Carrie Underwood, Lee DeWyze head different directions on sales chart

Two American Idol winners, Carrie Underwood and Lee DeWyze, go in dramatically different directions on this week's Billboard 200.

Carrie, who received one of CMT's Artist of the Year awards Tuesday during the taping of a ceremony that will air Friday, saw week-to-week sales of Play On rise 53%, according to Nielsen SoundScan. That's enough to push her up five spots on the Billboard chart in a week where a lot of albums saw huge sales increases. Her Some Hearts even jumped back on to The Billboard 200.

Lee DeWyze's Live It Up, on the other hand, nearly falls out of the top 100 in its second week, its weekly sales dropping 62% and its chart position going from No. 19 to No. 93.

Fantasia also made The Billboard 200, coming in at No. 103 with Back to Me.

Several Idols -- including Carrie Underwood, Danny Gokey, Jason Castro and Chris Sligh -- had titles that more than doubled their weekly sales. Daughtry's Leave This Town, however, fell off the chart after a long run.

Idol albums

Carrie Underwood, Play On (18,000, +53%, 1.828 million total) (#66 BB200)
Lee DeWyze, Live It Up (15,000, -62%, 53,000/3,000 digital, -82%, 17,000 digital total) (#93 BB200)
Fantasia, Back to Me (12,000, +25%, 330,000) (#103 BB200)
Carrie Underwood, Some Hearts (7,000, +144%, 7.048 million) (#192 BB200)
Carrie Underwood, Carnival Ride (5,000, +172%, 3.146 million)
Daughtry, Leave This Town (5,000, +17%, 1.192 million)
Adam Lambert, For Your Entertainment (4,000, +19%, 762,000)
Jason Castro, Who I Am (2,000, +148%, 5,000)
Danny Gokey, My Best Days (2,000, +145%, 194,000)
Mandisa, Freedom (1,000, +32%, 130,000)
Mandisa, True Beauty (less than 1,000, +34%, 216,000)
Chris Sligh, The Anatomy of Broken (less than 1,000, +163%, 5,000) (#51 Billboard Heatseekers)
Kellie Pickler, Kellie Pickler (less than 1,000, +14%, 437,000)
Mandisa, It's Christmas (less than 1,000, +27%, 24,000)
Clay Aiken, Merry Christmas With Love (less than 1,000, +53%, 1.414 million)

Idol-related

Various, Now That's What I Call Music! 36 (62,000, +11%, 206,000 total) (#20 Billboard 200)
Jason Aldean, My Kinda Party (59,000, +2%, 390,000) (#22 BB200)
Various, Now That's What I Call Christmas! 4 (37,000, +27%, 96,000/2,000 digital, +252%, 3,000 digital total) (#33 BB200)
Big Time Rush, BTW (19,000, +58%, 173,000/2,000 digital, +23%, 34,000 digital total) (#63 BB200)
Glee Cast, Glee: The Music, Vol. 1 (10,000, +69%, 1.03 million/1,000 digital, +11%, 242,000 digital total) (#125 BB200)
Various, The Essential Now That's What I Call Christmas (8,000, +24%, 334,000/2,000 digital, +78%, 35,000 digital total) (#162 BB200)
Glee Cast, Glee: The Music, Vol. 2 (8,000, +74%, 780,000) (#164 BB200)
Santana, Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time (7,000, +4%, 189,000) (#168 BB200)
Various, Now That's What I Call a Country Christmas (7,000, +64%, 146,000) (#190 BB200)
Loretta Lynn and Friends, Coal Miner's Daughter (6,000, -31%, 27,000)
Elvis Presley, Elvis Presley Christmas Duets (4,000, +53%, 425,000)
Various, WOW Hits 2010 (2,000, +23%, 442,000)
Orla Fallon, Orla Fallon's Celtic Christmas (2,000, +8%, 3,000) (#10) Billboard Heatseekers)
Various, Now That's What I Call Country, Vol. 2 (1,000, +20%, 330,000)

I have digital, but not physical, sales data for the following two albums:

Katharine McPhee, Christmas Is the Time to Say I Love You (2,000 digital, +50%, 4,000 digital total)
David Archuleta, Christmas From the Heart (1,000 digital, +107%, 29,000 digital total)

Correction: An earlier version of this story did not credit Fantasia's Back to Me as having made The Billboard 200.