American Idol is back at it, posting videos designed to give us insight into our favorite contestants from Season 11. The most recent series: The contestants in 60 seconds, chock full of all sorts of interesting information such as their favorite day, season and ice cream flavor. OK, a couple of the questions go deeper…
The cut from 11 contestants to 10 is almost always the cruelest on American Idol. Finish 10th on the show, and you go home for a while, but return for the summer tour and benefit from the exposure and paycheck that go along with it. Finish 11th, and you just go home. Shannon Magrane finished 11th…
I pointed this out in Thursday’s live blog, but thought it deserves repeating: The disqualification of Jermaine Jones made Idol history of sorts. He was only the second Idol contestant I can recall being disqualified from the competition after the finals began, Corey Clark from Season 2 being the other. But it also marked the…
Original Idol Kelly Clarkson reached the peek of another Billboard chart this week with her latest single, “Stronger.” The song is now number one among pop songs, jumping past Adele’s “Set Fire to the Rain.” That makes five different singles charts “Stronger” has topped. Last month, it became Kelly’s first-ever number one on the dance/club…
