According to Nielson Soundscan, American Idol season 4 winner Carrie Underwood has inched ahead of the original Idol Kelly Clarkson to achieve the status of the top selling Idol record. Carrie Underwood’s Some Hearts has sold 5,813,400 units (21,000 units this week), compared with Kelly Clarkson’s second album Breakaway at 5,813,200 (6,000 units this week).
Carrie’s newest single So Small, the first off her next album, debuted on country music stations yesterday. Meanwhile, Kelly retains the current top Idol position on the charts at #15 on the Billboard chart with her current Album, My December, which has sold a total of 536,000 copies.
This is only in the US, include WORLD WIDE SALES. If you check that you’ll see Kelly has sold millions more. So officially Kelly still has the top selling idol record selling over 11 million copies of Breakaway while carrie only sold 8 million.