Jennifer Hudson in ‘Idol’ Duet With Fantasia
Jennifer Hudson: She lost “American Idol” to Fantasia a few seasons ago. Then she got the part of Effie in “Dreamgirls,” which led to the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 2007.
A year and a half after that Oscar ceremony, Hudson’s releasing her first full length album next Tuesday. And guess what? Among other gems, the self-titled CD includes a snappy, sassy duet with Fantasia called “I’m His Only Woman.” Fantasia, who’s had a lot of trouble with her recording career, once again shows what a star she should be.
Mesa welcomes home an American Idol star
Come join us for a welcome home celebration honoring American Idol top five finalist and Mesa resident Brooke White, Saturday, Sep. 27, at the Mesa Amphitheatre. Brooke will be recognized for her achievements on the FOX reality show and will perform several songs as part of the celebration.
The event is free to the public; however, those attending may make a donation to Malaria No More, a non-profit group that works to prevent the spread of malaria in third world countries.
White, who was brought up in Mesa and attended Heritage High School, will also sign autographs Saturday from 2:00pm to 4:00pm, at Milano Music Center located at 38 W Main Street in Mesa. The autographs are also free.
Ace Young
After releasing his self-titled debut album over the summer, Young was up for something different, so the former athlete high-tailed it to the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. A week into his run, the warm and affable Young chatted about his Idol past and his Broadway debut. At one point, he had to cut things short to talk with Fox News, promising to call back. And you know what? He did.
Kellie Pickler Plays Name Game
Kellie Pickler’s sophomore album is set for release on Sept. 30, and it features a title that would make sense for only her to use: Kellie Pickler.
Country artists often title their album after one of the songs on a CD, so they could have easily picked I’m Your Woman or Best Days Of Your Life. But using her name as a banner for the project seemed to reflect where she finds herself artistically.
Ryder Cup Gala Flat on the Floor for Carrie Underwood
We know she’s into football, but who knew Carrie Underwood would show up at the Ryder Cup for the black-tie gala in Louisville, Ky.? She was the evening’s entertainment, but I’m not sure a golf tournament is anything like an Underwood concert.
Jennifer Hudson’s Whitney saviour
Jennifer Hudson says Whitney Houston saved her career.
The actress-and-singer - who was a contestant on US TV talent show ‘American Idol’ in 2004 - insists Whitney’s ongoing support and advice has been crucial to her success.
She said: “I sang a Whitney song on ‘American Idol’ and we have been in contact ever since. I wouldn’t be here without her. There has been nothing better than having her support.”
‘Idol’ finalist to perform at Rock Church
If you’re an “American Idol†fan, you’ll instantly recognize the curly hair and the smooth voice of Chris Sligh.
The singer drew quite a fan base when he performed on the show’s sixth season in 2007, making it to the top 10.
“Everybody was so in love with that guy when he was on (the show),†said Jordan Cundiff, youth leader and head of media at the Rock Church. “He was so good and kind.â€
Let Them Eat Cupcakes: Stars Party at Swagtastic Soiree
Paula Abdul seemed to be rekindling things with her restauranteur boyfriend JT Torregiani. Although the two broke up in June, JT and Paula were sharing a table together inside the bash.
Emmy Ratings Break All Records!
Yes, it’s true! Last night’s 60th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards beat 1990’s record numbers to become the least-watched Emmys in history. Only 12.2 million people tuned in, a 12 percent drop-off from last year’s 13 million viewers. How can they top this next year? Maybe they can invite back the same hosts!
The Emmys: How the Hell Did Jeff Probst Beat Ryan Seacrest?
Sure, everybody knew that The Amazing Race would probably beat the better, more-culture-driving American Idol last night for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program (just as it had for the previous five years), but who could possibly have foreseen Jeff Probst’s inane victory over Ryan Seacrest in the newly created Outstanding Reality Host category? Isn’t Seacrest widely acknowledged to be the master of the form? Isn’t that why he hosts practically every show on television? And isn’t his job — steering the massive, unwieldy ship that is American Idol two, sometimes three, nights a week on live television — way harder than Probst’s, which basically amounts to turning up to Survivor’s Tribal Councils and picking names out of a box? This is a travesty.
Katee Shean comes to HP with the ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ tour
It’s time to hop aboard the “Hot Tamale Train” again. The “So You Think You Can Dance” tour is chugging into the Bay Area, and San Jose’s own Katee Shean is on board.
The hometown hoofer first came to fame on Fox’s wildly popular reality-TV show for which the tour is named. The second-most-watched program over the summer, “So You Think You Can Dance” was revolutionary in its own right (Take that, “Dancing With the Stars”!), bringing the language of the body to the masses big-time. Think “American Idol” for the twinkle-toes set. The televised dance-off has propelled the exuberant 20-year-old into the limelight with a vengeance.
Dancing With The Stars: Season Premiere
Can you believe it? Dancing With The Stars is kicking off its seventh season. In an effort to keep things fresh, this season marks the largest cast of competitors ever. That cast also features both the youngest, and the oldest, contestants to ever appear on the show. There are winners from the Grammys, the Oscars, the Olympics, and the Super Bowl. It should make for quite a show.
‘Dancing With the Stars’: Fringe-worthy
Hi, everyone! I trust that your waking nightmare — featuring a closet full of Cloris Leachman’s cleavage, Mark Ballas’ Pepto-hued jacket, and the ”edgy” styling of Lacey Schwimmer — has left you well-rested. Me, I don’t need sleep. I’ve been operating on a serum of sparkles and pure joy ever since I saw Misty May serving a disco ball as if it were a volleyball (these are two of my most treasured types of balls) in ABC’s ubiquitous season 7 promo. As soon as Edyta showed up wearing legwarmers in the very first shot of the season, I had a profound sense that Dancing With the Stars had never really gone away. Because it hasn’t.
Cloris Leachman steals the show on ‘Dancing’
The glitter, the glitz and the all-important cheese factor were back in full force Monday, as “Dancing with the Stars†kicked off night one of a three-night premiere event. Tom “the host with the most†Bergeron was once again joined by his sidekick, Samantha “at least she tries†Harris, to welcome the biggest selection of ballroom wannabes the show has ever seen.
Dancing With the Stars Betting Odds
ABC television network promises the seventh season of Dancing With the Stars will have plenty of surprises and be the most demanding of its predecessors when the season premiers Monday night. Online sportsbook BetUS.com is onboard with the best opening round betting odds on each of the 13 dancing stars.
Listed by BetUS oddsmakers, Beijing Olympics beach volleyball gold medalist Misty May-Treaner is the dancer with the best odds installed at +290 ($100 bet will win $290).
http://davidcookofficial.com
David Cook’s first single, “Light On,†produced by Grammy winning producer Rob Cavallo (Green Day, Kid Rock) is released radio this week and will be made available on iTunes on 9/30.
“Light On” will premiere exclusively on AOL Music on Wednesday, September 24, on AOL’s pop culture news site, PopEater.com. Earlier this year, Cook had the biggest single premiere of the year on PopEater.com with “The Time of My Life” garnering more than one million streams in 24 hours.
Ladies and gents, here is the announcement we’ve all been waiting for. This is from Cookie’s official site:
“Light On” Is Released To Radio This Week And Will Premiere To Radio This Week And Will Premiere Exclusively On AOL Music On Wednesday
I just posted the important portion. :D
Looks like it could be that “Light On” after all….
Scream!
Cheese,
I think we were both posting this at the same time. lol
OMG cheese! Wheeeee!
I agree with the article about Ryan winning the emmy. Just having to cover up all of Paula’s flubs should be enough to get it for him.
what TIME is it gonna be up on AOL, anyone knows?
i hope AOL site won’t crush tomorrow.
remember, the skechers site did! LOL
OK, warning, this isn’t going to have much content.
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Um, yeah, I think the refresh button is going to break on my computer if it’s not on AOL first thing tomorrow!
AOL hates me, so I’m totally counting on you guys.
ETA: Popeater was extremely nice to me the night ToML premiered. Yey!
Great that Cook’s new song is out. But from that press release linked
Not true. I know a song, Crush, as the highest new entry of 2008.
ETA: If they meant at that time, they should add at that time rather than simply say 2008. Not to take away anything from the feat of rainbow, I just feel it an unjust statement for Crush.
I didn’t know that TOML premiered on PopEater.com. I wonder how early tomorrow it will be posted to the site, there is no mention of its premiere on the site today (at least, not yet).
ianamy, I imagine they probably mean it was the highest debut at that time, which it was, not year-to-date.
elisad, do you have problems with popeater.com? Its not streaming directly from AOL First Listen so maybe Popeater will be kinder to you?
Pardon the lack of coherent thoughts..
EEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
I’m almost positive TOML was up exactly at midnight. I remember my AOL welcome page refreshed and the link with David’s picture was there directing to the Popeater page.
Trina,
I was wondering how long it was going to take you get here to see this. Hee!
The whole thing is in past tense - it WAS the highest new entry of 2008, and they are not saying otherwise, nor that it is anymore. They are stating a list of achievements the song had when it first came out. Archie has nothing to do with this, since his single wasn’t out then.
I just don’t see where saying “TOML was the higest new entry” is in any way unfair to anybody, unless another song had a higher entry earlier in the year.
Dammit! What a week to have computer problems! ::throws tantrum::
Please, dear nerds, fix my puter by tomorrow.
I didn’t know that about TOML on popeater, either. Cool. A million views, wow.
I can’t wait to see which radio formats play him. Okay, I guess I can wait. If I am learning anything from being a “fan,” it’s how to wait without going insane, lol
Wow, the news about tomorrow’s premier has me wanting to jump out of my skin! I’ll somehow have to contain my excitement, but it reminds me of how I anticipated Tuesdays and Wednesdays this past spring, when I felt like an antsy kid waiting to open a hoped-for Christmas present. Now that crazy feeling is back!
Song writing news for Archie, more info here.
I actually don’t feel the wording of that sentence is clear enough that it was the highest debut at that time, not 2008. I just hope they give credits where it is due, writing credits, highest debut, etc.
Anyway congrats to Cook for getting his new song out.
BB has an AOL chart, the week ToML premiered it got 1264575 plays.
Reading the press release in its entirety, it seems pretty obvious to me that they’re saying that it was the highest new entry on the Hot 100 at that time. There’s no need for them to spell it out further in my opinion.
Anyway, good news about the single premiering tomorrow! Looking forward to hearing it!
I just wanted to check if http://www.popeater.com/ would work for me to prepare for tomorrow.
It’s loading reeeeally slowly. So how many people had the same idea I have and overloading the site before it even plays the single??
(for some reason it worked fine when I accessed ‘current page’ from the google cache)
I LOVE the lyrics to Cook’s song! I can’t wait to see what the melody is like!
Frogcooke, thanks for all the great info you bring over! Breakaway was a major song but I’m a little skeered of the Hannah M, Hilary, link that is there. Even One Step at a Time is quite sugary. But then again, we need to trust the Archuleta. LOL
Isn’t Archie managed by 19?
It wouldn’t be out of the ordinary for Archie, as a runner up, to not be managed by 19M. Blake was managed by 19, and so was Clay at the beginning of his career, but Katharine, Bo and Diana DeGarmo were not.
It sounds like Jeff is running the show. I don’t think 19M is in the business of co-managing. lol.
David is not going with 19. If he does, he will be screwed as every other runner up. He will have a fighting chance at least if he doesn’t.
I´m in love with Vulture….
I just hope that whoever get the position is really in to promoting David… he is really good and I don´t want to see him
by bad management decision…So good luck to him…
isn´t Jordin comanager his father?
Fantasia and a Jennifer Hudson duet - that’s awesome news!
Is Jordin managed by 19? I know Blake went with 19 but I can’t remember what happened to Jordin. The main thing for Archie right now is that Jive is a terrific label that knows how to handle the teens they get from idol.
I think the winner is bind to sign with 19M, in her page said that as 2007 she is with 19M, I don´t know is this is still true…
No. She was a minor at the time of her signing, so he had to be involved with the negotiations. But, he does not manage his daughter’s career. Jordin is managed by 19M.
Thanks MJ….
Luke Menard updated his Blog
Sorry if it was already posted… but tose are really good news…
The fact that David is hiring co-managers should say that Jeff isn’t planning on completely running the show, ala Beyonce’s dad. It was probably smart that David opted out of the 19M contract (I can’t imagine 19M didn’t offer one). I always thought it was sketchy having too many parts of the machine under one roof. No matter how they spin it, I don’t think a management company should be run by the same corporate entity as the record label (even if the record label isn’t the primary label for the artist). There’s a conflict of interest there–are they more responsible to the artist or the label?
By the way, are we even sure that 19M isn’t involved somehow? There are different types of management.
evidently Archies album cover??? OR at least what they are putting up on Amazon…
http://fansofdavid.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/david-archuleta-new-cover.jpg
^^^ Muuuuuuch better than the single cover. Better design, better photo, and he looks older.
^^^Agree, much better than the single, the official page and all of the “Sears” photos we have seem so far… and the fct that his eyes are the main point in the picture is great…
He has very pretty eyes…
Clay Aiken came out today. Rickey has the People cover up.
Exciting day in Idol land today!
Wow… this is day is wow… Good for him, I hope this don´t complecate the life of the kid… but is great that he feels secure to come out…
Weird that People doesn’t have it on their website. I saw the cover on Perez Hilton and I see that’s where Rickey got it from. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it is true, but it does seem odd to me that People wouldn’t have the story as their lead. Instead they have the story about Travis Barker’s and DJ AM’s plane crash. Odd, isn’t it?
Then I hope this isnt a bad jk because it eill be really disgusting thing to do…
Maybe they were trying to sell more in the paper magazine… I don´t know… hope this isn´t a jk…
I saw the Clay Aiken story on the same page at Popeater as the story about David Cook’s new single. I’m kind of surprised he would finally admit it after all this time. Maybe some of the out and proud actors in “Spamalot” had a talk with him. lol
Regarding Clay . . .
The Clay cover story could have been a mock -up of the People magazine cover that was planned before the accident. It is possible that everything was changed after that. Just guessing.
Well, given that his last CD isn’t doing very well, Clay could be thinking that he isn’t going to lose too many fans over his “news”. And trust me, not too many theatre goers are going to jilt a favorite because of his/her sexual orientation. The cover indicates he wants to be truthful for his child’s sake.
wow so much idol news today, i cant keep up!
lets see, we got..
cooks single - dont care for it.
archies cover - its ok. dont love it, though.
clay coming out - holy shit! not that im surprised but still kind of shocking. he has changed so much the past few years. to think i used to be a fan…
are we sure that people cover is REAL and not some joke? i have a hard time believing he would come out after all these years of denying it. so weird.
I don’t think this particular thing about him has changed since you were a fan.
pts - That may be very true about the mock-up of the cover. I can’t even find the story on people.com. I’m not saying its a false story. It just seems weird to me that they don’t even have it on their website. I’m sure there’s a logical reason.
I like it a lot! It’s weird to see him without a huge smile on hsi face….but he looks much older…and mysterious, lol.
Wow, that’s a lot of pretty exciting Idol news today.
Cookie’s single - It’s okay.
Clay coming out - Finally! Good for him.
Jennifer-Fantasia duet - Can’t wait to hear that!
Luke Menard - Good news. Thank God.
Archie’s CD cover - Hmmm…that’s not what I expected.
A sad awww on Ryan not winning the Emmy. :s
Here is the list of 8 stations that added Crush today from All Access:
Jason’s Date Night video - 9-23-08:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-KxkS56kEQ