Carrie Underwood entered Wednesday’s CMT Music Awards with five nominations, more than any other artist. She wound up winning just twice. But near the end of the show, she was on stage accepting the biggest honor of the night — Video of the Year for “Good Girl.” The song is the first single off her…
The CMT Music Awards air Wednesday night on CMT, and the awards won’t be the only reason for American Idol fans to tune in. Weeks ago, Carrie Underwood was announced as one of the show’s featured performers. Now we find out that Casey James, Lauren Alaina and Scotty McCreery will perform on the Nationwide Stage,…
Update: Pia Toscano did it again. She sang the national anthem Monday night and the Kings won, 4-0, to take a 3-0 lead in the Stanley Cup finals. Pia has performed the anthem before every Kings’ home playoff game this year, and the team is on the verge of winning its first-ever Stanley Cup. Game…
The flow of new Idol music will slow considerably now that the hype of Season 11 has passed, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t a few musical treats to look forward to. For instance, we’re just weeks away from that debut album from Casey Abrams, he of the dramatic Season 10 save, he of the…
Charity Vance grabbed my attention a year ago with a splendid little pop tune called “Icing.” It was released about the same time the singer-songwriter from Little Rock, Ark., appeared on Season 9 of Idol, where she dared sing “Summertime” during the audition round … and still earned a golden ticket to Hollywood. She failed…
Three years ago, country singer-songwriter Brent Keith appeared to be one of the most promising contestants on American Idol. Then came that year’s Top 36 semifinal mess. If you don’t recall, that was the year Idol split the semifinalists into groups of 12 and had a different group perform each week, with voters selecting three…
I certainly won’t get my hopes up too high, because we’ve heard about possible changes to American Idol in the past that never came to fruition. Everyone remember Nigel Lythgoe’s idea of cutting the results shows to 30 minutes? But the New York Times is reporting that the company that owns the rights to American…
Phillip Phillip’s might not think “Home” is representative of the type of music he’ll record post-Idol, but the song is a hit on Billboard. The song debuted at number 10 on the Hot 100 this week with 278,000 downloads. That’s the best performance for an Idol coronation song since David Cook of Season 7 landed…
After three weeks, there’s someone other than a former American Idol contestant at the top of the Billboard 200. John Mayer’s new CD, “Born and Raised,” bumped Adam Lambert’s “Trespassing” from atop the chart tracking the hottest selling albums in the land, according to MTV. In fact, Adam tumbles all the way to number 11…
When you think of former American Idol contestants whose music would be suitable for dance remixes, Kris Allen doesn’t pop instantly to mind. But the Season 8 winner just released an EP of six remixes of his uplifting “The Vision of Love” single. What makes this remix EP different is that two of the tracks…
