David Cook has some new tour dates in the North East. Check out his updated schedule at his official website.
‘American Idol, ‘ NFL Duke it out for Priciest TV Spot
Watch out, Steven Tyler. The Green Bay Packers are rushing you.
Long TV’s most expensive program for advertisers, “American Idol” is now neck-and-neck with NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” as the costliest prime-time show on this year’s schedule, according to Advertising Age’s annual survey of the costs of running a 30-second commercial in prime time. The average cost of running a 30-second ad in “Idol” runs between $468, 100 and $502, 900, according to the Ad Age survey, while the average cost of a 30-second ad in NBC’s much-watched football contest is $512, 367.
While that might sound as if football has trounced the veteran Fox singing program, the tally is relative since “Idol”‘s prices tend to go up as the show reaches its finale. Ad Age’s survey, compiled using data from as many as six different media-buying agencies and other sources, found that some spots in “Idol” were going for as much as $640, 000.
Read more at Ad Age
Kelly Clarkson plays ‘Don’t Forget the Lyrics’
American Idol Vet Diana DeGarmo Gets Jersey-Licious on The Young and the Restless
When the folks at The Young and the Restless needed a really lousy singer, they went out and found themselves a great one. American Idol Season 3 runner up Diana DeGarmo joins the CBS soap October 31 as Angelina, the Jersey girl daughter of mob boss Angelo Veneziano (Mike Starr). She comes to Genoa City with dreams of being a chart-topping vocalist. And what Angelina wants, Angelina gets! TV Guide Magazine spoke with DeGarmo about her trash-tastic new role.
Read more at TV Guide
Kelly Clarkson saves the drama for her music
NEW YORK – Ten years in the spotlight and Kelly Clarkson has this fame business down. She’s in the requisite 4-inch stilettos. She carefully sips out of a straw so as not to smudge her red lipstick. And she entertains herself while waiting for a photographer to finish lighting a shot by singing a few bars of En Vogue’s Don’t Let Go.
Siobhan Magnus brings Nashville to Cape Cod
On Saturday, Oct. 29 at 4:30 p.m., Siobhan Magnus will host an acoustic concert at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod featuring award-winning singer-songwriters Mitzi Dawn, Chaise Flanders and Nolan Neal from Nashville.
Mitzi and Chaise have co-written songs with Siobhan for her upcoming debut album, and all three Nashville musicians will take turns performing and talking about their original work. Siobhan, too, will perform and discuss two of the songs she has co-written with Mitzi and Chaise.
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Clive Davis: Pop music’s elder statesman
Whitney Houston is just one of the top-rank performers discovered by the “Music Man, ” Clive Davis. He’s been present at the creation of many a career … and this morning he talks to our Anthony Mason, For The Record:
If the music industry is obsessed with youth, what is Clive Davis still doing here?
In the corner office at the top of the Sony Building high above New York’s Madison Avenue, the 79-year-old record executive cranks up his booming speakers and slips into the head-bobbing trance that has been divining hit songs for nearly half a century.
Read more at CBS News
Ask Billboard: ‘Idol’-izing Carrie Underwood, Lauren Alaina
Underwood’s to-date U.S. album sales of 12, 394, 000 place her ahead of Kelly Clarkson (10, 702, 000) for the title of best-selling “Idol” graduate. Clarkson can close the gap with Monday’s release of her fifth album, “Stronger.”
Here is a recap of how Underwood’s three albums have sold so far:
Read more at Billboard
Diana DeGarmo, Todrick Hall, Kate Pazakis, Angel Reda, Morgan Karr Sing Scott Alan Tunes Oct. 24
On Oct. 24 Alan returns to Los Angeles’ Show at Barre. The 8 PM performance features Diana DeGarmo, Todrick Hall, Kate Pazakis, Angel Reda, Morgan Karr, Von Smith and Jessica Keenan Wynn. (For tickets visit http://showatbarre.inticketing.com/evlist.php?page=2&pagemax=60.)
Read more at Playbill
Jennifer Lopez Explains Crying At Concert
“After I sang the song, I’m standing there, and I realized that I did bare a little bit of my thoughts in this song. I also acted it out, kind of, for the audience. The way they received it was very touching, ” Jennifer explained.
“I think that they felt what I felt, which is, you know, I’m just a girl, just like everybody else, trying to find my way, ” the 42-year-old star, who split with Marc Anthony in July, continued. “I felt like they got that, and they understood it, and we were all like one at that moment.”
Read more at Access Hollywood
LeRoy Bell will post his Birth Certificate at 100, 000 Tweets
Does he mean followers? Not sure.
Simon Cowell Targeted in “X Factor” Sabotage Plot
There is a war brewing behind the scenes at “X Factor” … with two judges vowing to destroy each other … and TMZ has learned it’s the contestants who could feel the repercussions.
Sources connected to the show tell us … ever since judges Simon Cowell and L.A. Reid were assigned to mentor competing groups of contestants on the show (Reid with the boys, Cowell the girls) … the two have been ruthless with each other … even after the cameras turned off.
Our spies overheard Reid telling people he plans to play “mind games” and “dirty tricks” with the members of Cowell’s team … explaining, “Even if I have to give really bad advice to the other contestants when their mentors are not around … I will!”
We’re told Cowell seemed to be wise to the scheme … and even called Reid out on it after a rehearsal … but sources say L.A. is adamant he’s do “whatever it takes” to win and doesn’t plan on letting up anytime soon. Dirty.
Read more at TMZ
