Thursday, March 11, 2010

The Season 9 Top 12 finalists are....

Michael Buble is currently rising up the Billboard HOT 100 with the biggest hit of his career so far, I Haven't Met You Yet. The finalists added some group choreography to their festive little lip sync of this great song.

Didi, Siobhan, and Paige all got the first spots in the Top 12 while earth moved in the wrong direction for Katelyn Epperly. She sang on the American Idol stage for the last time.

Casey, Tim, and Lee have all been given the opportunity to join the girls in the Top 12 while Todrick Hall failed to find enough somebodies to call in and give him some love. He pleaded one more time but it's not going to change the results.

Billy Joel spent one week at #1 on the Billboard HOT 100 in 1983 with the very fun song Tell Her About It. Tonight Season 8 finalists Matt Giraud and Scott McIntyre returned to the American Idol stage at their pianos to entertain the crowd with this energetic number. Last week's returning finalist, Danny Gokey, hasn't quite hit the Billboard HOT 100 yet, but the song he performed, My Best Days Are Ahead Of Me, is at #113 on the itunes sales chart. But his album of the same name made its debut on the Billboard album chart all the way up at #4 with first week sales of 65,000 copies.

Crystal, Michael, Lacey, Aaron, and Andrew are all in the Top 12, but Alex Lambert ended up having trouble getting votes even though he improved greatly each week. He showed some of that improvement in this last performance.

That just left Katie to take the final seat in the Top 12 while Lilly Scott refused to fall to pieces upon hearing the bad news. She butchered that song one last time for the handful of fans who like what she does.

This week I got two right correctly predicting that Todrick Hall and Lilly Scott would be sent home. This leaves the Season 9 Top 12 as:

Katie Stevens
Crystal Bowersox
Michael Lynche
Lacey Brown
Aaron Kelly
Andrew Garcia
Casey James
Tim Urban
Lee Dewyze
Didi Benami
Siobhan Magnus
Paige Miles

It looks like Crystal is the front runner going into the next round....

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