It looks like the Season 7 Miss American Idol 1st Runner Up, David Archuleta, made a big mistake by naming his second album The Other Side Of Down. The album was just released and after debuting at #13 last week on the Billboard Album chart it has dropped DOWN DOWN DOWN all the way to #71 this week. It's a real shame that the audience is not connecting with this very talented young man. The songs are very catchy and he has great vocals.
Meanwhile, after 50 weeks on the chart the latest album, Play On, by the Supreme Miss American Idol, Season 4 winner, Carrie Underwood is still hanging in there ahead of David at #65 this week.
Also, after 8 weeks on the chart the latest album, Back To Me, by the Season 3 Miss American Idol winner, Fantasia is going strong at #36 this week.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
And Award Season continues....
The Supreme Miss American Idol, Season Four winner Carrie Underwood is in the middle of collecting even more recognition for her fantastic music. She's already hosting, performing and poised to win a couple of awards at the CMA's coming up on November 10th and now she's nominated for more awards at two more upcoming ceremonies...
The 2010 American Music Awards will air on November 21st and Carrie is up for the Favorite Female Country Artist and for the Favorite Country Album for her latest release Play On.
Also, there's a brand new award show this year called the American Country Awards that will air on December 6th. Carrie is up for 6 awards including the overall Artist of the Year, the Female Artist of the Year, Album of the Year for Play On, Female Single of the Year for Cowboy Casanova, Touring Headline Package of the Year, and Female Music Video of the Year also for Cowboy Casanova.
Carrie is finding herself in direct competition for the first time of her career with another Miss American Idol finalist, Season Five runner up Kellie Pickler. Kellie has two nominations for her song Didn't Know How Much I Loved You. One is for Female Single of the Year and the other is for Female Music Video of the Year.
Season Eight 2nd Runner Up, Danny Gokey, is even finding himself with a nomination for Breakthrough Artist of the Year!
The 2010 American Music Awards will air on November 21st and Carrie is up for the Favorite Female Country Artist and for the Favorite Country Album for her latest release Play On.
Also, there's a brand new award show this year called the American Country Awards that will air on December 6th. Carrie is up for 6 awards including the overall Artist of the Year, the Female Artist of the Year, Album of the Year for Play On, Female Single of the Year for Cowboy Casanova, Touring Headline Package of the Year, and Female Music Video of the Year also for Cowboy Casanova.
Carrie is finding herself in direct competition for the first time of her career with another Miss American Idol finalist, Season Five runner up Kellie Pickler. Kellie has two nominations for her song Didn't Know How Much I Loved You. One is for Female Single of the Year and the other is for Female Music Video of the Year.
Season Eight 2nd Runner Up, Danny Gokey, is even finding himself with a nomination for Breakthrough Artist of the Year!
Friday, October 8, 2010
New music, TV and videos!
The Season 7 Miss American Idol 1st Runner Up, David Archuleta, released his 2nd full album of music on October 5th called The Other Side of Down. The 1st single, Something 'Bout Love, has been out for a few weeks now but it has failed to generate much sales and airplay even though it is a very fun and catchy dance pop song. It's a shame. Next week we'll see how well he does on the album chart....
On the Billboard HOT 100 singles chart, the Season 8 Miss American Idol 1st Runner Up, Adam Lambert reaches a new peak position of #30 with his awesome high energy hit If I Had You. Also, The Season 5 Miss American Idol 3rd Runner Up, Chris Daughtry also reaches a new peak position of #40 with his latest single, September.
Just as predicted after seeing her in concert, The Supreme Miss American Idol, Season 4 winner Carrie Underwood, has filmed the video for her latest single, Mama's Song, and it depicts her real life mother looking through a scrapbook of memories after Carrie's wedding to hockey player Mike Fisher. Let's hope the lyrics to the song ring true and Carrie has really found the man who her mother can be assured is "good and treats your little girl like a real man should".
The 2nd season of the reality show starring the Season 3 Miss American Idol winner, Fantasia, has started on VH1. The good news is that Fantasia has kicked her brothers out of her house and her mother has gotten a place of her own. It's a step in the right direction for Fantasia to start taking better care of herself and her daughter. She's also got to be able to focus on finishing her latest album and getting to promoting it and getting the video filmed. It's a lot of fun seeing all the behind the scenes action leading up to its release.
Finally, it is official that the new judges panel for Season 10 will be Jennifer Lopez, Steven Tyler and Randy Jackson. It doesn't really matter who the judges are as long as we get some talented and interesting finalists. Last year's group was so bland and boring the show can only go up from here....
On the Billboard HOT 100 singles chart, the Season 8 Miss American Idol 1st Runner Up, Adam Lambert reaches a new peak position of #30 with his awesome high energy hit If I Had You. Also, The Season 5 Miss American Idol 3rd Runner Up, Chris Daughtry also reaches a new peak position of #40 with his latest single, September.
Just as predicted after seeing her in concert, The Supreme Miss American Idol, Season 4 winner Carrie Underwood, has filmed the video for her latest single, Mama's Song, and it depicts her real life mother looking through a scrapbook of memories after Carrie's wedding to hockey player Mike Fisher. Let's hope the lyrics to the song ring true and Carrie has really found the man who her mother can be assured is "good and treats your little girl like a real man should".
The 2nd season of the reality show starring the Season 3 Miss American Idol winner, Fantasia, has started on VH1. The good news is that Fantasia has kicked her brothers out of her house and her mother has gotten a place of her own. It's a step in the right direction for Fantasia to start taking better care of herself and her daughter. She's also got to be able to focus on finishing her latest album and getting to promoting it and getting the video filmed. It's a lot of fun seeing all the behind the scenes action leading up to its release.
Finally, it is official that the new judges panel for Season 10 will be Jennifer Lopez, Steven Tyler and Randy Jackson. It doesn't really matter who the judges are as long as we get some talented and interesting finalists. Last year's group was so bland and boring the show can only go up from here....
Saturday, September 4, 2010
CMA 2010 Nominations
November 10th 2010 is looking to be another great night for the Supreme Miss American Idol, Season Four winner Carrie Underwood. This is the night that she will join Brad Paisley for the third year in a row as the hosts for the CMA Awards. In addition to showing off her wonderful personality for the entire night, we are sure to see her in a whole new assortment of beautiful fashions with each different moment on stage. And, of course, she will add another outstanding live television performance to the list of ones she's already done. With her recent marriage to hockey player Mike Fisher, I predict that she will sing the lovely and appropriate Mama's Song, which could be the next single from her amazing album Play On now that the current single, Undo It, is ending its reign as the undisputed song of the summer.
While being the queen of the night with her hosting duties and performance, Carrie is in the running to add some more awards to her impressive collection. She is once again nominated for Female Vocalist of the Year and her Album, Play On, is up for Album of the Year.
While being the queen of the night with her hosting duties and performance, Carrie is in the running to add some more awards to her impressive collection. She is once again nominated for Female Vocalist of the Year and her Album, Play On, is up for Album of the Year.
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Fantasia's BIG Debut
The Season Three Miss American Idol winner, Fantasia, makes a big debut on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart at #1 with her album Back To Me selling 117,000 copies in the first week.
This is her first #1 album on this chart as her previous album Free Yourself peaked at #2 and her self-titled Fantasia peaked at #3.
On the Billboard 200 Albums chart this is good enough for Back To Me to debut at #2 which makes this her highest charting album yet on this comprehensive chart.
Free Yourself peaked at #8 in 2004 and Fantasia peaked at #19 in 2006.
Over on the R&B/Hip Hop songs chart, Bittersweet is at a new peak position of #7 while it is at #74 on the Billboard HOT 100 singles chart.
This is her first #1 album on this chart as her previous album Free Yourself peaked at #2 and her self-titled Fantasia peaked at #3.
On the Billboard 200 Albums chart this is good enough for Back To Me to debut at #2 which makes this her highest charting album yet on this comprehensive chart.
Free Yourself peaked at #8 in 2004 and Fantasia peaked at #19 in 2006.
Over on the R&B/Hip Hop songs chart, Bittersweet is at a new peak position of #7 while it is at #74 on the Billboard HOT 100 singles chart.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Carrie Underwood - LIVE In Concert! - Part 2
It was exactly a year ago when I first saw the Supreme Miss American Idol, Season Four winner Carrie Underwood perform live at the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park IL. When I learned that she was coming back for another performance, I immediately went online back in April and bought tickets for myself and some of my favorite cowboys so we could enjoy the fun of music under the stars with Carrie once again.
Carrie has been riding high on an fantastically successful 2010 already being named the ACM Entertainer of the Year for two years in a row, winning the CMT Video of the Year for Cowboy Casanova and having her 10th #1 hit on the Billboard Country singles chart with Undo It. In fact, just today the fantastic video for Undo It has now spent a record breaking 12th week at #1 on the CMT Top 20 Video Countdown.
With so many wonderful songs in her catalog the anticipation for this live performance was HUGE! We arrived at Ravinia at 3:20 and the crowd of fans was already lined up to get into the park. The Premier members were fortunate enough to get in early and get some prime picnic space while the rest of us regular people had to wait until 4:00 to finally get in. Thankfully, we were able to find a very cozy square of space under a tree that was large enough to accommodate our group of cowboys who were eager to have fun and enjoy the music.
It was a very hot and steamy day with the sun shining bright and temperatures climbing over 90 degrees. The food was delicious, the wine was chilled and the fans were fun and friendly so the time just flew by until the Supreme Miss American Idol finally took the stage at 7:15.
She opened the show were her crowd pleasing smash hit, Cowboy Casanova. The band played the familiar riff a few times and then Carrie walked onstage looking absolutely stunning in black skinny jeans lined with rhinestones and a lovely strapless top with glittering fringe. She segued directly into track 2 on her latest hit album Play On, Quitter. The set list for tonight's show was much different from what she did last year as she was able to pull huge hits from all three of her multi-platinum albums, Some Hearts, Carnival Ride and Play On.
She didn't have any costume changes through the evening as she went through a spectacular string of hits including Wasted, Just A Dream, Temporary Home, All-American Girl, Jesus Take The Wheel and So Small. One of the best parts about seeing a show at Ravinia is that fans have the space on the lawn to get up and dance to this fantastic set-list of songs. I thoroughly enjoyed dancing with my handsome cowboy friends to these songs and it was very clear that the other fans in the park loved seeing us two-step and shadow along with Carrie.
The show came to a very exciting culmination as Carrie sang her smash hits Last Name and Before He Cheats while the crowd sang along with satisfaction and approval. She closed the show with the very fun and catchy track from Play On called Songs Like This. The fans seemed to love it and it appears that this might be a likely future single to be released.
The Supreme Miss American Idol proved once again why she is the multi platinum selling artist who is adored by fans young and old. It was a great night with friends. The fried chicken was tasty, the shrimp cocktail was delicious, the ham was succulent, the cowboys were wonderful and the music was amazing! How lucky I feel to have been there. :)
Carrie has been riding high on an fantastically successful 2010 already being named the ACM Entertainer of the Year for two years in a row, winning the CMT Video of the Year for Cowboy Casanova and having her 10th #1 hit on the Billboard Country singles chart with Undo It. In fact, just today the fantastic video for Undo It has now spent a record breaking 12th week at #1 on the CMT Top 20 Video Countdown.
With so many wonderful songs in her catalog the anticipation for this live performance was HUGE! We arrived at Ravinia at 3:20 and the crowd of fans was already lined up to get into the park. The Premier members were fortunate enough to get in early and get some prime picnic space while the rest of us regular people had to wait until 4:00 to finally get in. Thankfully, we were able to find a very cozy square of space under a tree that was large enough to accommodate our group of cowboys who were eager to have fun and enjoy the music.
It was a very hot and steamy day with the sun shining bright and temperatures climbing over 90 degrees. The food was delicious, the wine was chilled and the fans were fun and friendly so the time just flew by until the Supreme Miss American Idol finally took the stage at 7:15.
She opened the show were her crowd pleasing smash hit, Cowboy Casanova. The band played the familiar riff a few times and then Carrie walked onstage looking absolutely stunning in black skinny jeans lined with rhinestones and a lovely strapless top with glittering fringe. She segued directly into track 2 on her latest hit album Play On, Quitter. The set list for tonight's show was much different from what she did last year as she was able to pull huge hits from all three of her multi-platinum albums, Some Hearts, Carnival Ride and Play On.
She didn't have any costume changes through the evening as she went through a spectacular string of hits including Wasted, Just A Dream, Temporary Home, All-American Girl, Jesus Take The Wheel and So Small. One of the best parts about seeing a show at Ravinia is that fans have the space on the lawn to get up and dance to this fantastic set-list of songs. I thoroughly enjoyed dancing with my handsome cowboy friends to these songs and it was very clear that the other fans in the park loved seeing us two-step and shadow along with Carrie.
The show came to a very exciting culmination as Carrie sang her smash hits Last Name and Before He Cheats while the crowd sang along with satisfaction and approval. She closed the show with the very fun and catchy track from Play On called Songs Like This. The fans seemed to love it and it appears that this might be a likely future single to be released.
The Supreme Miss American Idol proved once again why she is the multi platinum selling artist who is adored by fans young and old. It was a great night with friends. The fried chicken was tasty, the shrimp cocktail was delicious, the ham was succulent, the cowboys were wonderful and the music was amazing! How lucky I feel to have been there. :)
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Upcoming IDOL releases
A few of the Miss American Idol finalists have some new music that is going to be released in the next couple of months:
The one coming first is from Season Three Miss American Idol winner Fantasia. Her new album, Back to Me, will be in stores this Tuesday August 24th. The first single from the album, Bittersweet, is continuing to make small gains each week on the chart so it could have at least Top 40 potential.
The Season Seven Miss American Idol 1st Runner-Up, David Archuleta, will have his new music in stores on October 5th. We've already heard the first single, Something 'Bout Love, but it still hasn't made a ripple on the charts yet. The video for the song was just released so that might give this very fun and catchy dance pop jam a little more exposure and get people to pay attention to it.
Finally, on November 16th the Season Nine Miss American Idol winner, Lee DeWyze, will have his debut album in stores. No new single has leaked out yet so I can't really say much else except he's gonna have to work really hard to have a hit.
The one coming first is from Season Three Miss American Idol winner Fantasia. Her new album, Back to Me, will be in stores this Tuesday August 24th. The first single from the album, Bittersweet, is continuing to make small gains each week on the chart so it could have at least Top 40 potential.
The Season Seven Miss American Idol 1st Runner-Up, David Archuleta, will have his new music in stores on October 5th. We've already heard the first single, Something 'Bout Love, but it still hasn't made a ripple on the charts yet. The video for the song was just released so that might give this very fun and catchy dance pop jam a little more exposure and get people to pay attention to it.
Finally, on November 16th the Season Nine Miss American Idol winner, Lee DeWyze, will have his debut album in stores. No new single has leaked out yet so I can't really say much else except he's gonna have to work really hard to have a hit.
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