Ratings News Week 11

By On 04/01/2007 · 47 Comments · In American Idol, Ratings

Here ya goà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬’this weekà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s updated Season 6 American Idol ratings chart.   And, here are the preliminary Nielsen numbers for  last week:

Tuesday:

The top 10 “Idol” contestants performed to the tune of 26.8 million viewers and a 10.4 rating/29 share at 8 p.m., according [...]

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Sunday Apr 1

By On 04/01/2007 · 275 Comments · In American Idol

Sunday Apr 1

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Billboard Update 04/07/07

By On 03/31/2007 · 12 Comments · In American Idol, Blake Lewis, Carrie Underwood, Charts, Chris Daughtry, Elliott Yamin, Katharine McPhee, Kimberley Locke, Taylor Hicks

Straight from Chicago–this week’s groovy  American Idol Billboard Update:

Highlights:

The first week numbers for Elliott Yamin’s debut independent release are in and there’s much to celebrate: #3 on the Billboard 200, Top Digital Albums and Top Internet Albums.  #11 on the Top R&B Albums.  And, #1 with a bullet on the Top [...]

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Saturday Mar 31

By On 03/31/2007 · 219 Comments · In American Idol

Saturday Mar 31

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Highlights from Chris Sligh’s Exit Interviews

By On 03/30/2007 · 56 Comments · In American Idol, Chris Sligh

From MTV.com:

Did he struggle with “Every Little Thing” during rehearsals? When I sang with Gwen, that was on Saturday, and I just picked that song out on Friday afternoon and had changed my song. I originally was going to do “Give a Little Bit” by Supertramp, and the Goo Goo Dolls redid [...]

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Friday Mar 30

By On 03/30/2007 · 405 Comments · In American Idol

Friday Mar 30

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Thursday Mar 29

By On 03/29/2007 · 708 Comments · In American Idol

Thursday Mar 29

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Top 10 Results

By On 03/28/2007 · 119 Comments · In American Idol, Chris Sligh, S6 Finals

Bottom Three:

Phil Stacey
Haley Scarnato
Chris Sligh

Eliminated tonight:

Chris Sligh

Gwen Stefani and Akon sing her single, “Sweet Escape”.

(Bear with me peeps…it’s 5:30 on the East Coast and I’m scrambling to get myself ready to board an airplane at 9 am.   The blog won’t be updated as usual this [...]

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Wednesday Mar 28

By On 03/28/2007 · 487 Comments · In American Idol

Wednesday Mar 28

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Top 10 Performance

By On 03/27/2007 · 104 Comments · In American Idol, Blake Lewis, Chris Richardson, Chris Sligh, Gina Glocksen, Haley Scarnato, Jordin Sparks, LaKisha Jones, Melinda Doolittle, Phil Stacey, S6 Finals, Sanjaya Malakar

Tonight, the kids sing songs that inspired Gwen Stefani….  

Can we bring British Invasion week back for an Encore?   I heard that Gwen Stefani arrived with a very short list of songs for the kids to sing, and some of them had to switch songs mid-stream.   Tonight, the performers who sing well [...]

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Tuesday Mar 27

By On 03/27/2007 · 522 Comments · In American Idol

Tuesday Mar 27

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Top 10 Spoilers

By On 03/26/2007 · 80 Comments · In American Idol, Blake Lewis, Chris Richardson, Chris Sligh, Gina Glocksen, Haley Scarnato, Jordin Sparks, LaKisha Jones, Melinda Doolittle, Phil Stacey, S6 Finals, Sanjaya Malakar, Spoilers

REMINDER: If you are recording tonight’s show, don’t forget to set your VCRs and DVRs for 67 minutes!  Tonight’s performance show starts at 8/7c pm and runs until 9:07/8:07c pm

ETA:   Nigel Lythgoe  confirms  tonight’s theme.   Also:   He acknowledges, but claims he is not worried that the ratings are [...]

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Idol News Update

By On 03/26/2007 · 3 Comments · In American Idol, Clay Aiken, Katharine McPhee, Paula Abdul

Jeanette Walls, gossip columnist for MSNBC  cites a Star Magazine report  that quotes an insider who says, à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“Most of these rifts [between  Simon and Ryan]  have been outlined.à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ Ãƒâ€š   Producer Nigel Lythgoe  responds, telling  TMZ Nuh uh.  Hmm, what do you think?   Cynical [...]

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The South Still Rulz!

By On 03/26/2007 · 4 Comments · In American Idol

The  New York Times  (registration required) notes that out of the Top 11 American Idol contestants, 7 are from the South.   Andy Dehnart of Reality Blurred  further points out that in the Top 24, the South was underrepresented–only 7 were from the South–including Florida, Texas and Virginia.   [...]

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Monday Mar 26

By On 03/26/2007 · 478 Comments · In American Idol

Monday Mar 26

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