Three country artists who made the finals on The Voice have new music out. Here’s a bit on new songs from Emily Ann Roberts, Andrew Sevener and Josh Gallagher. Emily Ann Roberts, the Season 9 runner-up, released “Infinity” on Friday and the song almost immediately landed on the Apple Music Top 200. Emily wrote the…
Three former American Idol standouts — Ava August, Allegra Miles and Beane — have new music out. Here’s more about their releases. Ava August, Top 12 on Season 19 of American Idol, dropped a single called “Beauty Queen” on Friday. Says Ava: “I wrote this song when I was 16 years old during the pandemic…
Corey Kent from Season 8 of The Voice has released his first album as a Sony Music artist. It’s a 10-track project called “Blacktop” and features his signature hit, “Wild As Her,” which now has nearly 100 million streams on Spotify. As for that album name, Corey explains on his social media. “When the world…
Catie Turner from American Idol Season 16 has a new single out, just embarked on a U.S. tour and will be dropping an EP this week. The 23-year-old finished seventh on Idol and is now signed to Atlantic Records. The new single is “Hometown.” Catie is from Langhorne, Pa., in the Philly suburbs, and the…
American Idol’s Top 3 released music videos Thursday for the singles they released in conjunction with the Season 21 finale. And Iam Tongi and Colin Stough are still charting, two weeks after their songs were released. That’s especially good news for Iam, who was still number 51 on the overall Apple music singles chart…
David Archuleta released an uplifting new pop single called “Up” on Friday. And the song almost immediately found its way into the Apple Music Top 200. David, runner-up on American Idol Season 7, came out in 2021 after years of struggling with his sexual identity. “‘Up’ is about hitting what we feel is rock bottom…
Iam Tongi has announced his first major show since winning American Idol. And he might want to check with Colin Stough to see if he can borrow that cowboy that he tried on backstage at the Idol finale. Iam will perform at Beach It!, a three-day country music festival being held in Virginia Beach…
Colin Stough won the annual American Idol encore vote. That means the third-place finisher on Season 21 will appear on Live with Kelly and Mark Tuesday moring. He’ll get to perform his Idol-released single, “I Still Talk to Jesus,” on the show. After Iam Tongi was crowned the Idol winner and Megan Danielle came…
The DailyMail interviewed American Idol champ Iam Tongi about what it called “THAT rigging scandal” — a suggestion that Colin was somehow unfairly robbed of an Idol victory. The 18-year-old handled the question liked a pro, saying: ‘Everyone gets their own opinion. Everyone gets to think what they think. So, it’s fine.’ ‘My dad…
That look of shock that crossed Gina Miles’ face when she won The Voice Tuesday night was genuine, she confirmed in multiple interviews since. “I was really surprised,” the 19-year-old Sacramento resident told her hometown TV station Wednesday. “I’m still surprised.” Heck, back when the blind auditions were held, Gina didn’t even think she’d earn…
