The voting lines are set to open tonight, which means the fate of American Idol‘s Season 12 Top 20 is back in the hands of people who have two straight hours to do nothing but “vote for contestant three” the Idoloonie Nation. READ MORE, VIEW PHOTOS & VOTE
We’re less than 36 hours away from American Idol‘s official announcement of its Top 40 contestants for Season 12 — and all the inevitable joy and pain that come with it. READ MORE, VIEW PHOTOS & TAKE OUR POLL
Hoory for Hollywood Week! Yes, folks, the American Idol Season 12 auditions are over, and the show’s reinvigorated judges’ panel begins the process of paring down the field tonight (8/7c, on Fox). READ MORE, VIEW PHOTOS & VOTE IN OUR POLL
Two weeks/seven hours in to Season 12 of American Idol, we’ve seen footage of a whopping 49 contestants scoring Golden Tickets to Hollywood. READ MORE & VIEW PHOTOS
Attention, Idoloonies! There are only 24 days till the American Idol Season 11 finale, but still plenty of opportunities to pull ahead (or fall to pieces) in your office Idol pool. Indeed, there’s not much separating first from last place as the Top 5 vocalists head into British Music Week, but that won’t stop me from trying to rank ’em.
So check out my weekly countdown of who’s got momentum heading into the live show, and who’s …READ MORE & VOTE
The American Idol Season 11 Top 6 hit the stage tonight with two numbers — one from the Queen songbook, another filed under “contestant’s choice — and I’d argue it’s the most evenly matched half-dozen vocalists in Idol history.
Yet while that means each week’s performances count more than ever in determining who stays and who goes home — the vocalist I ranked at No. 1 last week just got eliminated, for Pete’s sake! — it’s still fun to look in at who’s got momentum heading into the live show, and who’s …READ MORE
After last week’s Judges’ Save spared Jessica Sanchez, American Idol returns tonight with Top 7: Part Deux, featuring a “Then & Now” theme of contestants covering a contemporary track (2000-2010) and an old soul ditty.
Who has momentum heading into the live show, and who can already see cracks in the ice forming under their feet? …READ MORE
Just a few days ago, we had 100,000 screaming auditioners hoping to claim the American Idol Season 11 crown, and now suddnely we’re down to the Top 8. Whether that happened via collective alien abduction or if it’s merely proof that time does indeed fly when you’re having fun, I’m not certain.
What I do know is that we need to rank the remaining vocalists before ’80s Music Night kicks off in just a few hours. …READ MORE & TAKE POLL
American Idol‘s Season 11 Top 10 is the perhaps the deepest, most evenly matched in the show’s history. Yet while that’s great news for the Idoloonie Nation, it’s got to be more than a little intimidating for the remaining vocalists. Indeed, with such intense competition, pretty much anybody could be one subpar performance away from winding up on the Silver Stools of Doom (TM), or even …READ MORE