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Lauren Alaina – Live With Regis and Kelly – VIDEO

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Lauren Alaina, who seems to be over the vocal issues that plagued her during the finale. dropped by Live with Regis and Kelly to sing her new single, “Like My Mother Does”.

Check out her delightful interview and performance after the jump:

Idol Headlines for 06/01/11

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Today’s Idol Appearances:

David Archuleta will be honored as part of the Mass General Hospital Cancer Center 100. Westin Boston Waterfront, Westin, MA. More info HERE
Lauren Alaina will appear on Live with Regis and Kelly
Taylor Hicks performs at the Dirty Martini, Palm Beach Gardens, FL

The Carrie Underwood/Tony Bennett duet recorded for the legendary crooner’s new Duets II album has been revealed. The duo recorded “It Had To Be You” for the disc, set to be released on September 20. Oh. One of my favorite standards! Should be good.

Whatever Pia Toscano was doing in Arkansas, she seems to be finished, She tweets, “Had a blast at the Walmart Shareholder Conference!!!!” The big meeting is Friday. I would be really surprised if Scotty McCreery isn’t scheduled to perform. Plus, on August 22, Pia will be honored by the Brooklyn Cyclones at MCU park before the 7:30 baseball game. She first sang the anthem there in 2003 when she was only 15. More information about “Pia Toscano Appreciation Night” can be found HERE.

Idol Sales News – Week Ending 05/29/11

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UPDATE: Scotty’s “I Love You This Big” official radio add date was 5/31. “It seems like the biggest opportunity this format has ever had.” says UMG/Nashville Sr. VP/Promotion, Royce Risser, about Scotty. According to Risser, Scotty will begin his country radio tour while on the Idol tour beginning July 1.

UPDATE2: Album numbers are in! Scotty’s compilation album bows at #12 on the BB200. More inside.

Scotty McCreery – “I Love You This Big” 171, 404 – #3 Hot Digital Songs, #1 Country Digital Songs
Lauren Alaina – Like My Mother Does: 121, 000 – #11 Hot Digital Songs, #2 Country Digital Songs

Given that their label has already taken out an ad bragging about their success, it’s pretty clear Scotty and Lauren are off to a really good start. Scotty has already racked up a record breaking Country radio debut, the 3rd best selling iTunes single for the week, has the 3rd best selling iTunes album for the week and a 171K in coronation single sales. He should achieve his first Billboard number 1 and have the record for the best selling debut week for a male country artist download track (recently set by Blake Shelton at 138K). Scotty’s single was added on 34 radio stations and HDD is predicting that he had the 11th best selling album of the week for his compilation of singles from the season (23, 785). Today, he reached Top 40 on the Mediabase Country chart. Not bad for a half a week’s worth of numbers.

America’s Got Talent – Los Angeles and Atlanta Auditions

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I can’t believe I’m about to say this but…tonight’s America’s Got Talent premiere was not half bad. Sure, there were your typical trainwrecks taking up too much time–but some of the bad performers were actually funny.

There was only one annoying kid act–a trio of tiny rappers and virtually NO OVER THE TOP SOB STORIES. Tonight’s auditions, split between Los Angeles and Atlanta were a very painless way to spend two hours.

Check out the best of the auditions after the jump.