Audition Cities are as follows: CITY DATE VENUE Nashville, TN Saturday, July 17 Bridgestone Arena Milwaukee, WI Wednesday, July 21 Bradley Center New Orleans, LA Monday, July 26 TBD East Rutherford, NJ Tuesday, August 3 Izod Center Austin, TX Wednesday, August 11 Frank Erwin Center San Francisco, CA Thursday, August 19 AT&T Park
Both American Idol Season 9 winner Lee DeWyze and runner-up Crystal Bowersox have been signed by 19 Entertainment recently. 19E under Sony Music is home to Idol winners and promising finalists who are given recording contracts. Along with the album comes the official websites where fans can interact and get latest updates from the said [...]
The Top-Earning ‘Idols’ Forbes’ rankings of the top-earning American Idol alums are based on earnings from album sales, concerts, endorsements and other income for the year from June 1, 2009, through May 2010. No. 1: Carrie Underwood $13 million The Muskogee, Okla.-born country pop singer has won four Grammys, 14 Billboard Music Awards and five [...]
British media mogul and other investors offer to buy owner of ‘American Idol’ The owner of the “American Idol” reality TV show said Friday it has received an acquisition offer from a group of investors led by British media mogul Simon Fuller. CKX Inc. said it is evaluating the proposal and other strategic alternatives. Fuller [...]
If anyone that is reading this article remembers Muhammad Ali, you will certainly remember the rope-a-dope. Ali had used the technique in prior fights, but it became famous in his historic battle to retake the world championship from George Foreman in what was certain to be a humiliation for Ali. Ali sat back for seven [...]
The final three are the correct final three, but honestly, it has been evident for weeks there are two performers at the top of this competition. Each performer got to pick a song. and then had the judges pick a song for them. Fair enough it seems, but it gives the judges the chance to [...]
We are kind of getting bored with the this show. It appears the judges and producers cannot hear themselves. First they want people to sound current, and then then have them do Sinatra and Elvis. Now this week, they have them do movie themes? What could possibly be less relevant for new performers than to [...]
The Twain Is Leaving The Station… Corny!! Tonight was kind of a close night with respect to performance scores in our book. There was one absolute standout, but for the most part it was an evening of mediocrity. The problem is all the artists were asked to do a Shania Twain song. This led to [...]
We could have had just two contestants tonight. They would be Crystal Bowersox against the best that each of the other contestants has to offer, and Crystal would just blow them all away as if they were dust. 1. Casey James – Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow – Fleetwood Mac – Casey did leave us [...]
The theme this week was Elvis Presley. We would rather see an Elvis Costello week. The judges harp on how the artists should make themselves more current and then constantly throw dated material at them. This was kind of a boring week. Thus, the title of our article. It was an Elvis week performance that [...]