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Sunday 2/10 -  Ãƒâ€š  Carrie Underwood performs for the 50th Annual Grammy Awards. CBS 8 pm ET. Carrie Underwood, Chris Daughtry, Fantasia, Mandisa, Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Hudson and Ace Young are all nominated for awards.

Monday 2/11 – Elliott Yamin begins his USO tour to the UK [...]

Carrie Underwood performs “How Great Thou Art” (the tune, and the compilation it’s from are available at iTunes) on the GAC music special, featuring country artists singing their favorite hymns. Something for your Sunday morning.

‘American Idol’ judge Paula Abdul keeps it nice

Paula Abdul–choreographer, pop star, “American Idol” judge and dog-lover–had to go to the bathroom before we talked, which made her a little late, and thenà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦

Sorry! I got stopped by two gentleman who wanted to take a picture.

As long as it’s not in [...]

Here’s this week’s Idol Billboard Update!

Highlights:

Carrie Underwood, Some Hearts was recently awarded septuple platinum certification by the RIAA. That’s 7 milllion shipped, people. The album is still on the Billboard 200, after 116 weeks. It’s at #67 this week, down from #58 last week. She sold 11K this week [...]

Hey, don’t count on me to be witty.   I’m lazy.   I’m counting on you, dear readers. Be creative!

Many of these were taken at pre-grammy swag parties, hence the prominent display of “merchandise”…

More After the Jump!

A couple with a sad story was thrown a big wedding by Live with Regis and Kelly on Friday. Taylor Hicks performed “The Right Place” during the wedding procession. Apparently, Taylor is the couple’s favorite American Idol. Ignore the wedding stuff and just listen to the music. Taylor did a beautiful job.

  

‘American Idol’ Chris Daughtry, U.K. Idol Leona Lewis Warm Their Pipes For Clive Davis’ Grammy Party

Welcome to the American music industry, Leona Lewis. The lovely 21-year-old Brit already has smashed the game in her home country with her debut LP, Spirit, which topped the charts across the pond and all over the [...]

Katharine McPhee’s Wedding Album! From the kiss to the cake, go inside the singer’s Feb. 2 nuptials to producer Nick Cokas

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Carrie certified for septuple platinum

Carrie’s Some Hearts has been certified seven-times-platinum by the RIAA, the highest certification yet earned by an Idol.

Remember, that doesn’t mean she’s sold 7 million [...]

Here they are:

It was another slam-dunk midweek victory for Fox care of American Idol (Viewers: 26.02 million; A18-49: 10.5 rating/26 share) and the oddly addictive Moment of Truth (Viewers: 16.89 million; A18-49: 7.2/18), which is not a game show you want to participate in if you have any skeletons in your [...]

The auditions are over. Next week, the Hollywood Rounds begin, and on Wednesday we finally find out who made the cut for the Top 24.

There’s a list of contestant’s rumored to have made the Top 24, put together by Joesplace. I’ve put the list together with some resources here.

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Entertainment Weekly has a link to the new Idol exit song. You can check it out here. What’s the verdict? You’ll have to let me know, cause I can’t stream at work. *frownie face*

ETA: Neonorange originally posted a link to the song in headlines on 1/28. Â   She [...]

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Deciding that the nine hours devoted to the seven audition cities just wasnà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t enough, Fox presented a special best-of edition of à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“American Idolà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  on Wednesday night. à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Idolà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬  [...]

Tonight was the Simon show. I can count a number of times his remarks made me laugh out loud. My take on this year’s kinder and gentler Simon is that he’s not working hard to put on the meanie act. I suspect what we seeing is the real-life Simon, rather than Idol Simon. He’s made [...]

From Mediaweek:

The following results are based on the fast affiliate ratings (Live Plus Same Day data)

-Total Viewers:
Fox: 25.52 million, NBC: 7.16, CBS: 6.12, ABC: 5.26, CW: 2.36

-Adults 18-49:
Fox: 10.1 rating/24 share, NBC: 2.8/ 7, CBS: 1.5/ 4, ABC: 1.4/ 3, CW: 1.0/ 2Led by American [...]

Idol Related Sales Numbers after the jump (Billboard issue date 02/16/08)