Ryan Seacrest will have less time to kill before squashing dreams on the next season of American Idol. Fox announced Friday that the upcoming 13th season (premiering Jan. 15 and 16) of the competition will feature an abbreviated results show -- with eliminations only taking up a half-hour of the Thursday block.
TONIGHT'S ALRIGHT: Two years and two weeks after scoring his first No. 1 on Top Country Albums, Scotty McCreery returns to pole position with his latest release, See You Tonight. This is his third album to chart, counting his seasonal Christmas with Scotty McCreery, which debuted and peaked at No. 2 in 2012.
The new album makes multiple top 10 debuts, bowing at No. 6 on The Billboard 200, No. 3 on Top Internet Albums and No. 10 on Top Digital Albums.
Santa Claus has arrived early for AmericanIdol season 12 alum AngieMiller, who has just been tapped as the opening act for Christian artist MichaelW. Smith’s Christmas tour.
The tour kicks off Dec. 1 in Murfreesboro, Tenn.—the hometown of Season 11 star ColtonDixon-- and wraps up Dec. 15 in Detroit, Mich.
The American Idol season one winner tied the knot with Brandon Blackstock in Tennessee on Sunday.
"I'm officially Mrs. Blackstock," the 31-year-old singer tweeted Monday. "We got married yesterday at Blackberry Farms in TN, the most beautiful place ever."
DOUBLE PLAY: Some 16 months after making his Billboard chart debut, Phillip Phillips chalks up another first. He now has two albums appearing on The Billboard 200, thanks to the bow of his acoustic iTunes Session. That digital release enters the chart at No. 148, while the season 11 champ’s first set, The World from the Side of the Moon, is reenergized, bouncing back up the list with a move of 107-96.
The American Idol alum, who found fame as the show's tenth season victor, insists that he's "no different" than any of his classmates at North Carolina State University -- though we haven't heard of many college sophomores releasing an anticipated studio album right in the middle of fall semester.
HE'S 'GONE': When it comes to American Idol, 19 is a magic number. That’s the name of one of the production entities behind the show and the record label that issues product by competitors from the TV series. This week, “19” takes on another meaning for Phillip Phillips, who collects his 19th No. 1 on the Billboard charts.
As the music industry becomes increasingly crowded with artists clamoring for ever more elusive record deals, several AmericanIdol alums are turning to the crowdfunding site Kickstarter as a way to raise money for their projects while simultaneously connecting with fans.
For the first time ever, Fox has released raw, unedited footage of the upcoming season of AmericanIdol to the press -- nearly 13 minutes' worth. And while we can't share the snippets with you, Idol Worshippers, we can offer you some hints of what's to come.
'OVER' THE TOP: After yielding pole position, Mandisa’s current single, “Overcomer,” overcomes Switchfoot’s “Who We Are” (which plunges 1-33 in its second week on the chart) and returns to No. 1 on Billboard’s Christian Digital Songs as well as Christian/Gospel Digital Songs, giving the season five finalist an 11th week in first place on both lists.
For singers with vocal problems, a surefire solution is hiring one woman: DebraByrd.
"I could be performing in a show, and they’d say, go to Byrd, she'll fix it," explained the former AmericanIdol coach and current vocal coach of the NBC show TheVoice in a Musicians Institute video. "And I would."
Kelly Clarkson has teamed up with State Farm Insurance Company for its "Celebrate My Drive" campaign, which launched this month.
The American Idol superstar is answering driving-related questions in a new clip released by the agency, which encourages teen drivers to make positive choices as they take on the open road.
Clarkson comes across like a concerned big sister, sharing several humorous stories as she tackles the important topics. For instance, what is Clarkson's favorite car freshener scent?
Unlike former American Idol executive producer Nigel Lythgoe, who took to Twitter on Emmy night to express his dismay and shock over The Voice's win for Outstanding Reality-Competition Show (Idol, Lythgoe wrote, was "The first, the best and the program that changed the face of TV"), former Idol judge and X Factor creator Simon Cowell says he "couldn't give a shit" about t
