The 3rd Annual American Country Awards were once again filled with many American Idol moments.
Last year the Season 10 Miss American Idol winner, Scotty McCreery walked away with the award for New Artist of the Year. This year he was asked back to present the award to this year's winner. It turned into a reunion as he announced the winner as none other that the Season 10 Miss American Idol 1st Runner Up, Lauren Alaina. Her hit single Georgia Peaches was one of the best songs of the year and this was a very well deserved honor.
For the third year in a row the Female Artist of the Year award was presented to the Supreme Miss American Idol, Season 4 winner, Carrie Underwood. In addition, she also won the Collaboration of the Year for her duet, Remind Me with Brad Paisley. Carrie looked more beautiful than ever and she delivered the most genuine, humble and appreciative acceptance speech - like she always does. :)
Monday, December 10, 2012
Sunday, December 9, 2012
The Top 10 songs of 2012
The Top 10 songs of 2012!!
2012 has been a great year for fun pop songs getting into the upper portion of the Billboard HOT 100 Singles chart. Here's my Top 10 favorite songs of the year:
Call Me Maybe - Carly Rae Jepsen
No other song in 2012 completely saturated social media the way this one did. It's a completely fun and catchy pop jam everyone and their brother felt compelled to video record themselves dancing and singing along with it. While all of the homemade videos were entertaining, the official video was still the best of the bunch. Carly is looking cute daydreaming about her sexy neighbor while he mows the lawn and fixes his car, but it turns out that he ends up giving his number to the cute boy who plays guitar in her band! And to top it off, we learned a super fun line dance to this at Charlie's so it really was everywhere!
Glad You Came - The Wanted
I first heard this song on Glee when the Warblers performed it in a competition. It sounded awesome and it made me want to hear it again. Then when this version started to get radio airplay I started to like it even more. The guys voices harmonize so perfectly to the beat and the lyrics have you singing along.
Titanium - David Guetta
The empowering vocals by Sia combined with the hard driving dance beat deliver the most inspirational and motivating song of the year. This is a must on every work out playlist.
Lights - Ellie Goulding
This is the absolutely perfect song and video for playing loud while grabbing your hairbrush and dancing and singing along. The video is exactly how you would imagine your debut in the spotlight would be as you perform this song for your millions of adoring fans.
Skyfall - Adele
Exactly what a James Bond theme song should be. Lush and sensual strings embrace the mysterious and romantic lyrics. Adele provides the vocals in the grand tradition of Bond girls to perfection.
What Makes You Beautiful - One Direction
At first I thought someone was doing a remake of Summer Nights from Grease, but then it turned into a fresh and exuberant gem that is completely new and different. Still, it was an awesome part of many Summer days and nights in 2012.
Part of Me - Katy Perry
What an exciting night it was when Katy performed this song for the first time at the Grammy awards. It was no surprise at all that it shot to #1 the very next week. In 2012 she proved that she is still the master at serving up the perfect combination of a catchy pop song with an amazing video. This time Katy enlisted in the Marines in a sincere tribute to our veterans.
Everybody Talks - Neon Trees
You can't help but tap your feet and sing along with this pop rock slice of musical entertainment. There are a couple of videos for this song, but my favorite one has the zombies attacking the kids at the drive-in movie.
We Are Young - fun.
This is another song that the cast of Glee introduced long before the original became a hit. fun. has a style that completely goes against the current trends in pop music and they make it work with dramatic vocal arrangements and lots of orchestration. It's a welcome addition to the music scene.
Somebody That I Used To Know - Gotye
When you first heard this you may have thought it was the come-back single from Sting, but honestly, that's never really gonna happen. New artist, Gotye delivers an emotional vocal to go along with the creative performance art video.
2012 has been a great year for fun pop songs getting into the upper portion of the Billboard HOT 100 Singles chart. Here's my Top 10 favorite songs of the year:
Call Me Maybe - Carly Rae Jepsen
No other song in 2012 completely saturated social media the way this one did. It's a completely fun and catchy pop jam everyone and their brother felt compelled to video record themselves dancing and singing along with it. While all of the homemade videos were entertaining, the official video was still the best of the bunch. Carly is looking cute daydreaming about her sexy neighbor while he mows the lawn and fixes his car, but it turns out that he ends up giving his number to the cute boy who plays guitar in her band! And to top it off, we learned a super fun line dance to this at Charlie's so it really was everywhere!
Glad You Came - The Wanted
I first heard this song on Glee when the Warblers performed it in a competition. It sounded awesome and it made me want to hear it again. Then when this version started to get radio airplay I started to like it even more. The guys voices harmonize so perfectly to the beat and the lyrics have you singing along.
Titanium - David Guetta
The empowering vocals by Sia combined with the hard driving dance beat deliver the most inspirational and motivating song of the year. This is a must on every work out playlist.
Lights - Ellie Goulding
This is the absolutely perfect song and video for playing loud while grabbing your hairbrush and dancing and singing along. The video is exactly how you would imagine your debut in the spotlight would be as you perform this song for your millions of adoring fans.
Skyfall - Adele
Exactly what a James Bond theme song should be. Lush and sensual strings embrace the mysterious and romantic lyrics. Adele provides the vocals in the grand tradition of Bond girls to perfection.
What Makes You Beautiful - One Direction
At first I thought someone was doing a remake of Summer Nights from Grease, but then it turned into a fresh and exuberant gem that is completely new and different. Still, it was an awesome part of many Summer days and nights in 2012.
Part of Me - Katy Perry
What an exciting night it was when Katy performed this song for the first time at the Grammy awards. It was no surprise at all that it shot to #1 the very next week. In 2012 she proved that she is still the master at serving up the perfect combination of a catchy pop song with an amazing video. This time Katy enlisted in the Marines in a sincere tribute to our veterans.
Everybody Talks - Neon Trees
You can't help but tap your feet and sing along with this pop rock slice of musical entertainment. There are a couple of videos for this song, but my favorite one has the zombies attacking the kids at the drive-in movie.
We Are Young - fun.
This is another song that the cast of Glee introduced long before the original became a hit. fun. has a style that completely goes against the current trends in pop music and they make it work with dramatic vocal arrangements and lots of orchestration. It's a welcome addition to the music scene.
Somebody That I Used To Know - Gotye
When you first heard this you may have thought it was the come-back single from Sting, but honestly, that's never really gonna happen. New artist, Gotye delivers an emotional vocal to go along with the creative performance art video.
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Idol Grammy Nominations
The Supreme Miss American Idol, Season 4 winner, Carrie Underwood, has already been recognized with 5 Grammy wins in the past including Best New Artist and Best Country Female Vocalist three years in a row.
The nominations have just been announced and there's a possibility that Carrie could be adding a 6th Grammy to her collection. She was nominated for Best Country Solo Performance for her outstanding vocal performance on Blown Away.
The only other Miss American Idol to be singled out in this year's list of nominations is the Season 1 winner, Kelly Clarkson. 2012 has been a stellar year for her and it is capped off with her multiple nominations including Best Pop Solo performance for the single Stronger and Best Pop Album for Stronger. More impressively, the single Stronger is also up for Record of the Year.
In addition, there are also a few nominations for the songwriters who wrote some of the songs performed by the Miss American Idols. The songwriters for Stronger are nominated for Song of the Year and the songwriters for Blown Away are nominated for Best Country Song.
And then there are the songwriters who composed the wonderful Let Me Be Your Star that the Season 5 Miss American Idol, Katharine McPhee performed to perfection on the TV series Smash. They are nominated for Best Song Written for Visual Media.
We'll find out who the winners are when the Grammy Awards are handed out on February 10th.
The nominations have just been announced and there's a possibility that Carrie could be adding a 6th Grammy to her collection. She was nominated for Best Country Solo Performance for her outstanding vocal performance on Blown Away.
The only other Miss American Idol to be singled out in this year's list of nominations is the Season 1 winner, Kelly Clarkson. 2012 has been a stellar year for her and it is capped off with her multiple nominations including Best Pop Solo performance for the single Stronger and Best Pop Album for Stronger. More impressively, the single Stronger is also up for Record of the Year.
In addition, there are also a few nominations for the songwriters who wrote some of the songs performed by the Miss American Idols. The songwriters for Stronger are nominated for Song of the Year and the songwriters for Blown Away are nominated for Best Country Song.
And then there are the songwriters who composed the wonderful Let Me Be Your Star that the Season 5 Miss American Idol, Katharine McPhee performed to perfection on the TV series Smash. They are nominated for Best Song Written for Visual Media.
We'll find out who the winners are when the Grammy Awards are handed out on February 10th.
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Christmas Time Is In The Air Again
The Season 11 Miss American Idol winner Phillip Phillips sees his first album "The World From the Side of the Moon" debut on the Billboard Top 200 albums chart at #4 with sales of 169,000 copies. In addition, his single, Home, has been in the top 10 of the itunes sales chart for many weeks now and it is holding strong at #12 this week on the Billboard HOT 100.
For comparison, the season 10 Miss American Idol winner, Scotty McCreery, entered at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 albums chart in October of last year with his first album, "Clear as Day." It bowed with the more robust figure of 197,000 copies sold.
In other more holiday festive news, Scotty McCreery performed at the Christmas in Rockefeller Center to promote his new collection of holiday songs. He sang Holly Jolly Christmas.
Also performing this Rockefeller Center tree lighting event was the Queen of Christmas and brand new American Idol judge, Mariah Carey. She opened the show with a super fun rendition of her anthem All I Want For Christmas Is You. Then at the end of the night she returned to perform Christmas Time Is In The Air Again from her amazing holiday collection Merry Christmas 2 You. She looked stunning is a long silver gown and her vocals were simply outstanding. I can think of no better way to kick off the holiday season!
For comparison, the season 10 Miss American Idol winner, Scotty McCreery, entered at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 albums chart in October of last year with his first album, "Clear as Day." It bowed with the more robust figure of 197,000 copies sold.
In other more holiday festive news, Scotty McCreery performed at the Christmas in Rockefeller Center to promote his new collection of holiday songs. He sang Holly Jolly Christmas.
Also performing this Rockefeller Center tree lighting event was the Queen of Christmas and brand new American Idol judge, Mariah Carey. She opened the show with a super fun rendition of her anthem All I Want For Christmas Is You. Then at the end of the night she returned to perform Christmas Time Is In The Air Again from her amazing holiday collection Merry Christmas 2 You. She looked stunning is a long silver gown and her vocals were simply outstanding. I can think of no better way to kick off the holiday season!
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Idols at the American Music Awards
The American Idols were once again featured prominently at the American Music Awards.
The Season 11 Miss American Idol winner Phillip Phillips was on hand as a presenter. His single, Home, is still going strong in the Top 10 on the Billboard HOT 100 singles chart and his debut album will be in stores tomorrow. With this high profile appearance, it is sure to make an impressive impact on the sales charts.
The Season 1 Miss American Idol winner, Kelly Clarkson, did not win either of the awards she was nominated for, but she did get a chance to perform a great medley of her greatest hits. She started out with Miss Independent, went on to Since U Been Gone, What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger, and ended with her latest single, Catch My Breath.
The Supreme Miss American Idol, Season 4 winner Carrie Underwood, quite literally blew away all of the competition with her outstanding live vocals. She performed the third single from her album Blown Away for the first time. It's called Two Black Cadillacs and it is destined to become yet another smash hit. Carrie also won the award for Favorite Country Album for Blown Away. In a very exceptional bit of trivia, Carrie has now won the Favorite Country Album at the American Music Awards for ALL FOUR of her albums! She won for Some Hearts, Carnival Ride, Play On, and now she has won for Blown Away!
Looking ahead, there is the People's Choice Awards coming up on January 9, 2013 and there are three more nominations for Carrie Underwood. She is up for Favorite Female Music Artist, Favorite Country Music Artist and Favorite Album for Blown Away. :)
The Season 11 Miss American Idol winner Phillip Phillips was on hand as a presenter. His single, Home, is still going strong in the Top 10 on the Billboard HOT 100 singles chart and his debut album will be in stores tomorrow. With this high profile appearance, it is sure to make an impressive impact on the sales charts.
The Season 1 Miss American Idol winner, Kelly Clarkson, did not win either of the awards she was nominated for, but she did get a chance to perform a great medley of her greatest hits. She started out with Miss Independent, went on to Since U Been Gone, What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger, and ended with her latest single, Catch My Breath.
The Supreme Miss American Idol, Season 4 winner Carrie Underwood, quite literally blew away all of the competition with her outstanding live vocals. She performed the third single from her album Blown Away for the first time. It's called Two Black Cadillacs and it is destined to become yet another smash hit. Carrie also won the award for Favorite Country Album for Blown Away. In a very exceptional bit of trivia, Carrie has now won the Favorite Country Album at the American Music Awards for ALL FOUR of her albums! She won for Some Hearts, Carnival Ride, Play On, and now she has won for Blown Away!
Looking ahead, there is the People's Choice Awards coming up on January 9, 2013 and there are three more nominations for Carrie Underwood. She is up for Favorite Female Music Artist, Favorite Country Music Artist and Favorite Album for Blown Away. :)
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Mark Your Calendars!
There are a lot more Miss American Idol appearances coming up on TV in the coming weeks ahead.
Coming up this Sunday Nov. 18th in the American Music Awards honoring the favorites of 2012 in Pop, Country and R&B. The Season 1 Miss American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson is nominated for Favorite Pop Female Artist after her huge #1 success this year with What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger. The Supreme Miss American Idol, Season 4 winner, Carrie Underwood is nominated for both Favorite Country Female Artist as well as Favorite Country Album for Blown Away. Carrie is also on the roster of superstar performers for the night.
Then on December 10th there will be more Carrie Underwood on the American Country Awards. She has numerous nominations including Favorite Female Artist, Favorite Single by a Female Artist for Good Girl and Favorite Video by a Female Artist, also for Good Girl. For the past two years, Carrie has completely dominated on this show, we wish her the best to repeat the success again this year. In addition, the Season 10 Miss American Idol 1st Runner Up, Lauren Alaina is nominated for Favorite New Artist this year.
The excitement continues on December 16th as VH1 presents the 2012 DIVAS Concert. This year it will be a celebration of dance music including tributes to Donna Summer and Whitney Houston. The host for the evening will be the The Season 8 Miss American Idol 1st Runner Up Adam Lambert. He has had a great year with his #1 album Trespassing so it will be wonderful to see him perform some of the hot songs from it. Also, The Season 6 Miss American Idol winner, Jordin Sparks will be one of the headlining Divas of the show. She is sure to Sparkle with her outstanding vocals taking center stage.
Coming up this Sunday Nov. 18th in the American Music Awards honoring the favorites of 2012 in Pop, Country and R&B. The Season 1 Miss American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson is nominated for Favorite Pop Female Artist after her huge #1 success this year with What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger. The Supreme Miss American Idol, Season 4 winner, Carrie Underwood is nominated for both Favorite Country Female Artist as well as Favorite Country Album for Blown Away. Carrie is also on the roster of superstar performers for the night.
Then on December 10th there will be more Carrie Underwood on the American Country Awards. She has numerous nominations including Favorite Female Artist, Favorite Single by a Female Artist for Good Girl and Favorite Video by a Female Artist, also for Good Girl. For the past two years, Carrie has completely dominated on this show, we wish her the best to repeat the success again this year. In addition, the Season 10 Miss American Idol 1st Runner Up, Lauren Alaina is nominated for Favorite New Artist this year.
The excitement continues on December 16th as VH1 presents the 2012 DIVAS Concert. This year it will be a celebration of dance music including tributes to Donna Summer and Whitney Houston. The host for the evening will be the The Season 8 Miss American Idol 1st Runner Up Adam Lambert. He has had a great year with his #1 album Trespassing so it will be wonderful to see him perform some of the hot songs from it. Also, The Season 6 Miss American Idol winner, Jordin Sparks will be one of the headlining Divas of the show. She is sure to Sparkle with her outstanding vocals taking center stage.
Monday, November 5, 2012
The American Idols are CMA winners!
The 46th Annual CMA awards have come and gone. It was a great night of wonderful country music and, as usual for the past few years, the American Idols were very well represented. Turns out that this year none of them actually won any of the awards, though. The excitement of Season 1 Miss American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson being nominated in the same Female Vocalists of the year category with The Supreme Miss American Idol, Season 4 winner, Carrie Underwood turned out to be disappointing all around with the actual award going to nominee of lesser talents.
Even with this unfortunate loss, the American Idols still came out as winners as far as I am concerned.
WINNER - Season 5 Miss American Idol finalist, Kellie Pickler, made an appearance as a presenter looking fabulous and sharing her bubbly personality with the crowd. It was very noticeable that her usual long and glamorous blond hair was almost completely shaved off. This was due to her showing her support to a dear friend of hers who is dealing with cancer treatments. Kellie shaved her head and once again showed what a true star she is.
WINNER - The Season 10 Miss American Idol winner, Scotty McCreery, was also on hand as a presenter. After his platinum selling #1 debut album came out last year, he has been wholeheartedly welcomed into the Country Music community. Just last week he released his second album, Christmas With Scotty McCreery, and it made it all the way up to #4 on the Billboard Top albums chart.
WINNER - Season 1 Miss American Idol winner, Kelly Clarkson, enjoyed huge success a couple of years ago when she joined Jason Aldean on the CMA stage to perform their hit Don't You Wanna Stay. It looks as though she could be able to repeat that with an outstanding delivery of some pure pop pleasure with her performance of Don't Rush with Vince Gill. This is easily her most fun pop song that she has given fans in years. Don't Rush can be found on her new Greatest Hits album that will be available on November 19th.
WINNER - The Supreme Miss American Idol, Season 4 winner Carrie Underwood, was once again at the front and center of the CMA's serving as the very entertaining host of the night along with Brad Paisley. She looked stunning in an assortment of beautiful ensembles and she was funny and charming all night long. She also provided the most powerful performance of the night with her latest single, the title track from her album Blown Away. Also, the video for Blown Away, a dramatic depiction of the tragic lyrics of domestic abuse, has hit the #1 position on the CMT Top 20 Video Countdown this week.
Even with this unfortunate loss, the American Idols still came out as winners as far as I am concerned.
WINNER - Season 5 Miss American Idol finalist, Kellie Pickler, made an appearance as a presenter looking fabulous and sharing her bubbly personality with the crowd. It was very noticeable that her usual long and glamorous blond hair was almost completely shaved off. This was due to her showing her support to a dear friend of hers who is dealing with cancer treatments. Kellie shaved her head and once again showed what a true star she is.
WINNER - The Season 10 Miss American Idol winner, Scotty McCreery, was also on hand as a presenter. After his platinum selling #1 debut album came out last year, he has been wholeheartedly welcomed into the Country Music community. Just last week he released his second album, Christmas With Scotty McCreery, and it made it all the way up to #4 on the Billboard Top albums chart.
WINNER - Season 1 Miss American Idol winner, Kelly Clarkson, enjoyed huge success a couple of years ago when she joined Jason Aldean on the CMA stage to perform their hit Don't You Wanna Stay. It looks as though she could be able to repeat that with an outstanding delivery of some pure pop pleasure with her performance of Don't Rush with Vince Gill. This is easily her most fun pop song that she has given fans in years. Don't Rush can be found on her new Greatest Hits album that will be available on November 19th.
WINNER - The Supreme Miss American Idol, Season 4 winner Carrie Underwood, was once again at the front and center of the CMA's serving as the very entertaining host of the night along with Brad Paisley. She looked stunning in an assortment of beautiful ensembles and she was funny and charming all night long. She also provided the most powerful performance of the night with her latest single, the title track from her album Blown Away. Also, the video for Blown Away, a dramatic depiction of the tragic lyrics of domestic abuse, has hit the #1 position on the CMT Top 20 Video Countdown this week.
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