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One Chance [Bonus Tracks]
(2007)
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Paul Potts
In 1990, the joint efforts of the World Cup and the Three Tenors provided opera singing with its biggest ever foray into the pop charts. Unassuming tenor Paul Potts, originally from Bristol, took opera back to the very top of the charts with the album One Chance 17 years later, and he too had a helping hand from the enormously popular television ...
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Some Hearts
(2005)
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Carrie Underwood
Given the tightly controlled nature of American Idol, it's a wonder that the televised talent contest has never produced a winner who specialized in country music, since there's no segment of modern popular music that is controlled tighter than contemporary country. Maybe this thought was in the minds of Simon Fuller and the rest of AmIdol's 19 ...
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Carnival Ride
(2007)
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Carrie Underwood
The pivotal American Idol moment for Carrie Underwood was when she teased her hair to the heavens and sang Heart's "Alone," belting out the power ballad with sincerity and a natural flair for drama. It was the surest sign that Carrie wasn't merely the country star the show gladly pigeonholed her as, that she was a pop star by any measure. Of ...
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Katharine McPhee
(2007)
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Katharine McPhee
From the beginning of the series' fifth season, Katharine McPhee seemed like the ideal American Idol: a drop-dead gorgeous brunette, she was certainly telegenic and she also had a powerhouse voice, equally impressive on a slow-burning, show-stopping "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" as on a lively cover of KT Tunstall's "Black Horse and a Cherry Tree." ...
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Measure of a Man
(2003)
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Clay Aiken
Justin Guarini, the runner-up on the first American Idol, released his album ten months after the competition ended and two months after Kelly Clarkson, the winner of the competition, released her debut. Clay Aiken, the runner-up on the second American Idol, released his first album, Measure of a Man, a mere five months after the close of ...
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One Chance [UK Version]
(2007)
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Paul Potts
In 1990, the joint efforts of the World Cup and the Three Tenors provided opera singing with its biggest ever foray into the pop charts. Unassuming tenor Paul Potts, originally from Bristol, took opera back to the very top of the charts with the album One Chance 17 years later, and he too had a helping hand from the enormously popular television ...
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Thankful
(2003)
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Kelly Clarkson
Anybody older than 18 who's watched American Idol for any length of time will undoubtedly find the similarities between this talent contest and such square '60s/'70s variety programs like The Andy Williams Show startling and unavoidable. Whenever the kids are hauled out to sing an oldie or stumble through a production number, AmIdol goes into a ...
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Taylor Hicks
(2006)
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Taylor Hicks
Out of all the millions of words that have been written about American Idol, one topic that's never fully addressed is how the show winds up finding and filling America's forgotten pop music needs. Genres that have been banished from the airwaves for one reason or another -- usually because they didn't fit within the strictly regimented confines ...
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American Idol: The Great Holiday Classics
(2003)
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Various Artists
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Soulful
(2003)
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Ruben Studdard
Ruben Studdard won the second American Idol competition in 2003, but by the time he released his debut album, Soulful, in December of that year, it seemed like he was the runner-up to Clay Aiken, the competition's second-place contestant. Clay captured the heart of the preteen girls at the core of AmIdol's audience, since he was the perfect make ...
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The Real Thing
(2005)
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Bo Bice
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Blue Skies
(2004)
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Diana DeGarmo
Diana DeGarmo finished second on the 2004 American Idol largely due to her plucky, irrepressible spirit. She was the local girl next door who always has the desire to put on a show, and viewers responded as much to that attitude as they did to her voice. It also didn't hurt that at the age of 16, she was one of the youngest contestants on the show ...
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Free Yourself
(2004)
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Fantasia
"Love you Clive Davis, thanks for being so gangsta!" So says Fantasia Barrino -- now simply billed as "Fantasia" since divas are, by law, not allowed to have more than one name -- in the liner notes for her 2004 debut album, Free Yourself. This indicates both Barrino's relative naïveté and the nature of Free Yourself itself. Fantasia was the ...
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American Idol: Greatest Moments
(2002)
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Various Artists
Arriving as soon as possible after the phenomenal success of Fox's American Idol: The Search for a Superstar and just before the American Idol national tour begins, American Idol: Greatest Moments collects some of the ten semi-finalists' definitive performances from the series. Though it's strange for any of these singers to appear on a greatest ...
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Popstars
(2001)
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Eden's Crush
Eden's Crush were designed to play the role of disposable pop stars, a prefabricated collection of attractive female entertainers who would star on the WB's TV show Popstars, while promoting a record of the same name. This they can do, and they do it reasonably well -- they sing, dance, and display some charisma and talent. But -- and maybe this ...
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Spirit
(2007)
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Leona Lewis
The truest test of Simon Cowell's power within the music industry circa 2008 was not whether American Idol could produce a star in its seventh season or if its U.K. cousin, The X Factor, would have another success in its fifth season -- it was whether he could turn Leona Lewis into the international superstar he so clearly believed she is. Lewis ...
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Justin Guarini
(2003)
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Justin Guarini
Arriving a discreet amount of time after American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson's chart-topping debut, Thankful, and just before the release of their movie, From Justin to Kelly, Justin Guarini's self-titled album is, at the very least, positioned for almost certain success on a massive scale. Fortunately, though, Justin Guarini has more than just ...
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Heart Beats
(2007)
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Danny
Reality talent shows are an undeniably good showcase for aspiring young pop singers, but it's relatively rare that contestants who fail to make the Top Three enjoy any significant chart success. So perhaps it's something of a surprise to see Danny Saucedo, sixth-placed finalist in the 2006 season of Swedish Idol, enjoying a pair of number one hits ...
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Inventaire
(2007)
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Christophe Willem
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219 Days
(2005)
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Porter Kalan
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The Impossible Dream
(2006)
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Andy Abraham
Andy Abraham had been working as a dustman in London until exposure on the second series of the TV talent show The X Factor allowed him to pursue a full-time career in recording. Although only a runner-up on the show, he signed to Sony/BMG and his debut album, The Impossible Dream, was released in March 2006, entering the charts at number two ...
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Shayne Ward [Bonus AVCD]
(2007)
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Shayne Ward
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The Meaning of Love
(2004)
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Michelle McManus
What makes a Pop star? Or maybe the question should more accurately be What makes a Pop Idol? In 2002 the answer was obvious, it was Will Young the winner of the first series of Pop Idol in the UK, or perhaps Gareth Gates who so very nearly won but despite only coming second, still achieved several number one singles throughout the year. For the ...
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Wake Up Living
(2007)
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Kalan Porter
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Storm
(2005)
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Laura Bradley
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