How much of a help is being fresh off American Idol in selling albums? Or having a massive hit like “Home” handed to you as a lead single? Phillip Phillips found out over the past week. His sophomore album, “Behind the Light,” landed at number seven on the Billboard 200 today. According to the site,…
Megan Ruger from Season 6 of The Voice is raising money for her first EP. And she wants to reach her Kickstarter goal so badly that she’s willing to give away her dress, her shoes and her first guitars. Megan was 26 when she auditioned for The Voice with Pink’s “Just Like a Pill” and…
On Thursday, Billboard will release its latest music charts and we’ll find out how the public reacted to Phillip Phillips’ new album, released last week. But below I’ve embedded snippets of reviews for “Behind the Light.” Most of which are middling. You’ll recall that Phillips’ first album, “The World from the Side of the Moon,”…
So, before the Season 6 finals, I posted a blog called “5 things The Voice did wrong in Season 6.” Then producers botched the last two weeks of the season so badly, I just had to expand the list to 10 as a tribute to their ineptitude.
The day after finishing second on American Idol, Jena Irene Asciutto was already talking about a debut album. She’s not certain what it will sound like, she admits. After all, her music has evolved over the past three years and is still evolving. But the 17-year-old Michigan gal who needed a wild card to make…
The ratings are in from this week’s singing show season finales, and they aren’t good, folks. The Season 6 finale of The Voice drew 11.7 million viewers, according to The Associated Press. That’s down 25 percent from the 15.6 million who watched Danielle Bradbery snag the Season 4 crown. But do keep in mind that…
Ryan Seacrest and the American Idol finalists were not joking last night. In what has to be an Idol first, Season 13 winner Caleb Johnson is taking Season 13 runner-up Jena Irene to her prom.
American Idol suffered through a somewhat uneven Season 13. But the show put on a very entertaining finale, leading up to the crowning of Idol’s new champ, Caleb Johnson.
Ryan Seacrest billed it as the battle between the wild child and the wild card. On Wednesday night, the wild child won.
