The two most successful singers to graduate from American Idol and two Season 10 judges will be part of an all-star lineup for an iHeart Radio Music Festival announced this morning. The festival will take place Sept. 23 and Sept. 24 in Las Vegas. It will be streamed live on iHeartRadio.com, via an iHeartRadio app…
Plan on trying out to become the Season 11 American Idol? If so and you live in southcentral Pennsylvania, this week marks your most convenient opportunity. American Idol is stopping at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh on Friday for its fourth round of Season 11 auditions. Thousands already turned out for auditions in St. Louis, San…
Great news for Kimberley Locke fans. The third-place finisher from season two asked fans to help pick her new single from among three songs last month. Now she’s decided to release all three songs, plus a fourth previously unreleased song, as an EP next Tuesday (July 19) on her I AM Entertainment label. Fans picked…
Former American Idol contestant Jackie Tohn has written her last song for Platinum Hit. The season eight semifinalist got the boot on the sixth episode of the Bravo songwriting competition Friday night, after what might have been the contestants’ most difficult challenge yet. First, they had to write a hook and perform it on a…
Scotty McCreery won again this week. In the battle of the Billboard charts, that is. Last week, exclusive Walmart EPs were released featuring five songs performed on Idol by each of the top four finalists — Scotty, Lauren Alaina, James Durbin and Haley Reinhart. This week, those EPs showed up on the Billboard chart for…
The Billboard charts released Thursday didn’t exactly bring scintillating news for David Cook and his fans. The second post-Idol album from the season seven winner of American Idol debuted at number seven with sales of about 46,000 copies. That put “This Loud Morning” behind new music from Beyonce, Selena Gomez and Big Sean. And behind…
Pia Toscano fans who were outraged over her ninth-place finish on American Idol Season 10 can take a measure of satisfaction in this: She’ll be the first non-finalist to release a single. The song, “This Time,” was performed last night at the Idol summer tour opener at the Maverick Center in Utah and will be…
The Season 10 American Idols kicked off their summer tour at the Maverik Center in Utah on Wednesday night. I haven’t seen a crowd count for the show, but it got a mostly favorable review from the Salt Lake Tribune. The writer who covered the concert for the paper seemed most impressed by Stefano Langone, …
“I decided to audition this year because, really, honestly, I feel like it could change my life.” — Naima Adedapo, during her Idol audition interview — Tonight, the top 11 American Idols from Season 10 will take the stage at the Maverik Center in Utah and perform in front of thousands of people. Last week,…
Chalk up another high-profile gig for season six American Idol winner Jordin Sparks. She’s fresh off her Monday appearance in Washington, D.C., singing at the A Capitol Fourth concert televised on PBS. And today, Major League Baseball announced she’ll sing the national anthem prior to next Wednesday’s All-Star Game in Phoenix. The game will be…
