American Idol

Season 7's third-place finisher on American Idol, Syesha Mercado, is taking the stage as Deena Jones in the national tour of ...

Last week's Country Music Association Awards gave country music sales a much needed shot in the arm. Just about every country act saw a nice sales boost except, well, Carrie Underwood. I'm thinking Carrie's profile was so high in the weeks before the CMA Awards that one more TV performance m...

By Ann Oldenburg Out magazine has named Adam Lambert at the Out 100 Breakout Honoree of the Year. But in an open letter to the American Idol finalist, editor Aaron Hicklin explains that he was ticked by Lambert's management, who repeatedly demanded that...

”I was getting bored with my life" before American Idol, says Adam Lambert, whom USA TODAY's Edna Gundersen profiles for Wednesday's paper. "Like, this is it? I was hungry for more. I got my wish!"

Nearly six months after Kris Allen scored a remarkable upset victory on American Idol, he still feels like an underdog.

Nearly six months after Kris Allen scored a remarkable upset victory on American Idol, he still feels like an underdog. "Some people still don't know I won the show," Kris deadpans, in an interview that runs in today's paper. The final piece runs somewhat shorter that my original draft, so I...

Congratulations to Carrie Underwood, Daughtry, Jennifer Hudson, Kris Allen and Adam Lambert, all of whom picked up People's Choice Awards nominations Wednesday. Carrie's up in two categories -- Favorite Female Artist and Favorite Country Artist. Daughtry's up for Favorite Rock Band...

Kris Allen takes a big jump airplay jump this week, with Live Like We're Dying getting a 27 percent increase in spins according to Mediabase. That's enough to get Kris into the top 40 of the Top 40 format, as well as Hot AC -- and it puts him in the top 10 of our American Idol airplay chart for the fi...

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American Idol parent company CKX, Inc., reported a third-quarter revenue decline of $2.6 million Thursday. Plus, info on Carrie Underwood, Kris Allen and David Cook.

Carrie Underwood's Play On should give the American Idol sales totals a much-needed kick in the pants this week. But until the big fall releases fall in, Nielsen SoundScan has the NOW and WOW compilations dominating the list of best-selling Idol-related albums.

Kelly Clarkson's Already Gone was last week's top-selling American Idol track, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Selling nearly 43,000 copies put it at #29 on SoundScan's Current Digital Tracks chart and poushed its release-to-date total past the 600,000 mark. Downloads of Adam Lamber...

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Kelly Clarkson remains in the top spot on our Mediabase-powered American Idol airplay chart this week, with Already Gone coming in just two spins shy of 12,000. Carrie Underwood's Cowboy Casanova moves into the second slot (and #3 on USA TODAY's country chart. Several stations spun Play O...

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By Ann Oldenburg Earlier this week, USA TODAY's Brian Mansfield unveiled Adam Lambert's new album cover in Idol Chatter and a lot of fans weighed in. Yesterday, the American Idol runner-up took to Twitter to say he knew he exactly what he was...

Adam Lambert sold more than 46,000 downloads of Time for Miracles, putting it at #21 on the Nielsen SoundScan Top Digital Tracks chart. Time for Miracles was the second-best-selling American Idol download by fewer than 500 copies. The difference between it and the week's best-selling de...

There's not much of a storyline in this week's Nielsen SoundScan data for American Idol-related releases, so let's go straight to the numbers: Various, WOW Hits 2010 (14,000, -2 percent, 31,000 total)

Jordin Sparks will host America's Biggest Sleepover on beinggirl.com Nov. 7. Kellie Pickler will present at the CMA Awards. Plus, news on the American Music Awards, American Idol commercial rates and which NFL quarterbacks recently took in a Kelly Clarkson set.

Kelly Clarkson's Already Gone tops 10,000 spins on the American Idol airplay chart this week, as the single moves into the Top 10 of USA TODAY's Mediabase-powered Top 40 chart. It's one of just two Idol singles in the Top 40's Top 40 this week, as Jordin Sparks' S.O.S. (Let the Music Play) moves i...

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After Daughtry's long run atop our American Idol airplay chart, Kelly Clarkson takes over this week with the third single from her All I Ever Wanted album. Already Gone gets 9,011 spins, placing Kelly on three of the USA TODAY/Mediabase chart: #22 AC, #8 Hot AC and #12 Top 40.

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It's been weeks since we've had a new best-selling track among the American Idol alumnae, but Kelly Clarkson's Already Gone takes over the top spot this week. The third single from All I Ever Wanted had almost 42,000 scanned downloads last week, an 11 percent increase, according to Nielse...

By Brian Mansfield Apparently, several of this year's Idol also-rans are using their down time during today's finale rehearsals to learn how to use Twitter. If you want to follow all the fun, here are their accounts: