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She is the preeminent female country artist of the past two years, and now, reigning ACM Top Female Vocalist, double GRAMMY winner, and back-to-back CMA Female Vocalist of the Year Carrie Underwood sees her 19 Recordings/Arista Records/Arista Nashville album, Carnival Ride, simultaneously RIAA-certified Gold, Platinum, and Double Platinum for sales of two million units.
Released on October 23, Carnival Ride has already launched the multi-week #1 smash, "So Small," Carrie’s fifth consecutive country chart-topper after four #1 singles from her 6x-Platinum debut blockbuster, Some Hearts. Carrie’s continued success is celebrated in the year-end issue of Billboard, where she is #1 across multiple categories including Top Country Artist and Top Country Artist–Female (both based on sales and airplay), and #1 among Top Country Album Artists (based on sales). Outside the country categories, Carrie’s phenomenal 2007 is clear to see in the all-genre Billboard 200 Artist Recap, which ranks the pride [...]

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As if being nominated for four Grammy’s wasn’t impressive enough, the results have just been compiled for the top-selling album on The Billboard 200, and the honor goes to Daughtry! Americanidol.com would like to extend a huge congratulations to Chris and his very successful band, Daughtry!
It’s hard to believe that it hasn’t even been two years since Chris’s impressive run on American Idol. Want to take a stroll down memory lane? Check out his transformation gallery!

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You’ve seen the season seven "Idol" hopefuls in audition preview video #1 and audition preview video #2–we’ve just added audition preview video #3! You do not want to miss this one, as the auditioners explain just what they sacrificed to get to the tryouts this year. You’ll hear tales of planes, trains and automobiles, and a story about one man who returned after a near-fatal car accident en route to last year’s auditions! Talk about dedication.
Check it out now!

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Blake Lewis debuted at an impressive number 10 on the Billboard Charts with his first album Audio Day Dream. This marks the biggest chart debut of the week with scans of 97,500.
The first single off the album, "Break Anotha," co-written by One Republic’s Ryan "Alias" Tedder, Sam Watters and Blake and produced by Tedder (Timbaland, Leona Lewis), is continuing its climb up the charts. Blake will be introducing the highly anticipated video on December 19th.
In addition to the production and co-writing credits by Ryan Tedder and Sam Watters on various tracks, Jonathan "JR" Rotem (who worked with Rihanna on her No. 1 single "SOS") produced and co-wrote the track "What’cha Got 2 Lose?" American Idol fans will surely know the other co-writer on that song, Blake’s buddy and excellent songwriter Chris Richardson!
Here is a pic of best buds Chris and Blake giving some love to fellow Idol [...]

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After raising an astounding $75 million last season, American Idol will once again host "Idol Gives Back," a music celebration raising awareness and benefiting various U.S. and international charities.
The two-hour concert and fundraiser will air Wednesday, April 9 at 8/7c on FOX.
In 2007, "Idol Gives Back" raised $75 million for various U.S. charities that deliver support to underprivileged children in some of the most disadvantaged areas of the country, providing them with medical care, food and grocery products, health and life skills, literacy programs and obesity prevention, among other important initiatives. In Africa, funds were dedicated to organizations that support efforts to battle poverty through various health and education programs, including delivering medical supplies and providing clean water.
The brainchild of Simon Fuller, last season’s "Idol Gives Back" special featured performances from the American Idol stage, where Ryan Seacrest hosted alongside American Idol judges Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul and Simon [...]

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Idol Camp, the popular performing arts summer camp inspired by America’s #1 television phenomenon American Idol, is moving its location for the 2008 summer session to Pali Mountain in beautiful Running Springs, California. The announcement marks the start of the enrollment season, which is now accepting submissions. Born out of the desire to foster passion and creativity in children in a fun-filled and non-competitive performing arts environment, Idol Camp uses past American Idol alums and entertainment industry professionals to provide a first-class experience to aspiring performers.
Location isn’t all that’s new for Idol Camp in 2008. The camp is now allowing enrollment for children ages 10-15 and has been extended to 14 days in order to give kids a longer period for growth and discovery.
"When we launched Idol Camp earlier this year seeing the response from the kids showed all of us how the Idol experience really enhances [...]

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Brandon Rogers has known since he was just a child that he would be involved in the music industry in one way or another. What’s interesting is the first musical experience that left him wanting more…performing with his school choir and the King of Pop Michael Jackson for the Super Bowl Half Time show in 1993! From that point on, he was completely hooked. He attended the University of North Texas and majored in voice, with a secondary in piano. Interesting tidbit: one of his classmates at the university was Norah Jones!
As so many do along the way, Brandon Rogers found himself in a boyband while living in Dallas. They were called the Sons of Harmony, a band that was put together by Kidd Kraddick from a popular radio station in the area. Not every boyband achieves success but, fortunately for Brandon, the [...]

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Following his 55-city American Idols Live! Tour, Phil Stacey moved to Nashville with wife Kendra and their two children to pursue a career in country music. He has since gone into the studio with producer Wayne Kirkpatrick to record for his debut album. This is wonderful news for all the Phil fans out there, who fell in love with his soothing voice and his successful progression into the country music realm!
Check out this photo of Phil during what looks to be an intense performance this past season. You also do NOT want to miss this baby pic of Phil…with a full head of hair!

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Ya know that old movie line "Every time a bell rings an angel gets its wings?" Well, these days it seems that every time a music announcement is made, an Idol gets a nomination! And today’s Grammy nomination announcements were no exception. The following Idols were nominated for Grammys:
Chris Daughtry’s band Daughtry- 4 Nominations
*Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group ("It’s Not Over")
*Best Rock Song ("It’s Not Over")-With Co-Writing Credits going to Brett "Ace" Young!
*Best Rock Album (Daughtry)
*Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group ("Home")
Fantasia- 3 Nominations
*Best Female R&B Vocal Performance ("When I See You")
*Best Contemporary R&B Album (Fantasia)
*Best R&B Song ("When I See You")
Carrie Underwood-2 Nominations
*Best Female Country Vocal Performance ("Before He Cheats")
*Best Country Collaboration ("Oh Love")
Kelly Clarkson- 1 Nomination
*Best Country Collaboration ("Because of You")
Mandisa- 1 Nomination
*Best Pop/Contempoary Gospel Album (True Beauty)
Congratulations to these six extremely talented "Idol" alumni–we wish you well [...]

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If you thought Blake Lewis looked like he was out there having a good time last season, fairly oblivious to his achievements, you’d actually be correct. In our exclusive interview with Blake, he revealed that he liked to do his own thing, and rarely even considered the voting. In fact, one night he was bowling with friends, they were all on their cell phones. When he asked them what they were doing, they said that they were all voting for him!
That doesn’t mean that he wasn’t pleased with his ultimate success, however. As he likes to call it, "Idol" was the "best experience I’ll never have again." He went on to say that it was great that he had the opportunity to get out there and be himself in front of millions of viewers. The exposure he got was invaluable. And he’s certainly been taking full advantage of that since [...]

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