Exciting news for Danny Gokey fans, because he can’t get much better exposure than this. The third-place finisher from season eight announced today that he’ll be one of the opening acts for Taylor Swift on some dates of her “Speak Now” world tour. And some tour it promises to be. U.S. and Canada dates begin…
Update: As of 7:30 p.m. Sunday EST, Scotty McCreery has taken over the Twitter follower lead with more than 12,500. The only other contestant to top 10,000 at that point was Paul McDonald with about 10,950. Rounding out the list: 3) Casey Abrams with about 9,250; 4) Lauren Alaina with about 9,000; 5) Thia Megia…
Random reflections on the American Idol semifinals … 1. Did the semifinal contestants seem surprisingly self-assured on the Idol stage this week? I thought so. I mean, I remember back to Season 8 when a bad case of stage fright clearly spelled the demise of Stevie Wright and some of that season’s other teen contestants….
As usual, FOX threw a party for its new finalists after Thursday’s episode. Here are photos from the event, supplied by The Associated Press and FOX.
The American Idol finals begin next week, and the show will celebrate by bringing back one of its most celebrated recent contestants, Adam Lambert. An Adam performance will be featured on Thursday’s results show, Idol announced this morning. Also featured will be a performance by Diddy-Dirty Money, who will be joined by Skylar Grey. All…
Job well done, Idol viewers. Job well done, Idol judges. I’m not thrilled with every choice in the final 13. But most of the picks were dead on. And they create the potential for a very special Season 10. Plus a salute to Idol producers, who pulled off a very entertaining two-hour results show. Now…
Big night, huh? We learn the identity of the five guys and five ladies viewers have voted into the finals. We learn the identity of the three wild card choices by the judges. And, somehow, Idol is going to stretch that into a two-hour program. Of course, there is that Jennifer Lopez video to watch….
In a conference call a couple of weeks ago, Nigel Lythgoe said Randy Jackson had become an anchor of the new American Idol judging panel. That he was saying more than “dawg” these days. My reaction: Let’s wait and see what happens when the performance shows start. Well, they started Tuesday night. And not only…
Mission accomplished. Billboard released its new music charts this morning. Sitting atop the country singles chart: “Don’t You Want to Stay,” the Jason Aldean-Kelly Clarkson duet. That makes Kelly just the second Idol to record a single that at some point has reached the top of the Hot 100 and country charts. Carrie Underwood was…
The hunch has been confirmed. The Season 10 farewell song heard on every Idol eliminate episode of American Idol will be performed by the last truly successful Idol winner, David Cook. One had to suspect that would be the case last week. David sent out a tweet saying he was working on something special in…
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