Kris Allen passes the half-million mark this week with Live Like We’re Dying. People downloaded 65,000 copies of Kris’ single last week, pushing it to nearly 551,000 total. Two other tracks — Daughtry’s No Surprise (993,000) Carrie Underwood’s Cowboy Casanova (966,000) — could surpass a million this week.

Here are the week’s top-selling Idol tracks:

Kris Allen, Live Like We’re Dying (65,000, -26 percent, 551,000 total)
Carrie Underwood, Cowboy Casanova (51,000, -38 percent, 966,000)
Kelly Clarkson, Already Gone (38,000, -39 percent, 1.106 million)
Daughtry, Life After You (36,000 -18 percent, 237,000)
Adam Lambert, Whataya Want From Me (33,000, -15 percent, 169,000)
Jordin Sparks, Battlefield (20,000, -60 percent, 1.317 million)
Carrie Underwood, Temporary Home (15,000, -7 percent, 96,000)
Daughtry, No Surprise (14,000, -42 percent, 993,000)
Adam Lambert, For Your Entertainment (13,000, -33 percent, 208,000)

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From Boyce Avenue’s Facebook Page:

We’ve been invited to play in the Philippines this February 5th and 6th, with Kris Allen. The shows will be in Manila and Cebu. It’s gonna be crazy! We can’t wait! For more details, see below …

FebFest 2010: Live in Manila on February 6 @ McKinley Hills Concert Grounds.

MusicFest 2010: Live in Cebu on February 5 @ SM Cebu.

Tickets for the shows are available at all Ticketworld outlets. Call 891-9999 for more details

Hotline for Tickets (in case of emergency):
Ticketworld: 891-9999
Ticketnet: 911-5555

websites:
Ticketworld.com.ph
ticketnet.com.ph

contact: manilaconcerts@yahoo.com

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American Idol winner Kris Allen chatted with OK! and shared a story about the last time he sang to his wife and confessed which movie makes him cry — every time!

Last Meal I’d Eat Before I Die
Probably my mom’s chicken spaghetti. And the dessert would be her dump cake. I know, it sounds bad — it’s not really even a cake. You actually use cake batter and throw some nuts on top of it. And there’s fruit in the middle and it has 18 sticks of butter in it. It’s really incredible.

Last Time I Sang To My Wife, Katy
The other night, I was doing country versions of all the songs on the album and she was laughing hysterically. She was telling me that I could never make it in country music.

Last Time I Was Mistaken For Another Celebrity
Driving down the road in L.A., during American Idol, this woman pulls up to me and looks over. I was like, “Maybe she notices me!” And then she said, “David Archuleta!” I don’t think I look like him. Whatever.

Last Time I Saw My Wife, Katy
This morning, when I left the apartment. We are living in L.A. There’s a lot of work to be done in L.A. so we are kind of staying out here right now. We’re not buying a house. I don’t know how smart that would be considering that we don’t know exactly what we’re going to do.

Last Time I was Starstruck
When I was performing at the Miami Dolphins game, I was in Marc Anthony’s suite and he was talking to me, and then he said, “Babe, come over here.” This beautiful creature turns around and it’s Jennifer Lopez. I was trying to play it really cool though.

Last Time I Hung Out with Adam Lambert
Oh man, that’s probably seriously been since the tour. I see him every once in a while here at the office. One day, I was walking down the street, and he was seriously driving down the road. And he yelled at me, we stopped and said hello to each other.

Last Time I Cried
I was in my hotel room in Miami and I started watching Marley & Me again. The first time I watched it, I cried on the plane. Then this time, I was like, “I am going to make it through.” But I didn’t — I cried like a little baby. It’s pretty sad, but it’s a good movie.

Last Romantic Date I Had with Katy
Our idea of romance is a little different from other people’s. Last night, we were tired, but we weren’t ready to go home yet. We drove up to this café that is open 24 hours and just had a small cup of coffee together and just hung out for a while at the coffee shop. We thought that was nice.

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Guess America made have spoken too soon on the injustice that left Kris Allen the winner of American Idol – because he’s got selling power!

Adam Lambert may have had a bigger first week than Allen, but the numbers for their singles are telling. Allen’s Live Like We’re Dying has been sold just under 500,000 downloads and holds the #27 spot on the Soundscan singles charts while Glambert’s For Your Entertainment has sold just over 200,000.

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Kris Allen and Cale Mills played the BB King’s Blues Club in the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas Friday night. It was his second gig there in a week–last Friday he had the whole band with him. This time is was just him and his guitarist Cale performing an acoustic set.

According to @Krinja_Signal on twitter, the set list included: “Heartless/GP”, “Before We Come Undone”, “Man in the Mirror”, “Is It Over”, “Chasing Pavements”, “Falling Slowly/With or Without You”, “Alright With Me”, “Live Like We’re Dying” and “Yesterday”.

Now some videos

Heartless/Gangsters Paradise

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Christmas came late thanks to the insanity of the MTV mailroom around the holidays. But boy, did Santa come through big time!

Although it was delivered a week ago, today I finally received a magical package from the North Pole. And when I say the North Pole, I really mean Arkansas.

Kris Allen’s adorable, beautiful, witty, hilarious, amazing, irresistible, phenomenal, Nobel Peace Prize-deserving perfect mother sent me my very own PajamaGram after catching a silly subliminal message about jammies in a recent “Kris Allen Outtakes video”. Enclosed with the Christmas-themed pajamas? A card that read, “Because you asked nicely.”

Mama Allen and I have shared a fun little Twitter friendship over the past several months. (She started it, Kris. I swear to you on my Paula Abdul “Touched By Evil” DVD.) I’ve been trying to keep our Twitter parties on the DL after Kris jokingly asked me to stop cavorting with his mom in the digital world. But you know what? I’m in love with Mama Allen and I want the world to know.

So from the bottom of my bursting heart: I thank you, Mama Allen! You helped make this Christmas season more kick-awesome than I thought was humanly possible.

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