right. Since I started listening to country radio stations, I had noticed that established artists seem to move up the chart of lot faster (regardless of the quality of the song, especially vis-a-vis songs by new or unknown artists); that (at least generally) uptempo songs do better; and that a lot more male country artists are played than female artists. It may be that there are just more of them (male country singers), or there may be some other dynamic going on. But although the female artists are fewer in number, the big-name ones (Carrie, Reba) do very well for themselves.
And yes, generally it does take a while to climb the charts. I think Lady A’s songs were out quite a while before they reached the top of the charts. (As popular as Lady A is, it’s easy to forget that they are a fairly new group.)
Erika, did you mean me (about the reaction to OHN)?
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Sorry, Ellen! Yeah, I meant you! I had Lizzy in my mind when I was typing that, sorry!
Correct me if I am wrong, but the only Tweets I have seen from the Idols supporting Danny’s single are from Michael and Matt?
Why hasn’t Danny gotten the support from people like Adam, Kris, Allison, Anoop – especially when he has always supported them?
Good question, Surf. Who knows?
I think another reason Danny’s digital downloads aren’t that high is because his fans are less likely to purchase music on iTunes than they are to buy his album. Kris, Adam and Allison all have more teenage fans who buy all their music digitally. Danny’s fans tend to run older than Allison and Kris’s fans and his middle aged fans probably are waiting for his album to come out.
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Hello everyone!
Flew in to Milgokey at 7:15pm tonight; the flight attendant said “Welcome to Milwaukee, or what we call The North Pole”. They were based in Atlanta, so I suppose it seemed cold to them! It was actually pretty cold most of the time in Atlanta too.
So much to catch up on!! Videos to watch, pictures to download (Erika, those pics from today are stunning!), tennis balls to whack! BTW, Helio, great response about Danny being smokin hot to light up the stage- GREAT comeback! Mighty1 you must be very surprised at the nice people here who tolerate you- Danny fans are the nicest, its true.
Internet stuff: Ellen, I would sign up for Gmail also and use that to comment. I use either my husbands account or my work email because I too, don’t want the fangirly gravatar showing up.
And I would highly recommend anyone having problems- please, try Mozilla Foxfire. IE seriously sucks; my sister had it and the few times I stole away to post it would shut down on me; took forever to load and when I clicked on a link and then back arrowed to get back to the site it takes you to the first post; not where you left off like Foxfire does. I switched after a customer rep at Amazon told me to do it when I couldn’t order something with IE. It immediately worked with Foxfire.
Leaving now for sleepy sleepy. Still feeling good about 8,000.
Yup, Helio, that would be me you are describing. I never downloaded a song B.D. — before Danny! Normally I would just wait for the album to come out.
And don’t forget that 50% of country music fans (I’m not talking about Idol fans now) don’t have Internet access.
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miss ya’ll ladies… great news about Danny’s single track sales. I hope it will progress in the coming days…
is there any news on Danny’s MBD music video? when will it showed?
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I think 8,000 is pretty respectable too. Its as much as Allison had with all her young teenies, once you take away the 1000 downloads of that Kradison fan. (Wow, $4000 just to support them; pretty nice, I’d say).
I do have the feeling there are a lot of Danny fans who don’t even know he has a single out. Unless you are on a fan site or twitter (in other words, hard core) you wouldn’t know.
Lizzy, is right, though, we can’t be complacent, have to keep requesting our radio stations. Also, Danny could wind up like Adam, where his album is doing better than his 3 singles so far.
I found that very interesting that the huge Danny fan DJ Lizzy got to play MBD for said it was “Against the rules”. Perhaps Sony hasn’t gone for adds everywhere yet. Maybe they have a deliberate plan of going very slowly, def. trying to treat him like a new artist.
helio, you just described me in your message too! Only reason I have MBD as an mp3 is because it came as a package deal with the pre-order of Danny’s album on DGO!
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Hello all–good to hear that Danny sold 8000 downloads–gosh with only 20 fans (per the haters on other sites) that means each of us bought 400 copies (I’m a slacker I only bought 4…..but I preordered the album, too.)
Great comments to Mighty, Helio. This site makes me smile. So, for the uneducated: me. How do I get foxfire???? I miss all the cool stuff Erika puts on this site.
Since it was kinda of a slow news day when I lurked at 4PM, i went out to the May archives–man, was it a busy time on Iheart! I don’t think I started lurking until June and didn’t post until late August (in preparation for the Madison AI live show). I’m going to burn up some of my 5g of internet by doing some cruising through the archives.
Erika, like you, I burn up my internet limit by the &&^%ads when ever I refresh my page–but I understand its the price of a cool site like this.
Welcome back, Pam. Were your ears burning last night? Maryann & I were obsessing over hot danny photos and I used a few of you as my barometer of “naughty” from “the days” of the AI tour. By comparison we were very, very tame.
Happy eve of New Years eve, all! Jan
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Hi GG; haven’t seen you in a while; hope you had a nice holiday!
I def. think Adam fans helped out Allison with her sales. This is interesting;
http://tweeter.faxo.com/Best_American_Idol_Ever
A fan at another site posted it -its another tweeter contest (groan, yes, I am so burnt out on those!. Esp. since I heard about all the cheating that goes on- a bunch of Adam fans said how they unplug their computer boxes so they can continually vote!) But anyway, my point is that Allison is way up there; at #4- now how can that be when she doesn’t have a ton of twitter followers and certainly not enough fans to keep her on the charts at all. I just think she gets a lot of help from some Adam fans. Which is nice; but just keeping digital sales in perspective.
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Shirl! Do you mean you didn’t use my easy to download itunes instructions to fork out $1.29 for My Best Days!!!
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Hi Jan!
Lol, no my ears were too cold to burn! Yes, its true, we were much “spicier” as Latrece would call it back then. GG can attest to that; we had to explain some of our naughty expressions to him.
I think if you just google Mozilla Foxfire it will get you to their site and it should have a place to click on “Free download”. If I recall, it was fast and easy. I have IE and Mozilla Foxfire on my computer, but just use the Foxfire.
What does “burning up” Internet limit mean? Both Erika and Jannikas made some mention of this.
If you Google, I think it’s Mozilla Firefox, NOT Foxfire? A techie coworker always corrects me about that!
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Ellen, Erika and Pam, I’m back and I just got back from loading Mozilla’s firefox! It was very quick and EVERTHING that I love about this site is back! (Well except John (PuertoRockin) and Danny lurking, perhaps….)
Somehow I think I’m showing my age by getting it confused with foxfire…..
jan
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Congrats Jan, isn’t it great that we have all these helpers that help us techno challenged out? Erika is the queen! And find all the Danny info for us? We are so lucky.
Ellen, yes, its Mozilla Foxfire. Burning up internet I think is when you only have so many minutes of Internet time on your plan. Carole always mentions that too.
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Ellen, I don’t have unlimited internet use. Every video I download (including annoying, unwanted ads) uses a certain amount of MB. I only get 5 GB of internet use per month. With the radio tour and AI tour, there was so much video to watch I got very close to having to pay surcharges on my monthly bill. I have had to leave my computer off sometimes to “catch” back up to a normal usage for the time of the month. Its hard to do on a danny addiction—I have used the public library’s internet when I can’t fight it and want to stay on budget, LOL. jan
Okay, Pam, that’s kinda what I thought “burning up” meant. I think I have unlimited usage, although I also think that if I was on the Internet 24/7, my ISP would not be happy and would probably be contacting me.
Jannikas, also thanks for the clarification! I probably need to pay more attention to my own use, just on general principle.
Pam, I didn’t download MBD from itunes because there is nothing to download it TO. Certainly not my laptop with it’s cheezy little speaker. And I don’t have an iphone or any kind of MP3 player. I’m just not into or used to digital downloads. I want hard copies of all my music such as CD format. Unfortunately there are no CD singles anymore, which is such a pity.
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Shirl, I bought some great Bose headphones because my laptop has pitiful speakers, too. Downloaded music sounds great if you have good headphones…..(am I trying to sell some Gokey singles? Yes I am. Shameless, I know.) Jan
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I know, Shirl, I was just teasing you, since you were brave enough to admit not buying it
That is one of the things we’ve discussed, that Danny fans are either older or are not on the internet and that is why his sales could be better. And like Lizzy said, Danny fans can be complacent (one reason he was voted off top 3 week); Adam has many fans who buy the single many, many times just to support him.
Album sales are more important than single sales, and I hope Danny fans come through for him.
But single sales help drive album sales, so hopefully Danny will go up on the charts from single purchasers once he gets more radio play.
Hi everyone.
Pjgvet
You bring up good points about single sales and album sales, they are both very important. And I think that a lot of Danny’s fans aren’t online, and might be older too.