As you already know if you’ve read my Top 110 Music posts, I’m a huge fan of Stevie Scott. I recently contacted Stevie and asked if she’d give an interview for this blog, and she agreed! You may have caught her on American Idol in 2006, but there’s more to Stevie Scott than her all-too-brief AI appearance. So let’s find out what’s up with her, shall we? Continue reading
At #8 is the former American Idol contestant whose songs I played more often over the past four years than any other AI contestant, despite the fact that she’s not my top personal favorite AI contestant—that honor is held by Stevie Scott. The artist at #8 competed in American Idol season 6, which started the same month and year I joined Last.fm and started scrobbling my plays. I played a lot of this artist’s AI tracks from January 2007 (when AI season 6 started) through May 2007 (when AI season 6 ended), and that helped to push this artist up into my top 10 most played artists of the past four years. Continue reading
At #13 is my favorite former American Idol contestant, though she did not even make it into the top 20 on the show. No American Idol contestant from any season has a more beautiful voice than this young lady, and it’s a shame that she was sick the night of her top 24 performance. America did not hear that night what this artist is really capable of. Continue reading
At #16 is my third most played American Idol contestant, and my second most played AI contestant from season five. She has released two studio albums that ranked on the Billboard Top 200 and one holiday album. Her sales have not been as impressive as those of some AI contestants, but she does have her staunch followers, and I like to think I’m one of them, even if I haven’t bought her holiday album yet. Continue reading
At #52 is the only American Idol contestant in my countdown for whom I have no tracks to listen to other than her performances on American Idol. After American Idol, this young lady headlined the Dreamgirls US national tour, and before the tour was over she had landed a major role in a new film called Dreams. The movie is not associated with the play, in case you were wondering. Continue reading
At #54 in my four-year countdown is an American Idol contestant from season 9 who barely made it into the top 10 and was then eliminated from the competition. I was so upset I was ready to quit watching American Idol right then and there (and would have if it hadn’t been that Siobhan Magnus was still on the show). To make things worse, the judges could have exercised their “save” and brought this contestant back, but they didn’t think she deserved it. Ugh. Continue reading
At #60 is a former American Idol contestant who only made it to the top 24 before being eliminated, but since then she has released an EP and a couple of albums and a couple of singles on iTunes. She initially released a digital album on the American Idol web site, but they aren’t in the business of selling digital albums anymore, it seems, letting iTunes do all the storing and selling and distributing of digital albums and tracks for them. What irks me is that the digital album I bought from the American Idol web site was DRM protected, and since my computer crashed and I had to buy another one, I can’t play the album anymore. So now if I want to listen to it, I have to buy it again, from iTunes—because for some reason it’s not available on Amazon, my preferred MP3 store. Continue reading
As you know by now if you’ve been reading my countdown posts, I’m a fan of past seasons of American Idol. At #63 in my countdown is the female artist who was voted off the sixth season of the show for scatting during her rendition of the song Feeling Good. This contestant took her elimination from American Idol more gracefully than I did—I had a few choice words for the other people who voted that week. Her early elimination from the show is one reason I can’t stand to watch American Idol any more. It drives me crazy getting attached early on to an artist who then is just suddenly gone from the show, leaving me aching to see more from that artist and not knowing if it will ever happen. Fortunately in this case, it did. Continue reading
At #65 is the only male American Idol contestant in this countdown. As you might have noticed, I’m not a big fan of younger solo male vocalists; the male vocalists I tend to listen to are my age or older. And I’m not a big fan of this young man’s singing voice either. But he brought something unique to American Idol when he competed on the sixth season of the show and earned the runner-up position. And it got me to listening… Continue reading
At #74 in the countdown of my top 110 music artists is my second favorite contestant from the ninth season of American Idol. As soon as she was voted out, I stopped watching American Idol. My favorite contestant from that season had already been voted out, so I had no more reason to watch the rest of the season. And I haven’t watched the show since. I got tired of seeing so many of my favorites voted out too early in the competition, that I finally just gave up on the show all together.
I stopped watching because I don’t like investing in a contestant emotionally and then seeing how they have to struggle to make a singing career on their own after the show is over, while people I think aren’t as good get all the big money contracts. It just makes me sick. So when one of the contestants who didn’t make it as far in the competition as I thought they should have manages to make something of a music career, I give that person all the support I can, and definitely buy their EPs or albums if they manage to release any. Sadly, I didn’t know of any EP or album released by the artist at #74 or her band until just recently. Her band has an EP out; they just aren’t selling it on Amazon, which is where I do nearly all of my MP3 and CD shopping. Continue reading