It was just announced that the Supreme Miss American Idol, Season Four winner, Carrie Underwood will be singing the National Anthem at the Super Bowl on Sunday February 7th! She joins Season Six Miss American Idol winner Jordin Sparks and Season Three finalist Jennifer Hudson who have already had this honor. Carrie is sure to do a fantastic job!
Meanwhile, on the Billboard HOT 100 singles chart the Season Eight Miss American Idol winner, Kris Allen, has reached a new peak with his single, Live Like We're Dying, coming in at #25. Also, The Season Eight Miss American Idol 1st runner-up, Adam Lambert, is also seeing some gains as his single, Whataya Want From Me, jumps up to #37.
Switching gears to the reality television world of Season Three Miss American Idol winner, Fantasia, we learned that she is struggling with her record company over the first single to be released from her new album. Fantasia is so firm that her favorite track called Move On Me should be a single, that she is considering switching to a new record company who will see things her way.
We also had the chance to see Fantasia celebrate her 25th birthday with friends and family. Missing from the festivities was her estranged brother who is so self-absorbed in his desire to be a rich and famous recording star that he keeps refusing to patch things up with his sister. In addition, Fantasia has another older brother who has aspirations to be front and center in the singing spotlight. He has been very supportive working all these years as one of Fantasia's back-up singers, but he has announced that he can't take it anymore and he has to take the chance to be a star in his own right.
Both of these brothers seem to have a sense of entitlement at being mega rich superstars and their inability to learn from everything that Fantasia has gone through to maintain her career is evident.
Fantasia For Real on VH1 is continuing to be a very insightful and entertaining glimpse into the world of life after being crowned the Miss American Idol. If you haven't seen it yet, I suggest that you give it a look.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Fantasia For REAL!
While there was another week of Season Nine Miss American Idol auditions, the season Three Miss American Idol winner, Fantasia, exposed more of her real life to the world in another episode of her VH1 reality show Fantasia For Real.
These new kids auditioning for season nine could learn a lot by watching Fantasia's show. There's a lot of hard work that has to go into maintaining a career after winning the Miss American Idol crown.
Fantasia really wants to put out another album and have another hit song on the radio, but she and her manager have to debate this with the record company all the time. While waiting for an album to come out Fantasia has decided to keep an income coming in by performing live on stage in the touring production of the musical The Color Purple. It was great to see her work with the director who helped her become an even better live performer and actress.
Rehearsing and performing in the show keeps her away from home and her family. While she's gone, her brother goes way over budget in the renovation of the pool house to a recording studio. This guy with no job has no problem with spending all of his sister's money. Fantasia had to take a stand and ask him to move out. It was a very hard choice, especially when she ended up loving the new recording studio. With family being very important to her, Fantasia now has to deal with the drama of rebuilding her relationship with her brother, even though he still seems to have no interest in getting a job.
These new kids auditioning for season nine could learn a lot by watching Fantasia's show. There's a lot of hard work that has to go into maintaining a career after winning the Miss American Idol crown.
Fantasia really wants to put out another album and have another hit song on the radio, but she and her manager have to debate this with the record company all the time. While waiting for an album to come out Fantasia has decided to keep an income coming in by performing live on stage in the touring production of the musical The Color Purple. It was great to see her work with the director who helped her become an even better live performer and actress.
Rehearsing and performing in the show keeps her away from home and her family. While she's gone, her brother goes way over budget in the renovation of the pool house to a recording studio. This guy with no job has no problem with spending all of his sister's money. Fantasia had to take a stand and ask him to move out. It was a very hard choice, especially when she ended up loving the new recording studio. With family being very important to her, Fantasia now has to deal with the drama of rebuilding her relationship with her brother, even though he still seems to have no interest in getting a job.
Friday, January 15, 2010
Another Season of American Idol
We've survived the first two cities of the Season Nine Miss American Idol auditions in Boston and Atlanta. It looks like we may have already seen a couple of contestants who may make it pretty far in the competition this year!
Until the crowning of the Season Nine Miss American Idol winner here's a look at what's going on with the previous group on this week's Billboard charts. There's actually quite a bit happening:
The Supreme Miss American Idol, Season Four winner Carrie Underwood is still going strong on the Top Albums chart with her latest, Play On, hanging in there at #18.
The Season Five Miss American Idol 1st Runner Up, Katherine McPhee manages to make a ripple on the chart with her album, Unbroken, debuting at #27.
The Season Eight Miss American Idol 1st Runner Up, Adam Lambert is at #40 with his release For Your Entertainment.
The Season Five Miss American Idol 3rd Runner Up, Chris Daughtry is hanging in there at #59 with his sophomore album, Leave This Town.
Finally, holding on for dear life at #97 this week is the self-titled debut album from the Season Eight Miss American Idol winner, Kris Allen.
There's also quite a bit of activity on the Billboard HOT 100 Singles chart this week:
After peaking at #13, the Season One Miss American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson is now at #25 with Already Gone, the third single from her album, All I Ever Wanted.
Despite the weak showing of his album, Kris Allen's single, Live Like We're Dying is at #33 this week after peaking at #30.
The lead single, Cowboy Casanova, from Carrie Underwood's album Play On peaked at #11 and it is at #43 this week.
Chris Daughtry is at #56 with his single Life After You.
The title track from Adam Lambert's For Your Entertainment pretty much fizzled at radio so he is already working the second single, Whataya Want From Me, which is at #65. In fact, all day today VH1 has been playing the video at the top of every hour, so hopefully that will give it a push.
Carrie Underwood is also already working the second single from her album with Temporary Home making it's debut this week at #89.
The premiere episode of Season Three Miss American Idol winner, Fantasia's reality show on VH1, Fantasia For Real was on this week. We got an inside look at how even after winning, it takes a lot of hard work to stay on top. We learned that at only 25, Fantasia is supporting 6 members of her family - and they aren't all that appreciative of her work. Especially her 28 year old brother who would rather go test drive Ferrari's than get a real job. Fantasia seems to have a pretty smart manager who is working closely with her to get a new album and single released so we'll have to wait and see how successful it turns out to be in the next few weeks....
Until the crowning of the Season Nine Miss American Idol winner here's a look at what's going on with the previous group on this week's Billboard charts. There's actually quite a bit happening:
The Supreme Miss American Idol, Season Four winner Carrie Underwood is still going strong on the Top Albums chart with her latest, Play On, hanging in there at #18.
The Season Five Miss American Idol 1st Runner Up, Katherine McPhee manages to make a ripple on the chart with her album, Unbroken, debuting at #27.
The Season Eight Miss American Idol 1st Runner Up, Adam Lambert is at #40 with his release For Your Entertainment.
The Season Five Miss American Idol 3rd Runner Up, Chris Daughtry is hanging in there at #59 with his sophomore album, Leave This Town.
Finally, holding on for dear life at #97 this week is the self-titled debut album from the Season Eight Miss American Idol winner, Kris Allen.
There's also quite a bit of activity on the Billboard HOT 100 Singles chart this week:
After peaking at #13, the Season One Miss American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson is now at #25 with Already Gone, the third single from her album, All I Ever Wanted.
Despite the weak showing of his album, Kris Allen's single, Live Like We're Dying is at #33 this week after peaking at #30.
The lead single, Cowboy Casanova, from Carrie Underwood's album Play On peaked at #11 and it is at #43 this week.
Chris Daughtry is at #56 with his single Life After You.
The title track from Adam Lambert's For Your Entertainment pretty much fizzled at radio so he is already working the second single, Whataya Want From Me, which is at #65. In fact, all day today VH1 has been playing the video at the top of every hour, so hopefully that will give it a push.
Carrie Underwood is also already working the second single from her album with Temporary Home making it's debut this week at #89.
The premiere episode of Season Three Miss American Idol winner, Fantasia's reality show on VH1, Fantasia For Real was on this week. We got an inside look at how even after winning, it takes a lot of hard work to stay on top. We learned that at only 25, Fantasia is supporting 6 members of her family - and they aren't all that appreciative of her work. Especially her 28 year old brother who would rather go test drive Ferrari's than get a real job. Fantasia seems to have a pretty smart manager who is working closely with her to get a new album and single released so we'll have to wait and see how successful it turns out to be in the next few weeks....
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
The People's Choice
The 2010 People's Choice Awards were on tonight and as expected, The Supreme Miss American Idol, Season Four winner Carrie Underwood has added yet another award to her collection. Based on the online voting process Carrie won the award for Favorite Country Artist. She was up against Brad Paisley, Keith Urban, Rascal Flatts and Taylor Swift and managed to come out on the top of the heap!
Season Five Miss American Idol 3rd Runner Up Chris Daughtry was in the category of Favorite Rock Band, but he ended up losing to Paramore. Season Three finalist and Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson was in the category of Favorite R&B Artist but she was up against the biggest superstar of all-time, who of course ended up getting the most votes, Mariah Carey.
And in another instance where there was no competition, in the category for Favorite Competition Show it's no surprise at all that American Idol, still the highest rated show on TV, was clearly the People's Choice and the winner.
As we get closer to the start of the ninth season of American Idol we can look forward to meeting an entirely new group of finalists who will hope to someday be the people's choice. We can look forward to Ellen Degeneres joining as a judge and seeing if any of the music will make an impact on the charts this year. And as a matter of fact, the winner of the People's Choice award for Favorite Talk Show was the Ellen Degeneres Show!
Speaking of having high hopes of having chart impact, Season Five Miss American Idol 1st Runner Up Katherine McPhee is releasing a new album today called Unbroken. In her new video for the single Had It All she's almost unrecognizable from the finalist who stood next to Taylor Hicks when he won the crown as she has dyed her hair blond! Will the music buying public know it's even her? Next week we'll be able to see how well it sells to debut on the Billboard albums chart.
Also coming up this Monday January 11th is the premier of something new and completely different from Season Three Miss American Idol winner Fantasia. She will be starring in her own reality show on VH1. I can't wait to see it and see if she can get some more singles or albums back on the charts as a result of this kind of promotion.
Season Five Miss American Idol 3rd Runner Up Chris Daughtry was in the category of Favorite Rock Band, but he ended up losing to Paramore. Season Three finalist and Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson was in the category of Favorite R&B Artist but she was up against the biggest superstar of all-time, who of course ended up getting the most votes, Mariah Carey.
And in another instance where there was no competition, in the category for Favorite Competition Show it's no surprise at all that American Idol, still the highest rated show on TV, was clearly the People's Choice and the winner.
As we get closer to the start of the ninth season of American Idol we can look forward to meeting an entirely new group of finalists who will hope to someday be the people's choice. We can look forward to Ellen Degeneres joining as a judge and seeing if any of the music will make an impact on the charts this year. And as a matter of fact, the winner of the People's Choice award for Favorite Talk Show was the Ellen Degeneres Show!
Speaking of having high hopes of having chart impact, Season Five Miss American Idol 1st Runner Up Katherine McPhee is releasing a new album today called Unbroken. In her new video for the single Had It All she's almost unrecognizable from the finalist who stood next to Taylor Hicks when he won the crown as she has dyed her hair blond! Will the music buying public know it's even her? Next week we'll be able to see how well it sells to debut on the Billboard albums chart.
Also coming up this Monday January 11th is the premier of something new and completely different from Season Three Miss American Idol winner Fantasia. She will be starring in her own reality show on VH1. I can't wait to see it and see if she can get some more singles or albums back on the charts as a result of this kind of promotion.
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