American Idol Music

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American Idol winner David Cook is set to release his self-titled debut album on November 18th, 2008. Produced by Grammy winning Rob Cavallo (Green Day, Kid Rock), David Cook is a quality album full with radio hits. Cook co-wrote 9 songs from his debut, along with songwriters like Chris Cornell, Brian Howes & Cathy Dennis. The 1st single "Light On" was co-written by one of rock music's most influential innovators, Chris Cornell, lead singer and songwriter for Soundgarden and Audioslave, and acclaimed producer / songwriter Brian Howes, who has worked with superstar rock bands such as Hinder and Puddle of Mudd.

Features the best and worst performances from the 1st four seasons of the pop cultural phenomena American Idol. Worst: Includes outrageous performances from William Hung and a collection of some of the most unreal performers. Best: Features the hottest talent to come out of the show: Carrie Underwood, Bo Bice, Fantasia (single "I Believe" hit #1 on the charts), Diana Degarmo (single "Dreams" hit #2 on the Billboard charts), Constantine, Clay Aiken (first single was #1 with 400,000 sold first week), Ruben Studdard (platinum artist whose album was in the Top 10 for 6 weeks), and Kelly Clarkson (double platinum).

Features the best performances from the 1st four seasons of the pop cultural phenomena American Idol.

Elliott Yamin's debut is so agreeable and well-executed it may well convert hardened R&B experts--the kind who'd normally distance themselves from a disc with a TV pedigree. With sincerity and a voice that vaults itself to places no talent-show contestant should be able to go, Yamin bares his soul here in a way that would do his hero, Donny Hathaway, proud. Tracks like "Take My Breath Away" and "You Are the One" find him twisting a wrench around love-stained lyrics; "I'm the Man" and "Find A Way" flow with hat-in-hand grace (and, in the case of the latter, a scat worthy of a vintage jazz stage); and opener "Movin' On" immortalizes the season five judges'-table words of Paula Abdul: Ellliott Yamin is "one funky white boy." As he proves with this five-star album, he is also among the most gifted artists ever to a turn a stint on the show into a recording career. --Tammy La Gorce

Liking Jordin Sparks, American Idol's season six winner, comes instinctively. How many 17-year-olds are as self-possessed, as big-smiling, as committed to having a good time and keeping it real? Probably none. Liking Sparks' music has been a different story for fans anticipating her debut CD, though. Her gut-busting Idol performance of "I (Who Have Nothing)" was possibly her only prime-time goosebump generator, yet she's seen an instant progression to diva-dom, as chronicled in reports that found her heading into the studio alongside pop/R&B heavy-hitters Bloodshy, Avant, the Underdogs, and others. Was it a little soon for the relatively green Sparks to be throwing off such big-league, beat-heavy sparks? Well, not hardly, it turns out. The ballads here--songs like "Next To You" and "Just For the Record"--reach out at times with overeager sincerity (forgivable!), but the funkier numbers--"Young and In Love" and the Prince-flecked "Shy Boy," especially--slam home her positives. Jordin may still be a juvie, but she's a bona fide pop star. She earns her props as convincingly here as she did on TV. --Tammy La Gorce

Features the worst performances from the 1st four seasons of the pop cultural phenomena American Idol.

Constantine Maroulis is one of American Idol’s most popular stars. He made American Idol’s 2005 season exceptional with his delivery of Queens’ Bohemian Rhapsody. Constantine’s accomplishments since idol have been stellar. From starring in Off-Broadway’s acclaimed Jacques Brell Is Alive And Well In Paris, to co-hosting Idol Chatter on Fox’s Good Day NY, he remains a great talent. On May 14th, 2007, Constantine became a featured performer on The Bold and The Beautiful, the number two soap in the world. Constantine’s role was created especially for him and the show incorporates music from Constantine’s upcoming album. This forthcoming album includes great songwriters from LA, NYC, and Nashville including Rob Thomas; Willie Nelson; Angie Aparo (Faith Hill); Marcel (Rascal Flats); Grammy-nominated Kevin Kadish (Jason Mraz) as well as songs by band members Boggia, Copely and Roye.

There is no single road to massive success as a solo artist. And certainly no easy one. Just ask 18 year old, 4 11 Paris Bennett. She survived one of the toughest challenges of all, singing in front of an estimated 38 million weekly national TV audience as she delivered time and time again on the fifth season of American Idol. The Rockford, Illinois born singer was an early audience favorite, who placed 5th out of an outstanding American Idol class that graduated Taylor Hicks, Katharine McPhee, Chris Daughtry and Kellie Pickler. But American Idol was just the latest musical step for Bennett as she prepares for the release of her debut solo album, "Princess P" on 306 Entertainment through TVT Distribution. Paris whole life has been immersed in music from the age of four, when she began singing in her grandfather s church in Fayetteville, Georgia. Indeed she had the best of teachers her mother Jamecia Bennett is a vocal instructor and her grandmother Ann Nesby was the lead vocalist in the '90s r&b/gospel phenomenon that was Sounds Of Blackness. Paris set the bar high is how Entertainment Weekly assessed her Idol performances, which included challenging songs from truly gifted singers like Prince and Mary J. Blige, the first time either artist granted the show clearance rights to their material. Now comes Ordinary Love , the first single off of Princess P, which showcases her desire not to be pigeonholed. It s r&b flavored with touches of electric guitar and topped off by Paris retro, gut-driven vocals. The video of Ordinary Love features Bad Boy Recording Artist Dustin from B-5. The album deftly showcases the multiple personalities that comprise Bennett the singer, as she prepares to take her place amongst American Idol superstar alumni.

Few would risk making guarantees when it comes to a hodgepodge of a disc like Showstoppers, but one thing is for sure: it's bound to become the only CD in your collection you bought knowing full well you would have to hold your nose through certain tracks. That, of course, is the fun of the American Idol franchise: You may love Carrie Underwood's rootin'-tootin' version of Martina McBride's "Independence Day" but loathe Anthony Federov's syrup-soaked rendition of the '80s chestnut "Everytime You Go Away"; you may swoon over Bo Bice's Grass Roots-style vocal on the Gavin DeGraw hit "I Don't Want to Be" but find yourself making the gag-me gesture when Mikalah Gordon steps up to the mike for a Streisand-aping take on "God Bless the Child." Call it a lowbrow musical twist on the famous theatrical formula "You will laugh! You will cry!", but instead of laughing and crying you will love and hate (then again, laughter and tears could enter into the equation after a close listen to Constantine Maroulis's "My Funny Valentine"). The final cut, an ensemble number, puts this amateurs' jumble into perspective: given the right producer, anybody can sing, even those Simon Cowell would sooner see at a cut-rate karaoke bar. --Tammy La Gorce