Idol Headlines for 12/9/12

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Clay Aiken performs at The Wilbur Theatre in Boston, MA.
Carrie Underwood performs at Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Canada.
Constantine Maroulis performs in Jekyll & Hyde The Musical at the AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas, TX.
Taylor Hicks performs at Bally’s Las Vegas in Las Vegas, NV.
Daughtry performs at the Akoo Theatre in Chicago, IL.
Mandisa performs at the Hits Deep Tour in Philadelphia, PA.
Lee DeWyze performs at Tin Angel at Serrano in Philadelphia, PA. Via AmericanIdol

Beautiful Fiasco: Adam Lambert As You’ve Never Seen Him Before

On keeping up appearances: “The way I look at it, there’s just as much pressure [on men], but men aren’t supposed to talk about it. It’s supposed to seem easy, but men, especially in the public eye, are just as worried as women are.” On being a posterboy for the LGBT community: “For the general audience, they look at the way I style myself and they go, ‘Errrr, that’s gay,’ but you ask a handful of gay guys and they’re like, ‘I would never wear that!’” – Read more at Yahoo.com

Phillip Phillips Talks Christmas In Georgia & Going “Home” For The Holidays – The All-Star Christmas is based on the Holidays, so what was Christmas like at the Phillips house? “It was awesome, I always had good home food and opened up presents,” he said. “Santa Claus is coming to town.” His favorite gift as a kid was a Power Wheel– or “P-p-p-Power Wheel” as he called it. Despite his many successes, Phillips doesn’t like to brag, and never rubs his newfound fame in the face of his two older sisters. “I always tell my family to tell other people not to talk about it,” he said of his new notoriety. “I just wanna chill.” But Phillips’ family is very proud, and he’s definitely looking forward to seeing them for Christmas. – Listen at 96.5TIC

Jennifer Hudson: Behind the Scenes Lucky Magazine Shoot

James backs up TV show exposure with experience – I just thought I could get seen and pick up management, but yeah the 9 months before I auditioned for ‘Idol,’ I didn’t have a day off,” James said. “I was doing shows five or six nights a week or multiple gigs in a day. Those are all, of course, four- or five-hour gigs just splitting up the money, loading in and out and doing it all.” At the age of 27, James was one of the oldest contestants on the ninth season of the reality television show. He was also one the contestants who had the most experience on the road. According to James that was what really helped him personally as a competitor. James was in the Top 3 before being eliminated. – Read more at Lubbock Online

Nikki Reed and Paul McDonald’s Smiley Shopping Stop – Enjoying some holiday shopping together, Nikki Reed and her husband, Paul McDonald visited Barneys New York in Beverly Hills on Friday (December 7). The “Twilight” star looked lovely in a black-and-white patterned top, black pants, and black shoes as she smiled and laughed with her hubby. – Read more at Celebrity-Gossip

Carly Rose Sonenclar on Diamond White Elimination- ‘X Factor’ Top 4 Party

Grammys Screwed Bieber … He Deserved a Nom – Justin Bieber deserved at least ONE Grammy nomination this year for his hard work … but no … he got shafted by the uppity snobs at the Recording Academy — so says Simon Cowell. Simon was out in L.A. Thursday night — for the launch of his new X Headphones — when we asked about Bieber’s Grammy snub. He told us, “You know what? He deserved one [nomination], I think. But they can get a bit snobby sometimes.” But Simon’s not worried about the Biebs, adding, “He won’t be crying too much. He’s doing fine.” – Read more at TMZ

 
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  • irockhard

    19E has 3 arms: recording, merch and management.

    19R benefits from sales of recordings not touring, that’s where 19M and 19Merch benefit.

    On this page you’ll see which Idols are signed with which arm: http://coremediagroup.com/19.html

  • irockhard

    Well they already changed the contract for runner ups – offering them single & EP deals instead of album deals, though they gave Jessica an album deal. Interscope appear to be more forward thinking than RCA.

  • justmefornow

    Waiting so late to release that album of Jessica’s even with a Glee potential tie-in is bad news. A lot more people still watch Idol than Glee and her other sales hot off AI11 were horrible for a runner up.
    I’ll be very surprised he she out sells even Haley’s numbers.

  • Nadine_Bitch

    Just watched the Wendy William Show and I loled so hard at ”He’s not attention whore like me”… lol

  • DragonFly

    Has to be a thrill for him just knowing his (singing/performing) of Stand Up is being heard by crowds like that.  It amazes anyway, the opportunities these kids take from being on the show in just situations like this (the exposure).  Even tho James didn’t write it, I’ve wondered by his performing a video for all the teams (if the videos are also being used on jumbotrons) that some $$ would come to the artist that way. 

  • bridgette12

    Hilarious! I guess he figured it’s better than being a wallflower that disappears into the woodwork.

  • http://twitter.com/TarheelShari Sharon S.

    oops…wrong thread.

  • irockhard

    Oh sure, he was definitely paid to film those jumbotron vids.

  • usedtobelucy

     ”Who is responsible for getting the platinum records to the artists?  The
    label?  Does Hickory Records still exist?  Whatever happened to that
    Uncle of Elliott’s who was in the business?  Can’t that guy help Elliott
    to find an audience?  It is so hard to believe there isn’t any kind of a
    market for him in the USA.   I don’t think Elliott is someone who
     necessarily has to write his own songs.  It isn’t his strength.
     Elliott should find a songwriter who can write stuff that is worthy of
    his voice.  Maybe he is happy with his career but selfishly I would like
    to be hearing more of him.”

    Yeah, good questions. Having his cousin around did help Elliott hook up with a lot of individual musicians to have as his backing musicians (always excellent on everything Elliott’s done, in my opinion), get songs from and otherwise work with, and he was a producer on E’s first and second albums. I don’t know whether he’s in evidence presently, though. Have no idea what happened to that relationship.

    But the second album tanked to such a degree — and the third one even worse — that I’m not sure that there is an audience of any size for Elliott’s music at this point. I actually think there are a lot of quite good songs on his his albums, and more so on the later ones (not lyrically so much, but i’m not sure that matters much these days anyway). But I don’t see any men with styles in his bailiwick actually being big sellers, do you? Plus, I don’t really see Elliott inspiring a lot of young music lovers to think he’s hot and buying his stuff for that reason, either. I’d like to see him more, too, but he does seem to be hooked enough into the low-key music scene to keep getting jobs of various sorts. I’m sure he’d like to do more too, but only a tiny number of musicians really make it to the big time. And while he’s got one of the greatest voices I know there are a lot of other aspects of a magic combination that I just don’t think he has.

  • elliegrll

    I think that Jessica’s numbers would have been low if she released an album now.  She doesn’t seem to have a lot of support among AI fans, so why not try and develop her sound, release music that suits her, while at the same time putting her in front of the right demo that will be interested in buying her music.  There’s no guarantee that Interscope will do this or that competent people will finally be hired at 19, so that she can get propoer management.

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