Former American Idol contestant Jackie Tohn survived to write another song Monday night on Platinum Hit, but only by a whisker. When the show ended, Jackie and Nashville singer-songwriter Karen Waldrup were on the hot seat. Karen got sent home with this none-too-ringing endorsement from straight-shooting head judge Kara DioGuardi: “For a girl from Nashville,…
The top 11 American Idols are apparently busy making plans for the upcoming summer tour. The opening date is now less than a month away — July 6 at the Maverick Center in Utah — and the Idols discuss their tour plans in a series of videos you can watch at American Idol. com. Many…
You could say Katharine McPhee’s career has taken a strange twist, in a wonderful sort of way. Let’s review. First, the brunette beauty goes blond to spice up the release of her second album. Which, quite frankly, bombed. Now brunette again, Katharine is about to star in a new TV show about her aspirations to…
Other American Idol contestants from Season 5 steal the headlines — Daughtry, Kellie Pickler, occasionally Katharine McPhee (more on her soon). But Mandisa Lynn Hundley, who performs as simply “Mandisa,” has quietly become the most successful Christian/gospel artist to graduate from the show. And she has something to celebrate this week: Her first number one…
The headline of this blog pretty much tells it all. But let’s face it, the tumble was expected. People were not going to keep downloading Scotty McCreery’s “Love You This Big” or Lauren Alaina’s “Like My Mother Does” at the same blistering pace in the immediate aftermath of the American Idol finale. And so Scotty…
Justin Bieber denied Kelly Clarkson her first CMT Music Award on Wednesday night. Both were nominated in the category of Collaborative Video of the Year; Kelly for her hit duet with Jason Aldean, “Don’t You Want to Stay.” But the CMT Award went to Bieber and Rascal Flatts for “That Should be Me.” Carrie Underwood…
If you like American Idol and haven’t watched The Voice yet, you really should give it a try. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised. The show has become a hit in its own right. And, if we’re lucky, it will drag Nigel Lythgoe and company kicking and screaming out of Idol’s dark ages and force…
Tonight, the live shows and the quarterfinals begin on The Voice. And American Idol isn’t the only singing competition that likes to put its judges in the spotlight. The live show just opened with a medley of Queen hits by the mentors on The Voice — Blake Shelton, Cee Lo Green, Adam Levine and Christina…
Season 9 American Idol contestant Andrew Garcia released a smooth new single today called “Crazy.” It’s not a cover of the Aerosmith hit. Or a cover of the old Patsy Cline song. It’s an Andrew Garcia original, it’s available on iTunes and it’s the first post-Idol release from the 25-year-old from Moreno Valley, Calif. But,…
The two contestants with American Idol connections are still alive on Platinum Hit — the show where the voice doesn’t matter nearly as much as the song-writing. And where host Jewel and judge Kara DioGuardi will dish out more critiques in a minute of screen time than we got from all three Idol judges in…
