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As Christmas closes in, Carrie Underwood keeps racking up the sales numbers. With an additional 153,000 units sold last week, according to Nielsen SoundScan, and a repeat airing of her holiday special, Play On will blow past the million mark this week. And Some Hearts is closing in on 7 million: It's less than 100,000 units away now, though with the post-holiday letdown coming, that next milestone may be a few months away.

From the most recent season, Adam Lambert and Kris Allen both saw double-digit gains. For Your Entertainment sold almost 59,000 units (29 percent gain) and Kris Allen rang up more than 31,000 (34 percent gain). In fact, nearly all the American Idol-related albums in the top 200 saw week-to-week sales increases last week.

Carrie Underwood, Play On (153,000, +44 percent, 997,000 total/3,000 digital, -31 percent, 104,000 digital total)
Glee Cast, Glee: The Music Vol. 2 (111,000, -36 percent, 283,000/13,000 digital, -70 percent, 58,000 digital total)
Various, Now That's What I Call Music! 32 (97,000, +25 percent, 547,000/7,000 digital total)
Glee Cast, Glee: The Music Vol. 1 (95,000, +11 percent, 521,000/7,000 digital, -27 percent, 103,000 digital total)
Adam Lambert, For Your Entertainment (59,000, +26 percent, 355,000/3,000 digital, -1 percent, 48,000 digital total)
Various, WOW Hits 2010 (37,000, +44 percent, 201,000/2,000 digital)
Rod Stewart, Soulbook (36,000, +29 percent, 288,000)
David Archuleta, Christmas From the Heart (31,000, +2 percent, 185,000/2,000 digital, -52 percent, 23,000 digital total)
Kris Allen, Kris Allen (31,000, +34 percent, 190,000/1,000, -32 percent, 32,000 digital total)
Daughtry, Leave This Town (30,000, +37 percent, 836,000/1,000 digital, +6 percent, 141,000 digital total)
Various, Now That's What I Call a Country Christmas (24,000, -3 percent, 119,000/1,000 digital, -17 percent, 7,000 digital total)
Various, Now That's What I Call Music! 31 (18,000, +48 percent, 822,000)
Various, Now That's What I Call Country Vol. 2 (15,000, +43, 198,000)
Elvis Presley, Elvis Presley Christmas Duets (15,000, +19 percent, 404,000)
Soundtrack, Hannah Montana 3 (15,000, +30, 539,000)
Kelly Clarkson, All I Ever Wanted (13,000, +39 percent, 797,000/167,000 digital total)
Allison Iraheta, Just Like You (12,000, -12 percent, 58,000)
Various, A Very Special Christmas 7 (12,000, +13 percent, 40,000/2,000 digital, -20 percent, 10,000 digital total)
Carrie Underwood, Some Hearts (11,000, +42 percent, 6.901 million)
Carrie Underwood, Carnival Ride (11,000, +38 percent, 3.028 million)
Daughtry, Daughtry (10,000, +48 percent, 4.597 million)
Kellie Pickler, Kellie Pickler (7,000, +16 percent, 360,000)
Adam Lambert, Take One (7,000, +77 percent, 31,000)
Various, Now That's What I Call Country (4,140, +58 percent, 400,000)
Mandisa, Freedom (3,000, +69 percent, 83,000)

Woooot!!!!! GO KRIS!!!! GET THAT SMASH!

Kris Allen has the best-selling track of any Idol for the second straight week, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Live Like We're Dying sold more than 40,000 copies last week, a 14 percent increase over the previous week. And the growing airplay (and continued television performances) for Adam Lambert's Whataya Want From Me seem to have connected with the buying public, as weekly downloads of the single nearly doubled, from 10,000 to 20,000.

Kris Allen, Live Like We're Dying (40,000, +14 percent, 290,000 total)
Kelly Clarkson, Already Gone (39,000, +18 percent, 918,000)
Carrie Underwood, Cowboy Casanova (33,000, +3 percent, 709,000)
Daughtry, Life After You (24,000, +19 percent, 105,000)
Adam Lambert, Whataya Want From Me (20,000, +99 percent, 52,000)
Adam Lambert, For Your Entertainment (15,000, +12 percent, 146,000)
Glee Cast, My Life Would Suck Without You (11,000, -74 percent, 56,000)
Kelly Clarkson, My Life Would Suck Without You (8,000, -8 percent, 2.166 million)

WEAKEND SALES PREVIEW: With one week remaining in the chart year, Susan Boyle and Taylor Swift are now less than 100k apart in their battle for the best-selling album of 2009. Taking a look at a preview of next week's chart, though reports are sketchier than usual, so don't bet the house on 'em:

Susan Boyle (Columbia): 600-625k
Andrea Bocelli (Decca): 350-370k
**Mary J. Blige (Geffen): 300-320k
Alicia Keys (J/RMG): 280-300k
Taylor Swift (Big Machine): 215-225k
Justin Bieber (Island/IDJ): 170-180k
Lady Gaga, The Fame (Interscope): 165-175k
Carrie Underwood (19/Arista Nashville): 155-165k
Michael Buble (Reprise): 120-130k
**Young Money (Cash Money/Universal Motown): 120-130k

Everyone is staying flat from last week pretty much b/c the Christmas week was pretty short.