Winning “American Idol” doesn’t necessarily translate to victory in the battle for top album sales.

The latest “Idol” champ Kris Allen knows this only too well after his just-released eponymous debut CD recorded the weakest debut for any of the contest’s winners, according to Access Hollywood.

The album, which fell short of landing on the top 10 in the Billboard charts by settling on the number 11 position, merely moved 80,000 units.

The figure will put Allen behind his runner-up, Adam Lambert, if the latter’s album titled “For Your Entertainment” sells 225,000 copies as expected.

Lambert has already surpassed Kris’ album in pre-orders in Amazon.com. Lambert’s album sat pretty at number two, while Allen’s zoomed out at a distant galaxy at number 131.

Glambert also scored more publicity post-‘Idol’ with his racy performance at the American Music Awards, wild Rolling Stone cover, and a song contribution on the “2012” soundtrack.

Still, Kris keeps cool about Adam seemingly rocketing past him in terms of achieving superstardom.

"I don't mind. I think that's how I went through the competition as well. I did my thing, and it worked out. And that's how I'm going to do in my music career. I'm just going to do my thing, what I like to do, and hopefully it works out," he said in an interview prior to his album release on Nov. 17.

He added that what’s important to him is having a debut CD that he is proud of. His 13-track collection, which was done, if not rushed, only for months and in between “Idol” tour breaks, boasts of collaborations with The Script, Jonathan Foreman of Switchfoot, Joe King of The Fray, Greg Kurstin of the Bird and the Bee, and Dr. Dre apprentice Mike Elizondo.

However, it seems that Allen’s grace and creativity under pressure failed to impress critics, who set higher expectations for his unexpected “Idol” triumph.

Mary Zeiher of Associated Content dismissed his debut as “just another album, not a statement,” due to a “lack of musical branding.”

Mikael Wood of Los Angeles Times gave “Kris Allen” one and a half stars out of four, saying that while there are stand out songs in the album, “most of the materials…tend toward a flavorless pop-rock sound that doesn't even do much to flatter Allen's appealingly rumpled vocals.”

But not all were “Heartless” to the acoustic crooner.

Jim Cantiello of MTV called “Kris Allen,” fantastic.

“Kris’ influences are loud and clear, yet the songs don’t sound like lukewarm carbon-copies or wannabe retreads.”

For “Vote for the Worst” critic “thefunnystone,” the appeal of the album is that “Kris isn’t trying too hard. He’s merely putting his spin on some pleasant music without any pretense about trying to reinvent the wheel.”

The singer-songwriter’s ability to connect with any song he takes on was also lauded by Brian Mansfield of USA Today.

“Kris definitely isn’t the type to overshare, but he is the kind of artist who’ll make sure he really connects with the songs he writes and the ones he chooses,” Mansfield wrote in his review.