Jordin Sparks is still scheduled to appear with Alicia Keys on tour this week. However, she canceled all of her appearances this past weekend, due to vocal cord problems. According to her publicist, Tice Merriweather, “Unfortunately Sparks is ill and has had to cancel some concert dates in order to get well as soon as possible…She is recovering well, and we are wishing her the best.”
Don’t Miss…
Monday 4/21 - Kristy Lee Cook appears on Live with Regis and Kelly. Kristy Lee Cook appears on the Ellen DeGeneres Show. Kristy Lee Cook appears on Fuse tv, The Sauce. Randy Jackson appears on Jimmy Kimmel Live (repeat).
Tuesday 4/22 - Randy Jackson appears on the Ellen DeGeneres Show.
Wednesday 4/23 - Mandisa is nominated for 2 Dove Awards. They take place at the Grand Ole’ Opry in Nashville TN. 7 pm. The Gospel Music Channel will air the awards. Phil Stacey, Jordin Sparks and Chris Sligh will appear.
For More Information check out the Idol Appearances Page…
Idols on Tour…After the Jump…
Monday 4/21 - Anwar Robinson, Rent, Givens Auditorium, Pembroke, NC. Carrie Underwood, Convocation Center, DeKalb, IL. Daughtry, Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa OK. Bucky Covington w/ Dierks Bentley, Beasley Performing Arts Center, Pullman, WA.
Tuesday 4/22 - Anwar Robinson, Rent, Center for the Arts, Statesboro, GA, through 4/24. Carrie Underwood w/ Keith Urban, Peoria Civic Center, Peoria, IL. Daughtry w/ Bon Jovi, Spring Center, Kansas City, MO.
Wednesday 4/23 - Melinda Doolittle appears at the ACME @ 105 East Street Rd., Feasterville Trevose PA, for Edys/Dreyers Ice Cream, 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Chris Richardson appears at the Heinens @ 18300 Royalton Rd., Strongsville OH, for Edys/Dreyers Ice Cream, 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Bucky Covington w/ Dierks Bentley, Rushmore Plaza Civic Center, Rapid City, SD.
Thursday 4/24 -Chris Sligh performs in a benefit for American Neighbor at the Exit/In in Nashville, TN. Carrie Underwood w/ Keith Urban, The Arena at Gwinnett Center, Duluth, GA, through 4/25. Daughtry, w/ Bon Jovi, Sommet Center, Nashville, TN. Bucky Covington w/ Dierks Bentley, Casper Events Center, Casper, WY.
Friday 4/25 - Josh Gracin, Lyman Harbor Waterfront Ent. Complex, Sandusky OH. 7 pm. Jordin Sparks performs at the University of Illinois in Champaign, IL. Anwar Robinson, Rent, Fox Theater, Atlanta, GA, through 4/27. Daughtry, The Moon, Tallahassee, FL.
Saturday 4/26 - Elliott Yamin appears at the JDRF Hope for A Cure Gala, Atlanta, GA. Josh Gracin, Muskingum College Recreation Center, New Concord, OH. Diana DeGarmo performs at the Diversity of Talents Fashion show to benefit the Fight Against Breast Cancer, Atlanta, GA. Mandisa appears at the Extraordinary Women’s Conference in Pensecola, FL. Carrie Underwood w/ Keith Urban, Rupp Arena, Lexington, KY. Daughtry w/ Bon Jovi, Bank Atlantic Center, Fort Lauderdale, FL. Bucky Covington w/ Dierks Bentley, E Center, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Sunday 4/27 - Daughtry w/ Bon Jovi, St. Pete’s Times Forum, Tampa, FL.
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,351917,00.html
Idol Singer a Ringer? Album Already Out
How much of a ringer is American Idol contestant David Cook? His self-released album, David Cook, is on the charts and the current season isn’t even over.
Cook’s 2006 CD, “Analog Heart,” has been the number 1 downloaded album all weekend on Amazon’s MP3 service. It even beat Mariah Carey’s E=Mc2.
Back when Cook auditioned in Omaha for American Idol he was identified as a bartender who happened to be a friend of Chris Daughtry, a now wildly successful post-Idol graduate.
It sure didn’t seem like Cook had a big career already — albeit regionally. He’d already appeared on a couple albums with a local group, and there was some vague mention of a solo album that he’d made himself.
But if Analog Heart is now being offered officially to proper downloading services — and not on just mysterious indie platforms — then Cook has to be behind it. That’s a first: an album out from an Idol contestant before the contest has concluded. What if he doesn’t win?
More from Fox411:
Clive Davis: Ambush
The situation with Clive Davis at BMG Music on late Thursday caught all of us unawares—including Davis himself, his loyal lieutenant Charles Goldstuck, and everyone else at Sony/BMG.
I’m told that Clive Davis and Charles Goldstuck didn’t know until it happened that BMG’s Rolf Schmidt Holtz pulled the trigger that their careers had been uprooted. Even Davis’s attorney, Allen Grubman, who knows everything, didn’t realize what was happening until it was too late.
On BMG’s part, it was a brilliant stroke of deception. Seven years ago when word leaked out that Davis would be ousted from Arista Records, journalists like myself and Mitchell Fink — then of the New York Daily News — were able to raise a ruckus. This time, the people arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic-like recording business moved swiftly and without one bit of thought about the larger picture.
Of course, their “larger picture” is the bottom line, the succession of executives, and who gets a bigger corner office. It has nothing to do with the future of the record business or any passion for the music. Otherwise, Schmidt Holtz and his other cronies wouldn’t have made such a miserable showing of ousting the man behind the current #1 album (by Leona Lewis), the biggest album so far of the year (Alicia Keys) or the one man with whom anything positive about the business is still identified.
Some of my sources think Davis will just accept his “emeritus” position as Ahmet Ertegun did years ago at Atlantic Records. They say will he just emcee his annual Grammy party and fade away. Others are not so certain. Over the weekend, Davis strategized with family and friends at his penthouse apartment on Park Avenue.
Seven years ago — when he was just a mere stripling of 68 — Davis called in Wall Street money and started the successful J Records. J Records did so well that BMG wound up buying it from Davis for a total, some say, of $50 million. Could he do it again? I think so. Would he want to? That’s the question.
Davis has nothing to prove to anyone as far as legacy goes. At 75, he could easily just sail into the sunset on his yacht. That’s what the BMG folk are hoping he’ll do. The rest of us would love to see him take a few key people, get the money (even in this environment, a Clive Davis label is a sure bet) and rock it out one more time.
As for Charles Goldstuck, now gone from BMG-RCA: he is one the business’s true gentlemen. Look for him to land somewhere great, with a big time role.
I really want to go to that Bon Jovi/Daughtry concert in Tampa on Sunday, but I don’t know if I can. I’m gonna be checking all week for tickets though. :)
And LOL, that Fox News article needs a new fact checker.
The album is called “Analog Heart”, not “David Cook”.
DCook is now a friend of Chris Daughtry? WOW! I learn something new every day.
No, it’s not. See Hicks, Taylor, among others.
But hey, he said it’s CHARTING? Nice. Oh, wait. That “fact” is probably wrong too. My bad.
Sarah- Gotta agree with you…could they have gotten anything more wrong with that article on DC. Since when have DC and CD become friends??? How many of the current Idols already have albums out, majors and indies??? When did Amazon selling ranks become “the charts”???
Where’s that list? I saw one somewhere complete with nice little links.
Brooke, Kristie Lee, Michael Johns, Carly — they’ve all had CD’s.
Idiot journalists ..
HEADLINES BELONG IN THE HEADLINES THREAD.
Please wait until the daily thread is up to post headlines.
This thread is for discussion of appearances only.
Please move the discussion to the daily headline thead. I posted the article this morning.
Thank you.
Michael Johns will be on tonight’s (4/21) Access Hollywood. They followed him for a full day and are doing “a day in the life” on him.
And here’s pictures from that Toyota Race he attended yesterday
http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/Search.aspx?EventId=80779753#
Oh my. Yum.