A lot of people hae already bought.  To get decent seats to any concert these days you have to buy during the pre-order or when the show goes on sale.

I think a lot of people are forgetting that half the contestants who finished above Colton have either been in the bottom 3 multiple times or Jessica received the judges save. Of course if there was no save, Jessica might never have been in the bottom. People give her the benefit of the doubt that she’s one of the most popular (and I agree), but people will ignore Colton having everything she had up until her elimination (never being in b3, even more FB and twitter followers, good yt views, and high Itunes sales. Even people here admit Colton’s Itunes were better than Elise, Skylar and Hollie.
I don’t think Colton is the most popular, but I do think he is more popular than some of those who finished above him. And with the demos of those who go to the tour, a lot of whom are young girls or middle aged women, Colton would appeal to these demos, especially more so than Pia, who was criticized all season about stage presence. People here don’t like his voice, but I haven’t heard much criticism about his stage presence, which is huge in a concert.
Again, especially with Jimmy’s exit interview about Colton, he was not a huge Colton fan. If he is getting special treatment, it is because they think he’ll be a draw.
I guess we’ll just have to agree to disagree, but I don’t think placement order means as much when people are just scraping by each week to pass off Colton. Jessica, Phillip, and even Joshua had strong runs and sailed through each week without being in the bottom 3 much or at all.  The others struggled more. We don’t know the vote totals each week. Nigel later admitted Pia was mid-pack each week. Don’t know about Colton. But him being in the bottom one week could be considered a fluke. When people are constantly in the b3 each week, I think that says more.
We don’t even know the setlist. It is not the Colton show yet!

No one will ever convince me that James didn’t get a slap on the wrist, and reduced stage time on last year’s tour when he didn’t play nice with Jimmy and Interscope. Combine that with pulling his songs off of itunes early and then pimping the hell out of Pia and it’s pretty obvious what they were doing.
Thing is I don’t blame Pia, and feel sorry for her now the way things turned out so far.
A year later and she still doesn’t have an album out and James has sold over 100k and counting with Windup, successfully touring, and starting on album #2 in Sept.
Water under the bridge.

Since there was a lot of talk about DeAndre and tour, he elaborates a bit here.  It’s hard to hear though.  One solo number, but consolation he makes it sound like he’ll be on stage a lot.  He didn’t specify number of group numbers or duos/trios he might a part of, but he’s doing background vocals for at least 6 numbers.  Kid can harmonize, so he won’t be totally Paul’d.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YBLA1vRfQgw#!

LOL! People are not buying tickets because Colton is on the tour or because he has 3 songs? That is crazy. Most people have already bought their tickets long before the amount of songs were told yesterday, with the exception of the people who wait the day of the concert to get tickets. I have been to every Tour since season 6 – multiple times in 1 season too. I have had favorites each year but honestly, I enjoy everyone’s set, some more than others, but it’s still great entertainment for the whole family and something for everyone. And, on American Idol, nothing is as it appears anyways.

My far-fetched theory is that Jessica was never the bottom vote getter, they needed drama, they scripted it, to create controversy, used the “save” and Colton was not the bottom vote-getter either. I think they knew his appeal & Piano Man’s performance sealed it and knew they would sign him then, so who would be the next shocker to go and create more controversy? Colton. American Idol the show, is all about TV ratings, the music end of it has less to do with the way people finish, although I think the votes & iTunes sales are weighed together.

They finally started the tour.  Hope it goes well for them.  I think its a good thing Deandre isnt doing falsetto on tour.  He got bashed severely by fans for falsetto, so I’m surprised some are acting shocked.  Deandre was my most favorite cause I like his voice most, but its his natural voice in middle register that I think is best, and he used that in Stevie’s song “Master blaster” which is his best performance to me. I like his natural high too, register but I’m not crazy about him doing super high falsetto. 

Jessica was my second favorite.  Its good idea for her to be mainstream Pop/R&B like Rihanna and Beyonce and not just pure R&B.  Colton was one of my favorites too.  Melodic pop-rock Christian music will work for him.  That’s a lot of solos for Colton on tour though – he better have some really good songs to sing.  The winner and runner up are probably not doing more solos than him.