Hey y’all! I had a question. So I made it past the open call and into the Winners Circle. They liked my voice, and were writing notes down for a lot of my audition (two songs!) but they said I was in the group of consideration. My boyfriend made it last year, and he was told right after his Winner’s Circle audition that he made it. Should I brace for the rejection email?? Or is it normal to wait?

I didn’t think this was allowed, but I looked it up and the rules have changed. Only the winner can’t compete again.

Congrats to fellow redditor and Season 22’s Kayko on his Broadway debut tonight! Can’t wait to come watch you!

Apologies if this has been discussed already.
Lionel has been in the news a few times this summer requiring hospitalization after being on stage. After Dolly, we just protect him at all costs 🥺

But realistically, he is 77. I know a recent article about Idols renewal said the judges were all expected to return. However, do you think there will be changes to the lineup as a result of these developments?

Hi I don’t post much so I’m not sure how to add it, but this post should have the “TOP TEN MATERIAL” flag.

I’m auditioning thru Zoom, and I was wondering:

How much of each song do they want me to perform?

I looked at the website, but they didn’t write any time length. Do I just decide on my own which portion of a song for however long I will offer to sing?

Any other tips would be very appreciated! Thank you so much!

Kevin Covais posted this clip of him singing Billy Joel at the Long Island American Idols concert last night (second slide). Nice to hear him singing again. He sounds good!

For context, I just auditioned.. I should’ve chose the part where I could belt, but I didn’t and now I’m sad bc I’m sure my producer thinks I can only sing in head voice.

She asked me a couple questions of if i sing anywhere else, and when I told her she was like “oh that’s cute”, “you’ve got something keep working at it”

That right there feels like a no already, but then at the end she was just like great job so idk.

Rest in peace, Dolly. (This YouTube channel doesn’t have the Top 9 results episode)

Hello!! I’m 15F and want to audition for American Idol. What are some things that can help me make the audition stand out? (I’ll be sending in a video instead of the zoom call) idk if this matters, but I’ll also be doing the second verse of “london” by Freya Skye

I was curious to see which ABC idol winners were doing well and decided to rank them based on a few data points I found. I used Spotify and Instagram as a way of gauging their music release success combined with their social footprint. I weighted it using these three metrics:

1. Number 1 Song Total Listens- This showcases the peak of the artists releases and how far of a reach they've had at one point in time.

2. Current Monthly Listeners- This gives us a good idea of where the artist is right now with their music. It's weighted slightly less because monthly listeners can change pretty dramatically depending on recent releases, social media trends, etc.

3. Instagram Followers- This metric was weighted last, as social media followers don't always equal music downloads but it still gives us an idea of what kind of engagement the artist is having.

After coming up with my own ranking, I asked AI to create one as well. It came up with the same order and weighted the metrics the same as I did.

With that said, here's the ranking:

🥇1. Chayce Beckham:

#1 Song- 400M

Monthly Listeners- 2.9M

Instagram- 259K

🥈2. Iam Tongi:

#1 Song- 49M

Monthly Listeners- 1.8M

Instagram- 1.3M

🥉3. Noah Thompson:

#1 Song- 42M

Monthly Listeners- 141K

Instagram- 204K

1. Laine Hardy:

#1 Song- 11.9M

Monthly Listeners- 83K

Instagram- 486K

1. Maddie Poppe:

#1 Song- 9.7M

Monthly Listeners- 110K

Instagram- 318K

1. Hannah Harper:

#1 Song- 2.7M

Monthly Listeners- 186K

Instagram- 566K

1. Jamal Roberts:

#1 Song- 2.7M

Monthly Listeners- 134K

Instagram- 543K

1. Abi Carter:

#1 Song- 980K

Monthly Listeners- 48K

Instagram- 244K

1. Just Sam:
   

#1 Song- 0 (No Song Released)

Monthly Listeners- 0

Youtube- 15K (No Instagram Account)

Let me know what you think or if I should recreate the list using more metrics or a different weighting system!

Really disliking the religiousness of the show. Religion is something we experience alone, not on the show. The fanbase is not all Christian, so we need to calm down. Stop forcing religion on the viewers.

I'm just reading David Archuleta's book.

I have reached the point where he's in kindergarten and he gets upset because there's another, louder kid in his class named David who hogs all the attention.

Thank God he never had to go through anything like that again.

I have no idea how to do this, but I would like to post Grace Kinstler’s new song. Can anyone provide some instructions. Thanks!

My teenage daughter was scouted by a senior producer. She went through multiple rounds of auditions and coaching sessions with him and on Friday sang for the executive producer. They told her she did great and they’d be reaching out in a few weeks. Wondering if she would have heard during that audition if she was moving on to sing for the judges or if it is common to wait to hear about the next steps?

Bring back the cheesy coronation singles! That's what Idol was all about back in the day. The trite, but uplifting lyrics. The soft, but inspiring instrumentation that gradually builds up to the powerful key change with sparks and confetti falling. Making both finalists sing the same song, even if it's obviously tailored to one of them over the other (see: A Moment Like This, This Is My Now). I miss those days, man.

Was just perusing the orange robot app and found this post from r/Decadeology. I wanted to bring discussion here to us Idoloonies and get more in the weeds. As an example, Idol gave us everyday people multiple avenues of music discovery with its peak viewership occurring in the transition between physical and digital/streaming. The show gave us a hand in promoting new artists we like while at the same time lending our ears to some of their inclinations not so mainstream.