Posted on 04/06/2010 5:56:41 AM PDT by silent_jonny
My daughter told me the other day that Mary Murphy won’t be a judge this year on SYTYCD....if true, it just won’t be the same! A lot quieter though.
http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/realityrocks/359660/reality-flashback-crystal-bowersox-at-age-13/
http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/realityrocks/359660/reality-flashback-crystal-bowersox-at-age-13/
Hopefully I got it right this time! If not, I give up-just search youtube if you want to hear young Crystal!
24 Allison Iraheta Album Sales: 96,000 Track Sales: 161,000 Radio Plays: 4,000
23 Diana DeGarmo Album Sales: 167,000 Track Sales: 106,000 Radio Plays: 4,000
22 Danny Gokey Album Sales: 124,000 Track Sales: 211,000 Radio Plays: 14,000
21 William Hung Album Sales: 240,000 Track Sales: 127,000 Radio Plays: 1,000
20 Kimberley Locke Album Sales: 240,000 Track Sales: 299,000 Radio Plays: 250,000
19 Taylor Hicks Album Sales: 780,000 Track Sales: 345,000 Radio Plays: 21,000
18 Blake Lewis Album Sales: 367,000 Track Sales: 796,000 Radio Plays: 11,000
17 Bo Bice Album Sales: 738,000 Track Sales: 520,000 Radio Plays: 121,000
16 Katharine McPhee Album Sales: 417,000 Track Sales: 1,300,000 Radio Plays: 36,000
15 Elliot Yamin Album Sales: 687,000 Track Sales: 1,400,000 Radio Plays: 377,000
14 Josh Gracin Album Sales: 787,000 Track Sales: 1,100,000 Radio Plays: 625,000
13 Jennifer Hudson Album Sales: 798,000 Track Sales: 1,500,000 Radio Plays: 314,000
12 Adam Lambert Album Sales: 685,000 Track Sales: 2,200,000 Radio Plays: 91,000
11 Kris Allen Album Sales: 310,000 Track Sales: 2,600,000 Radio Plays: 165,000
10 Ruben Studdard Album Sales: 2,600,000 Track Sales: 337,000 Radio Plays: 434,000
9 Fantasia Album Sales: 2,300,000 Track Sales: 957,000 Radio Plays: 624,000
8 David Archuleta Album Sales: 968,000 Track Sales: 3,000,000 Radio Plays: 177,000
7 Kellie Pickler Album Sales: 1,300,000 Track Sales: 2,900,000 Radio Plays: 373,000
6 Clay Aiken Album Sales: 4,900,000 Track Sales: 532,000 Radio Plays: 195,000
5 David Cook Album Sales: 1,300,000 Track Sales: 3,900,000 Radio Plays: 536,000
4 Jordin Sparks Album Sales: 1,300,000 Track Sales: 9,000,000 Radio Plays: 1,146,000
3 Chris Daughtry Album Sales: 5,700,000 Track Sales: 9,500,000 Radio Plays: 2,439,000
2 Carrie Underwood Album Sales: 11,500,000 Track Sales: 13,900,000 Radio Plays: 2,426,000
1 Kelly Clarkson Album Sales: 10,600,000 Track Sales: 15,900,000 Radio Plays: 4,260,000
Well, being on West Coast Time means I can't be part of the thread when it's live, so I didn't think about that. How do you all do it on the 24 thread? Talk about not being able to take your eyes of the screen!
Mary Murphy is hilarious. She is an acquired taste. I couldn’t stand her the first season I watched. I hit the mute when she’d scream. But she is a great judge, and I’ve met her in person — she loves the show’s fans. She is a very nice person. She’s been through a lot in life. She knows a lot about dance and is a character you grow to love on the show.
There was a brilliant boy on there and another judge, at the auditions, actually told him, “There is something about you I HATE.” Mary was so angry she was ready to literally walk off the set. This guy danced so beautifully that Mary was in tears.
You don’t think you will love a dance show, but what these kids do, how they perform something like breast cancer, is moving. I had no idea how much I would laugh — and CRY — watching a dance show.
ROFL!
WHOA. Crystal was AWESOME at 13. She had not yet developed that yelly thing she had going on for her latest Idol performances. Her voice was as true and clear as a young Joni Mitchell. Also, she was REAL. She was a 13-year-old child with a lot of sadness and love in her life and you could feel it and she showed it. You could see everything in her eyes, hear her longings and sadness and vulnerability in her voice. She has definitely “closed up” since then. Even her anger songs about Bush and Palin prove that.
When she was a young girl, she was more whole than she let us see on the Idol stage. It’s a shame. Of course she has some more “proficiency” in her vocals now, but I completely prefer the younger Crystal.
Mary Murphy will be on the show. Here is her saying so:
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=58239705&blogId=534161385
.....LOL! Are you series? ;).....
Yes
Check it out!!
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=2487521,6136
Good! The show wouldn’t be the same without her and her hot tamale train! LOL
I agree-I really liked the young Crystal-she just seemed so vulnerable and sang her heart out...nice songwriting too for one so young. I thought of a young Jewel when listening but I could see the comparison to Joni Mitchell too.
While millions of fans focus on Crystal Bowersox’s high notes, Lee DeWyze’s guitar playing, and Simon Cowell’s last gasps of snark, MoneyWatch is, well, watching the money. By that measure, it hardly matters who wins next Wednesday — if they manage life after Idol correctly, the two finalists stand to earn millions of dollars each. Previous Idol winners such as Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood have gone on to become mega-selling, globe-touring, award-winning stars, while even contestants that haven’t won, such as Chris Daughtry and Jennifer Hudson, have gone on to become top-earning performers.
“You can rest on having been on American Idol for years,” says Joel Peresman, CEO of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation. Exactly how much cash do Crystal and Lee stand to rake in? Based on the experience of past Idols, seven figures is likely, and it’s quite possible they’ll rake in tens of millions of dollars. Not bad for a couple of crooners no one had ever heard of four months ago.
Post-competition, Idol contestants can make gobs of money from everything from album sales and downloads to concert tours, product endorsements, movies and TV shows, Broadway plays, and personal appearances. To be sure, while being a winner on Idol does guarantee a few things — a recording contract with production company19 Entertainment, for one, massive publicity for another — it doesn’t guarantee a successful long-term career. “Votes don’t always equal sales,” points out Dave Bakula, senior vice president of analytics at album sales tracker Nielsen SoundScan.
Will this year’s winner end up more like Kelly Clarkson, the first season’s winner, or that year’s runner-up Justin Guarini, who’s more likely to appear at local festivals and parades these days than sold-out mega-arenas? MoneyWatch takes a closer look at some of Idol’s most successful past contestants to get some clues.
A decade after American Idol premiered, its first winner is still considered one of its best. Since her first album came out in 2003, Clarkson has sold 11 million albums and 16 million track downloads in the U.S, according to Nielsen SoundScan. And she’s probably earned at least another $20 million from tour grosses and endorsement deals from ProActiv, VitaminWater, and NASCAR among other sponsors. .
When farm girl Carrie Underwood first auditioned for Season 4, judge Simon Cowell said, “I’m surprised we haven’t found a good country singer yet.” But he was looking at one. Underwood went on to not only win AI, but become a future multiple country awards winner, multiple Grammy winner, and inductee into the Grand Ole Opry. Her three albums have produced several number one singles and sold 11 million albums in the U.S. and 15 million downloads. Forbes estimated that she was the highest-earning AI alum in 2009.
Aiken surprised everyone. First, he lost season 2 to Ruben Studdard. Second, he outsold the winner by 100,000 copies with the release of his debut single, God Bless the USA. His debut album, Measure Of a Man, went on to sell 3 million copies and his second album, Merry Christmas with Love, did almost as well. He subsequently starred in Spamalot on Broadway. After disappointing sales of his 2008 record On My Way Here, Aiken split with his label, RCA. Nevertheless, Forbes estimated he earned $2.2 million in 2009. He is currently on tour with none other than Ruben Studdard.
Despite not getting any further than seventh place in AI’s third season, Hudson is the only AI finalist who has gone on to a credible acting career — in fact, she won an Oscar, for Best Supporting Actress in her role in 2006’s Dreamgirls. She reportedly beat out AI winner Fantasia for the part. Her eponymous debut album won a Grammy and has sold 800,000 copies, and she’s scored lucrative endorsement deals with Gap and Avon. She also starred in the hit films Sex and the City and The Secret Life of Bees. She’s currently filming Winnie, a film about Nelson Mandela’s wife, in South Africa, and a second album is expected later this year.
Judge Simon Cowell thought he had “no charisma” and didn’t vote to send him to the next round after his first audition in Season 5. But Daughtry got the best revenge: His eponymous rock band far outsold winner Taylor Hicks’ album — 5 million to 700,000. After his fourth place finish, Daughtry signed with AI producer Simon Fuller’s Entertainment 19. His two albums have sold 6 million copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan.
“Glambert” may have lost out last season to the more sedate Kris Allen, but he’s the one who snagged the cover of Rolling Stone (in which he confirmed he was gay), and still generates most of the buzz. His album, For Your Entertainment, debuted at number 3 on the Billboard 100, and has since sold over 600,000 copies and an astounding 2.6 million downloads, easily banking him $1 million. His single, “Whataya Want From Me” was co-written by Pink and hit number one. He is currently on the Glam Nation Tour.
Season 7’s winner, David Cook, has come a long way since his first album, the self-produced Analog Heart, sold a few thousand copies. After winning AI, his next album sold 1.3 million copies. He broke a Billboard 100 record (previously set by Miley Cyrus) by having eleven songs simultaneously appear on the charts.
Season 3’s winner went on to have a smash debut, Free Yourself, which sold more than 1.8 million copies, with her first single debuting at number one on the Billboard 100. Fantasia was cast as the lead by Oprah Winfrey in the Broadway adaptation of The Color Purple, and is set to star in the upcoming film musical. She also has her own VH1 reality series, Fantasia For Real. Her next album is scheduled for sometime this year.
No matter who comes in second, Crystal and Lee can take solace in the fact that even the least successful of the Idol contestants can still make bank. Ten years after finishing as a runner-up to Kelly Clarkson in the show’s first season, curly-haired Justin Guarini is still doing live events and parades that likely earn him thousands of dollars a pop. Glamorous it ain’t, but until someone pays you a thousand bucks to march down Main Street, it’s nothing to smirk at.
On American Idol, no one really loses.
Norman Gentle w/ "Gentle" - Brit Slap!
or if you prefer...
Norman Gentle w/ "Gentle" - B****slap!
American Idol season eight top 25 finalist Norman Gentle offers a saucy toast to outgoing judge Simon Cowell in his debut dance toss-up Brit Slap, featuring a maddeningly catchy chorus, a throbbing beat and production from New York-based duo DNA. The songs accompanying video clip, featuring a cameo from Americas Top Model judge Nigel Barker, literally stopped traffic in Manhattans Times Square, as thousands of passers-by joined in the tribute.
She wrote that song she was singing?? WOW. I am impressed.
She needs to lose the liberal everything and just be simple, honest, open, and talented.
People don’t realize how haughty and snobby the liberal attitude is. It isn’t open nor pleasant.
Good grief.
DeWyze isn’t anywhere near the same league as Crystal.
He’s just a high school dropout dweeb.
http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2010/05/american-idol-lee-dewyze-and-crystal-bowersox-duet-on-take-me-out-to-the-ball-game.html
Adam Lambert Album Sales: 685,000 Track Sales: 2,200,000 Radio Plays: 91,000
Kris Allen Album Sales: 310,000 Track Sales: 2,600,000 Radio Plays: 165,000”
Looks like America has voted a different way comparing Adam vs Kris..........
What a difference a year makes................
Ya know when Adam did the Led Zep thing last year I was thinking he didn't have the right feel or understand the flow.
Listening to, "What Do You Want From Me" changes my mind about him. Whether it be maturity or getting it, now, I find Adam does have a unique quality...
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