Taylor Hicks, Ruben Studdard dropped from J Records?

It seems winning American Idol is no guarantee that you’ll actually keep your major label deal. Just before Christmas, rumors began circulating that season 2′s Ruben Studdard, who released three albums for J Records since 2003 (the latest, 2006′s The Return, to modest sales), had been dropped. [...]

Season 6′s Chris Richardson recently mentioned in a My Space bulletin that he and Melinda Doolittle had gone out to San Fransisco for a photo shoot for Dreyer’s Ice Cream.

Now it appears to be official–Chris and Melinda will be this year’s offishul spokespeople for the Dryer’s/Edy’s American Idol ice cream promotion. Check [...]

Leona For Idol!

Leona Lewis will appear on the next series of American Idol in a bid to crack the US. The X Factor babe hopes to repeat her record-breaking chart antics across the pond this year, and mentor Simon Cowell, 48, believes his other TV talent show is the ideal place to launch her.

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This time last year, getting to see my favorite Idols live was purely wishful thinking on my part. Who would have thought that poor little me from this distant country would get to see two of my favorite Idols right here on home territory? And for free, at that! Not I, certainly. But it did happen! Many, many thanks to the Ayala Malls (I should shop there more ;D), who, this year, first brought my favorite Idol, Elliott Yamin, here in September, and, just more than a week ago, the first American Idol winner to visit us, Taylor Hicks, who I also am a fan of. So I went to Taylor’s first two Manila shows (the venues of which are both very conveniently located only a couple of blocks away from my office) and enjoyed them immensely.

Idol Related Sales Numbers after the jump (Billboard issue date 1/12/08)

(Finally! We have some numbers)

Good morning everyone…

…a few announcements…

LisaB will no longer be posting the headlines. I’d like to thank her for doing such a great job with the Idol news day in and day out. It takes a lot of research to get this post together, and I really appreciate her efforts these past months.

I’ll [...]

Blake Lewis on FOX’s New Year’s Live:

Jordin Sparks on FOX’s New Year’s Live:

Rickey’s got Carrie Underwood performing on ABC’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve here.

One last holiday video…

…Melinda Doolittle sings “Christmas Time is Here.” From “Christmas at Belmont”

Happy New Year peeps!

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I know this was news a couple of weeks ago, but it took me some time to compile the entire chart.  Ãƒâ€š  

The big Billboard winners for 2007  are Chris Daughtry, who has 11 #1 chart positions, and Carrie Underwood, with 5 #1 positions.   Daughtry is the #1 selling artist for [...]

A snapshot of Idolsà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢ singles radio play culled from Mediabase charts as of this morning. Find out where your favorite Idol stands on the radio after the jump.

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Don’t miss…

Monday 12/31 (New Years Eve)  -  Ãƒâ€š  Carrie Underwood performs on  New Years Rockin’ Eve co-hosted by Ryan Seacrest. ABC 10 pm.   Blake Lewis and Jordin Sparks perform on New Years Eve Live on the FOX network. 11-12:30.

Tuesday 1/01 – Phil Stacey sings the National Anthem  before [...]

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Here it is, the very first Idol Billboard Update for 2008.   Yippee!

Highlights:

According to Billboard, only 3 artists in the Top 50 posted fewer sales this week.   One of them was Blake Lewis’s “Audio Day Dream” which sold 55k, -4% from [...]