Idol Headlines for 07/31/11

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American Idols Live heads to the Scottrade Center, St. Louis, MO

Aaron Kelly at the Somonauk Summer Fest in Somonauk, IL
Danny Gokey at the Cam-Plex Center, Gillette, WY
Kellie Pickler at the Freedom Festival, Kansas City, MO
Phil Stacey at Worship on the Waterfront, Grand Haven, MI
Ruben Studdard at Sports Vision Restaurant, Huntsville, AL
More at IdolStages

Read Melinda Doolittle’s recap of last night’s Idols Live show in Nashville! The writeup includes photos of her with Idols and band members too. Read it all right HERE.

Adam Lambert tweets, “#outlawsoflove is NOT my first single. It will def be a track on my upcoming album, but the first single is still a mystery!!”

Download the brand-new Brad Paisley/Carrie Underwood music video for their hit country single “Remind Me” at iTunes HERE

Chris Daughtry tweets, “Thinking about putting all our albums (new one included) out on vinyl. Thoughts? Any interest?”

Nigel Lythgoe tweeted yesterday, “Happy National Dance Day everyone. I was at Magic Mountain this morning with Robin, Nappytabs and Katie Holmes. Off to Denver for #Idol now.”

Nigel Lythgoe is in Denver auditioning American Idol 11 ticket holders, I presume, and he’s tweeting away!, “It’s hot in Denver. Unfortunately the ‘heat’ is being brought by the weather and not the talent!!!”

Adam Lambert's photo This is how one travels in Montreal. Rent a bike!! Economical, Environmental, and mental.
Adam Lambert on WhoSay
Adam Lambert tweets, “This is how one travels in Montreal. Rent a bike!! Economical, Environmental, and mental.”

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Scotty McCreery In Nashville

A lot of kids your age are getting ready for school, so what are your plans for this year? I’ll be doing school on the road, my mom is a certified teacher, and she won’t cut me any slack. She’ll be my tutor, but I’ll still be enrolled with my school back home. So I’ll turn in papers with them. Once the tour is done, I’ll head back, because it’s my senior year, I don’t want to miss out on any memories.

College plans? I’m hoping to go into college right out of high school like any normal kid, hopefully Belmont in Nashville so I can study music while I’m doing the career. I’m young, so I have a lot to learn.

Read more at Country Countdown

Aw. Melinda Doolittle tweeted this pic with Casey Abrams from the Idols Live after party. She attended the concert with Mandisa! Top 24 contestant, Kendra Chantelle was there too.  Here’s a photo of Pia Toscano with Mandisa and Melinda HERE.

Area teens audition for ‘American Idol’

— CUMBERLAND — Two area teens received the experience of a lifetime when they auditioned for “American Idol” at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh.

Jessika VanMeter, 17, of Maysville and Nick Cummings, 16, of Keyser tried out for the Fox reality singing competition hosted by Ryan Seacrest and judged by celebrities Steven Tyler, Randy?Jackson and Jennifer Lopez.

Read more at times-news.com

Singing the praises of Bob Dylan

With all that mind, we’ve asked some musicians with local ties to weigh in on Dylan, given that his artistic shadow is cast so far and so deep that you generally can’t come of age as a songwriter post-1961 and not be heavily influenced by his work.

Crystal Bowersox – Singer/songwriter from Elliston, Ohio, who was the 2010 American Idol runner-up:

“When I think of Dylan, I think of poetry, activism, and folk with a function. Saying his name alone is enough to conjure up the memories of a not-so-distant time, when apathy didn’t seem to peek its lazy head into the hearts of our youth. Dylan was not necessarily ahead of his time; he was in the perfect place and time to inspire an entire generation, and many generations to come.”

Read more at Toledo Blade

Jennifer Hudson, Mary J. Blige Support Russell Simmons at Art for Life Benefit

Jennifer Hudson brought the house down for a good cause. The Grammy-winning singer lent her powerful pipes to Russell Simmons’ 12th Annual Art for Life Benefit at the music mogul’s estate in the Hamptons on Saturday. The Def Jam founder was joined by his ex-wife Kimora Lee Simmons, brothers Rev Run and Danny Simmons, nieces Angela and Vanessa Simmons, and the rest of his family. VIPs including Mary J. Blige, Taraji P. Henson, and L.A. Reid bid on unique items to help raise money for his non-profit organization and Miri Ben-Ari entertained guests by playing the violin.

See the photos at Rap-Up

‘So You Think You Can Dance?’ Contestants Head Out To Dodger Stadium

Taking some time off from rehearsing, the six remaining contestants on Season 8 of hit show So You Think You Can Dance? hit the ball park Friday night.

Caitlynn Lawson, Melanie Moore, Sasha Mallory, Marko Germar, Ricky Jamie and Tadd Gadduang joined the So You Think You Can Dance? All-Stars (who were announced on last week’s show) Allison Holker, tWitch, Neil Haskell, Robert Roldan and Comfort Fedoke at Dodger Stadium to watch the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 9-5.

See the photos at RadarOnline

Rihanna set to ‘stun X Factor boot camp hopefuls’
Producers of the ITV1 series surprised viewers with the wild card twist last year, but are apparently planning to use their shock tactics earlier in the new season.
Rihanna is set to return to The X Factor (PA) Rihanna is set to return to The X Factor (PA)

With Simon Cowell, Cheryl Cole and Dannii Minogue having left the show, they have called in Rihanna to add some star quality.

The S&M singer will perform for the contestants at the boot camp, but the hopefuls will then be asked to follow her on stage and audition for the judges again, reports the Daily Star Sunday.

Read more at the Metro

Simon Cowell will judge both UK and US X Factor finals

The 51-year-old has shocked ITV1 bosses in his decision – which will mean that he gets to be a part of both the American and UK X Factor finals.

‘Originally he wanted to leave the UK show and just be behind the scenes but now he has changed his mind and wants to appear live and give the contestants his verdicts’ a source told The People.

Read more at the Metro

 
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  • EmyR

    I don’t have the link to the article about Carrie’s worldwide album sales, but it was reported on one of the country music sites earlier this year. I believe it was around the time that sites were reporting on Carrie surpassing Kelly’s US numbers.

    According to Wikipedia, Carrie has sold so far 12.3 million albums in the US and 14 million worldwide, so she’s sold about 1.7 outside the US. She also has sold 18.5 million singles in the US, 22 million worldwide, which may be where you were getting the 4 million difference from. They site a Billboard article as well as Nielsen SoundScan.

    Her numbers are always super impressive.

  • LongKissGoodnight

    Ammm… Not sure I want to step into this conversation.
    But since we so often hear about the astronomical amount of money poured by labels into promotion of singles in US, how come no one is comparing the costs of breaking A.I. alumni in U.S. to the costs of breaking X-factor alumni in UK?
    I actually would love to hear about that, since I do not know much about how the game is played in UK.

  • Valentin432

    THe UK X Factor is an extremely successfull show, the ratings are massive for the size of the UK and what’s more impressive, it has grown quite steadily since its first season.

    As far as success of the contestants go, I believe AI has had more success stories but the X factor has had some good ones too.

    The question is wheter the show can succeed in the US market by reproducing the exact same format and wheter the competition with AI and The Voice will hinder it.

  • windmills

    It was an Entertainment Weekly article that said Carrie’s sold 16 million albums worldwide. I remember being surprised by that, it seemed a little high. 14 million worldwide makes more sense IMO. No idea what their source was and a quick google isn’t pulling up the article now. It was an article mentioning sales for Rihanna, Gaga, Kelly, Taylor Swift, and Carrie.

    Carrie’s recent time in Australia was a promo tour (her 1st there) promoting a deluxe version of Play On that has spent at least 2 weeks at #1 on the ARIA country albums chart and I believe has peaked at #14 on the ARIA top albums chart (the regular version had peaked in the 80s I think). She has had multiple top 10 hits on the Australian country charts. I’m not sure about her highest peaking song on the ARIA Top Songs chart but it’s probably Undo It which is on Australian radio now as the single promoting the deluxe version of Play On.

    Carrie has said her promo tour in Australia was meant to set up a future concert tour (IMO moreso than generate a lot of album sales). There’s a chance the initial plans for that will be unveiled in the next couple of days with the revelation of the headliners of March 2012′s CMC Rocks The Hunter festival.

  • Kitwana

    LongKissGoodnight says:
    07/31/2011 at 10:03 pm
    Ammm… Not sure I want to step into this conversation.
    But since we so often hear about the astronomical amount of money poured by labels into promotion of singles in US, how come no one is comparing the costs of breaking A.I. alumni in U.S. to the costs of breaking X-factor alumni in UK?
    I actually would love to hear about that, since I do not know much about how the game is played in UK.

    As far as I know, there is no publicly available information about how much is spent to break an Idol artist in U.S. I’ve always said it is RIDICULOUS to compare sales without comparing the expenses used to generate those sales. There was the one example of how much it would cost to make and promote Gwyneth’s Paltrow’s new album and as I recall, the sum was pretty large. It would be interesting to have a top 10 list of the most expensive Idol first albums to produce and market. That would make for some interesting conversation.

  • tripp_ncwy

    Awwwwwwww! :)

    emilygassman:
    This lady’s car broke down and every guy in the car.. @KrisAllen @Brunsonbear and @ramsyshuffield stopped to help! I have wonderful friends!

  • Ratna12

    emilygassman:
    This lady’s car broke down and every guy in the car.. @KrisAllen @Brunsonbear and @ramsyshuffield stopped to help! I have wonderful friends!

    Awww indeed.
    Is Kris still in LA ? He wrote a lot lately, so I assume he is still in LA although he wrote a lot too back in Nashville. It’s a blur now. He needs to stop writing and record something, cause I’m getting impatient. :)

  • http://MJO judes

    Carrie’s recent time in Australia was a promo tour (her 1st there) promoting a deluxe version of Play On that has spent at least 2 weeks at #1 on the ARIA country albums chart and I believe has peaked at #14 on the ARIA top albums chart (the regular version had peaked in the 80s I think). She has had multiple top 10 hits on the Australian country charts

    Thanks Windmills I probably used the wrong wording before but yes she was here to do some promotion for the album & future widespread tour here but did perform here in a few places. Carrie is definitely well known in Country circles here[ my husband us a big country music fan ]& yes for a country artist she has had good sales here. The success of Keith Urban & Lady A concerts here to more mainstream audiences probably also bodes well for future concerts .

    Oh ,Kris & his friends are good samaritans aren’t they helping out someone in need.

  • girlygirl

    Ratna12

    Kris is still in L.A.

    Very cool of him and his friends to help that lady out when her car broke down. Living in L.A., I can say that people stopping to help doesn’t seem to happen all that often…

  • girlygirl

    won’t he be surprised if she actually found him?

    krisallen

    #Yep. You have to find me though RT @teamaims: @KrisAllen I’m stranded in LA because my flight got canceled. Can we hang out?

    ETA — Kris is tweeting away tonight .

    LOL — nice picture :)

    KrisAllen

    Hows this RT @mylifeback: @KrisAllen you need to take a pic with a cowboy hat on. js. http://lockerz.com/s/125587881

  • Barometz02

    I don’t have the link to the article about Carrie’s worldwide album sales, but it was reported on one of the country music sites earlier this year. I believe it was around the time that sites were reporting on Carrie surpassing Kelly’s US numbers.

    I don’t really believe that she has sold over 4 million albums outside of the US. She has never had an international hit song and she is still unknown in Europe.

  • http://MJO judes

    Ha that cowboy photo with Kris & co is funny- Torris looks lost in his hat!

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