Scotty McCreery spent part of his Memorial Day at Disney World in Florida, a visit that’s become customary for the winner of American Idol. Scotty met with fans and performed his first single, “Love You This Big,” in front of the American Idol Experience attraction at the park. Speaking of “Love You This Big,” I’ll be interested to…
I initially wrote this as a list of seven tips for Season 11 back between the top 3 show and the Idol finale. But Nigel Lythgoe and company bungled things so wonderfully down the home stretch that I was able to expand the list to an even 10 tips. And some of the first seven…
At the end of each season of American Idol, I like to look back and compare my initial rankings of the finalists to where they actually finished. A deeper and better balanced cast made predicting the outcome a little more difficult this year than the past two. There wasn’t a contestant — like Adam Lambert…
A new Universal Studios theme park opened in Singapore on Friday night, and celebrities performing at the event included former Idol judge Paula Abdul and Season 2 American Idol contestant Kimberly Caldwell. Kimberly is still promoting her debut album, “Without Regret,” which deserves a better reception than it’s gotten so far. Paula, of course, is…
Kelly Clarkson might not have performed at the American Idol finale, but she had a pretty big gig this weekend — performing the national anthem at Sunday’s running of the Indianapolis 500. She was accompanied by David Foster and Seal, and this blog includes the photos the Associated Press provided from the event. Judging from…
It’s not the Billboard charts, but Scotty McCreery and Lauren Alaina are off to a good start on the music charts — the iTunes charts, this is. Scotty’s “Love You This Big” debuted at number one on the iTunes singles chart Thursday and is still there this morning. A compilation album of his Idol performances…
Season Six American Idol contestant Phil Stacey presented a free concert to a crowd at Sovereign Bank Stadium in York Friday night. The occasion was a neat little event called the Advancing Honor Rally, organized by Andrew Tome, who described himself as a guy “with no money and no name recognition,” who just wanted to…
We Are the Fallen, featuring Carly Smithson as lead singer, has parted ways with the Universal Republic record label, group member Ben Moody announced in a message on the band’s Facebook page Friday afternoon. “Over the course of the last year many changes were made at the label and it became apparent that we were…
Updated: See videos of the performances at the bottom of this blog. One of Pia Toscano’s biggest pre-Idol performances was singing the national anthem at a New York Mets game. She’ll be singing the anthem again Sunday evening at an even larger event, the National Memorial Day Concert, which will be televised on PBS at…
How much did the Idol finalists earn? The Associated Press has answered the question, because it obtained draft contracts an L.A. judge had to approve since both Scotty McCreery and Lauren Alaina are minors. According to the draft contract, Scotty will receive $250,000 in advances for winning the show and recording his first album. Lauren…
